Watch General

>>43999515
Watches should be worn on the left arm, one at a time.

I recently inherited several watches, and would like to know more about them. Unfortunately, none of them have came with their manuals, and the only markings on them don't indicate a specific model (i.e. Seiko Chronograph Automatic) but instead seem to name the category to witch these watches belong.

There are two further complications:
I do not own a good camera, as so cannot show you any pictures of them.
And they are probably at least 15 years old.

How can I learn more about them, besides taking them to a watchmaker/repairman?

>>44000333
>watches
>complication
kek

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>>44000333

>>44000540
I don't get it...

>>44000333

Tell me everything you can about them and I'll try to help. Any text anywhere, materials, colours etc

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where my niggas at?

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I just got this automatic for pretty damn cheap. Thoughts?

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>>44000820
Reporting in

>>44000645
Watch number 1
Text: “SEIKO/CHRONOGRAPH/AUTOMATIC” Written on the upper part of the front, in three lines, below the 12º’clock position. No numbers from 1-12. Dark blue background, white hands, weekday and month day displayed on horizontally on the right side. The glass is flat and is 3.1 cm in diameter. There is a smaller “watch” (sorry I don’t know the term) on the front, above the 6 o’clock position. It reads 30/10/20 and the pointer moves very slowly. On the back it says “STAINLESS STEEL 6139-7070 WATER RESISTANT” around the word “SEIKO”. There is the number 359931 over “JAPAN J”. It is charged by hand movement.

Thank you for doing this.

>>44000965
oh, and it has "TACHYMETER" written on the outermost area of the face, followed by the numbers 500, 400, 350, 300, 250, 220, 200, 190-100, 95, 90-60.
It has two buttons and one knob between them.
The casing is polished steel.

Even if the specifics are unavailable, I would like to know as much about these watches as possible. If you can direct me of websites where I can learn more about them, that would be of great help.

Budget: $30
I want to get an analog watch. I already have a calculator watch. I want something simple, black-on-white, but still reliable and good-looking. Of course, it'll have to be mostly black and white because I want to be able to wear it while in uniform. Any recommendations?

>>44001252
Timex Weekender

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>>44000949
>>44000820
My mommy bought me this watch.

>>44001310
I have a dress watch in a drawer somewhere, this thing is more accurate than my mecanical,has no sentimental value like my dress, and hence is used day to day.

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>>44000949
>>44000820
right here boss

>>44001089
Watch 2
Steel casing with two buttons on the right side and a knob between them, used for winding it and adjusting the time. Tachymeter on the outside of the glass, but written with an accent “TACHYMÈTRE”. Glass is slightly convex and is 3.2 cm in diameter. Face is black, with the inscription “OMEGA/Speedmaster/PROFESSIONAL” on the upper portion. No numbers for the hours. 3 smaller ‘watches’ (I can’t find the right word for it) to the right, left and below the center of the face. One is clearly for seconds, reading 60, 20, 40, with a dial that moves the same angular speed as the seconds had, and it is to the left. To the right there is one moving very slowly, with the numbers 30,10 and 20 on it. The one on the bottom has 12, 3, 6 and 9 on the usual positions, and I don’t think the hand is moving. On the back there is some sort of seahorse under the word SPEEDMASTER and above the omega symbol.

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I'm here and would ya look at the time

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check em

>>44000965

Sorry for the late reply.

This watch is a 1970's Japanese-made automatic watch by the well respected, affordable watch company Seiko. It features a tachymeter on the outer-rim of the dial which can be used for measuring your speed and distance travelled, a chronograph (stopwatch) which tracks your time using the 30 minute sub-dial once activated by pressing the highest of the three buttons on the case. It also features a full date and day calendar wheel. No seconds hands are present on this watch. The hands would have been originally luminous and possibly a little radioactive due to the material used at the time. The crown is almost set inside the case to hide it from view and also unusually can change the date by pushing it inwards towards the watch as opposed to rotating it on its own notch. The glass is only made from crystal so unless it was cared for extremely well or had work done, it should be quite scratched. The movement features 17 jewels and works on kinetic energy as you move, it will hold its max charge for approximately 35-40 hours.

There is still a small market for these watches today and they normally sell anywhere from £50-£250 depending on condition.

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>>44003187
>>44001491

Now this is something a bit special. What you appear to have here is a vintage 1960/70's original Omega Speedmaster. This watch is the first watch that was worn on the moon by the Apollo astronauts and it was built especially for this purpose. Hence it earning the nickname 'Moon Watch'. The watch had to feature a manual-wind movement as an automatic movement would obviously not work without gravity. The glass is made from hesalite which is more resistant to scratches than crystal but not as hard as sapphire. The problem with using sapphire though was that if it were to break during the mission, tiny bits of sharp glass would go everywhere and potentially cause disaster whereas hesalite will remain in one piece when broken. Similarly to the Seiko this watch also features a tachymeter and a chronograph. The chronograph is a little more in-depth as it covers minutes and hours on the 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock sub-dials respectively. The sub-dial at 9 o'clock is for your seconds. This model proved to be such a big success that they continued producing it to this day with only slight modifications from the original.

