WATCH THREAD
WATCH THREAD
WATCH THREAD

The place to actually discuss watches, free of avatarfagging drama, including bittercelposting, pics of food or drinks, or long-ass stories about your lives.
If kofe time posts, just ignore him. He’s traumatized from a lifetime of being bullied.
Keep that shit in /wt/.

>Your budget
>Preferred brand or manufacture
>Watch type, e.g. dress, diver, pilot, etc
>Movement, e.g. automatic, hand-wound, quartz, etc
>Desired features, e.g. water resistance, day/date, chronograph, etc
>Preferred strap option, e.g. leather, nylon, bracelet, etc
>Wrist size or desired watch size

Previous: >>18471023

Which watch should I buy to impress green dress girl?

>>18478342
Tissot PRX

Then when you date her, give her the 35mm version. Then seed her.

>>18478339 (OP)
I liked the Land-Dweller like in the first week it was released, when everybody was shitting on it.
Now everybody loves it, as expected.

avaturdfaggots

>>18478348
OH WOW REALLY? You're so cool bro.

>>18478378
thanks!

>>18478348
Do they though? I've only heard the biggest shills in the industry say it's amazing, everyone else ranges from "it's shit" to "whatever."

>>18478339 (OP)
What a hideous piece of shit.

>>18478339 (OP)
big news /wt/ bros Gen Z boss and a mini bought a Tudor for her bf

>>18478339 (OP)
they really nailed the hexagon obsession in sci-fi during the 2010s look

Thoughts on palladium (plated) cases?

>>18478483
Looks good

>>18478484
It does indeed, i like tuxedo dials.

>>18478549
Forgot pic... It's slim too.

>>18478339 (OP)
Im posting this here and nobody is gonna stop me

>>18478452
why does she hate him?

I like big dates

The Land Dweller would be a 10/10 with a different dial. There's no reason to have the Explorer numerals if you have a date, that was a weird choice. Just make it simple:
>applied indices
>matte dial
>date or no date
I still haven't had the chance to try one. But everyone who has say it looks better IRL and sits well on the wrist.

>>18478339 (OP)
disgusting digits

>>18478342
>girl

>>18478643
Well it can't look worse than it does on renders so there's that.

>>18478643
it's a fucking shitter

My last mini-grail purchase.
You broke ass fags will be seething once again.

>>18478643
>Just make it simple:
>>applied indices
>>matte dial
>>date or no date
So basically, you're just remaking an Explorer or any other shitter copy of an Explorer.
That's why you don't work at Rolex.

>>18478686
kys avaturdfaggot

>>18478688
The fuck are you talking you retard?
I specifically said "REMOVE THE EXPLORER NUMERALS"
Zero reading comprehension holy shit

>>18478342
I enjoyed the tit coming out of the dress

>>18478643
>>18478714
nuRolex numerals are fucking shit anyway.
I mean, look at the difference >>18478484
Hilarious.

>>18478722
>nuRolex
you mean poolex/poorlex

>>18478755
Post a picture of your Seiko/Casio/Citizen.

Are sinns swag?

>>18478779
Sinns are like a good-quality pair of blue jeans in a slightly unfashionable cut.
No one will ever say they’re bad.

>>18478452
She also pegged his tooter.

>>18478779
Shitters

>>18478769
why does every poorfag npc cope like this?

Are Panerai cool again, now that they aren't popular with normies?

been looking at this Seiko SKX007 mod with a sapphire crystal
can anyone attest to the SKX series?

>>18478849
it's a tool for scuba diving which takes place in large bodies of water usually underwater
the additional weight and height of the case and the nylon strap work OK in water - not so much on dry land (nylon gets dirty instantly and rubber is awful as well) as such it makes no sense to wear this as a daily. in fact next to me is a replica from china and it's impossible to wear without a good bracelet. in current year it's overrated and expensive.

>>18478840
Because 99% of the time it’s true. When someone says “I don’t like X, I prefer Y.” That’s a serious person. Screeching “shitters” and ban evading but offering nothing of substance comes from a place of envy.

>>18478840
You could easily shut me down by posting your [ LITERALLY ANY WATCH THAT'S MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A POORLEX ] but we both know the best you can afford is a Seiko/Casio/Citizen and calling Rolex "Poorlex" is a pathetic cope mechanism.
You're broke and I'm laughing at you, niggerfaggot.

avaturdfaggots

>>18478931
your rolex is shit and boring and made in china

>>18478339 (OP)
the numbers ruin it. this would be a really cool watch if it didn't have the 9 6 and the indices and the date and the rolex crown and the honeycomb and the fluted and the shape of the rolex lettering contrasting the web and the seconds on the edge of the dial.
there is so much going on

>>18478931
Excuse me, who precisely is ban evading?

>>18479063
You know, until I saw your post and looked more closely at it I didn't even realize the watch has unique hands. I guess that's how busy it is.

If it just had those hands, lume stick markers and a simple glossy dial it would probably be fine with no other changes. I've started to move out of liking the flutes but it's a rolex thing they're married to at this point so I'll let them have their fluted jubilee combo shit I guess. A smooth bezel would probably be better.

