This thread is about the appreciation of watches, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.
if anything it was the vietnamese who traumatized dumb american invaders for the rest of their miserable lives for trying to subvert a nation's sovereignity
Carson Young
Estimates, based on the wt wrist shots > Spring drive: modern watch with reliable water resistance, one of a few pieces I wear when it's rainy out > Zodiac SST: new addition to collection, visually interesting > Cosmotron 7803a blue: battery powered so always ready to go, comfortable bracelet or maybe > Bucherer FHF 96-4: small, comfortable, reminder of happy times
Grayson Bell
windy? is that you? Are you going to paint a stripe on the knob?
Joshua Sullivan
Mostly my quartz pieces because I don't want to scratch my nice watches at work
>TAG Heuer Formula Calibre 5 >Seiko SKX009J >Hamilton Intra-Matic
Tag is the most worn because it's comfortable and accurate to +0.6s/d. Goes well with literally anything I wear and I just genuinely like the way it looks.
Been looking at it for a few months. Checked in to jomashop today at work to kill some time and saw the price was cut in half on a flash sale. Sets me back a little on my speedmaster professional fund but worse case scenario I can flip it for a profit.
>SARX045 Most worn it's nice to look at and I just really like it. It was also a gift from my parents so there is that too. >Citizen Stiletto Second or third most. Light weight and just nice to wear. >Casio Protrek 300 something Probably second. Weekend/outdoor watch. Comfortable to wear.
Jack Peterson
>formula calibre 5 Formula one calibre 5
Ryan Wilson
Casio a168 Casio aq230 Junghans Max Bill
Andrew Ward
Oh and these are in order by wrist time they get.
Luke Lee
Why is /wt/ so dead now
Ian Watson
The same 10 people get bored after a while
Juan Howard
elitist autists not contributing and just content with saying muh swiss is bestest posters here are actually low information compared to other boards even leddit has better knowledge base Jow Forums sucking in general after all the newfags from the election
Jacob Williams
1# by far is the casio dw-5600 And I wear my two orients whenever I can.
Eli Allen
Anyone on g familiar with watch clubs? I love high end watches but I don’t want to pay for it’s ridiculous price but the club seems like it’s a cheap way to get very nice watches on rotation.
Colton Carter
So what do you do? Just rent watches to make people think you're hot shit? What a fucking scam, no wonder you people are poor.
Dominic Wilson
About to buy an unbranded flieger for $200
Before I pull the trigger can I get something better for the price?
I can afford a Rolex sub but why would I do that if I can get more watches at a fraction of a price? And i just appreciate the quality and the workmanship of these timepieces
Kevin Miller
How do you guys justify spending so much on watches?
Posting the best watch available under the $10,000 price point I can answer any questions you amateur horologists have Look I caught the date dial changing
>piss away money on something shiny that you'll never own that does nothing inherently useful at the end of the day Light a hundred bill on fire, at least you'll get heat. If you really appreciated them, you'd know the value satisfaction of actually owning them, not some nigger tier made-for-poor people money traps like Rent A Center for Watches
Dylan Gonzalez
Here's another photo I know you anons are begging for it but are too timid to make the request
Yes which is why I’m saving enough money to get one without spending like double digit % of my net worth. I thought it’s a good way to try couple of endgame watches for few hundred bucks before you make a comitment
Ryan Robinson
That few hundred bucks would do a lot better actually saving towards a watch. Go to a store and try it on if you want, but don't fucking rent a watch, that is beyond pathetic. You work in finance and you're this stupid about money? You're fucking dreaming if you think you can afford a Rolex at this point.
Noah Torres
useless post and poster take your own advice you waste of bandwidth
Jack Martinez
>when date changes instantly at 12:00am This is pretty cool. What other watches do that?
That few hundred bucks doesn’t even make a dent on saving for an endgame watch fren. Trying out a watch for couple of minutes doesn’t do justice for amount of details these watches have.
200 bucks a month is quite easily in my disposable income and I get to try shit ton of watches while I learn he details of the watch
Ryder Richardson
What are you going to say when you show it to your friends?
>Look at MY Rolex or >Look at somebody's Rolex that I'm paying for that I have to return next week
>That few hundred bucks doesn’t even make a dent on saving for an endgame watch You have literally now idea of money and just want instant gratification. Fuck it, do what you want and wear your shame on your wrist.
Caleb Johnson
>>Look at MY Rolex >or >>Look at somebody's Rolex that I'm paying for that I have to return next week How autistic do you need to be to write something like this?
Joseph Rodriguez
Just say you are leasing it to find what you like? I mean its like turo for watches...
Also if I were to be in the club for 3 months(plenty of time for scoping around endgamers for at least a week each) That comes out around 2.4 % of the total price of the watch like ap royal oak 15400 (25,000 market price)
Justin Perez
What are watches that look more expensive than they are but actually cheap?
I just want something nice looking to bag a few gold diggers and make other dudes jealous
Carson Ward
Consider fucking off
Jackson Foster
Something big and fashionable. Invicta Russian divers come to mind. Shit with """"""diamonds""""""" come to mind too.
More like might make people in wt feel insecure lmao
Brody Hughes
Most worn is SARB035, because it looks so nice. Second is Orient Ray, because it's on a comfy strap and I don't care about damaging it. Third is probably a tie between SNK803 (small beater, I only wear the Ray with short sleeves or a hoodie) and Mercer Lexington (pretty nice but I'm not that huge into chronographs and I'm afraid of damaging it). I'm probably going to sell the Mercer.
