/wt/ watch thread

first post

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First for anti-HOMOS-shill

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USPS is screwing with me

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R8

What is wrong with quartz?

I bought a small watch with a flat crystal. Is it possible to replace the crystal with a domed one? What do I need to do to order the correct dimensions?

>>60051155
It's cheap to produce and so usually only ends up in mall tier shit with piss poor finishing and terrible design.
High end Quartz like some of the Grand Seiko line are held in quite high regard here.

>>60051152
>not stainless steel
You done goofed. That said, it's fine, but it's a gadget and not a watch. It will be in a landfill before even a cheap Timex dies.

what are some affordable bauhaus brands?

>>60051173
Thanks for giving me a decent answer instead of telling my to kill myself.

But what is the best digital only watch?

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>>60050975

Nice! I suggest you have a new strap ready for it because the one it comes with is genuinely awful.

>>60051155
Nothing inherently, although cheap Chinese quartz are not good, and a good quartz will piss off nostalgiafags who can't handle the fact that their shit-tier mechanical movement is objectively inferior in every meaningful way.

>>60051191
junkers
>>60051196
f105w, gshock

>>60051202
>stop liking what i don't like: The Post 2000+17 edition

>>60051196
zeitwerk

>>60051221
Case in point, this faggot here
>strawman

>>60051166
yes
measure it

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>>60051196
Casio's GWM5610-1 is a pretty good all digital.

>>60051200
I don't someone posted it with a metal bracelet which I quite liked. I've never done anything with watches apart from worn them, is it hard to change?

>>60051262
no, get a spring bar tool and go to town

>>60051231
Just because Ferraris are gas guzzlers does not mean they are inferior.

Is Archie growing horns?

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>>60051191
Ruhla, Junghans

>>60051331
>>60051207
i'll check them out

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hi /wt/,

Huge novice on watches and currently am looking for an Automatic watch for ~$1k. Preference for something dressy enough to wear formal but casual enough to wear a lot.

What would you recommend me? I'm currently looking at this.

>>60051342
Have you look at Orient Star? Much better price/performance ratio

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=DSX-WMf5HqHk0gLgoZbICA&q=orient+star&oq=orient+star&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3..41l2j0l3.1472.4418.0.4902.14.9.1.4.4.0.134.1061.0j9.9.0....0...1c.1.64.mobile-gws-img..0.14.1108.3.XgOr0wLCqzA

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>>60051342
I would look for vintage Omega, Zenith or (if you're willing to go up a little more) a vintage Rolex.

You're shopping at a price point that really is almost 100% pure dogshit.

>>60051373
>frederique constant
>dogshit

>>60051262
Yea I've been thinking about getting a metal bracelet too. Seen some solid SS ones for about $70 that I like.

Like the other anon said it's pretty easy to do. Just get a springbar tool and it takes a few seconds to swap straps.

>>60051387
Yes, choose both.

AFFORDABLE LUXURY

>>60051388
Something like this alright? Or should I spend more for better quality?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zacro-Spring-Remover-Repair-Watchmakers/dp/B06WW2HSR8/ref=sr_1_1?s=watch&ie=UTF8&qid=1493050828&sr=1-1&nodeID=328228011&psd=1&keywords=spring+bar+tool

>>60051366
Where would you recommend I look for vintage watches? Any sellers you would suggest?

>>60051304
Your watch isn't a Ferrari nor is it analogous to one in this case you delusional goober

I'm not sure why I like this watch, because I usually detest Breitlings.

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>>60051454
Woops.

>>60051445
By mad, this was for: >>60051373

>>60051366
Any specific Orient Star watches you recommend for that price?

>>60051414
A watch is a luxury in of itself. Goyim do not deserve the means to tell time.

>>60051437
you have $1 from china and $12 swiss ones, and everything in between. i bought a $1 one and it broke.
i wish i just bought a bergeon 6767f in the first place. but as long as the tips are steel you should be fine (the chink ones are pot metal)

>>60051462
>>60051454
because it's a popular design probably.
i don't like it myself. the only breitlings i like are the ana digi quartzes.

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>>60051387
He's right. Uninteresting and bland shit watches.

>>60051373
He could also go Sinn, but they're just not very dressy.

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>>60051475
click on the link and pick one, guaranteed under $1000 if bought anywhere but orientwatchusa

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>>60051464

Rolex forums, Omega forums, Crown and Caliber, Chrono24 (only look for reputable dealers), Beckertime, are a few good options to look at.

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Recommend me a nice watch to give my gf(male) on her birthday.

>>60051749
homos

>>60051749
Can't without budget.

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>>60051342

http://www.good-stuffs.com/products_byprice_20-1-1.html

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>vintage Heuer automatic chronographs are more expensive than used and even some new TAG Heuer automatic chronographs
Motherfuckers, I'll never own a 70's Heuer.

>>60051833
That is one butt-ugly watch.