>>18479063
>>18479095
That’s exactly it. If they had stuck to just one new element, like the integrated case and bracelet, and left everything else normal, it would have been much better.

I do think that this is not really meant to be a new pillar collection, but more like a test bed for new ideas. The ones that work well will end up in the DateJust, the ugly features will be discarded.
Rolex does that, like with the old Pearlmaster, but never in such a high profile rollout.

>>18479089
the nasty avaturdfag shitter poster obviously

>>18478844
those are nice big tittays.

>>18479099
A company like rolex isn't going to do a major release in 2 case sizes and 3 different metals just to test the waters.

>>18479102
But not whoretadello and his circlejerk crew?

>>18478624
it's the only actually useful complication but hardly anyone does it

>>18479148
who??

>>18479099
The point of the release is the new movement. The outlandish styling was for attention.
If they had put the new movement in an otherwise anonymous Datejust it would not have made as much of a splash.
The Land-whaler (the watch for picking up fat chicks) will hang around for about ten years or so and then be quietly discontinued or replaced with something else altogether.

>>18479544
>The Land-whaler (the watch for picking up fat chicks) will hang around for about ten years or so and then be quietly discontinued or replaced with something else altogether.
It will be a massive success.

>>18479544
>will hang around for about ten years or so and then be quietly discontinued
Nah, i think they made it cluttered on purpose so that they can keep 'refining' it by taking stuff away.

>>18479438
Don't ask, he's obsessed with some guy who posts here, just leave it...

poolex

>>18479548
Based on what? If the new movement is that much better there's no reason not to put it in their other watches and once that happens there will be nothing special about this shitter.

>>18478686
> not hand made
> broke ass fags

Here's your Citizen Eco-Drive breh

>>18479600
Anon... Where were you the last 10 years?
>Rolex
>first new model in like 20 years
>stainless steel integrated bracelet sports watch
>36 and 40mm
>gold and diamond options for arabs, jews and chinks
This is basically a recipe for success.
The new movement is pretty much irrelevant by the way. They could have put a 3235 into it, it would still be a massive success. People don't buy luxury watches because of theirs specs.
Also the watch looks fucking cool and is instantly recognizable as a Rolex despite being a new model (fluted bezel, jubilee bracelet, cyclop). You may not like Rolex' design language but people love it and Rolex got everything right with the Land Dweller (well, except for the name).
It will launch in September. Just wait and see the price on the grey market in a few months.

Let me guess, you "need" more?

>>18480138
NO, I need LESS.
Two handers or GTFO

Power reserve indicators are the most underrated complication.

>>18480161
You mean most useless.

>>18480161
>>18480162
>they still think in terms of practicality and not in terms of aesthetics
ngmi
Complications serve no other purpose than looking good. Imagine actually using your chronograph or date function. LMAO

>>18480170
How is it aesthetic to ruin dial symmetry with a random hand pointing in a tangental direction?

which one do you prefer? from the pictures, i like the left one more, but after the novelty wears out i feel like the one on the right is more versatile and maybe a smarter buy?

>>18480188
I like wonky asymetrical dials.

>>18480188
Symmetry isn't the criteria that makes a watch beautiful. It's balance.

avaturdfaggots

>>18480198
I was torn between the cream dial and the gold 38mm until a few weeks ago. Another anon pointed out that the cream renders more like custard yellow in some lights, so there's that. I ended up not buying a Bambino either way because I'm too worried about the mineral crystal being scratched.

>>18480198
If it's your only watch, right.

If you have other watches (black or white sports watch) then left has more personality and is a better vintage looking dress watch.
But picrel is on my wishlist, so i'm biased.

>>18480199
I like breguet and I understand the work that goes into a dial and movement like this, but I just can't enjoy a watch like this. It looks like a grandma's embroidery project or something.

>>18480188
>>18480199
I personally dislike those pizza slice power reserve, let's post those that we think look good

>>18480257
Panerai has done some fun ones.
A bunch of their movements have the indicator at the back, directly on the movement.

>>18480223
Good thing they have enamel dials too.

>>18480257

>>18480276

>>18480276

>>18480288
The longer you look, the worse it gets
>loading bar indicator
>muh modernized breguet hands
>industrial-ish hollowed out lugs and drilled crown
>contrasting with guilloche and roman numerals
You just know they were fishing for the "Between modernity and tradition" headlines in shill magazines.

>>18480276
>>18480286
>>18480288
The loading bar kind of reminds me of Patek putting a cheap ring bell icon on a 30k eurobucks watch. Weird design choice.

>>18478339 (OP)
Keep it simple, stupid.

>>18480298
Not a fan of De Bethune either, I just think it's the most elegant way to display reserve.
On the Moritz Grossmann I think it fits perfectly the minimalist but traditional look.

It's called linear power reserve and I don't really agree it can be reduced to "windows loading bar". Though I guess in its first iterations it was considered kind of an industrial look.

Yesterday I got the first scratch on the side of one of the lugs on my gold watch. Doesn't hurt as bad as I thought, I bought it to wear it semi regularly for date nights and holidays and birthdays and weddings and stuff so I accepted it's going to happen, but it's still living in my head a little bit.

>>18480324
i hate rich people so much it's incredible

>>18480308
If they release something like this nowadays, it will be platinum and 50K.

