Quartz Appreciation Edition.

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This is an accumulation of the Internet's wealthiest and most knowledgeable watch enthusiasts. You can take advantage of that fact by asking niche and very obscure questions, you can join us by posting wristshots, coffee, grail watches and anything in-between, OR you can simply asks us for recommendations and thoughts on X watch.
Keep it civilized, this is a gentlemans hobby after all.
P.S. don't summon Le Rodént for small or unimportance things.

Previous impeccable thread. >>18451135

HAQ Time.

Kofe time.

R8 my shitter. I've got it in 2019, still keeping perfect time.

>>18456480
>didn't even get the vertical stripes
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>>18456480
>Got the horizontal stripes
10/10

>>18456480
Only a fellow Master Chronometer owner would understand.
8/10

Not a fan of Omega but I would wear that.

It just dawned on me; Tudor is actually better than Rolex.
Tudor is a master chronometer while Rolex is "superlative". What does that mean in practise? Rolex doesn't even do third party certification on them, instead they do their own testing and deem it "better".
I'm so glad I went with my BB54.

>>18456490
In a world where Rolex screams status, Tudor whispers taste. A Rolex is the billboard of success, but Tudor? It’s the secret handshake of those who know better. You pay less, yet get a sibling forged in the same fires—Swiss precision, timeless design, and none of the "look-at-me" hysteria. A Tudor is a poet's watch; a Rolex, a salesman’s pitch. Why spend double to impress strangers when you could spend less and impress yourself?

>>18456497
Well said. Simply true to the letter.

>A Tudor is a poet's watch; a Rolex, a salesman’s pitch.
Couldn't be more true, after getting my Black Bay, I don't even think about Rolex.

>>18456487
>>18456490
>>18456497
>>18456555
Watchuseek please go

silver seiko five (old) in direct sunlight is alright even the shitty bracelet is not so bad if sized properly but the inside edges do be kinda sharp n need some smoothing
it's new vintage since you almost can't buy it new no more

>>18456577
Bro, post pics.

>>18456583
too lazy and i don't think i can take good pics even if i tried but it looks good and silvery outside in the sun meaning when on your hand others around will see some nice and shiny watch
indoors it's kinda shit usually (but in some angles/light looks good too, rarely) cos the indexes are super cheap high polish mall tier crap, there was this latvian guy talking about this watch and how cheap it looked and he's right but outside in sun? it's great. wouldn't think twice about wearing it to the beach and on dates and shit.

You can't review a watch.

Not even the long-term reviews can do justice to any watch. Exceptions might exist, but we're always talking about the rules here or else we risk dragging an already long conversation into an Epic.
Listen, how you feel about a watch, is up to you, nobody else can tell you how you will feel once you get to experience the watch or how it will affect you and your wallet. They can only share their experiences. Said experiences will be subjective and 100% of the time (no exceptions to the rule here) plagued by an impossible to avoid bias. How many times has a design grown on you overtime? How many times did you think "Hey, this doesn't look as bad as I remember" and how many times do those YouTubers come back with "I was wrong about X!" As an apology to not only themselves, but to theri supposed fans or people interested in doing any research at all before spending hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands on a watch, a product that's impossible to review?
So what does that even mean "I was wrong about X!"? The damage has been done now.

Sometimes, it even takes Years to notice a flaw in your daily watch, a flaw in the dial that was hiding in plain sight, a flaw that makes you question if it was there when you bought it or if it happened during uour endeavors. My main focus on this post will be the things that you notice about your watch after prolonged wear. Like any other product that we pay a lot of time with, the way you look at it objectively at first as an, well, object- slowly changes and takes shape into something with character. But this Character is only visible through your own eyes. Nobody can understand the connection between you and your Car, between you and your Cat, you and your Gun, and of course, your watch.
Cont.

>>18456587
When does this character start to finalize or even materialize? That's the hard part.
To me, Personally, it happens after a long absence. This is easier to do if you have multiple watches. You stop wearing uour favourite watch and give spend some Time with your other pieces. You start to appreciate them too, building a relationship with them. Even starting to match them with your clothes, not as an afterthought but at the center of your outfit. A month, or two, or three will pass. You stop thinking about your favourite watch even though you glance at it daily through the see-through spot/glass of your watchbox. And yet you never wear it because you got used to your other watch(es).
Once you finally wear it, mostly out of curiosity, that's when it clicks and you fully realize the potential of that watch. At that moment, it almost talks to you. And you understand its worth.
We humans tend to compare things, for better or for worse, and then you start comparing everything on said watch with your others and that's where you simply "understand".

have nothing against the gay community but watchfags are limpwristed poofters
blind consumerism
buy whatever you want but can you be less gay about it

For my first watch, I have a budget if around €1.5k. I'm torn between the Hamilton Khaki Murph and keep my €500 or a Christopher Ward C63 in 36mm, with black dial (picrel). I want one watch and that's it. My wrist size in 18.5cm, if I leave some space for the bracelet, otherwise 18 for a tight fit but I prefer to loose one. Both of them on the bracelet and I tried the Khaki Murph in person but I would've preferred if it had 3-6-9-12 or 3-6-9 at hour marks instead of showing them all.