>>60051855
yeah you're late to the party

>>60051833

you've got mail

>>60051373
That image has enough errors and omissions to be straight up bait.

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>>60051342
In that price range I would seriously look at the Seiko Presage enameled dial models, as well as the Seiko SARX033 or SARX035

>>60051387
They are. They are a fake in-house, fake heritage brand with totally derivative styling. They are to classical Swiss watch aesthetics exactly what Christopher Ward are to modern Swiss watch aesthetics

>>60051448
>People all hate vintage cars because they don't have the fuel efficiency and comfort of modern cars
>Oh wait.

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>>60051454
>I usually detest Brietlings
>But like the literal definitive example of their aesthetics
What could he have intended to convey with such a display?

>>60052186
>what-did-he-mean-by-this/anime-face-poster
For some reason that I can't precisely or logically describe, you are my least favorite person in /wt/

<$200
<36mm
quartz
dress watch

Recommendations?

>>60052186
I meant exactly what I described in the post.
I can't describe why I like the specified model, even though I usually do not like models for Breitling.

>>60052425
>Recommendations?

That you leave.

>>60052425
Denzel Washington

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>>60051454

>>60052425
>quartz
>dress watch
Does not compute.

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>>60052425

>>60052470
A quartz dress watch without a second hand isn't so bad.

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>>60051833
>>60051833
Their designer is due for retirement.

>>60052438
>>60052470
Bit rude, fellas. Surely you aren't so snobbish that you think the movement determines whether or not something is aesthetically pleasing.
>inb4 they're correlated and the average == all with no exceptions

>>60052425
>quartz
>dress

>>60052476
>dress
>gaudy bauhaus

In all seriousness pick a citizen eco drive that you like. Their dress watch designs are uninspired but solid.

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>>60052425

Mechanical 35mm

http://www.good-stuffs.com/Smaller-35mm-Bauhaus-hand-winding-mechanical-watch-Sea-Gull-ST17-modified_p_310.html

>>60052508
Is that someone's deteriorating mental health? Depressing.

>>60052533
Specifically looking for quartz, although I appreciate your recommendation. I'll def pick up one of those at some point.

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>>60052512
>quartz
>dress watch

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>>60052497
Also thin af.
Pic marginally related.

>>60052515
that's the joke

>>60052581
Looks cool but has a very LEGO aesthetic

Fucking Scandinavians

>>60052553
Thanks, can you recommend any specific models or point me toward something with a good search function (inb4 google)? There seem to be quite a few eco-drive models

>>60052663
Meant for >>60052515

>>60052644
>Scandinavians
switzerland isn't scandinavia

>>60052663
Sorry I have no fucking clue. Yes there are a shitload of models, the good news is that they're pretty much all well constructed so just find one you like.

>>60052677
>current year
>"""swiss"""

>>60052677
Oh ok, but the people strike me as quite genetically similar

Where do other eurocucks send their imported SARB to be serviced/have the movement adjusted?

>Nederfag here

>>60052774
Are you actually retarded?
Like.. Did you really think Switzerland was in Scandinavia?

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>>60052553
>Specifically looking for quartz

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Men-Luxury-Silver-Stainless-Steel-Automatic-Self-Wind-Milgausses-Mechanical-Steel-Strap-Lightning-Orange-Hand-36mm/32799963564.html?

>>60052549
I think it's just examples of different levels of dementia.

>>60052841
I didn't know Mondaine was Swiss you dense cunt. Stop being a know-it-all, snowflake—nobody gives a shit. Grow up.

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>>60052991
>you dense cunt.
>Stop being a know-it-all
>snowflake
>nobody gives a shit.
Tells somebody else to grow up.

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>>60052425
Tissot makes a watch that fits your criteria I believe.

http://www.jomashop.com/tissot-t-classic-mens-watch-t52142113.html

>>60052991
you have to go back, nigger

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>>60052991

>>60053068
looks nice desu

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>>60052781
A-anyone? ;_;

is the samsung gear s3 worth it?

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Reddit has taste sometimes. The dial is beautiful.

>>60052781
Do we even have a single Eurocuck with a 6r15 powered Seiko here? I don't think so at the moment.

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>>60053478

>>60053500
>6r15
Why couldn't they just make it 28,800 bph

What a failure

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http://ebay.de/itm/152512936891

>>60053635
Or just let Seiko use the now Credor exclusive 4s15.

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>>60053500
i was planning to get a sarb033 from a brit on ebay. but considering these are import models and i live in limburg (ass-end of NL) i would like to know my options if it would need a 5-year check or adjustment.

I'm only knowledgeable enough to replace bands and adjust bracelets, the insides of an automatic scare me.

Here's the dealer i was considering: http://www.ebay.com/itm/272354122883

>>60053447

We have excellent watch repair guys here in Finland

>>60053682
Geen horlogemakers in de buurt?