Thoughts?
It's a quartz shitter but I like the look and orange dial.
And no, I will not post in the poorfag thread. They only like "homage" shitters in there.

de bethune was cool until zuck wore it

>>18480375
De Bethune has never been cool.

Talk me out of buying this Mako for 200 dollars, I don’t have a diver and being Jewish I love the orient bang for your buck.

>>18480432
>orient bang for your buck
nigger what? the only bang for your buck you get is from aliexpress

>>18480440
I prefer buying from my local watch dealer (also a Jew) who offers guarantee.

>>18480443
well you will get shit

>>18480327
Why?

>>18480432
>being Jewish
Leave this thread. Your kind isn't welcome here.

>>18480443
Does he offer you interest free credit?

>>18480463
Jealousy

>>18480466
Lmao shoo shoo seething goy

>>18480468
Wouldn’t know, never needed any loans or credit in my life other than some help my father gave me when I turned 18. He simply also prefers my services when he needs something in my field.

>>18480491
What field is that?

>>18480499
Gay prostitute.

>>18480499
Im an orthopaedics and traumatology surgeon.

>inb4 cheap jew why not just get a submariner

>>18480513
I don't know who you would anticipate would say that.

>>18480536
I’ve received flak multiple times IRL

shitters

>>18480372
it looks absolutely horrible
if you like it just build one yourself
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005844693067.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009278924440.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007063427493.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006863847501.html

>>18480432
you don't have a diver because you don't need one

>>18480553
No you didn't.

AAAAAAAAAAAH THESE THREADS ARE SO BORING POST A GOOD WATCH RIGHT FUCKING NOW OR I'LL KYS MYSELF

>>18480432
>Talk me out of buying this Mako for 200 dollars
isnt that ray 2? if you like it you buy it, it's that simple. just make sure to hold off buying on a whim. when you discover a watch, let 10 or 20 days pass and see if you really like it then. also, orient has a shit load of models with slight variations, make sure you find the one you like the most. you dont want to purchase A and discover slightly different but better looking B the next day

i prefer the mako 3. arabic 6, 9, 12 make it more readable and interesting to look at in my opinion. ray feels like it has too many circles. i know its basically sub ripoff, but while rolex makes it work, orient doesnt for some reason. maybe it is due to more distinct battons at 6, 9 and 12 , idk

>>18480643
Yes I have, my collegues at work wear very expensive watches and drive very expensive cars. I take the subway and currently wear a quartz Seiko.

>>18480650
I don’t know the exact names of their models I just referred to it as mako since that is the model I knew they made. Thanks for the advice friend.

>>18480657
how old are you? im fresh out of med school and i cant decide sugical vs conservative specialty. of the first im most interested in ortho and urology

>>18480667
Im in my early 40s. It depends, don’t go into surgical specialties if you don’t have someone to actually teach you the craft. You can memorize all the books in the world, if an older surgeon doesn’t take you under his wing and let you operate on his patients while you are young you won’t really make it.

>>18480714
You're a fucking mohel, not a surgeon.

>>18480105
On the other hand the skydweller was the first new watch in like 20 years and most people don't care at all for it.

Spot the power reserve

>>18480759
The chutzpah on this goy

>>18480925

>>18480199
>>18480223
Breguet > Patek

Breguet is just classier and has higher levels of finishing. And they are more willing to take design risks while remaining true to their more conservative design language.

It’s a more interesting brand to collect with way better bang for your buck on the secondary market.


Patek has a lot of trashy consumers too now. It’s something a Chinese hype beast or rapper would wear.

It’s just better to be associated with other people. Even if those other people are old people and Eastern European criminals.

>>18478339 (OP)
All watches with branding on the center of the dial are ugly, brandfags get the rope

>>18478342
Whose side is green girl on? I don't understand her allegiances.

i would normally wear a watch for time based work and see if i manage to get stuff done before the hour is finished. what would be the best watch for heavy handiwork like woodwork? or maybe its not reccommended for woodwork. also, what is also best work for heavy lifting to the point of an overexhaustion? anyone that knows these things is definitely watch expert.

>>18481020
Patek is shit now but they'v had an amazing run between the 50s and 2000s. The 3940 and 3970 are still the best looking perpetual calendars.

Kofe time.

>>18481020
for me, it's ATTESA

>>18481059
gshock

>>18481020
I think the pateks are more timeless because they use a refined but uncomplicated design aesthetic. Everything is polished and clean and simple. Most of the time at least, I'm not talking about the weird edgelord "how do yoi do fellow kids?" calatravas that look like poker chips or something.

Breguet with their old timey looking clock hands and old romans and scripts and guilloche portions of the dials and all that shit just screams old snobby grandpa. Patek is an old rich guy watch brand, too, but a young cool guy like Eric Clapton in his time or John Mayer wearing one still works. With breguet I can't see just casually wearing one, you have to be in a nice suit and someone better either be getting married or getting buried.