Have a read up on Omega's history, they are one of the great Swiss watch companies.

A brand new Speedmaster today will cost you £2880 new and about £1600 used. A vintage model from the 60/70's in good working order can fetch anywhere between £1200-2500.

Pic related is my 2011 Speedmaster.

>>44001582
1 of ur waches is rong nerd

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Japanese efficiency

>>43999515
why does a chimpanzee have 2 watches on?

>>43999515
that's twice the watches you should be wearing on the wrong arm

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Thoughts on the Rodina watch? I'm looking to pick up babby's first automatic and the aesthetics of it really appealed to me

>>44004684
What's wrong with wearing your watch on your dominant hand?

>>43999515
2clocks/10

how do you guys feel about Rolex?

>>44004737
Its good for an Homage.

Make sure to get a better strap however.

>>44000636
Features in watches are known as 'complications' because each additional feature makes the mechanism required to run the watch significantly more complex. For example, 'grand complication' watches will generally have features like moonphase, perpetual calendar, and other shit that makes the movement super dope

>>44001491
shit, nigga
grandpa must have liked you to leave you that thing.

>>44004737
lots of people rip on homage watches. the 'rodina' (it's actually manufactured entirely by seagull and sold under an old soviet watch brand name for some reason) gives you a lot that you don't get from other watches at that price point. the sapphire crystal and decorated movement are big plusses.
get it, you can't go wrong at $120

>>44005416
you drag it all over the paper when you write.

I have a rolex explorer but I never wear it because I'm afriad someone will steal it.

boomp

>>44006056
Except that doesn't happen at all.

>>44006016
>rodina
>gives you a lot that you don't get from other watches at that price

>no date complication
>no sweep seconds
>no hacking
>china-tier pleather strap
>pig-disgusting "CHINA MADE" printed right on the dial
Yeah, you're totally getting a lot.

>>44008183
That thing looks no better than a cheapo no-name walmart watch.

How do I get used to wearing my watch on my left hand?

>>43999515
My seiko (same as pictured in OP) is always late, sometimes losing an hour in a day
wat do

>>44008268
Your shit is screwed up.
Mine loses a minute every 10 days.

>>44006016
>it's actually manufactured entirely by seagull and sold under an old soviet watch brand name for some reason
Chinese companies bought up a lot of the Soviet brand names, maybe thinking they had some recognition. "CJIABA" (knockoff of 'C????') seems to be one such hilarious example. Many of those brand names were used primarily for foreign markets, so instead of the watches being exported from Russia, they decided to make them in China instead. Sekonda is a good example of this, as they used to rebrand saught-after Poljot chronographs used in the space program, but now it's all crap made in China.

>>44008276
>Mine loses a minute every 10 days.
I know, mine used to be like that.
Going to the watchmaker should do the trick right ?

>>44008301
It's a seiko, the watchmaker will probably charge more than it's worth.

I'd suggest regulating it yourself, it's really easy.
The most you'd be spending is $5 for a case-opening tool.

>>44008289
And people call me crazy when I tell them that their precious "new-old stock" Vostoks aren't rebranded chinese shit made to order.

>>44008321
I'm afraid I'll break it, plus it won't be waterproof anymore if I do that

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>>44008368
however
>It's a seiko, the watchmaker will probably charge more than it's worth.
so unless its under warranty, has some sentimental value to you or something, its either buy a new one or do it yourself. of course, you could also ask some watchmaker for how much it'd cost. maybe it won't be that expensive.


lately I've been using these two

>>44000820
If I see this on someone's arm, I know we have nothing in common.

>>43999515
LMAO 2CLOCK!
2CLOCK!

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>>44000949
Terrorist watch ftw

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>>44008368
The waterproofing comes from this little black ring, which stays firmly on the back plate unless you intend to replace it. You should be fine.
Worst case, you can just buy another seiko 5 and switch out the guts.

Anyone have watch guide?

>>44008501
there was one for entry level watches

really tho its not hard to do the research yourself, then ask around for specific things. watches (especially cheaper ones) don't have that much functionality, there isn't that much to learn at first

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>>44008501
I do.

>>44008236
You don't.
I tried wearing it on my non-dominant hand once, i kept banging it with everything, my wrist felt heavy, the simple act of looking at the time felt forced and contrived, I quickly put it back on the "wrong" hand and never tried it again.

>>44008579
I had the opposite feeling, wearing a watch on my dominant hand felt weird as it raised my writing hand more above the table. It was always in the way.

>>44008342
The Chinese watches are entirely different other than the shared name, idiot.

Thoughts on the moto 360? Its a smart device and blah blah blah but hell it looks nice...

