Which watch do you wear?

[Fat Chance]

Talkin about ironic...watches were not transposed from pocket to wristlet to circumnavigate the user having to use two hands but did so via the 1st ww and trench warfare, the industry was not slow on the blooming fashion that morphed when the military applied crude straps onto thier pw's and placed them on thier wrist (to avoid damage)

I favour the nautilus...the original Genta ref 3700

All the vintage Seamasters with axe head in-house movements are too cheap to be true (a numb twat could'nt go wrong)

 

[Rascal]

I have a watch that was invented for space travel and was worn on the moon landings

It runs by magnets and as long as you wear it it runs,kinetic stuff, take it off and it stops and there is only 3 people in the UK who can start it and it cost me £120 last time to get it going again.

Its a Bulova Accutron

The above may be rubbish but thats what the guy who did watch repairs in Timpsons told me

 

[jayblue]

have a few but always end up with my trusty rolex sub.love it.

 

[asgoodasitgets]

Just pulled the trigger on a Breitling Steelfish.
Already have an IWC Aquatimer 3767 and an Oris Carlos Coste.
I like my dive watches.

But, just as I wouldnt wear a pair of pants made by Omega or a shirt made by Rolex, I wouldn t touch a fashion watch by Diesel, Armani, Boss etc. etc.
Pile of overpriced shite (IMHO of course)

 

[MCFC-alan88]

I never understood why you'd spend so much money on an item that does the exact same thing as one that costs £20. It's the same with Pens (Montblanc).

 

[TCIB]

Don't wear it often but omega seamaster, looking at a new one that i would dare wear everyday.

 

[BlueTG]

I use the Horizon

 

[Fat Chance]

I never understood why you'd spend so much money on an item that does the exact same thing as one that costs £20. It's the same with Pens (Montblanc).

Just cause you never understood it dont mean there's something going on that your not aware of...can you get home from any major city in the world if you'd lost your worldly possesions bar your £20 kettle....can your £20 watch dive down to a couple of thousand meters underwater without imploding and when the battery finally dies on a quartz offering how would you work out how much air you had left in a scuba bottle. Thats without mentioning the engineering (the micro by hand type) on the inside...if you ever get the opportunity to watch a god tweak an hairspring by hand/eye to a tolerance you've just quoted your watch is loosing/gaining and then re-assemble it and place it on a timing machine to clarify it's running absolutely plum true (within a second a week)....then you'll start to realise that the pit kids in formula 1 ain't all the hype they're cracked up to be...it's just we can see thier work whizzing around a track ('the seen') but not an artisan watchmakers graft under the hood.

 

[mad4city]

One must fit in with others' arrangements of course but doesn't mean one has to wear a watch, or even carry a phone. I was meaning more in the way of routine; I don't have a fixed time for getting up, starting work, having a work break, finishing work, meals, etc. All this routine came in with the industrial revolution with the move away from the land and working according to the (manu)factory's requirements rather than the seasons and the day's weather. I'm just old-fashioned.

Intersting theory but... about five miles from where I live, at Grange Co. Limerick, there's a 46metre diameter stone circle, not quite as spectacular as Stonehenge but a nice, quiet, (dare I say it) spiritual place. Also, in Co, Meath, there's the oldest building in the world, Newgrange (predates the pyramids by an Age). Both of these places and Stonehenge have something in common. They are all designed to mark the Summer Solstice.
Now, we might argue that they are all primitive places of Sun worship and even if we concede that is the probability, we must also accept that the Sun dictates our concept of Time. Therefore, is Time not an intrinsic, primal part of Humanity?

Who says Stonehenge was designed to mark the summer solstice? Do you have proof?

Fine. Maybe it wasn't "designed" to mark the solstice. Maybe it's just a freaky co-incidence that all three prehistoric monuments DO mark the solstice.

 

[TCIB]

Just pulled the trigger on a Breitling Steelfish.
Already have an IWC Aquatimer 3767 and an Oris Carlos Coste.
I like my dive watches.

But, just as I wouldnt wear a pair of pants made by Omega or a shirt made by Rolex, I wouldn t touch a fashion watch by Diesel, Armani, Boss etc. etc.
Pile of overpriced shite (IMHO of course)

Agreed.

You want me to buy a watch for 500 quid because it has armani on it, get the fuck out before i chuck you out.