>>18456611
so here's the thing. if u tried it in person and didn't love it on the spot it's not for you. try something else.

>>18456611
>Christopher Ward
why does this sound like a brand for womens handbags? is my mind just somehow tainted by michael kors or what the fuck?

>>18456623
no, you're correct. it's just that the internet is now 99% bot content and it works well enough that a lot of rubes unironically bought a daniel wellington oops I mean a christopher ward

fucking 2poor fags fr

>>18456615
This. If the watch doesn't make you smile upon seeing it, it's not it.

Tonkotsu basil parmesan ramen time.

Gyoza Time

>>18456675
>t. Sobs when he looks in the mirror.
Your watch should not make you smile. It’s an accessory part of your outfit.
If you dress like shit, no watch can make you look good. Just look at our resident avatarfags.

>>18456684
>>18456688
unfathomably based taste

>>18456705
Most if not all are chads. WDYM?

>>18456716
Those wrists are computer science major wrists.

>>18456718
Great now he will post those pics again

first time buying a watch online. is chrono24 decent? I want a Tudor 1926, the seller has many reviews, almost all of them positive. Being in the EU, if I don't like it, I can return it, the seller is a certified retailer (There's no Tudor in my city and the next one is 600km away)

>>18456728
I bought two watches from Chrono. Both of them are in better condition than described. Communication was very fast and understandable. Even the one watch that I got from Japan, The dude replied quickly and with understandable English.
The problems are the prices. Corono 24 is at least 10% higher than the rest of the markets.
My watch was around $2,000 but I could have easily found it for $1,700

>>18456729
>10% higher
why? is it something the company implemented, like fees or what?

>>18456734
I think chrono keeps more %s yes but the sellers also inflate the prices because I guess chrono has a better reputation/bigger name.
If you found the right deal, then go for it. But be aware older watches are almost always franken watches, which isn't a bad thing per se but that's a different topic.

>>18456737
Nah, I want a brand new 1926, black dial on bracelet. Some kraut vendor is selling it for 1900 euros which is huge compared to its actual price of 1500-1600 but whatever, I think I want it bad enough to get one.

What do Rolex bros think about Tudor Chad's?

>>18456490
Holy cope, kek

>>18456684
>parmesan
Why?

Also is that a hesalite crystal? I see some imperfections there, the way it bends the light. Why would they combine a ceramic case with a plastic crystal?

>>18456490
Is this actually true?

>>18456611
>Hamilton Khaki
The khaki field was my first real watch, it's actually the GOAT field watch with the best legit background (Vietnam war).
It's a watch i'll always keep, it fits in a collection even if i have Rolexes and so on.

The Christopher Ward on the other hand will just be a shit watch if you have a collection with Rolexes Oyster Perpetual or Explorer. It's more of a cope watch, while Hamilton has its own market.

>>18456611
Formex essence 39

>>18456748
Yes the tudor black bay ceramic has a plastic crystal

>>18456745
>What do Rolex bros think about Tudor Chad's?
Like little children. Sometimes cute, sometimes annoying. Always immature but with the understanding that they’ve still got some growing up to do.
I mean, how many of us still wear the watch we wore in high school?

Now, when you’re talking about grown men wearing a Tudor, the only emotion is a deep welling of pity.

>>18456757
But why?

>>18456839
Why waste time and effort on something that’s already a piece of crap? You’re already tricking your customers. If they’ll fall for a Tudor, they’ll fall for anything.

>>18456847
>hating on fucking Tudor

i know some seriously rich and powerful people and none of them flex big fancy watches. if they do they bought it after they got rich.
watch community attracts a lot of the hylic npc brained HENRY status-seekers in society. they're successful enough to buy a $30,000 watch but they're too stupid to understand generational wealth so they're perma gatekept out of the elite circles they desperately want in and their kids will descend in status as a result.
the real rich people set up retard bait scams like "blow all your money on a huge mansion and a watch and boat" to milk the henry's and aspirational class. its how you're kept poor and they stay rich.