>>60051173
>high end quartz
do you idiots actually believe this? IIRC grand seikos don't even do anything like rudimentary thermal correction. unless you stay up till 12am every night to cum when the date dial changes, there is nothing different about it. though of course the quartz oscillator is still vastly superior technology compared to the mechanical crap you luddites typically get a chubby for.

>>60053655

THICCCC

>>60053769
>do you idiots actually believe this? IIRC grand seikos don't even do anything like rudimentary thermal correction.
Wrong.

>>60053851
okay okay, it was the 8F where seiko's "correction" strategy was telling you to just wear it constantly so it would stay at basically the same temperature. there is very little known about the 9F's internals at all.

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Quoting Hodinkee:

"If we look at the details of construction of the Seiko quartz caliber 9F we see a movement that isdramaticallysuperior to an average quartz movement. First of all, if you are still preoccupied with in-house this is about as in-house as it gets; Seiko not only has its own semiconductor facilities, it also grows its own quartz crystals in giant reactors, and from the raw crystals selects only the most pure for Grand Seiko quartz movements. To avoid drift in rate due to aging, the selected crystals are aged for up to three months. Each crystal is individually tested for its specific frequency response to temperature change, and paired with an integrated circuit specifically programmed for that crystal. Once inside the watch, the movement actually samples the ambient temperature 540 times a day, and uses that information to adjust the frequency of the crystal to compensate.

The movement is also unusually mechanically sophisticated – one neat feature is the presence of a minute spiral spring (it looks identical to a balance spring, as a matter of fact) which is fixed to the pivot of the seconds hand and whose role is to take up what watchmakers call “backlash” in the gears driving the hand. Backlash just means the tiny amount of play you need in order for gears to turn when they mesh – the problem is that that small amount of play is amplified by the length of the seconds hand and can lead to visible irregularities in the positioning of the second hand relative to the dial markers; the Grand Seiko caliber 9F – more specifically, the 9F62 as shown here – has no truck with such frivolous imprecision."

>>60053962

Continued from >>60054127


https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/sexy-robot-the-grand-seiko-quartz-sbgx061-with-caliber-9f

"The list goes on and on – there is a special high speed motor for the date change that allows it to change the date in 1/2000 of a second; special high torque stepping motors are installed, which allow the use of more substantial – and substantially more beautiful – hands than you typically see on a quartz watch. The movement is actually just plain nice to look at – there are all sorts of things you’d ordinarily associate with high end mechanical watches, like parallel Geneva stripes (let’s call them Shiojiri stripes, maybe to recognize the provenance of the movement – it’s made in Shiojiri, in Nagano Prefecture) along with train jewels (nine, count ‘em, nine) and there is even a fine regulator for adjusting the rate. The entire package is sealed to prevent entry of dust, and other than changing the dry cell, Seiko says you can expect at least50 yearsbefore its lubricants and other mechanical parts will require attention. And the punch line to all this extra effort is a watch guaranteed to run to within, not ten or fifteen seconds per month, but only +/- 10 secondsper year."

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>>60053769
>>60053962
Appologize.

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>>60054127
>>60054185

FUCK YEAH QUARTZ

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>>60054316

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Does owning this watch make you a classless pleb for buying from an homage brand, or a patrician genius for getting the features and movement of a $ 4,000 watch for 500 bucks?

>>60054934
by all accounts the titanium on this watch is garbage
looks cheap, not well finished, and scratches super easily

Any wristlet with a 42mm divewatch or larger here?
I'm thinking of picking up an SKX007 but I'm afraid it will look too huge on me. Please post some pics if you have them.
I wish my wrist is as cute as the chubby canadian.

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>>60054316
>>60054503
I have one of these.

>>60055073
I think most of the complaints pertain to the bracelet.
And titanium is inherently more prone to scratches, but that also means they're easier to get out too.
Not a bracelet guy anyway.

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>>60055082
6.5" wrist, 41.5mm case. It doesn't look small for sure, but wearable. I only wear it with short sleeves. I wouldn't go over 42mm myself.
Also, I can't use a one piece strap, it makes it way too tall.

>>60055082
Get the skx013

>>60055230
I think you just blew his mind lol.

>>60054934
>Features and movement of a $4,000 watch
Except for:
- the case is not 904L stainless steel
- the bracelet does not have a glide-lock clasp
- the quality of the external machining and finishing is not even on the same planet
- there is actually factory pressure testing done
- the movement does not use a parachrom hairspring
- the movement does not have a breguet overcoil
-The movement does not have a free sprung balance
-The movement does not have as much power reserve
- the movement is not finished as well
- the dial is not finished nearly as well and does not feature applied indices
- the hands are an utter abomination
- the styling is totally derrivative and or bad
- the case is oversized compared to the original

Aside from those minor differences, they are totally the same.