Thoughts?
My local jeweler has it selling for $1k, I just don’t know shit about Mühles
The only other automatic I’ve owned is a chinkshit Nomos Tangente clone (Rodina R005) would be nice to have a watch for grown ups

>>18481219
>watch for grown ups
>muhle
lfmao tard

casio f 91w won

avaturdfaggots

>>18481191
Any semi formal setting is a good place to wear a dress watch. I just wear them under a sweater and a north face half the time and it looks fine. As long as it’s not a polo shirt and a pair of basketball shorts or something like that it’s doable

>>18481219
Seems like an honest brand, but for 1K you can have better.

wearing my grail today
you wish you knew what it was so you could call it shit and get 10 seconds of dopamine but I won't tell you

>>18481430
Enjoy your grail anon.
I hope you get raped by a pack of niggers and slowly die of AIDS though.

Call me a fag all you want, but small dress watches (30 - 34mm) are KINO and PURE SEX

How do you cope with your gold watches getting scratched?

Solid gold still looks good with some scratches and patina, thats the whole reason to get it over anything plated, which always looks ugly as fuck after a few years of wear.

>>18481460
Is gold plating thin enough to notice a difference from scratches?

>>18481219
The dot at 12 isn't centered on the line.

>>18481434
This looks nice, i like how the crystal sits flat with the bezel.

what are the go-to stainless steel, black dial, do-everything sports watches these days under 500 and under 1000 (available in eu market)? sarb033 is over 15 years old and discontinued, sarx035 is almost 10 years in production and hard to get by, what is filling that gap in the market now?

i like sarx035 , but i really dont like the idea of ordering one from jjapan for 1000+ euros considering it was closer to 500 when it was new. after all these years and leaps in production efficiency surely there is some successor with similar looks and superior build quality in the same price region?

im tempted to just buy the seiko sur311 for around 220 euros and hopefuly it will fill the role of everyday watch that i can wear in business casual, but even on pictures it looks like shitter

I'm a gentile, what watch should I buy?

>>18481642
f-91 like a normal terrorist

>>18481561
you can get SNK361 or the blue one for 130 euro from the guy in nl
hands and markers look cheap but overall the watch wears nice on a strap
small case is good for suit too

>>18480650
I got the Orient Mako as a Tag Heuer Formula 1 homage

>>18481434
kino

>>18481441
Normal scuffs are a fact of life and can be ignored. The first scratch always hurts, but honestly, you stop caring after a while.

With MAJOR scratches, though, the good thing about a gold case is that they’re comparatively simple to repair. A jewelry can drip a little molten gold into the scratch and refinish the case to the point where you’d never know it was there.

>>18481561
>what are the go-to stainless steel, black dial, do-everything sports watches these days under 500
Microbrands

>>18481434
I don't like 16mm straps.

Does anyone have a good source for leather straps 19mm lug width that taper to 15mm at the buckle?

>>18482164
I like Monstraps. They have a wide variety of leathers to choose from and they do custom work.

>>18482104
this is why I settled for a gshock

>>18481561
There are no more decent cheap watches. The cheapest non shit watches at this point are probably some sinn models.

>>18482217
NTA but good recommendation, I've been looking for a replacement strap for my AMW-320 for a while now. I ordered one of their para straps.

did we have a good 4th weekend bros?

avaturdfaggot

>>18480903
fuck thats cool best in thread

>>18482387
>…aaaand he’s gone, along with the rest of the spam threads

>>18482348
One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Quartz is superior to automatics in every important way.

>>18482348
The finer text looks jagged, like not every character has been written on the same horizontal line.
How much did this cost you?

>>18481434
That's true, but they don't exist anymore.

If I hear another faggot say "use case" to refer to when you would wear a certain watch I'm going to give the video a thumbs down. Really though that shit is so gay. I immediately disrespect anyone I hear say that phrase. Shit, I was watching a video about pokemon the other day and the guy said some shit like "Suicune doesn't really have a use case". You're not smarter than everyone else for using that phrase, in fact you're dumber because actually intelligent people are laughing at you for attempting to sound smart.

>>18482474
$400 from Hont

>>18482479
>I'm going to give the video a thumbs down.
OHHH NOOOO!! think of the children!!!

>>18482348
Nice thighs, blubberbutt. They look like two ham hocks without any definition whatsoever. How's about hitting a gym?

>>18482463
I'd prefer quartz over anything because it's less expensive and tells the time just like the others do. However I have a weird phobia/OCD around feeling my own heartbeat, or hearing/feeling other constant rhythmic sounds or feelings, etc. so that ticking makes me too uncomfortable to wear one.

>>18482481
I know it's extreme but they've pushed me too far. Please don't follow down this path.

>>18482463
Not if you have many watches.
Having many quartz watches and having to replace the battery every two years no matter what, it feels so wasteful.

>>18482348
You must feel like a goof wearing a Rolex (or replica) at the beach.
Unless you have zero social awareness... like everybody is at this (pityful local) beach to have fun, and you're here taking pics of your shit, like "look at me i have 10k on my wrist! (jk it's fake)".
Ok douche, we're just here to take a swim with our kids.

>>18482480
I see.
Are you aware of the factory it came from?
Maybe it's the picture that doesn't make it look too good, but I thought you could get better reps for that amount of money.

>>18482480
>$400 from Hont

>>18482348
>>18482456
>>18482482
>>18482494
>anon posts a Rolex
>Seiko wearers seethe
Every. Fucking. Time.

