Got a cool watch? Let's see it.

Very good watches. At least as of a few years ago, Mr Wajs was still alive and I exchanged emails with him. I suspect that once he passes, O&W goes with him.

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Yeah my daily wear Tag Heuer 695.706KA has a 2824-2 movement and it's 21 years old. Right now it's 17 seconds slow.

Luminox?

That's a nice looking watch.

It owes something to Sinn. Nice watch for the money, very cheap beater.

Damn. I was hoping you had stumbled on to some new information regarding good wear periods.

I'm going to rotate out 4 watches today. Maybe 5.

I'm of two minds about this. It is true that with modern technology we can certainly manufacture a watch that keeps excellent time. I have an old Wenger Swiss Army quartz that has been languishing under the bathroom sink for about 8 months. I pulled it out the other day and it was pretty much spot on. If you want an automatic to be as accurate you can find that too.

On the other hand, when watches were first invented by John Harrison in 1760 , it was common to use an external means to set your watch (or clock) daily. Cannons would be fired, bells rung, balls run up poles, etc, to allow one to get one's timepiece back on track. Harrison's great achievement was developing a clock or watch that would be accurate enough that one could navigate with it. That was rare (if not impossible) at the time. So when I go to the atomic clock website daily to set my watch I am following a time-honored tradition of verifying my watch against a more accurate timepiece. I feel that gives me a connection to the ye olde horologists.

Add me to the list...

I like this one a lot. Tissot was on my list when I was hunting around for a nice vintage watch.
Thanks for sharing.

- Sam

Yep. The lume on my IWC Ti Aquatimer has dimmed quite noticeably in the past 13 years.

WA.

I don't have any direct experience with one but LUM TEC owners are well represented on the watch forums and they seem very satisfied.

If keeping time to the second is the most important thing only quartz will do it, or your cell phone, but they are tiny computers made to look like a watch. Real watches are little machines and remarkable mechanical feats of engineering and they all gain or lose a little time.

Why? is it too small at only 43mm diameter?

Thanks for that link. I like that.

Is West Coast a reputable vendor?

If you can muddle through his site and wait for his email his service is good. I know a few different guys have used him.

One of my buddies now sponsored by these guys:


What do ya know about em? I'm not familiar with the brand at all.

No intended Im actually curious

Well, there's this > http://www.ablogtoread.com/debaufre-gmt-redblue-watch-review/

I had never heard of them, either.

WA.

Most likely a Chinese-made watch using ETA movement. Unabashedly a Rolex homage. Probably a reasonable watch, but the price is a little high. $400 or less would be a little high, but within reason.

Just done a deal on this:

Sweet!