Carter Hall
Sarb is the only thing I've worn all year.. Probably will sell my nomos and tudor
Hunter Peterson
Quartz Alpinist, most worn because it's my work watch 017 Alpinist 4s15 Sports 200 SCVF
I used to like bigger watches, until I had to start wearing long and tight sleeves every day. Then I embraced my inner wristlet despite my 7" wrists and I haven't worn anything bigger than the SARB017 in years. I should sell my seikos and buy a 114270, though I might only be able to get halfway to a 114270 for what I'd get from selling them.
John Long
Fuck having to take responsibility for shitty manufacturing and the owner's neglect.
I had the dial of a water-damaged Police fall apart on me. Basically the glue holding the indices melted. Owner is trying to pin it on me (well, more like his cunty gf that keeps egging him on) saying that he can't sell it now. What, were you trying to sell a flooded watch as a lightly used one, you asshole?
Says it's worth about $200. Well more like that's what the manufacturer scams people with. It has a $10 Miyota inside.
In short the dial is fucking unfixable, and now I have to get a new one, and Police is an absolute SHIT brand that guaranteed doesn't even make surplus dials. But I have to do something, else the owner will probably try to get that $200 in damages from the store, which the boss will likely agree to, because "MUH CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT" and then it's coming out of my pay. Fuck this dirty nigger-tier profession and fuck all the dirty entitled simpletons and their garbage chink pieces of shit.
Is this worth $16? I don't know anything about watches so I don't know what's a good deal or not.
Zachary Wilson
Yes, it's a quartz Casio that costs fuck all. Buy it, wear it, fuck it up, bin it, get another.
Jose Edwards
Cool beans. Thanks for the reply.
Jordan Walker
prop the smothes sek hand every
Hudson Edwards
that model is a great everyday watch for a quartz
Nathaniel Sanchez
Almost the same happend to me >Father's friend has a police >Index at 11 fallen off >Offered him to repair it >Index has to legs >One broken other wont go in >Tell him I can only glue it back >He let's me >Glue I use drips over the dial >I usually take the left over glue from the sides with alcohol >Usually it turns out perfectly >On the police it melted the paint I decedid to throw it in the bin and gave him a samsung tablet and a pair of nice earphones
Carson Perry
Rolex Sub.
Carter Price
I think I've worn four of them roughly the same amount.
My Mark 4.5 Speedy is probably worn the most this year in large part due to all the new straps I've been trying on it.
Tied for 2-4 are my 16233 Rolex Datejust, my King Seiko Special 5256 and my Seiko SKX.
Cameron Kelly
Problem is this guy isn't a friends friend, he's a customer, and he can make my life miserable if he wants to. >>On the police it melted the paint Here the plastic of the chapter ring was so soft that even a touch from pegwood scratched it the fuck up. Also the whole design is pants on head retarded. And now "officially" it's my fault, because I gave it a go.
Also if I refuse every poorly designed and manufactured chink shitter I'd have no work. Only like 3/10 of every watch that comes in to the shop is from a proper brand. I should have just gone and become a repair slave at a proper brand's service center instead. Sure the monotony would kill me, but no shitters. But nooooo, I wanted excitement, I wanted to become an independent.
Josiah Evans
>posters here are actually low information compared to other boards even leddit has better knowledge base This is bait I hope? The non-troll regulars here include a couple of actual watchmakers and a couple of pretty serious horology nerds.
The knowledge pool here is deeper than any other generalist watch forum I've been to, and is only equaled or exceeded in specialist forums about one brand or time period.
The regulars just ignore all the trolling and shitposting, so they don't post as much.
Jacob Bell
Lots of high end production movements do that, it's the feature the Rolex Datejust is named for. A few pre-quartz Seiko movements had the feature as well.
Isaac Young
please recommend me your finest cheap white dial chronographs
Cooper Powell
Oh the scratches... I have bad memories about that too.
The funniest part is how they think they could sell it for xyz amounts of money. But in this situation you are really fucked. Either you put it together somehow or you pay them that absolutely dumb amount, or you could look up the watch on ebay.
Btw I was wondering how good does the lighter fluid trick works for cleaning movements without taking the thing apart. Have you ever tried it? I am getting a very special orient that doesn't move according to the seller, but I am nit really sure about my repair skills yet. Especially oiling is a big big challenge for me yet.
Parker Turner
>the Rolex Datejust is named for I thought it was because it has just date as opposed to day date. How does name "datejust" correlate to instant date switching?
I use a petroleum distillate called benzine (not benzene), which is probably very similar to naphtha. The problem is the naming of petroleum distillates between languages is very confusing. This benzine has the same word in Hungarian for gasoline, but it's more likely naphtha. Gas oil/fuel oil is actually diesel. Jet fuel is called kerosene, but what anglos call kerosene (lamp oil) is called petroleum. Lighter fluid is "lighter gasoline", and car "gas" is actually liquid propane.
So yeah, I THINK naphta is good for cleaning parts but I'm definitely not sure.
Easton Johnson
also can we all agree datejust is a stupid name
Kevin Sanders
I have a thing for discontinued watches. What are some recently discontinued watches you can still get? Already have the SARB.
Brayden Young
Where from?
William King
2016 Tudor Black Bay with the Tudor rose.
James Nguyen
I bought a replica Rolex Datejust just to see what it’s like to own a “Rolex” before I spend £5k on one.
I’m embarrassed to wear this not because it’s a fake but because I don’t want my colleagues, friends and family to think that I’m a wannabe yuppie prick. I literally haven’t worn it to work or to a social event because I’m worried that it’ll get pick up on.