>>18456490
I've heard that Rolex does COSC on bare movement, as everyone with COSC, and then more strict testing on a movement in case, and calls it superlative and it's a Rolex thing, while Tudor does METAS and calls it master chronometer

>>18456889
Yes, the “superlative” indicates performance of no worse than +/- 2spd.
Rolex had Tudor start doing METAS stuff to make Omega’s Master Chronometer stuff feel like downmarket gimmickry.

>>18456768
Meanwhile Tudor Chads don't think about Rolex at all.

>>18456330 (OP)
pretty watch if that's yours OP.

>>18456912
>Meanwhile Tudor Chads don't think about Rolex at all.
Everyone knows that, because Tudor Chads spend several hour each day posting about how unbothered they are by Rolex.

>>18456480
Back when prices were decent
>>18456611
Of the 2 I would get the CW because it has a date window

I don't like the PRX. What are some good integrated bracelet watches?

>>18456330 (OP)
>>18456334
I have a soft spot for blue hands on classic dial, but that jewel layout is cluttered and no stripes makes it look underwhelming
but power indicator on the back is a S tier design

>>18456930
Oh, that’s not the Eichii, it’s just a quartz shitter.

>>18456490
>>18456497
well said. I've yet to see a rolex that actually looks good
>t. BB58 gang for life

>>18456933
What’s always funny is when someone from a group of Tudor/Omega owners buys a Rolex, it always causes drama, exactly like when one guy in an incel group gets a girlfriend.

Stylishly solves Tudor vs Omega

>>18456950
> Vaucher
> Two barrels
> Adjusted to five (5) positions
> Unique design
> Font developed specifically for this watch
> Hermes quality ®
> Titanium grade 5 on case and clasp

>>18456953
Plus, when your wife buys you one, it moves her a little further up the list to be allowed to buy a Birkin.

Hi, what do you think - is it better to restore the lume on the marks or remove the old one and leave it without it?

>>18456924
citizen tsuyosa or zenshin

>>18456950
yeah nice apple watch ultra bro

>>18456839
.... I can't tell who's trolling anymore.

Tudor bros, where you at?

>>18457126
the katsu looks really good. is that an egg at the top left?

>>18456938
cool story

>>18457125
>shit pic
sup bro
you still dumping loads into that jap chick?

>>18457165
Unfathomably based.
Yes we're still together, been 7 months now. It's getting serious.
How's everything on your end?

>>18457127
Yeah it was an egg. I'd say one of the better simple dishes I had in Japan. Food in general isn't that good though.

>>18457210
>7 months deep
hell yeah, congrats
got a new aliexpress rubber strap for the 58, shockingly good, will post pic later
also I've been eyeing the bb54, the 58 needs a partner and i need to consoom (buy something else I don't """need""")

>>18457125
I upgraded my Tudor bareback 54 with an FKM rubber strap. I've owned it for nearly a month now as a celebration of getting barebacked for the first time. I'm usually a top, and otherwise hetero.

I was recently with a new guy, he asked me to use a condom and I was happy to oblige, especially after he complimented my watch. I similarly complimented his, a Casio Dw-5600, it's an action of mutual respect. My wife only complains the lume of the bb54 wakes her at night.

Anyway, we retired to the back of his camper van which was dark and smelled like wetsuits, as this gentleman was a surfer. He was facedown and ready for penetration. I opened the condom wrapper but couldn't figure out which side would unroll easily onto my penis. I used the impressive lume of the bb54 to light up the condom and found the correct orientation, without needing to turn on a light and spoil the mood or attract unwanted attention. The rubber strap is sexy and sporty, even if I am yet to expose the bb54 to more than handwashing or some spilled liquids.

All in all, I am greatly enjoying the Tudor Black Bay 54.

Kofe time.

r8 my Junghans on a perlon strap. perfect summer watch.

>>18457217
What kind of rubber? Vulcanized? And how much was it? I'm still thinking of just nato strapping it or some leather.

GS Time.

I like square watches

>>18457290
Anon...
How would rubber survive the vulcanization process? Think about what you're saying.

Best watch to pull mad latina milf ass?

>>18457290
fluororubber. $20 US. i have some natos for it but want to try out the rubber for a while, now that it's summer. highly recommend. we'll see how it ages though....
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808797537236.html

Bump

>>18457432
what happens to the threads that overflowed into the archive, do they get reinstated?

I didn't think this could ever happen, but we reached a new low.