/wt/ - Watch Thread: Vintage dress watches edition

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.

>Required viewing for new people:
youtube.com/watch?v=dHz4QflumIY

>Used watch guide:
pastebin.com/f44aJKy2

> Strap guide:
pastebin.com/SwRysprE

> watch essentials 102:
pastebin.com/Rc77hhXV


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The latest generation Apple Watch is legitimately useful with improved sensors and LTE data connection.

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Gonna be James Bond one day

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How unusual is overlap between automatic divers and chronos? Did rolex ever do a daytona that stepped on the submariners toes?

My friend has the latest Apple Watch and that thing lasts through a whole day, easily.

His watch was at 87% at the end of the day yesterday after charging it over night.

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Not with that busted ass Ray II homage you're not.

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>50 days left

Sigh.

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That's not something to brag about. A "smartwatch" is stupid considering we have phones.
>inb4 so are regular watches
Regular watches either charge themselves, can be hand wound or have battery life measured in years.

Is this thing really 2 grand? Defend that.