This thread is about the appreciation of the technology within watches, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a functioning timepiece.
Should I buy this MVMT / DW / *Fashion brand* watch? >Scroll throught this album first: imgur.com/a/6CNO8
"Suggest a watch for me." >Your budget >Watch type, e.g. dress, diver, flieger, etc... >Desired bracelet option, e.g. leather, nylon, metal >Wrist size or desired watch size, e.g. 17cm / 38mm
Nice watch Abdul, you will be more cool in your terrorist crew with your nato straps
Jayden Allen
Why would you want a watch when your phone already tells you the time?
Sebastian Hill
Info on beads?
David Taylor
To look stylish you turd
Nathan Rogers
This thread belongs on /fa/ then.
Grayson Edwards
Sure thing bud next time I'm in a work meeting and want to know how long there is left I'll just pull out my phone partway through, I'm sure nobody will mind
Christian Carter
Hamilton khaki field mechanical >38mm >Handwound only (ETA 2801) >Matte finish >Not Russian >No gold
Do you just refresh Jow Forums every 10 minutes waiting for watch threads so you can post your (probably fake) Rolex and 12 year old girl beads? Just curious.
Looks like I've ordered a wrong battery for my King Quartz. It apparently needs sr926sw but I bought a more common sr927sw. I wonder if they are interchangeable.
Zachary Anderson
t. poorfag
Hunter Peterson
What is the best quartz movement? I want something that keeps time down to +-1 second per year. What is the most accurate and reliable mechanical movement that isnt thousands of dollars?
Adam Brooks
Wait for citizen's 0100 movement to show up in a wristwatch
Levi Wood
Does anyone know where I can get a decent quality NATO strap in Australia? What's the difference between a high quality and low quality NATO strap anyway?
Brayden Lee
link the discord
Jordan Ortiz
Thought I lost this forever! Left it in a luggage pocket four years ago, but that luggage went with me on all my trips so the watch I thought was gone forever was with me the whole time.
Why would a solar watch need "winding" I don't get it
Lincoln Mitchell
Occasionally you can find some that have been serviced somewhat recently and not fucked with too badly, it's rather easy to spot a bad shitting street special, they are clearly overpolished and impossibly clean for their age or have gaudy replacement dials with bad painting. Others are obviously more worn but largely unmodified, those are the ones that are OK to buy but they will probably crap out on you eventually. Often they are so overpolished that crowns lose their guards and gold plating is destroyed, rivets are sanded away, etc. Sometimes this is because the seller is a scam artist, but sometimes it's because the watch lived a truly hard life and somehow still functions. I have a poo-in-loo Seiko 5 this way with a pattern of deep, polished scratches laying diagonally across its crystal as if it was scraped across pavement and then buffed back to legibility. I often wonder if the previous owner might have died wearing it.
Rather than an HMT, if you are dead set on getting a cheap pooed-on watch, find a Ricoh 9. They are easier to find unmodified, and they have a pretty durable automatic movement that stacks up well to Seiko 5s of the time, but offers handwinding and a quickset date. If you are lucky you can get Japanese models for similar price as the Indian models, many sellers don't know the difference, but the red chrysanthemum emblem on Mumbai Ricoh casebacks and faces indicates their export status, while Japanese Ricohs usually have the R symbol or an eagle. I got two that happened to be JDM from a US seller for about $30. I had to frankenstein them to make a fully-operable watch but it turned out nicely.
The downside is that they're all pretty gaudy, being of the '70s and trying to outflash Seiko and Citizen on a budget. Ricoh went fully quartz in the '80s so these are the last automatics the company ever made.
Seiko Anadigi you are going to pay a premium on anything vintage thanks to nostalgia culture, but there are always ways around the hype tax. Don't be afraid to buy some broken stuff and build the watch you want, they're not that difficult to work with if you are only swapping major assemblies.
Interesting point. Wouldn't broken watches inevitably have broken movements? Not sure you could build a watch from that without years of training.
Leo Fisher
Everything is either weeb garbage or luxury that only successful doctors/businessmen can afford. Who can actually responsibly afford a Cartier Tank? Your only alternative is a $100 Seiko.
Ryan Wright
You can get slavic garbage with a vostok :^)
Elijah Roberts
well, you might find a watch with a good movement but a damaged case, and a watch with a damaged movement but a good case (or either or both). The movements and cases and bezels of particular series are often interchangeable, though obviously one cannot swap movements between watches with totally different movements, you kinda have to stick to the same series of pieces. The movement and face and hands usually come out of the watch as a single assembly and you don't have to go much further than that unless you have to clean things, and that might be best left to a pro.
This Seiko was made using two damaged H557-movement watches. One was utterly thrashed and rusted from the inside-out, the other was a much classier H557 variant with a nonfunctional LCD. I took apart the electronic portion of the working movement only to clean the LCD contacts and restore function. It only required watchmaker's screwdrivers, rubbing alcohol, and almost no special expertise at all. I had never done this before in my life but, I think if it was made by humans it is always possible to understand. If you know how to turn a screwdriver you can probably do a movement swap on a Japanese watch with minimal effort. The only issue is that shit is tiny and a wrong slip of a screwdriver can break things easily. I got the original movement working again, but then slipped putting a screw in and hit the coil. Dead watch. Don't do that.