>>18482463
mechanical vs quartz is like sex with woman vs sex with a man

sure, men are superior to women in every single important way. still dont want to fuck them tho

>>18482479
Maybe the phrase is kind of overused and gay, but it's a real thing. Different watches have different reasons you might eant to wesr them, like you might want a thinner lighter watch for hiking but a dive watch for when you're kayaking and swimming. It could just come down to personal taste what you want to be wearing for certain activities, maybe what you like isn't the same as what other people like for the same circumstances.

>>18482535
Isn't fucking important? If you can't convince anyone to fuck you anyway I guess not.

can anyone ID this watch plz

>>18482483
Can you hear automatic movements ticking when you're wearing them? Unless you're putting them right to your ear it should be very difficult to hear them. Although when you take it off and put it on a table it becomes easy to hear it through the table.

>fell for the co-axial meme
Will I ever recover?

>>18482579
that's not even your pic you larping, coping, seething, balding POORFAGGOT

>>18482581
I just wanted to make fun of the co axial

>>18482584
>I just wanted to make fun of the co axial
2 questions, what exactly is coaxial (difference compared to normal movement) and what is wrong with it?

>>18482615
It‘s omega‘s „improvement“ over the regular swiss lever escapement
>it needs less service (but has a shorter service interval than rolex, while being harder to service)
>it has less friction (but has a shorter power reserve than rolex)
>but in return it‘s also three milimetres thicker than rolex movements

>>18482479

It's rumoured now that with the future release of an automatic Casio being released that they are responsible for the Seiko movement shortage by making massive orders of them

>>18482615
>>18482627
Omega didn't come up with it. It was invented and patented by George Daniels, who tried to sell it to Patek, Rolex and a few others (like Zenith IIRC). All of these companies declined.
There's a video somewhere on Youtube where Roger Smith (Daniels' apprentice) says Omega didn't buy the patent from Daniels, they just waited for it to expire.

>>18482635
So what's the plan, kill most microshitters by buying up all the available nh36 stock?

>>18482479
I don't have a use case for a watch because as a finance-savvy /pol/chad I made so much money off corona that I was able to quit my job, and I live a mostly stress-free lifestyle now.

But I do a lot of sports in my ample spare time, and I also wanted to monitor and improve my sleep, so I bought a smartwatch a while ago. So having a use case or not was definitely a thing for me.

>>18482635
Micros will just pivot to using miyota movements if it really becomes an issue. Many have already done so anyway because they're nicer, thinner movements.

Any recs for tank watches? Was thinking about Cartier tank, but open to other options, price range can be about 300-8000

>>18482761
Your two realistic options are the Cartier if you want precious metal, or the JLC Reverso if you prefer steel.

>>18481434
35 is the smallest i'll go

>>18482761
i like tanks that don't look like old lady's watches:
-Echo/Neutra tank
-Fears arnos

That being said, if you can really spend 8k, there are cool "Tank Louis" models (the mosaic one; the yellow/burgundy one).

>>18482866

>>18482884
platinum tank louis (around 18K)

>>18482884
Are these gaining any popularity? I'm kinda interested but they're pretty expensive for a handwound eta movement watch from a nobody brand that reminds me of Echochrome.

Thoughts on this Mido Belluna Royal Gent?

>>18483043
looks terrible

>>18483067
Care to elaborate?

>>18483073
yes, it looks cheaper than seikos cock tale time, terrible date window, cheap looking logo. and i bet its around a thousand bucks which makes it irredeemable

>>18483043
it's the seconds hand

>>18483073
Post the price here and I bet posters can give you half a dozen better watches for that price.

>>18483087
I’d be paying 672 USD.

>>18483087
The problem is he can go to the nearest supermarket to pick up that disgusting mido, but anything better for that price you will have to order online.

>>18483095
I’m quite happy ordering online if you can show me a watch I actually like.

>>18483102

>>18483102
Just get an erebus.

Kofe time.

>>18482866
This looks cool.
>>18483105
This too.

I got a new watch, am i allowed to post it here or would that make me an avatarfag?

>>18483139
(you) have permission to post it.
Do not abuse this privilege or you will be banished to /wt/ with all the insufferables.

>>18483139
>I got a new watch, am i allowed to post it here or would that make me an avatarfag?
Yes, as a matter of fact, it will!
You may only post the official stock photos of the watch to avoid this.

>>18483150
>the official stock photos of the watch
That's going to be tough, give me a minute.

>>18483150
Best i can do sorry.

>>18483170
Oh well even with that we know you're that one obnoxious faggot who only cares about this model, you're free to go to /wt/ and stay there forever.

>>18482866
This looks horrendous. Why even bother making a rectangular case if you end up putting a round dial inside?
Cartier, JLC and a few other high end brands are the only brands that know how to design a square/rectangular watch.

>>18483173
:(

Cool little vintage Nivada (alarm watch with a world timer bezel).

>>18483170
not only are you an avatar, you're an avaturdfaggot and you know this.
this poor attempt to "blend in" in just more of your avaturd off topic shit posting and a thinly veiled thread derailement attempt.
you're an avaturd and nothing more than one.
avaturdfaggot.
everyone knows who you are.