>>44008619
For me, writing anything feels weird without that little fulcrum provided by a watch.

I also wear my belt the wrong way, apparently, because nobody taught me better.

>>44008676
>12 hours of battery life in regular use
into the trash it goes.

looks good enough and I'm sure a smartwatch could have nice features, but they really need to get their shit together with those batteries.

>>44008704
the iwatch will, it'll be powered by an arc reactor and never need to be charged

>>44008687
How do you manage that?

So is this good or should you get an old one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RUSSIAN-VOSTOK-MILITARY-KOMANDIRSKIE-WATCH-811306-NEW-/190921297949

>>44008676
Are your wrists big enough to pull it off? Do you really want a gen-1 device that will be shat on by the following few generations, other manufacturers, while they straighten the design out?

>>44008741

All those awesome designs...must satisfy my need for motherland time device but dont know which one to pick! hnng.

>>44008839
I know, here is something even more awesome:
a soviet terrorist watch
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Elektronika-Soviet-vintage-digital-watch-New-condition-/170876951917

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>>44008741
>>44008839
http://www.meranom.com/komandirskie-classic/81/vostok-watch-komandirskie-811306.html

I prefer the aesthetics of the vintage design, but it's up to you. You could upgrade to the automatic Komandirskie for a bit more
http://www.meranom.com/komandirskie-classic/92/vostok-watch-komandirskie-921306.html

Or upgrade further to the Amphibian model (steel case, additional water resistance)
http://www.meranom.com/amphibian-classic/420/vostok-watch-amphibian-classic-420306.html

Above website has free shipping currently and if you order using Russian/rubles it's even cheaper.

>>44008741
>>44008839
>>44008867
>giving your money to the slav jew
Fuck you for financing the war machine

>>44008928
the US is pretty much equally bad (if not worse)

>>44008867

Will take a look onto it, even tough i doubt it will ship to my country...

also, ???? straps on glorious soviet engineering.
Absolutely disgusting.

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>>44008960

>>44008948
No the fuck it isn't. Tell that to anyone who has lived in the USSR.

>>44009029
he was calling it
>the war machine
I'm pretty sure the US has accomplished more bad things on that sector, at least in the more recent times

also; china ought to be pretty comparable to the soviet union as far as civil liberties etc go. how many made in china things do we all have...

I know comparing like this is silly, but my point is: you'd basically stop buying anything if you wanted to only "support" good countries

>>44009074
China isn't even close to the USSR m8. China is like paradise compared to USSR.

>>44008928
>"Ivan, Kalina, stupid american man buy shitty watch! now we eat fish other than lamprey!"
>meanwhile in america
>"oh my god look at this fucking unaware consumerist wannabes financing the evil russian war machine i bet they're homophobic privilege privilege privilege"

>>44009091
>implying
You do know that Russia is controlled by oligarchs and they also fund Russia?

>>44009083
The USSR collapsed and was replaced by a country whose greatest civil rights offence is banning "gay propaganda"

I suppose you also buy from canada, a country that bans "hate speech"?

>>44009107
>"daddy, why watch buying american call you oligarch?"
>"I do not know, perhaps he confuse me with jew because i am now having of the money."
>"Do I get barmitzvah?"
>"No ivan i am not actually jew"

>>44009115
They banned gay propaganda, because Putin is homosexual himself, but he's ashamed of it.
>>44009128
>being this unsophisticated
I bet you also watch RT

>>44009154
Canada banned complaining about coworkers and fellow students not speaking english because canada is ruled by a secret society of asian immigrants

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>>44009154
putin not gay, he epitome of manliness
just see picture comrade and you will understand

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>>44009154
>not sympathizing with the innocent russian watch merchant family and their silly accents

you heartless bastard

also putin is a closet furry not a closet homo

>>44009222
>implying the owners of Vostok is just an innocent merchant family
;^)

>>44009259
>implying they aren't
>not knowing how many watch you must sell to afford fish that is not lamprey in russia
>being stupidly confusing person with jew for having of the money

>>44009280
You clearly know nothing about Russia. Just shut up, you'll look smarter.

>vostok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdJNN7Vzqs&t=1m18s

Enjoy your shit chinese watches.

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F-91W FTW

Gonna get the iWatch if it makes Google look like dumb faggots, which i'm pretty sure it will. Got a nice black Citizen atm with a bit of diamond bling in it.

>>44009274
>hurfeth durfeth oh god oh god I'm fucking retared hurfeth uuuurrrrr

>>43999515
What watch is that to the right

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>mfw have black CASIO
>actually a rare "Fish-en-Time" model (look it up, it's badass)
>mfw I like metal CASIO more
>mfw I despise rubber strap
>mfw my CASIO is idling in a drawer

s-sorry to disappoint you /g/

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My watch is an old Helvetia which isn't flash or expensive.

But i am stripping it down for a clean and oil before rebuilding.

Which is a much better hobby than just showing of your shiny shit.

