It is really satisfying to wear something that used to be a useless lump of metal and that once again can be relied on to keep time to within a minute a week.
A minute a week?? Maybe if you get it converted to belt drive it’ll track a bit better?
I was a watch person, but no longer wear one. All given to the boys including a beautiful Black face Longines dress watch (21st Birthday gift from Mum and Dad) and an Omega Seamaster that I bought during my college days and ....(?)
My watch is not the anachronism, I am. I don't have a phone, so still need
my faithful watch that has been on my wrist since 1979[not literally, of course, I have to remove it every seven years to replace the battery].
My watch has been a wonderful investment. I've had it 44 yrs. Some people change their phones every 44 weeks; my eldest gets a new
phone as soon as a new model is announced.
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I think I caught this right..earlier today I heard that Floyd Mayweather the very very rich boxer was seen wearing his $18 million watch ..in the photo I would say his diamond neck lace was probably more...
I would buy one but I don't have that sort of money or silliness...I felt rather extravagant when I paid $65 on line for a watch...
I recently went back to wearing a watch to try to get away from looking at my phone so often. Mine is a Casio which has an analog display but it is really a digital watch behind that with stepper motors driving the hands.
👍Anything by Dava Sobell is good .
The Glass Universe is particularly appealing to an interest in Astronomy.
Galileo’s Daughter, all great books.
My kids wear Apple watches. The advantage is keeping track in the lab without touching the phone and keeping track of walking and swimming distances . The perfect time timekeeper , or is that AI assistant. Have to get one but then I would just loose it in the sea. Ha.
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Walking past a Jewelry shop in the Shopping Centre I looked at the various watches on display and wondered if people really wear watches these days. Looking around I would say no. I know with the younger crowd it would be why do I need a watch when I have a phone. Ok there is truth in that statement, but I feel a phone can't contend with the beauty of a carefully crafted time piece. I am talking analogue watches not the cheap digital ones. When I was in the early stages of my Airforce Career as an Instrument Fitter I worked with a fellow that previously was a Watch Repairman whom was trained in Switzerland and then joined the RAAF. Part of the retaining the skill policy we had at the Squadron we repaired watches, particularly Aircrew issued watches and some personal items like mantel clocks. Ok, I am old fashioned, but I marvel at the engineering that goes into a crafted watch and I sort of lament that these things will be long forgotten in the future. To further add to my weirdness, I marvel at Instruments like Slide Rules, chronometer and Sextants .. the thought that went into the creation of these Instruments.
Ok, I am going to make a book recommendation here, Longitude by Dava Sobel.
I have a couple of cheaper watches that actually look pretty tidy at a glance. If Michelle and I are going out, I will wear either a silver face or black one, depending on the clothing.
I also have a watch that displays the time and date as a series of LED dots. It takes some getting used to, but I can tell the time at a glance now. It is a little dressy, and makes for a good talking point.
Daily though, I wear a Fitbit Versa 3. I like this one because I can dive with it on. I did have to ditch the silicon strap though, as they are god-awful. They actually would make my skin blister.
I probably have more watches than days in the week but aside from my Pierre Cardin which needs a new electronic movement and now defunct original coin watch when they were only releasing 1500, it was a 2 bob watch, sadly I hit someone/something and it exploded (self defense), yes I was angry before and angrier after but I now don't purchase expensive watches.
I buy cheap things from aliexpress which are more novelties yet they work well and are accurate.
I wear a different watch depending on my mood, fun mood it's my new Joker watch, bad mood it's my skull watch, sometimes it's just the weird thing with rotating coloured rings which show hour and minute, yesterday it was my more expensive skeleton watch I can't even see the hands on because they blend in with the working mechanisms.
I don't have the money for expensive watches (not that I wouldn't purchase them if they were within my means) but some of these new, cheap watches are very accurate for the money.
Being on a pension I rarely need the time except for a monthly visit to my doctor, everything else I get to it when I get to it.
An old vintage tissot seastar think the Italian gold band is worth more than a watch
A bulova computron reissue.. blue .. dont mind using it while observing
as the screen remains dark dark.. until you light it up .
A seiko Alpinist SPB121J the 70 + hour power reserve of these 6R35
movements means you can take it off for a few days
Want to go down a rabbit hole a litlle deeper
Join
Australian affordable watch forum on face book
lots of for sales , vintage omegas ,and many well kept examples of allsorts of time pieces often very reasonably priced
I liked a specific watch at the jewelers at $250 bought one here still tagged for $100
A group such as this would of course have many members with watches of all sorts, esp the expensive/complex types.
I used to buy a watch every now and then, nothing outlandish, but soon found they just sat in my top drawer. So now I just keep to the basics, my trusty old black Casio digital watch doing a perfect job.
I love watching YouTube vids on the Swiss watches, such works of art! One day i might get a $5k one, need to wait for the Super to be touchable!
