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  • #46
    Originally posted by LeroyC View Post
    Love a good manual movement. They make really nice ones in China.
    Seiko and Orient (Japan) are amazing value (orient has in house movement) and the accuracy can be great, a handful seconds per day accuracy.

    The grail for me is this one, mechanical with "digital" time display. The instant switch of the time is awesome!!

    https://www.alange-soehne.com/en/timepieces/zeitwerk

    Cheers

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    • #47
      I like Seiko watches too...
      Had a couple over the years and they were extremely reliable and quite accurate, plus built to take a moderate amount of abuse.
      Also owned a couple of Omega Seamasters too but they ended up getting stolen so didn't try for a third time.

      Mal.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Dimal View Post
        I like Seiko watches too...
        Had a couple over the years and they were extremely reliable and quite accurate, plus built to take a moderate amount of abuse.
        Also owned a couple of Omega Seamasters too but they ended up getting stolen so didn't try for a third time.

        Mal.
        Thats a very sad story re: the Seamasters! I'm rocking the Speedmaster - and the beater is a Seiko Flightmaster.

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        • #49
          I've always been a watch person, at the moment I'm wearing a Citizen Eco Drive, best watch I've ever owned, keeps perfect time, have not had to adjust since purchase, no batteries or winding needed, have owned it for about 5 years, guess it will fail eventually, at around the $150 will certainly replace with something similar.
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          • #50
            What attracts me to a good watch is its beauty. Its classic elegance hits me in the eye. It's a piece of crafted jewellery which tells the time, albeit not as well as a quartz, but you don't wear it because your daily life needs to be regulated to the second.

            Two of my watches don't even have minute graduations, yet they are the most elegant (to me) timepieces, by Longines and Tisssot. The most expensive is one I bought to celebrate my first job, a Longines Valjoux 72 chronograph diving watch which cost me 4 weeks pay back then. The most complex of movements which was also used in Rolex watches.

            All are manual, needing winding every day. These are dress watches.

            For everyday wear, a battery Citizen quartz.

            I find that most of today's watches, Rolex included, look clunky. Thick, ugly industrial-looking bezels.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by LeroyC View Post
              G’day TampIt - how about commercial/industrial divers? Or people that work in explosive atmospheres? I didn’t wear a watch for 10 years after leaving school, but in my current job it’s pretty much a necessity as I can’t carry any kind of ‘smart’ device (EX rated stuff is still too expensive).
              OK - you all win. There is SOME practical uses for a watch these days. I had completely forgotten about SCUBA diving with my Seiko - it it waterproof down to 30 "somethings" (feet, metres, fathoms - too long ago to remember). As I kept it in its own waterproof box - together with my Canon camera in the same housing it was useful to crosscheck the old O2 levels and diving times in the tanks.

              As for wearing one day to day, not me. I carry the minimum I can get away with and still have security. One wallet (two keys, a few coins, notes and cards) and one phone. That is it.

              YMMV, and that is fine.

              TampIt
              PS: My nephew lost my lifetime (extensive) collection of spark proof tools (racing pit mechanic, later powder monkey for a few weeks) whilst I was in the US. Luckily these days I can replace them with the cheaper standard stuff... a mere $40K or so cheaper.

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