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>>44010016
this is it, btw

>>44010016
Rubber straps are garbage. They keep breaking. I have half a dozen strapless Casio watchfaces sitting somewhere.

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Lets try this.
>>I normally post on /p/, /b/ or /fa/.

Just changed my PEG-40 for a PEG-240. Loving it so far.

>>44008521
the hardest part is knowing what to stay away from.

>>44008268
Your hairspring is getting stuck on the regulator pin.

gf got me a watch as a graduation present 1 year ago but I never use it.
Why should I after all? I have a cell phone that can tell me what time it is and I don't give a shit about bling-blings people use as a fashion item.

>>44005416
so you could be doing things with your dominant hand and still check the time

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M signature style

All of those watches lack any kind of aesthetic design. Do you even /fa/, fa/g/gots?

>>44012243
enjoy your water meter lmao

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muh casios 1/2

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>>44012326
2/2

>>44012294
notice that we have a watch thread in /g/ and one in /fa/
there's a difference between the two

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Absolutely standard, everyday normal guy coming through.

>>44012655
thank god for telling me. the watches on this thread look like complete shit usually

>>44012889

How does that metal strap hold against acid sweat? Think sweat acid enough to bleach clothes.

>>44012959
I honestly couldn't tell you. I've only had the Casio for about 2 weeks, and I haven't really built up a big sweat while wearing it.

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>>43999515

>>44006090
You don't own that.
Fuck you.

>>44012014
yeah

but to be fair, there aren't that many bad watches available. a lot is up to taste. being disappointed is, of course, possible, but its pretty easy to avoid that by doing your research before buying (so you won't go mad cause your Seiko 5 deviates 5 seconds a day)

some are genuinely overpriced, tho

>>43999867
Unless you're lefthanded, jackass.

How can you get a cloth strap for a casio? I thought their straps were integrated.

>>44003261
Maybe both of them are wrong.

Thought I'd see some cool watches in this thread.

Just disappointed now.

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Is this watch any good?

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>arm too skinny to wear watches properly

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This and a more expensive Seiko Sportura Kinetic something something.

>>44013464
you're one incredibly picky guy if this thread doesn't have a single watch to your liking

>>44013553
At least you don't have the opposite version of that problem.

>>44013553
this. my arm is 20cm and most metal watches are 24cm

>>44008867
Are these communist watches any good?

>>44013553
>not adjusting it or buying a new wrist band

>>44013967
lose weight fatso

>>44014261
I never claimed to have any issues with watches myself.

>>44014160

COMRADE! WE MADE WATCHES STRONG AS KALASHNIKOV RIFLE!

>>44014323
>not SKS

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Will it be ok to put some NATO strap on this watch?

>>44005644

This. Nothing more attractive than a knockoff Nomos made by Seagull named after a Soviet novelty watch with a classy as fuck NATO strap.

Germany may have #swag but it will never have #class

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>>44002833
model?

mine

>>44014358

COMRADE SIMONOV AIN'T GOT SHIT ON GLORIOUS KALSHNIKOV DESIGN!

>>44014911
For Americans looking for a cheaper rifle it does. As a service rifle AKM > SKS.

>>44013967
least being fat is solvable. I don't think anybodies solution to that problem is going to be "gain some fat so you can wear a pebble"

>>44013553
Usually you can solve that by just wearing a ladies' watch.

If you're really that frail looking, it won't look out of place on you.

>>44013553
how skinny wirst? 40mm here and i wear one

>>44015263
Not that I am too fat to wear a watch or anything, but I would think gaining weight is not that fucking difficult.

>>44016528
If you've never been fat before, it's the hardest thing ever.

You eat.
And then you eat some more.
And then you eat when you're not even hungry.
And then you throw all your common sense out the window as you eat after midnight.

Of course, if you don't work out while bulking, it's all going to go to your gut.

>>44015245
"mission status incomplete"
Wow.
Wat was your mission?
Can you change that message for something more edgy?

>>44015263
Go to /fit/, man.
There's one method called GOMAD for people like you.

>>44015011

FOR CHEAP RIFLE LOOK FOR THE CREATION OF COMRADE MOSIN!

>>44016646
>RIFLE
>implying anyone buys less than 20

>>44016583
if you don't want to be healthy, its easy as hell, especially when you're not a teenager anymore - loads of people I know have gained weight with age.

its easy to eat unhealthy bullshit that hardly fills you yet contains ton of carbs, to drink soda/juices etc. a single fast food meal can contain over half the energy a regular person burns through a day.

getting drunk can do the trick, too. a fuckload of beer and some junk food and you're set

>>43999867
>implying that's not a glove

>>44008704

I've heard nothing but good things about battery life from regular people who have actually used the device.

Example: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/07/weekend-poll-did-you-buy-a-moto-360/#comment-1578058492

It's the journalists who for some reason have a problem with battery life. Maybe they are using it non-stop and that's why they get terrible battery life.