>>60055328
>- the case is not 904L stainless steel
I think he was comparing it to the pelagos

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>>60055082
7.5" wrist.

>>60055364
Ah, well the finishing on the Pelagos is similarly stratospherically better than the Steinshit.

I also forgot that the movement is not an officially certified Chronometer, and since it's Tudor, silicon hairspring rather than parachrom.

>>60055370
Wow, great photo for a size comparison! Jammed up against your ham hand and your hipster shirt covering your entire wrist

>>60055104
How do you get scratches out of a blasted finish?

>>60055494
Blast it



with piss

>>60055136
>>60055370
Thanks, my wrist is actually around 6inches but fuck it. I'm just gonna get it I think.

>>60055230
>>60055320
I've thought about it, but I personally think that the dial/thickness ratio is a bit off. It has the same thickness as 007 right?

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>>60055565
This is the only other old pic I have of it.

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>>60055459

Rec me an automatic watch around $100 that looks good with a NATO strap.

>>60055328
>>60055416
I said "features", not finish.

And the movement on the Steinshit is a top-grade 2892-A2. That's god damn fantastic for the price.

>the finishing on the Pelagos is similarly stratospherically better than the Steinshit
You've obviously never actually handled a Pelagos.
Both are brushed satin titanium all over the case, only difference is in the shape and angles of the pelagos.
People scotchbrite their pelagoses all the time to near-new condition. That's titanium for you.

>>60055494
It's a satin finish. You touch it up with some scotchbrite.

>>60055328

> finishing
> finishing
> finishing

muh brand name

>>60055691
I have handled a Pleagos in person and the finishing is dramatically better than some Chinkshit outsourced Steinshit. Trying to pretend it isn't just makes you look foolish.

And the ETA 2892-A2 Top Grade would have been competitive with a ~1970s Rolex 3035, but the Pelagos movement has several dramatic advantages over the 40 year old ETA design, starting with a silicon hairspring, a 70 hour power reserve, a breguet overcoil, and a free sprung balance.

Not to mention the aesthetics on the Pelagos being Infinity better.

>>60053682
i was in horst on an exchange a couple years ago, nice town

>>60055857
Pelagos now use an in house cronometer certified movement do they not?

>>60053478
what is it?
is it corroded or is it granite?

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>>60055328
>>60055842

This finishing meme has gone too far. Literally meaningless words because of pic related

>>60052860
That's still not quartz though is it m9?

>>60055857
>I have handled a Pleagos in person and the finishing is dramatically better than some Chinkshit outsourced Steinshit. Trying to pretend it isn't just makes you look foolish.
Brushed titanium is brushed titanium. You cannot tell the difference from close-ups.
But regardless, I never said anything about the finishing being on par with 4k watches.

>the Pelagos movement has several dramatic advantages over the 40 year old ETA design
I know.
But guess what price the Pelagos went for when it had a 2824 ETA just two years ago?

The top-grade 2892-A2 is used in many similarly expensive watches btw.

>>60052781
Surely any competent watchmaker could service a 6r15?

>>60055842
It has nothing to do with brand names. The finishing on a $600 Seiko SDGM003 is noticeably dramatically better than a $4,000 Omega Aqua Terra, and the finishing on the Pelagos is light-years better than the outsourced Chinkshit Steinshit case.

>>60055948
Yes they do, a really terrific movement introduced like 2 years ago.

For most of its history before that, the pelagos had an ETA 2824 though.

>>60053682
That's who I bought mine from, I recommend them.

>>60055662
Seiko SNK809.

>>60055973
Corroded.

>>60056021
Titanium doesn't finish like steel does. It's softer, but a lot tougher, which makes for some interesting learning experiences for newbies trying to work it.

>>60055662
Nothing looks good on a NATO

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>>60055842
>The finishing on the Chinkshit outsourced Steinshit case/dial/hands/bezel is, like, TOTALLY comparable to the Tudor!
No.

>>60056100
too tiny

>>60056289
What am I supposed to see here?

>>60055981
>A single QC issue someone posted on the internet from a company that makes ~1,000,000 watches a year is proof that they are not on an entirely different planet from garbage outsourced to Chinks who culturally don't believe in product quality or QC.
No.

>>60056319
The Chinks don't have final say though.

>>60056305
Seiko SNZG15

>>60056289
Can you point out the $3000 difference

>>60056360
True, but seeing as Steinshit can't even be relied on to properly test the water resistance of their watches before sending them to customers, I wouldn't exactly rely on Steinshit's QC either.

>>60056425
>Steinshit can't even be relied on to properly test the water resistance of their watches
sounds like a juicy story
do you have a link?

>>60056313
Well perhaps that fucking gash between the endlinks and the case on the Steinhart compared to the Tudor.

