This thread is about the appreciation of horology, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.
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Nice shop lmao
Genuinely chucked at this.
New purchase?
Nah, just lazy and posting an old pic. I was going to do a current wristshot, but the lighting right now is super shit.
Do you mean chuffed? Never heard of chucked being used like that?
Y’all out here with Lange catalogues, this arrived on my birthday.
Congrats user.
Post some interesting pages from it.
What watch is this?
I think he meant chuckled, because the OP image is humorous.
Do you think we don't also have this catalog?
Both runners had it on
I want a Spaceview soo bad but I'm gonna settle with an accutron ii
I love my 214, it's my favorite watch.
I was talking about the OP pic.
Bingo.
Why settle?
First I thought gshock, but now i'm thinking it's just a marketing trick for some somewhat ""prestigious"" brand.
Looks like a Richard Mille, which would make sense since they make ultra lightweight watches for athletes - and have sponsorship deals with many of them.
It's probably the 67-02 Sprint, guessing from the name and the colours.
If you want to see a really cool one, this recent model has the entire watch suspended in the case by a system of cables and pulleys:
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Kinda looks like a Richard Mille
Thanks. Looks a bit out of my price range hodinkee.com
I don't know anything about vintage, and the new one looks pretty cool too albeit a little Xbox hueg
Trust me, if I could put my hands on one of these I'd be running away fast as hell.
Yeah, Richard Mille pride themselves on exclusivity. People buy them because of the insane price.
That being said, they do things nobody else do, mainly with new materials.
The new one isn't even a tuning fork, it's just quartz...
Although the FPJ has two separate geartrains and time indications, so then again it's probably more like the Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance.
Just look at it go:
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But it's new and cheaper and ticks similar
Almost all quartz oscillators in watches are shaped like tuning forks, so you could argue that they are.
Yeah, I know, but had to point it out.
If that's all you want, go for it. But it's a pale imitation of the original, and it doesn't really have anything worthy of removing the dial to see in my opinion.
You cheeky bastard.
Yeah, there's nothing special about the non-vintage. You're just over paying for the "heritage" and looks.
If you dig the look and just want it, go for it, but I wouldn't recommend it.
That being said, a 214 isn't an easy watch to own and you need to do a fair amount of research.
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Alright ne/wt/s, where do we go from here ?
Damn nice though instagram.com
It's time to stop.
Needs another winder bottom left and a camo strap
dumb slagposter
I think they look terrible and wouldn't want to be caught dead with one on my wrist. And I wouldn't give them my money even if I was a billionnaire.
But I can still respect the times when they do interesting things, and they're unrivaled when it comes to lightweight materials.
Is it tuesday or monday ?
Let's do black bay hands with bagelsport seconds hand
Why not both?
It's the gmt model
If the hour hand was near the 12 you could say it's the delay between digital and mechanical date changes which 2ould be funny.
Watch looks like a robot goatse
Are Casio terrorist watches very good? Just want something semi-cheap with an alarm and clock.
One of the best price to performance watches.
It is the best bang for the buck watch you can ever get.
>doesn't say swiss made on the dial
I only buy fine swizz timepieces. Sorry pass
Great, finally someone fucking answers seriously. Thanks.
But if you wanna pay 5-15$ more there's about 75 way cooler casios
And top that with 10 to 15 $ and you get to the haute casio zone.
Nice get, fellow Southern Ontario user.
There is a model that's a step above with better water resistance that's worth a look. The rest are really style / feature dependant on what you want. The cheap casio watches are all pretty much worth it and a fair few of the G-Shock ones are too.
They cost just a bit too much for me to afford. Maybe after I sell my app.
Anyone has a comment on Casio MW600? I just bought one, needed something cheap but reliable.
That one comes in a nice box.
I have ALS, Rolex, Longines, VC, JLC, and one other I can't think of off the top of my head.
Anyone have Grand Seiko catalogs?
d-do i still look like a hobo?
Finally a man with some taste shows up
Were you that dipshit with the bezel attached to it?
>tfw can't wait to throw out my Dad's watch collection when he dies
Nobody wears watches anymore gramps. Not technology btw.
I have them for the last two years, pre-Basel 2018.
They're nice, but not that special.
BTW JLC is quite nice as an art book if your into that. Here is the reverso section from the other thread.
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You dad only has quarts shitters too huh
Okay, you want to me to come clean with this casio aq230 stuff?
What watch boxes and watch winders do you guys recommend?
Terrorist watch best watch.
Osama is smiling from heaven my friend.
its a watch user
you use it to tell time.
if it fails at that its a bad watch. if it can tell the time its a good watch. everything else is /fa/ faggotry
No Quartz brand, just Omegas. As if wearing a watch didn't already label you as a huge omega these ones have a redundancy built in.
Should I go with the OG Terrorist Watch or one of the higher but similar models?
Not him, but you seriously post here if that is all you think of watches?
How much are you willing to spend?
f-91w is pretty solid, you get a working watch with some legit history and "fashion value" for pennies.
Other models can be objectively better depending on your needs.
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>winders
No.
Boxes, get the cheapest you find on amazon, it doesn't matter that much.
Have you ordered one already user?
Wishlist: tells the time, a light, alarm, waterproof, durable
f-91w fills all of them, it is rated "water resist" though, but people have even used them while swimming.
Other models like a168 have el backlight which is better than led. I can't remember the code for the rubber version of it.
Is there a version with the steel case? Not just silver paint a plastic
For some reason no
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>aq320
>not this bad boi
>implying he ever existed
No there are not, you will have to go vintage for best results.
Many people here have vintage stainless steel digitals, mostly Seikos.
Check out a914 for example.
Finding a good deal is hard though, especially if you are willing to pay a casio price for one.
Kek
You've had it for a year I see.
Post a wrist shot.
I can see into future memes.
But yeah, I love the square anadigi look but wanted steel. Its back home though, so have some slavshit
Nice. These arrived today. Still waiting on a ton of catalogs.
This just arrived. So far I’m impressed
Do yall keep your mechas winded or no?
no, too much trouble. I have over 10 watches and I keep grabbing my quartz because mechanicals are kind of a pain d.esu
Used to do it when they were new, now I can't be bothered, setting them when I want to use them takes 10 seconds.
I only use 3 handers with no dates etc
I did a few upgrades.
Actually tried to do like 3 times more stuff on it but some didn't work out. I am more used to photoediting girls and celebs, on huge ass pictures.
maybe you need a new source image in high res user
does our favorite terrorist watch come in an all black colour way? I abhor the colour blue in all it's forms
Pretty nice komandirskie user.
>tfw will never own this
Let's leave it at that for now. Next time we do something like this, anons should make sure to use a higher res image from the start.
It is yeah
So why does everyone here love TGV (Urban Gentry) so much? Is he the best guy to go to for horology advice and information?