>>44016738
They expect it to work like a real watch.

I can fiddle with my dumbwatch all day and it won't die on me.

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>>44016691

PIC IS OF VERY RELATED.

>>44014797
Cadence 4:20 Chrono

>>44016763

Why would you fiddle with a dumbwatch when all it can do is tell you the time (and maybe the date)? You just check the time on it and move on. Do people actually fiddle with their dumbwatches?

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>all these dumbfaggots

>>44016738
>Maybe they are using it non-stop and that's why they get terrible battery life.
whats the point if you can't use it? really tho, it just isn't good enough for me, whether its 12 or 24 hours.

idk, maybe you'd get more interested replies in a non-watch thread. most people here probably like "classic" watches, I'd see more potential smartwatch buyers in people who don't care about the old ones.

>>44016854
>12 hour battery life
>screen off all the time, have to interact to tell time
>round screen
Literally the worst smartwatch on the market right now, the only thing its got is looks.

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>>44016854
*coughing intensifies*

>>44017008

Enjoy your small screen and enormous bezel full of tacky numbers which won't go away even when you're not looking at a watch face.

>top kek

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>>43999515
>ctrl+f marathon
>phrase not found
>realize this is not /k/

>>44017076
/k/ has watch threads? I don't feel welcome since
>yurop

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>>44014690
>classy as fuck NATO strap.
>Fossil Is Nice
You have terrible taste.

>>44008528
spontaneously ordered a timex weekender

>>44017677
>not mechanical
into the trash it goes

>>44017677
good choice

i don't get the wankfest for mechanical watches, they don't even feature the most basic of modern features, like a damn EL backlight.

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>>43999515
Mechanicalfag here

My old watch

>>44017895
>requiring a battery that requires replacement after 2 years

>>44017664

no u

>>44017778
well i will just use it for work and it probably gets scratched pretty soon so these 35€ sounded just nice to me

>>44018628
you can get a seiko 5 for 20€ and less

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>>44018706
i don't like seiko watches since the name and their numberfonts look ugly to me

the timex i didn't know off before by 30 minutes just looks pretty good to me and has a nice layout and font in my taste

>>44018765
>no date

>>44018783
>not heaving a brain which reminds you the date

do you even work?

>>44018811
I have more important things to remind than what the fucking date is
Minimum wage factory worker detected

I want to purchase a watch.

What would be a nice looking watch that wouldn't look out of place if I'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans?

>>44018706
can you?

I thought they started at about 60

>>44018872
well i guess you don't need no dates for reminding yourself to continue watching anime i suppose.. now go pick up fights elsewhere, i funnily enough don't have time for you

>>44018935
yet you have time to post on a micronesian claymation board

>>44018935
>watching anime
;^)
>>44018899
I'm bidding on a used one on ebay right now and it's at 2 pounds

>>44013368
I'm left-handed, but I still wear my watch on my left wrist

>>44013535
yes

>>44018989
you're doing it wrong

>>44013535
>chinese automatic
kekkles

at least get yourself a seagull derivative

>>44019056
i wear my watch on my right wrist and im right handed, come at me

>>44019125
but that watch actually looks good unlike seagulls

>>44018765
please answer me, is this shit cheap? I want something that won't cost me fucking hundreds of dollars, I'm from Europe and if I'm lucky to get it from an European country that's fine, but if i get it for like 50$ from a non-EU country I pay 25% VAT, huge shipping price (why is shipping for watches more expensive than for a smartphone or other more fragile stuff?), customs tax and other shit and a 50$ watch becomes >100$.


Please someone help I want something under 50$ that's decent! anything! PLEASE! i AM DESPERATE!

>>44019534
get a used seiko 5

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I'd rather have a submariner type watch, but for now this one is fine.

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>wear expensive watch
>accidentally bang it on something

>>44019567
is ebay a good choice for that? I've only used it to buy ching chong smartphone accessories that were $0.5 each so I didn't care about what I had in the box when it was delivered to me.

>>44019605
Nah, they have a tendancy to send you rocks if a package costs under a certain amount because they know it will cost you more to complain to ebay and ship it back than to eat the losses.

>>44019605
I guess. That's what I'm doing. I have bets on 5 cheap seikos and citizens

>>44019583
I feel the same whenever I'm near something I own that's even slightly expensive. every time I touch my monitor I feel a burn in my chest and I have to clean it thoroughly, every time I drop a piece of technology I feel very angry and waste hours on the internet searching to find if something is okay and won't have problems in the future even though now it works perfectly fine. Is this what real OCD feels like?

>>44019633
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>44019650
>Is this what real OCD feels like?
As somebody with OCD (hate to sound like a faggot but I have to specify it's 'actual' OCD, not just attention-whoring hurr-durr OCD), yes. That's very similar to some of the shit I do.