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>>60056378
The Tudor has:
- a crystal that isn't a fucking mirror
- MUCH more crisply defined edges on the case and bracelet (Seriously, that bracelet is fucking rounded ass link SARB/TIssot tier)
- doesn't require a wood block and a hammer to fix the shape of the clasp (http://forums.watchuseek.com/f275/reducing-curve-ss-bracelet-672858.html)
- has a much more legible bezel, because it isn't a fucking mirror
- raised applied indices
- A chapter ring not subject to visual distortion due a crystal bevel
- Better brushing (the brushing on the Steinshit is Strapcode tier)
- The end-links actually match the shape of the lugs and case (pic related)
- Chamfered edges on the date window
I'm sure there's more, but that's enough for now.

>>60056493
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f275/ocean-one-gmt-water-pressure-failure-558965.html

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f275/brand-new-ocean-one-black-fails-pressure-testing-3678658.html

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f275/issues-my-steinhart-gmt-3113146.html

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f275/new-steinhart-ocean-titanium-engraved-ceramic-2346786-100.html

>>60056668
I like that domed crystal and that bevel it has. Very playful to look at. Nothing at all to do with any difference in quality/price.
The Rolex deepsea also has that kind of dome.

The rest of your complaints are all about finishing and the bracelet.

>>60056729
Any company puts out lemons once in a while. QC only reduces incidence, it doesn't eliminate it.
What matters is how it's handled.

>>60056668

you're literally just comparing matte finish vs glossy

>>60056668
I said the $3000 difference

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>£1k+ for 1 (one) hand

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Wdywt and what do you do?

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>tfw I fell for the dressy diver meme

>>60052470
>>60052438
how are women and nouveau-riche proles who just bought a fake Rolex Submariner going to be able to tell if something has quartz movement just by eyeballing it from a few metres away?

>>60056839
>>60056872
>>60056901
Yes yes, I'm sure none of you can see the difference in finishing quality. As the saying goes "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

>>60057153
Again, I never even mentioned the finishing. I was talking about features.

And if you ask me, finishing on a titanium tool watch is wasted anyway. Titanium scratches up just looking at it.

>>60057153

i'm more impressed by the mental gymnastics you're going through to justify a tudor's costs at $3000 more than the steinhart

>>60055594
can you get dateless Seiko watches? really don't like having to adjust it after February and all the other retarded short months

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>>60055082

it's fine (next to 38mm 556)

>>60057236
Not him, but to be fair the pelagos went from overpriced to relatively cheap with the new and very nice in-house movement.
Still, the benefits of that movement are highly subject to diminishing returns.

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>>60057281
with 41mm snzg

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>>60057098
That's not how a dressy diver looks like.

>>60054934
classless pleb

>>60057187
>Features
Superior movement
Superior legibility
Superior finishing
Superior aesthetics
Superior quality control

What other features were you referring to, Steinshitter shill?

>>60057236
Show me a cheaper watch with a silicon escapement and free sprung balance with breguet overcoil, and a 70 hour power reserve.

I agree the Tudor is overpriced, but since no one is willing to even TRY and compete with the in-house Pelagos, they can charge that much.

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r8?

>>60057617
I'd rather wear a steinhart, woof

>>60052533
anyone have this of thinking about buying it its only $100 how is it

>>60056668
Rolex sub has every feature you're complaining about here except the poor quality bracelet.

>>60052533
>buying ripoffs

STOP

>>60057660
Is this the one that sounds like a Harley Davidson?

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>>60057671
I don't even like the sub, but you are retarded.

>>60057547
Titanium, 500m water resistance, lumed bezel, ceramic bezel insert, top-grade ETA (on par with 4k watches like pre-2016 Pelagos), ...

>legibility
Is the same.

>finishing
There you go again.
Have fun plonking down thousands for better finishing on a titanium scratch magnet.

>>60057575
In-house damasko.

>>60057721
>500m water resistance
Based on a hope and a prayer since Steinshit doesn't pressure test their watches

Also, I prefer to not be able to use the crystal and bezel as a fucking mirror as it seriously harms legibility.

>ETA
Gets shit on by the in-house Pelagos. People who paid $4,000 for an ETA 2824-2 Pelagos are mentally retarded.

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>>60057777
The ETA Pelagos has a better dial.

>>60057777
You sound upset for some reason.

>>60057735

the Si models are pretty damn expensive, though. Still, $2600 USD is less than $3400. Plus you get a case/bracelet that are of higher quality.

>>60057777
There are many 4k watches with ETA 2824 and similar movements.
That you find that retarded changes nothing.

And flat vs domed crystal or glossy vs matte bezel is a matter of taste, not quality.

>>60057817
Becaue there is a dedicated troll who has been shilling Steinshit in these threads for a couple of weeks now. Between him, the asshole from the fake watch forum and the HOMOS troll, these threads have been a fucking trainwreck lately.

>>60057735
Wow. I had no idea that Damasko had developed the capacity to design and manufacture silicon hairsprings and balance wheels in-house, nor that their in house movement used a free sprung design with eccentric screws.