>>18483210
Huh. That’s weird. Looks like users can’t report ban evasions anymore.
Oh well, not like you don’t know how to reset your router, right?

>>18483186
>Cartier, JLC and a few other high end brands are the only brands that know how to design a square/rectangular watch.
To that end, those are also among the very few brands that have any legitimate heritage in that design space.
Those microshitters are marketed at people who can’t afford a real Tank.

shitters

I impulse bought pic related. Did I make a mistake?

>>18483367
>Did I make a mistake?
Only if it’s too big for you. If you have an average size wrist, you’ll be fine.

>>18483275
After 100 years of watch design, you'd think people would have figured out how to make well-proportioned rectangular watches

Bought some cheap ae1200 clones on Ali to test if the internals fit inside my metal case mod
The LED on this one is absolute trash but it kinda goes hard

>>18483406
Is this CNC’d or 3d printed?

>>18483425
CNC'd

>>18483406
>cnc'ing custom Casio case
>not making the lugs 20mm wide and fixing the design

>>18483439
thats the last case of the first batch I made, the current one does take a 20mm strap
>fixing the design
wym?

>>18483442
I just don't like that you need a stepped strap to make it look good. On a normal 18mm strap it looks disproportionate.

>>18483367
it's ok

>>18483445
I agree, thats why I increased the strap size to 20mm (wanted to go to 22 but that would require a custom back cover too) and it makes the step less pronounced. its overall a little thinner than a stock one though anyways so it helps not stick out so much.
A big problem with making the step go away entirely is the location of the screws. to make the step go away would require the entire thing to be made longer. I already had to hide the outer edges of the cover be hidden inside the underside chamfer. There's not a lot of space and making the entire unit longer would really make the watch stick out more because it wouldnt wrap around the arm nicely
im sorry anon

>>18483406
is the temp accurate?

>when u so poor you have to make a shitter by yourself
lmfao at that tbqh poorfaggot

>>18483463
No idea, the internals are off a 10 euro watch on aliexpress. looking at it now, its fairly correct I guess, maybe off by a degree

>>18483465
Go fuck yourself, bitterbitch. Anon’s project is one of the few remotely interesting things here.

>>18483477
kys niggerfaggot.
this avatar poorfagging belongs to wt or pswt.

>>18483484
Don’t you need to get back to spamming your finsateride bullshit?

Lowercase posters need to drink bleach. Easily the worst posters here or in /wt/.

>>18483495
lmfao balding faggot

>>18483497
>posters
It’s literally just one guy from /wt/ here to specifically ruin the only place where watch discussion occurs.
If we had any kind of moderation here, he’d be gone. (>>18482387 notwithstanding, but he was having a shitfit this weekend)
In all honesty, he’s actually worse than the avatarfags, but then, that’s the whole point

>>18483447
>There's not a lot of space and making the entire unit longer would really make the watch stick out more because it wouldnt wrap around the arm nicely
Have you tried making the lugs a little longer but angling them down?

>>18483447
Still good enough, I'd actually buy one of these casios if it had a metal case and 20mm lugs

>>18483208
Cool, i like alarm watches.

>>18483515
Well the plan is to sell them eventually, im pretty close to getting it all set up. Boxes, sapphire crystals, website, instagram etc. im super busy with my regular job so its all moving a bit slower than I’d like.
The packaging should be here this month

>>18483515
>if it had a metal case
Some anon is making (and selling) them himself on a CNC machine.

>>18483524
Never mind, i got ninja'd.

>>18483513
Its an idea, maybe v3

>>18483210
>more of your avaturd off topic shit posting and a thinly veiled thread derailement attempt
Chill, i ust wanted to post my new watch.

>>18483523
How many different metal options are there? Are the different colored metals just for prototyping purposes?

>>18483576
I always make a few brass and bronze ones since the machine is already set up with the tooling.
As long as the material comes in a 60mm diameter bar, I can make the case out of it

We shouldn't name these threads "non-avatarfag watch thread". This is the actual watch thread.
The other thread should be named "Shitizen Seikope niggerfaggot containment thread" or something like that.

>>18483604
fucking this
other thread should just be atfst (avaturdfag shitter thread) and all the nasty avaturds and shitposters should be banished there.

>>18483604
I'm not naming a thread with the n word, you fucking racist.

>>18483627
wrong thread, avaturdfaggot

>>18483593
Could you make a case out of solid rhodium or maybe osmium?

>>18478339 (OP)
Just got this GP book in from 1998 with the full collection and prices. I’m thinking about getting one of their ferrari collab watches or a cronograph from the mid to late 90s. So if there’s interest I’ll post more of the book.

>>18483657
Not with the machines I have access to
Even if I could, just the cost of materials would make this cost in the 10s of thousands

Where do I get a high quality single watch roll

>>18482645
based Casio winning yet again

>>18483677
You should, that sounds cool.

I got one of these fuckers and the only real problem I have with it is that it's fucking impossible to read in low light. It really needs something to help with that like lume for the hands and markers, applied faceted markers, and LED backlight for the screen, something. Also it wouldn't hurt if the screen was taller, it's dark and crammed up enough to make it a little hard to tell where the ends of the numbers end and the edges of the screen begin with the shadow in between.

>>18478339 (OP)
what dress watches would you recommend for under $100?