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>>44019636
Thanks nigga, I'll give this a try, hopefully I can manage to get one under 50$. Do I have to pay VAT or customs tax if I buy something used?

>>44018892
nearly anything that isn't overly big or small for your wrist. I guess a really expensive/dressy-looking one could seem weird, but to be frank, you have to really try to make a watch look bad on you

price range? sorta important

>>44019650
Usually, this feeling goes away after owning it for a few weeks.

Sure, everyone treats their new car like a baby, but months later, they're spilling their mega-gulp cola in the passenger seat with hardly a wince on their expression.

>>44019671
>he doesn't complain to ebay claiming "item not as described" and mail the seller a rock instead of the item

>>44019677
How many times a day do you wash your hands?

>>44019578
Does this one feel cheap or anything? I'm considering an upgrade from my terrorist watch just for shit and giggles and this one has the better backlight too.

>>44019677
yeah it's just sad, I haven't got it diagnosed yet but I'm pretty sure I have anxiety+OCD+depression but they go hand-in-hand so I guess it's pretty normal. I feel like I can't enjoy something new because I expect it to fail soon and with every drop/scratch I feel so goddamn angry. I actually don't feel any emotion when I see something that's out of order (i.e the 9geg definition of OCD) and my desk is a mess.

>>44019689
>Do I have to pay VAT or customs tax if I buy something used?
I guess it depends on how expensive the item is and if it's marked as "gift"

>>44019743
Are you afraid of dying?

>>44019709
True, I guess it's because of being a poorfag as well since if I had thousands of dollars that I could play with every month I wouldn't care if a $200 monitor got scratched or if I dropped something. But that's enough offtopic for this thread.

>>44019753
So the problem can be solved by convincing the seller to write "gift" on the package?

Whenever I buy something from China that's what the crafty fucks write on the package, that's why I have no experience since I always buy crap from China. Last time I bought a 50 euro laser and I was glad it was marked as "gift flashlight" since I would've had to pay 25% VAT + customs tax for it.

>>44019534
well i just chatted with someone on another forum about this watch, it is reasonable for the price and surely does its job

you can get it on amazon i guess

http://www.amazon.de/Timex-Unisex-Armbanduhr-Weekender-Analog-T2N649/dp/B0056DC84M/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1410123804&sr=8-5&keywords=timex+weekender

got mine from a german store for 35€ though which is about to get delivered tommorow i guess

>>44019125
>i wear my watch on my right wrist and im right handed, come at me
Enjoy your scratches.

>>44019743
> anxiety+OCD+depression but they go hand-in-hand so I guess it's pretty normal

welcome to the club (diagnosed though).

> I feel like I can't enjoy something new because I expect it to fail soon

gumption trap.

> I actually don't feel any emotion when I see something that's out of order

yep. saying you feel a "little OCD" is meaningless, like saying you are feeling cancerous today. you can say that you're feeling obsessive compulsive, but not that you feel OCD. that's not so much a comment on you as 9gag plebs.

>>44000598
>time isn't double
You disappoint me.

>>44019760
Why do you ask me that? Sometimes I feel really scared about it and what will happen after but then I realize I'll either stop existing (so I wouldn't be able to "care") or go to hell/heaven. When I was a kid I had a stupid idea that I'd float around in nothingness or stay in a coffin forever and get bored.

>>44019733
It feels alright, not very cheap.

>>44019828
>Sometimes I feel really scared about it and what will happen after but then I realize I'll either stop existing (so I wouldn't be able to "care") or go to hell/heaven

that's a pretty normal feeling. most people won't talk about it openly, but unless you're particularly stupid everybody has the same feeling of universal despair. I can very vividly remember when I first realized this fact, still haven't really got over it.

>>44019844
Any rattle?

>>44019799
It's a regular day to day watch, i don't know why you'd want it to look like you've never worn it.

>>44019733
my similar Casio watch feels quite good for the price. it doesn't feel really good, but not overly cheap either.

>>44019743
different anon here, I don't have OCD (I was psychotic once, nowadays I suffer from milder paranoia + anxiety while on medication)
but paranoia that makes your life harder is never a good thing.
one thing to try: ignore these feelings. if you feel like googling about a problem, don't. if you need to do thing x to keep the anxiety/paranoia away, try not doing it.
it feels bad at first but for many, the feelings only grows stronger the more you avoid the thing that "causes" it. of course, this may be impossible; bad enough anxiety is...bad.

>>44019874
That's not the point. Be using it on your most used hand it's MORE prone to scratches.

Who doesn't have scratches on their car? I drive off-road just to make sure people know I drive it :^)

>>44019859
This is one of those things where it really depends on your mood.
Sometimes, the thought of no longer existing freaks me the fuck out, and other times, I couldn't care less if I stopped existing after that moment.

>>44019882
>while on medication

how are you finding it? I can't decide which I hate more.

Watches are an expensive hobby, they don't belong in /g/. Here all we see are shitty casios and seikos. Stop making these threads.