That is quite an horological achievement. I'll have to take a closer look at their in-house powered models.

>>60058303
it's just a modified 2824 or Valjoux with a silicon hairspring and their proprietary escapement. "in house" but not radically different, just modified.

>>60058412
Even if it was partially based on an existing design (which it does not appear to be, as far as i can tell) once you design and manufacture a proprietary escapement of a radically different design, I don't think it remains sensible to refer to the movement as "based on" another one.

That would be, in my mind, like saying that one engine is a modified version of another engine because they use the same clutch, driveshaft, differentials and so on. Sure the drivetrain might be the same, but the actual heart of the movement is totally different.

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>>60050858
>watching watch videos on youtube
>mfw the watch channels say their favorite "beater watches" are ~$200
>mfw my expensive watches are <$200

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Which looks better, the blue Ray ii or the black? I plan on swapping straps. So far I like the black one, but they both look good.

>>60057925
Reads more like you're an elitist shit to me. It's pretty amusing and kinda sad, like Archie.

>>60058600
As a timepiece 200 is expensive. As jewelry its cheap

>>60058705
No, I just prefer well designed and well made watches to thoughtless dogshit.

As a general rule I can't stand brands built on buying 30 year old movement designs from the Swatch Group and shoving them into outsourced Chinese cases and throwing them out the door as fast as possible.

Steinshits designs are thoughtless and lazy, not to mention in many instances phenomenally, computationally ugly. I would much rather buy a Seiko SKX007 with a 4r36 swap, a Seiko turtle, an Orient Ray II, an Obris Morgan Explorer II, an Aevig Huldra, or a multitude of other better designed and less lazily manufactured watches than the Steinshit, whose case and bracelet look like the fucking half melted and whose crystal and bezel are a fucking illegible mirror (a particular pet peeve of mine with watches).

Just because I point out that people trying to pretend the quality of an in-house Pelagos is anything but in a totally different league than a Steinshit sound like delusional idiots or deliberate shitposters doesn't mean that I only think expensive watches are any good.

>>60058863
That should be confrontationally ugly, not computationally.

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How do you feel about aviation watches?

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>>60058863

> thinks Tudor is actually in a completely different league

this guy

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>>60058890
Bretty gud, what about you? :^)

>>60058890
The classic WWII watches are sweet. The modern "variants" are pure dogshit.

>>60059236
I like them too my dude

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>>60058958
(You)

I just bought a piece of land on a hill. Now I have no money left to buy the watch of my dreams and I now have to build a house on that hill.

>>60059822
Build a sundial on your hill

>>60058879
>not performing computational aesthetic analysis
>t. brainlet

>>60059822
the watch is the least of your concern right now shithead

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>>60058890
>>60059236
>mfw using the slide rule everyday and getting god tier mental math skills
cower, brainlets

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Just bought one of these.

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>>60059964

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NEW ORIENT MODEL
E
W

pic from faggit

>>60060341
Ghastly.

>>60055082
16.5cm here or ~6.5", my MDV106 fits fine, anything bigger would look silly, although mainly it's lug-to-lug width and not just case width or whatever, but yeah there's no overhang or anything

try one in in person, see how it feels. I'd say if you have a smaller wrist than me then it's a risk, anything bigger and you're 100% fine

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What are you faggots though on this bae?

>>60059772
Actually he's right.

Tudor:
>no 904 stainless
>shitter movements

the only thing you're paying for is the finish and the name.

although they've started making in-house movements, finally.

Why do so many of you wear beads and all kinds of shit on your wrists -- with your watch?

fedora wrists. I mean wtf.

>>60060821
um why wud anyone wear a watch at all? use your phone like a human being.

>>60060821
>so many

All zero of us? Anybody actually wearing those hipster beads or whatever other bracelets gets mercilessly mocked here.

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tfw got watchuwantinc to say my retarded youtube name on livestream

>>60053765
>>60055874

i found this, looks legitimate: https://www.123watchrepair.nl/

>>60059964
That's a slide rule? i thought they just threw random important looking shit on it to make it look crowded and unreadable

>>60060411
Looks great, and it's less than $200. Truly a bargain of the Orient.

>>60061179
why would they do that

>>60060792
I really like it

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New toy arrived.

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>>60061526

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>everyone in this thread being wrong

>>60050858
God damnit that's a sexy Zenith

>>60050858

>Required viewing for homosexuals:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q___XnRC-XE

What the fuck did I just watch? Who is this sad man? Troll?

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>>60050858
/fa/ is a bit dead atm so let me ask you guys the same question

>yay or nah? I literally am getting my first paycheck soon at my coding job and friends keep telling me to switch out my casio f91w-1. I heard good things about vostok. That or I might get a casio mdv106.

>>60055981
You don't know what finishing means.

>>60058863
Looking at the specs and movement of that titanium Steinhart, it's very likely the least overpriced """Swiss""" watch in existence.

