Off Topic - Wrist Watches (pics)

[JohnR]

My first watch was a Chateau Swiss movement low-budget wind-up watch I got for Christmas in 6th grade. What remains of it is on the left. Digital watches came out soon after, and I had to have one, and then I had to take apart the wind-up watch to see all the gears and stuff. Those plastic cased red LED watches where you push a button to see the time or date, man that was awesome. Then I had a few LCD watches, got a nice Seiko dress watch for graduating from college (it got lost somewhere), and several $30 Timexes in the 1990s that were utterly Glock-like in reliability. I gave some of those away to family members in Nicaragua. My wife bought me the guitar watch. I had a Glycene 24-hour watch but sold it.

The last decade or so, I haven't found a watch that doesn't quit on me every few months. Timex, Citizen, whatever, they now all suck. I just put the Citizen Eco-drive in the window sill for about three weeks to make damn sure the battery is charged, we'll see if I wake up one morning and it's still 11pm. In the mean time, I've been wearing the $11 Wal Mart POS at the bottom, which looks cool but it quit on me too a couple times.

[Bawanna]

Well you got all the time zones covered that's for sure. Seems like it's almost 8 someplace least according to a couple of them.

[JohnR]

"Almost 8" was the actual time of the photograph this morning. I should start wearing the one with no hands. Then I can tell people, "Sorry, I have no time for that."

[DavidS]

I wear a sun dial with a genuine alligator strap. I'm retired and don't really give a damn what time it is. Every day is Saturday and I move at a leisurely pace. I was once passed by soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

Same here. I don't wear a watch. Do I know what time it is? Heck, I often don't know what day it is!

[DavidS]

Well you got all the time zones covered that's for sure. Seems like it's almost 8 someplace least according to a couple of them.

Or in the words of Jimmy Buffett: It's five o'clock somewhere.

[JGIORD]

I like Citizen Echo Drives. Never needs a battery.

[ltxi]

I wear a sun dial with a genuine alligator strap. I'm retired and don't really give a damn what time it is. Every day is Saturday and I move at a leisurely pace. I was once passed by soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

X2....except for the three or four days a month I still go in to work.

I do try to still keep track of what day it is....hate going shopping on a weekend.

[CJB]

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I've always sorta had a thing for orange face dive watches. She always had a thing for such protrubances. Except mine!

[GROTMAN]

I have a Seiko that the watchband just broke. Thought I would just get a new watchband but after seeing all these pics.. might be an excuse to get a whole new watch !!

[jocko]

u defintely don't know what ur talking about there CJB. I won't defend my points either, Seiko never made their own movement, they bought them from who ever would sell them the complete movement. They designed and probablyt never even made theiur own cases .. ETA is probably the largest private maker of watch movements in the world. They never made a complete watch but made movements for many makers in various complications and qualities etc a subsidiary of seiko SII and Epson makes most all of seiko movements, ur right about one thing with seiko. they are all machine made and assembled and they keep good time, which today most any watch u buy in a store is gonna be a battery/quartz type watch and they keep excellent time, if thats all u want..

[jocko]

Same here. I don't wear a watch. Do I know what time it is? Heck, I often don't know what day it is!

are u any relation to muggsy, he has been on here for a few years and is till looking for his first clue. Just sayin

[CJB]

u defintely don't know what ur talking about there CJB. I won't defend my points either, Seiko never made their own movement, they bought them from who ever would sell them the complete movement.

Wow. Ya learn something every day. So the unsigned "NE15" movement, is just the open market Seiko signed 6R15. Verry interresting.

[jocko]

For a true watch collector $27 grand is a good starter watch. High end collectors will pay into the millions for multi-complication, one off, timepieces. Besides you can put a lot more of them in a safe.

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/expensive-watches/

that is aqctully not true, ur in a different area when u get into the 20K watchs, sure some can sell for Millions but normally tha tis acution prices more than anything Eric Claptons Patek recently sold for I believe 4 million, more for the name of the owner than the watch, although the Patek was defiitely the top of the pinacle in watchs.

I stand corrected: It sold in 2012 for 3.6 million.

[jocko]

Wow. Ya learn something every day. So the unsigned "NE15" movement, is just the open market Seiko signed 6R15. Verry interresting.

thaqt I could not tellyou, never owned a seiko. many of the watch makers buy the movement from a maker of movements and then they add their hands to to it and the dial etc, and if you inqire they will say yes its our movement. They might dotay indeed even be stamping out their own mov ements but I would bet behind the scenes SII and Epson have alot to do with their movements... Ihave seen 40MM cases (thats big u know) that if u pull the back off there is a eta moveent in there but with a 40MM dial. this same movement could also be in a 32mm case to. ETA is famous for this kind of movementj.

[KingWulfgar]

I've always sorta had a thing for orange face dive watches. She always had a thing for such protrubances. Except mine!

That's a sweet watch, CJB. Personally, I'm still kicking myself for not picking up an Orange Monster when they were readily available for around $160.