>>44019899
I'm usually quite mystified that people can keep reproducing knowing that they are bringing another person in the world who has to suffer the same throbbing despair that they do. in my mind it's a childish thing, as in, I had to suffer this so you do too.

>>44019899
still not sure how sane that feeling is, to be quite honest.

>>44019955
you stop existing when you're asleep, i hope you realize that

>>44000598
nice touch with the watch.

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>>44019870
Not with mine. However the "clamp" is mad from horrendously bad material. It broke within a week. And I don't know where to get a replacement.

>>44019979
This.

>>44019979
Also, other people don't exist as far as I am concerned.

>>44019979
that can't be right. I dream when I'm asleep, it's mighty unpleasant most of the time. to me at least, sleep is just a period of time that acts differently. like I'm thinking through treacle or something. lucid dreaming is pretty regular for me, so that's probably unusual to some extent.

>ITT: babby's first existential crisis

>>44020023
first? hardly. there's never an answer though.

>>44019905
well I can function quite normally as I am now.
a pretty small dose of anti-psychotics does the trick nowadays, as well as benzodiapezine as a backup - it was worse when I needed more, a big dose of anti-psychotics fucks up your feelings big time. I dropped the SSRI as soon as my doctor let me, those weren't very good ever - too many not-nice-at-all things from them (particularly fucking up my sexuality). benzos are more as a sort of small thing to make me feel a bit more reassured about being out and about - I rarely actually use them.

I did need to try different meds etc, though, and I did spend quite some time in really bad shape. and its still a constant mental game against all the fears, sometimes I can't eat from a plate if I didn't clean it myself, sometimes I just can't go out because I've got another irrational fear, but I'm managing - without the meds, I probably wouldn't. so, meds sure are better at the moment.

>>44019817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap

I've never heard about that term, thanks for telling me.

>>44019882
I don't even know what I have, I guess I could be paranoid as well since I have social anxiety and I always care too much about the future and my health problems. I never got diagnosed with anything so I'm not sure.

You're right about that googling problem, I always look up to see what new health problems I could have it's as if I'm trying to find new sources of anxiety when I don't have anything better to give a shit about.

Talking to people makes most of those feelings go away but when I become too focused with technology and other more introverted activities I start obsessing over tiny things and get that burning feel in chest that every time I ignore gets worse. It's even worse that I can't convince myself that those problems are big enough for me to feel that angry about them, I need to have a bigger issue on my mind in order to stop caring about those small details.


Thanks for the talk anons and sorry to other anons for off topic posts.

>>44019911
I've also noticed that, /g/ /watches/ thread are mostly composed of:

a. poorfags (with terrorist watches)
b. slightly less poorfags (with cheap seikos)
c. one or two /fa/ggots with >$2000 watches

What are your thoughts on buying a nice-looking for-parts watch for cheap and replacing the movement with a $5 miyota quartz?

where can i get cheap nato straps? they're universal?

>>44020199
you need the right size for your watch

>>44020216
damn nigga that means higher prices... damn

>>44020247
they're still cheap

http://www.cheapestnatostraps.com/

>>44020199
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351147470598

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>>44019796
thanks for the link, hopefully it delivers to my "EU" shithole too

>>44020398
How many of these do you have?

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>>44020422
I've only posted that in this thread...

>>44020463
>>44019689

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>>44020502
oh right, if you like them I'll post one more, I got it from a thread (not from /g/) where a guy was making OC of this.

>>44020635
These are better than pictures of cheap watches.

>>44020684
>>>/fa/8755113

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>>44020684
I've got a few more

>>44020711
But /fa/ is full of cunts. They aren't even hateful or anything.

>>44020398
Things don't fall at the same rate. The rate at which something falls is its speed.

The rate at which the object accelerates while falling is constant though.

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>>44020754
Yes, thank you for pointing that out. You certainly are a big boy.

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>>44020754
they're supposed to be funny in a way that's still serious enough to fool the average dumb internet guy into thinking the author really thought the quote was real and that it could be attributed to the person in the image

kinda like that "einstein failed 4th grade so don't yell at me for getting a bad grade mom!" shit

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>>44017076
k-komrade?

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>thread about watches on /g/
>open it
>people spam images of 10$ terrorist watches
>then people start talking about mental disorders
>now this

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>>44017076
>marathon
is that a watch? sounds interesting, do you have a link?

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this will probably be the last post in this thread so I'll end this with my favorite girl, Hinata (my fist waifu).

>mechanical watches have existed for literally hundreds of years
>they still somehow aren't precise and need regular maintenance
somebody somewhere along the line fucked up royally on that part

>>44021592
They didn't even become accurate to within +/- 10s a day and inexpensive enough to mass manufacture until japan joined the watch game.
Before then, +/- 30s on luxury swiss watches and 100 jewel movements was typical.