Surely that counts for something in a vast ocean of overpriced Chinese-cased shitters coming out of """Switzerland""".

I don't care for homages one bit, but that business model is what allowed them to beat even Seiko in value for money. And at least their designs are now moving away from homages little by little.

>>60060792
I don't like pulsometers, but that's a good-looking watch. Not a fan of the date implementation though. But it's a neat movement.

>>60062378
Do you know what it being mechanical entails?

>>60062378
nay.
get this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Casio-DW5600E-1V-G-SHOCK-Mens-Black-Digital-Watch-Classic-Shock-Resistant-New-/382037203583?hash=item58f3311a7f:g:FVwAAOSwIgNXmG5T

>>60062587
yeah and I am trying to move towards anything that is not digital, don't care if it is mechanical or electronic. Apparently digital is not "business-like" or some shit.
>>60062736
I am looking for something non-digital

>>60051155
Well you need to change the battery time to time, but quartz watches are more accurate than mechanical. A 5 dollar quartz watch will literally be more accurate than a 300 mechanical watch and this will trigger people.

>>60062844
>A 5 dollar quartz watch will literally be more accurate than a 300 mechanical watch and this will trigger people.
It's not why people dislike quartz watches and you know it.

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What's your thoughts on this watch? It's one of the only divers in my price range suitable for a smaller wrist

>>60062925
though on a better thought there is no way I'll pay a thousand bucks for a base ETA. Fuck it, I guess I'll just buy a diver in a decade when I have a reasonable income

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>>60062925
I dig the styling, but it's too expensive for what it is. You could do what I'm doing and wait for the halios seaforth. 41mm diameter, ~48mm lug to lug, 12mm thick including the domed crystal, so it's relatively small compared to other modern divers.

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>>60062378
420 is great (see my ultraviolet photo above) but I'd suggest picking up one of the newest models with a little better construction like the 150366 or 670922 unless you're planning on modding. Pic is a 150 case.

>>60062925
I like the Topper LE of the 65

>>60062972
>unless you're planning on modding
Are those not compatible with the usual mods?

>>60063008
They're all generally compatible. It's fine to go with an older model if you're going to be replacing the weaker parts, mainly the brass bezel, anyways. The newest models come with a steel bezel and better crown, saving some cost and trouble.

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Are there quartz watches that look like and give as much info as mechanical grand complications?

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>>60063195

>>60063213
No digital please

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>>60063235

>>60051057
Looks gay

>>60063281
And also not made of plastic. Something dressy.

>>60062925
There's a 38mm version of the Christopher Ward Trident or the SKX013 for smaller divers too.

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>>60063195
Citizen Exceed Grand Complication.

>>60063318
Thanks still open to more

>>60052425
the only sensible fellow in here

>>60053068
ooh i want this. does it come in gold

>>60055082
get the skx013 u fool

>>60063296
I know, while those are decent watches (some might not agreed about the cuck ward) I ruled them out for different reasons

>>60063494
What reasons exactly?

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>someone selling ex-display G-Shock for £80
>No box
>No tags
>Pictures are pretty low quality so can't tell if there are any scratches
>Argos is selling the same model for £69.99 and I can pick it up on the way home
>Offer them £45
>Decline
>Offer them £50
>Counter offer of £75 + £4 shipping
>Offer £60 and say I can get a new one for £69 and get it today and no one will buy it for £80
>They decline and say "I'm not being funny but go get a new one this don't being sold for £60"

It's been relisted 3 or 4 times. I guess he's hoping for someone to not see the eBay Argos listing for the watch that appears at the top of the page when you search for it.

>>60063650
Why don't you just buy the new one

>>60063696
I'm going to do that now
I was hoping I could get a used one for cheap but I'm not paying more for a used one that will take a few days to come

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Seiko did another Giugiaro. JDM only MSRP around $360 to $400, though the movement is only a one jewel 7N36 quartz. Limited to 2000 pieces each.

>>60063868
Neato

>>60063868
Is there even another manufacturer bringing as good deals as Seiko right now? Everything else just seems overpriced.

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Never worn a watch before. Decided to go with this one.

Whens an appropriate time to wear this? (inb4 never)
Am I fine with wearing this every day?

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cop or nah?

>>60063972
This is an every day watch. It looks nice but it's not dressy or formal. It is appropriate for a casual office or for wear during the day-to-day stuff. In general, don't wear it to weddings, meetings with important clients (if applicable), or job interviews where attire is of any significance.

>>60064017
thanks

>>60063972
>buying a fake watch
>buying the fake of a model designed to support Doctors Without Borders
You're scum.

>>60064017
You're stupid if you think a Tangente is casual. People wear divers to their wedding.