>>18483711
f-91w

>>18478483
iunno about palladium but I would def wear that watch

>>18483711
Unironically a gold tone casio like >>18483710

>>18478686
>fags will be seething
motherfucker, I'm not jealous of faggy anorexic-ass dudes with wrists like yours no matter what watch is strapped to it

>>18480308
I always hate coin bezels, but everything else is great, particularly the case and integrated bracelet

>BEE-zel

>>18483708
This would have been the most expensive GP in 1998 you could buy new. 195k.

>>18483824
As you can see here

>>18483825
Kind of want to get this for Monterey car week. Think I could pick it up for 1.5k on yahoojp probably. Could probably flip it there if I don’t decide to keep it.

>>18483826
Price list

>>18483827
More models from that series

>>18483828
And this useless piece of crap you could bought for 1250 usd and its quartz btw. The desk clock was the cheapest thing in the catalog at 950

>>18483829
You see this for sub 1k when they come up for auction. So I WILL be buying one soon. You get it for the gold if not for less. Steal for an in house automatic.

>>18483830
Pointless complications price list. I have a Chronoswiss one from 1998 too i can post in the next thread as well.

>>18483830
>12 6 9 subdial chronos
>date
I can guarantee you with complete certainty that this is a Valjoux inside.

>>18483824
>>18483825
>>18483826
>>18483827
Cool, based and catalog pilled. I was after old Seiko catalogs but funnily enough i can only find ones a few years before and after the years I'm interested in.

>>18483824
I wonder how many they've made and how much these go for on the secondary market now

>>18483843
I have no idea how many were made but one sold in 2012 for 35k and one in 2019 for 25k. Hell if I had the money i'd buy one for that. The one in 2019 was number 2 and the one in 2012 was the same watch.

shitters

>>18483830
>GP made a Daytona cope
Kek

>>18483849
The servicing cost on that must be insane

>>18483839
>I can guarantee you with complete certainty that this is a Valjoux inside.
Nope.
But it’s actually even shittier.

It’s the “caliber 8000” (later called caliber 2280).
It’s an ETA 2982 with a Dupuis-Depraz module. That’s why the date wheel looks so sunken in and why the running seconds is at 12, not 9 like a normal 7750.

>>18483909
>main point of the DD modules is having horizontal chrono dials as opposed to the vertical 12-6-9 of the Valjoux
>use the one module that has this exact layout

>>18482519
guess they had a bad 4th of july weekend lol

>>18483690
>Where do I get a high quality single watch roll
Look it up based on the leather it’s made of. “saffiano leather watch roll” will give you lots of options. In terms of construction, they’re all basically the same.

>>18483849
It sold for 195k new almost 30 years ago and the price went down to 30k? I'm new to watches and this is interesting to me.

>>18484022
This is normal. Very few watches actually hold value. Most watches, especially extremely expensive watches, absolutely crater in value.

>>18478339 (OP)
got a seiko. pretty cool. bracelet is very rattly.

>>18484029
What's the point of buying two watches that share the same features?
>sports watch on a bracelet
>applied indices, white dial
>date (both at 3)
>central seconds
Just buy a dress watch or a chronograh.

>>18484029
shitters, kys.

>>18484022
Yea deprecation is a bitch. At retail I have like a 100k+ watch collection once you control for inflation. I almost feel sorry for those who took the 95% off hit. That GP if you control for inflation was almost 400k new so it more or less lost 90+% of its value. If you do your research you can find deals like this petty often. Why people buy new watches is beyond me

I think this is my favorite chinktona just because, not only did they copy the most contentious and ugly part of modern rolex design that nobody actually likes, they did it with the brand name TACTICAL FROG

>>18484102
See
>>18478339 (OP)
>The place to actually discuss watches, free of avatarfagging drama, including bittercelposting
>including bittercelposting

>>18484093
i like those features. i fon't care about chronos and i have a dress watch

>>18484116
How thick is that thing?

>>18482639
>invented and patented by George Daniels
>tried to sell it to Patek, Rolex and a few others (like Zenith IIRC)
>All of these companies declined
>Omega didn't buy the patent from Daniels, they just waited for it to expire

KEK what a bitch
>pay me money for inferior movement
lmao

>>18484153
listed as 12.5mm, so actually not terrible

>>18484155
The only thing Omega is good for is getting Rolex to improve their own products.
When the first Bond Seamaster bracelet came out, it was so much better than the stamped, hollow Oyster bracelet. Rolex turned around and engineered one of the best bracelets ever.

When Onega started pushing their coaxial bullshit and promoting their longer power reserves, Rolex started doing some actual movement development of their own, culminating in the Landwhaler’s movement

If Rolex isn’t forced to, they would never change a thing.

>>18484160
>The only thing Omega is good for is getting Rolex to improve their own products
I don't think omega is going to get them to unfuck their own designs with the ROLEXROLEXROLEX shit. as it stands, Omega's designs still look good because they didn't fuck them up just to screw over counterfeiters who were going to emulate their shit anyway

>>18484166
>Omega's designs still look good
new railmaster.

>>18484166
Rolex is gradually improving. They’re phasing out the Maxi-case, for example. They’re just an incredibly slow-moving company.