>>44021592
they're mechanical devices

its not like digital where development is fast and things are (nearly) perfected

>>44021699

Is this intended as a joke? I can't tell.

>>44021053
look at that cute face man! wow! what a perfect female!

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what are the differences between timex weekender, originals, "men's quartz watch" and others? they look almost the same, only with different color themes. Is the price and the colors the only differences? Thanks in advance.

>>44022294
do you mean "look at that cute face, man!"

are you fucking dumb, bitch?

>>44022640
yes my anon your right, butt dont you agreement with me? that IS... a perfect bitch

>>43999515
>right watch
MAH NIGGA

>>44022566
is weekender the best? I've noticed "camper" is slightly cheaper and looks basically the same. Input please! input/output like in the mobo

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Worth $200? Citizen eco drive watch, I like clean faces. I know fuck all about watches.

>>44022669
no agreement with you. filthy casual.

>>44023080
that looks really awesome in an elegant simple way in my opinion

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>>44023185
Thanks, I think so too. The strap is a little stiff but that can be changed. I'd still take recommendations for similar watches.

>>44023296
>>44023080
>fused cuffs

absolutely disgusting

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>>44003224
I want one like this...

instead i ordered a $65 seiko today ;_;

>>44023375
Shitty t-shirt for salesman job during summer.

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R8 or h8 m8

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Some unknown brand, I very much doubt that they originated in 1583.

>>44024081
pulsar is just a downmarket seiko, they're good watches
>>44024214
this is sort of like steinhart or steinhausen or whatever it's called. skymall shit. you're supposed to think that's a tourbillon.

Is this a fake seiko?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Mens-Seiko-5-Automatic-1970S-Day-Date-Japan-A598-/261582792865

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>>44024081


Second watch is this Lucien Piccard, numbers on the back are 1a-280

anyone know anything about these watches and what they might be worth?

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Right is a Christmas pres from girlfriend. Left was a replacement for a fossil I had for four years. It's also the daily driver.

>>44024310

So it's bad? My friend just bought it for 160€ because it was on sale from 300 to 160€, though I very much doubt that 300 is the regular price.

Brand is called Calvaneo 1583

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Swatch Touch
Whitechip color
2014 Collection

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>>44024603

>>44024603
>>44024623
disposable shit/10

Orient Ray

Blue or Black.

Anyone had one?

Is the blue a dark enough blue that it could still be mistaken for black or is it obviously blue?

>>44020185
The hands won't fit, you'll have to find your own hands.
You'll have to make a custom spacer for the movement.
You'll have to snap off the dial feet and attach it using dial dots.
You'll have to get a different stem. You could attach the crown to the new stem, though.

>>44024310
>steinhart

steinhart is a german microbrand comprised of 15 guys who sell fairly well made rolex homages of both modern and vintage designs with either ETA 2824-2 movements or their own movement which is built on the ETA

you're thinking of Stuhrling.

>>44024581
the brand is shit
the movement is okay. based on what I can see from the picture it's a Seagull ST-25 if you want to do your own research.

>>44024413
>>44024081


No one know?

>>44024803
unless nice-looking includes fashion brands like kenneth cole, armani, relic, fossil, etc. in which case it's already using the $5 miyota movement and you can just drop it in.

>>44024937
pulsar is seiko
they use their cheaper quartz movements in them. it's not worth much. it's an okay watch though.
lucien piccard is like stuhrling, invicta and the like. the watch isn't worth anything.

>>44024912

Does the brand being shit mean that it's quality is subpar? How does it hold up to a similarly priced citizen watch?

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>>44024310
>Fossil is Nice
>Steinhart is equivalent to Chinese shit
Can you be any more fucking stupid?

Steinhart is a very nice brand in Germany using ETA movements that are largely Rolex Homages, very good homages too and at great prices.

Also some really nice original pieces.

>>44025128
yeah, build quality is subpar and the business itself engages in shitty business practices, most notably deceptively inflating MSRPs and then selling them at 90% off to make it look like you're getting a good deal.
Similarly priced citizen would be better.

>>44025580
kind of like orient?
>>44025472
>aboo hoo abloo abloo someone mistook my shitty german microbrand for an even shittier german microbrand

sorry man. I can't keep up with all these new flash in the pan microbrands

>>44000820
>white
>using 'nigga'
>mfw

>>44012889
>>44001582

Timex/Casio Combros

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>>44026495
>sorry man. I can't keep up with all these new flash in the pan microbrands
Steinhart has been around for quite a while and is definitely not a "microbrand" and has gotten rather respected from their Homages and Pilot watches.

Not only that but they actually use good movements, unlike actual microbrands.

Also, you're retarded and anyone with any knowledge of watches outside what the nearest Macy's could tell you that.

>>44026861
steinhart has been around for like 10ish years but they've been hot shit the entire time so everybody knows about them.
Steinhart is literally 15 guys, which makes it even more impressive that they make their own movement, even if it's based on the 2824.

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