>>60064037
im ok with that

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>>60064037
>failing to support Doctors Without Borders, an organization which incentivizes the mass reproduction of 85-IQ third-worlders, thus perpetuating the problem they claim to be combating

>>60064046
>You're stupid if you think a Tangente is casual. People wear divers to their wedding.
Okay, so you're clearly in the "wear whatever you want at any time with no standards" camp. That's fine, but you really don't have much more to contribute to this discussion. I gave him the traditional answer. If he wants to be less conservative he can do whatever he wants. It's a judgment call.

>>60064071
This.

Also, fuck them and similar organizations for effectively ferrying """refugees""" across the Mediterranean.

>>60064079
>I live in the 1960s

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>>60064148
>it's the current year!
>THE CURRENT YEAR!
>also if you disagree you must be a fedora fingerless glove wearer

>>60060803
I clearly stated I was refferent strictly to the in-house versions. Paying $4,000 for an ETA 2824-2 is evidence of a mental disability.

>>60057617
Funny my wifes son got the red one in his happy meal combo

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>>60057058

Rolex Datejust From the 80s I got from my dad. I'm thinking about putting it on a very nice leather strap like the other datejust anon because two tone is too much for a 24 year old. It's not like I'm Patrick Bateman, sadly.

>>60058412
It's about as in house as smaller companies can get these days, haute horologie independents in their gilt ivory towers notwithstanding.

>just modified
Does Damasko a disservice, as it implies it's not more technologically impressive a movement as those other generic brands' calibres that are also "modified" where in most cases a rotor bearing said company's name replacing the stock on is enough to allow them to designate the movement as "_______'s calibre 1234" or whatever.

A lot of mid range swiss and other brands do this. That in my mind is "modified". What damasko did was above and beyond this.

I switched by order to a black 12. I don't want to look like i support cucks

>>60062566
Sure, and I agree with the value proposition. The issue is that Steinhart frustrates the hell out of me by having terrible designers that ruin a great value proposition with Invicta tier design choices and value engineering.

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>>60057058
18k bin laden

>>60064259
If you drive an Alfa Romeo it would be wrong if you didn't wear a two-tone.

>>60064259
Post Alfa.

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>>60064305
Black version is best version of that watch.

>>60062844
>A 5 dollar quartz watch will literally be more accurate than a 300 mechanical watch and this will trigger people.

That's a bit hyperbolic. $5 quartz watches are pretty shit for accuracy.

>>60064283
T A G
A
G

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>>60064336
Because of the gaudy Italian stereotype?

>>60064365
Don't have a pic on my phone right now but it's exactly like pic related.

>>60064283
Seriously. Designing and manufacturing your own complete escapement is the central challenge of developing a fully in house movement, much less to make an eccentric screw free sprung balance at 28,800bph for your first in-house escapement.

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>>60064413
>Because of the gaudy Italian stereotype?

Sort of, but I didn't mean my comment in a negative way. It's more along the lines of not going for a conservative look. I would embrace the two-tone look.

>>60064413
Nice Fiat Bravo.

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>>60052466
Disgusting.

>>60060821
>>60060868
Anyone pinpoint the origin of this stupid fucking fad?
I do not recall seeing it a decade ago, but upon getting back into watches I see it everywhere.

>>60064813
I think that might be a bit of a overreaction. I don't really like the Navitimer type aesthetic, but it's its less busy and unreadable than most iterations of that design.

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Wearing this now and have a new watch waiting for me at home

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>>60065811
Hey there Trident bro.

>>60065811
>"Hey anon nice watch!"
>"f-fanks..."
>"What brand is it?"
>"It's a--"
>" 'Kruh-ward london'? What the fuck is "kruhward london"?
Perhaps you new watch has better dial designers.

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>>60064017
>sterling-hts
Hello local Anon.

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>>60065831
>coward watch

>>60065856
Looks like you're gonna have to find him and rape him now. Timestamp pics for proof (make sure the watch is in the shot, this is /wt/ after all).

>>60065939
I sure hope he has a feminine penis.

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>>60065893

>>60065854

the part i think is the London: Made in Switzerland thing

wtf

>>60065975
It's okay Anon, just be glad you haven't noticed all the little faces.

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I can't decide.

>>60066015
Wear a Seiko.

>>60065856
>>60065955
joke's on you, I'm an underrepresented youth/teen of color and will culturally enrich you on the spot

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>>60066045
D-does that mean you do indeed have a feminine penis?

>>60066056
I'm a white female (black male)

>>60066076
>>60066076

New thread.

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>>60066078
Sounds good to me.

>>60057718
How can you call a watch "perpetual" when it doesn't even have a date window?

>>60066620
Because Rolex invented the first automatic winding mechanism where the winding rotor could spin through 360 degrees. Perpetual refers to that winding system, not a calendar.

>>60064305
Nice.
I wanted to get one but $70 is too much for me.

>>60051342
Raketa polar avtomat

>>60051749
some cheap knockoff, women are incapable of discerning fakes.