>>18484170
I'll give you that one, that thing is basically a $5400 seiko. But its existence doesn't make the speedy or aqua terra look any worse, and those are the two that people actually give a shit about

>>18484022
Precious metal watches are absurdly overpriced at MSRP. There's a reason a Breguet halves in value the moment you get your credit card out of your wallet.
Add the fact that absolutely no one cares about Girard Perregaut and that watches from the late-90s and early 2000s are some of the least sought after and it's almost a miracle that it doesn't sell for even less.

>>18484022
GP in particular loses value like crazy. I don't have a very good explanation why, the company is still around and still offering maintenance for their watch, albeit expensive. They're a bit more fragile financially since they're not part of Richemont/Swatch/LVMH but I doubt they're near bankruptcy either.
I get the feeling that for Richemont brands, besides the obvious marketing budget that GP does not have, the constant price hikes also raise the value of second hand models and kind of hides this effect, with your reverso from 10 years ago still selling for about you bought it for, setting aside the fact that the same model went x3 in MSRP in the meantime.
Back to GP I have two of them, they're quite unique on the market in that their used models can get you unusual complications at a quite unique price point. Stuff like JLC for example will be at least twice as expensive for comparable (worse?) finishing and condition.
For example recently I was considering this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMb3onEWZnA that you could get basically brand new with box and papers for a little more than 3k€, quite an unique proposition for a watch with date, GMT and alarm. I eventually decided against it as it looked a bit too gimmicky for me.

I saw Ozzy Osborne in a clip from an interview and I thought he was wearing a horrendous mall shitter, but on closer examination it appears to be a Cartier Ballon with a diamond bezel? Is this a metalhead watch? Is this even a good watch, or is it a shitter? It looks gigantic on him but at least it appears to be pretty thin.

>>18484199
Yeah, it’s a Ballon Bleu. I can’t tell if it’s got a diamond bezel or if that’s just the reflection of the studio lights.
He may be rich and famous, but he’s still an uneducated Brummie, meaning he’s never been particularly tasteful.

>>18484203
It definitely has diamonds on the bezel. That was one of the reasons I thought it was a mall shitter, because it's a cheesy looking gold color like fake gold watches sometimes have and sparkling with what I thought might be fake diamonds. The only watch I could find that looks like it on the Cartier website is this one, but it's 36mm and the watch Ozzy is wearing appears to be larger than that unless he has small wrists. He's somebody, so maybe cartier would do the 42mm model diamond set as a custom job for him, or maybe it's an older model they don't list anymore.

I don't think I like the watch in general but in a way I like it for him because he's wearing something he apparently likes that I never see anyone else wearing and he didn't just go "rolexrolexrolex" for the sake of it like every other celebrity, or even within the Cartier line he didn't just pick a tank louie or santos as the easy choice everyone goes for.

>>18484205

>>18484205
>>18484206
There are other pictures of him wearing it, I guess he wears it out pretty often.

>>18484205
> or maybe it's an older model they don't list anymore.
That’s probably the case, since they definitely used to make the 42mm version with a diamond bezel.

>>18484218
They have one now, but it's rose gold and on a leather strap.

>>18484029
Sup anon, I think you replied to me a few days ago when I was asking about the OQ. Beautiful watch and my favorite Rolex. I forgot to ask, how is the ticking sound? I had an old swatch with a loud tick, and it annoyed the shit out of me. If this was silent, I'd buy in an instant (apparently they fixed the loud tick in the never released 5335 movement, but that wasn't to be). Also, are you worried about long term serviceability? Apparently only RSC services these things, and people think Rolex might decline service in the next 10-20 years. You think there's any truth to that?

>>18484244
>I forgot to ask, how is the ticking sound? I had an old swatch with a loud tick, and it annoyed the shit out of me. If this was silent, I'd buy in an instant
NTA but I'm surprised swatches have that problem, I thought it was only super cheap timex watches that did that. even $15 casio analogs are pretty much completely silent

>>18484245
This was around 2013, so it's possible they fixed it. I recently bought a 2-handed Swatch Skin Irony which is completely silent, so it's not all models.

>>18484244
i did. it's my all time favourite watch.
it is a very noticeable tick. it's the sound from the lever moving a gear, not unpleasant or cheap sounding but if you're sensitive to sound it will go on your nerves. it grew on me quite a bit.
as for serviceability, who knows. it's a vintage and obscure watch, there are some things you just have to accept with these. if you want to play it safe wait wait for rolex to release a landwhaler without that hideous dial.

>>18484244
You can hear it in good quality on watchfinder's channel.

>>18483677

>>18484193
They just did a merger with ulysse nardin not too long ago actually. So both can cut expenses


But what two watches do you own?

>>18484273
Yes, it's a solid powerful tick. I would honestly kinda like it most of the time (especially as a power move in a quiet conference room), but would also appreciate a way to turn it off (I am indeed sensitive to sound). The 1530 or 1630 are also options, but not a fan of the dials or bracelets. We'll see. Might just settle for a regular vintage DJ like pic related, but there's just something about the OQ that I can't seem to shake.

>>18484199
Malmsteen is obsessed with rolex

New thread >>18484444

>>18484317
nice seiko5