Sadly, despite my efforts to seal the caseback with things that are very much not gaskets, it got moist and has since died again, so I'm on the lookout for another H557 to suck the life force from to keep this glorious piece of shit running.
That actually sounds like a pretty interesting hobby. Are there any sort of beginners guides into this kind of stuff to deep my feet into?
Joshua Ward
I just lurked /wt/ and bought some cheap tools from harbor freight, honestly. At bare minimum you need a caseback wrench or spudger, a springbar remover, and a set of screwdrivers. That will get you in nearly any watch. Once the back is removed usually the only thing holding the movement in is the windyknob, and at least on Seikos you'll find the release button for the crown is indicated. After you get that out you can just turn the case backside-down onto a soft surface and the movement falls out. Drop your replacement in, make sure it's all lining up right, put the crown back in, then put the caseback and straps on and enjoy your custom timepiece.
I know you probably want some reading material but honestly this is one of those things where the best and cheapest way to learn is just to try it.
Gabriel Hughes
Not him but it's fairly easy to find the technical guide in a pdf if the digital watch is by a known brand like seiko or casio. It'll have a diagram like this for how the module is assembled, and other useful diagrams like the relationship between the output terminal and the lcd for figuring out something like missing display segments. Then it'll also have a guide for fixing common issues, but that's getting more technical as it'll require a multimeter. But disassembling, cleaning and reassembling a digital watch module is much easier than a mechanical movement, it's a bit fiddly but if you're patient and methodical it's almost impossible to fuck up, though you might not fix the module from just cleaning it, and that's when it becomes more technical. It's probably best to start by doing something like a battery change in an f91w, you have to take the module apart to get to the battery and you'll learn a lot just from that simple procedure.
Come to think of it, I've actually replaced the battery in a G-Shock before. Getting all the cushioning and spacers back in order was a bit of a hot mess, but it came together well enough.
Michael Peterson
This smart strap thing is picking up steam. mite b cool
Easton Cook
did he just take a shitty watch and remove the face or something? then try to sell it for more?
Oliver Powell
Digital modules seemed so fragile when I first started messing around with them but it's pretty amazing how durable they are, the only thing you can feasibly fuck up is the lcd if you somehow crack it or if the module's particularly old then the plastic can be a little bit brittle sometimes. But the rest is mostly just unscrewing and unclipping stuff.
David Carter
what do you guys think about this? chooseblocks.com/ looks like it could be cool, I hope the OS isn't too restrictive though.
Jaxon Barnes
Looks fucking retarded. What feature could they possibly put in a bracelet link that couldn't have been a feature of the watch in the first place
>quartz This is the only thing that does it if you ignore adjusted time. >reliable Anything that isn't Slavic or chink >accurate Almost anything if you learn to regulate it yourself.
Also, most movements are somewhere between $20-200
Boy am I glad I fell out of my watch obsession, I got a cheap Visodate in silver and it's all I'll need since I won't be hanging around rich oldfags ever. I was gonna blow a ton on a dozen watches for no reason, the Visodate is versatile enough for any occasion.
Charles Butler
The quality
Jack Brooks
Low-quality $1 chink natos are softer and comfier, because they don't try to be this super-durable mil-spec operator heavy-grade nylon fabric abominations.
Sure they don't last long but for $10 you'll have straps for 5-10 years.
Some people have actual jobs and work in professional settings where it would be rude or childish to do so. A quick glance at the wrist is easy and goes unnoticed
Ayden Bailey
Only subhuman millennials reach for a phone when it isn't ringing
It's an Invicta. Being on your wrist is too tight. Take a hammer to it immediately and learn about watch brands that aren't laughing stocks in the industry.
Gavin Jenkins
Should be a staple of every collection. There's a sapphire option too but it changes the profile of the watch a lot (for the worse).
Jeremiah Baker
Even in normieshit retail work, having a watch makes you look punctual and organized. Taking your phone out to look at it, even to tell the time, makes you look like you're screwing off and checking tinder or some shit. I fix computers at Office Depot. It doesn't pay well so I just have a bunch of cheap stuff, but all my customers wear watches and I get different attitudes from them when I wear one too.
Heh, I'm the one who installs all the corporate spyware because our top salesman can't figure out how to turn a Dell laptop's trackpad back on, but he gets the DMS sold, I do the legwork.
I will once I get to it, but customer's shitters come first.
It definitely has some issues though. So far I only peeked into it, and one unusual thing I noticed is that the mainspring barrel arbor screw may be left-threaded. Or it's just the threads completely worn out.
Sebastian Clark
The whole movement looks weird to me and my very basic knowledge, so it'll be interesting to know what does what.
Kayden Morales
Windyknob come back
;_;
Jose Perry
I think the idea is that you can swap them out, and they had plans to allow other developers to make blocks so you could make it real custom.
