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just looked on google, those watches are ugly as sin, if it wasnt made by a gucci brand no one would give it a second look surely!0
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Sure it was an Aston, thats what the bloke on the market said anyway when i brought it.0
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sheepsteeth wrote:just looked on google, those watches are ugly as sin, if it wasnt made by a gucci brand no one would give it a second look surely!
The JLC? if you think that you need to learn a little watch history! As far as unique, innovative in house movements go, JLC are second to none.0 -
Very nice watches Sheeps, but surely it's not a real collection without one of these:
On another note, I really like that Seiko, and good pic too bud.
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anyway, i like it:
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I loved the old Casio watches. especially the one that had its own calculator.
Was I the only one who pushed the stopwatch button twice as fast as I could against the desk to see how quickly I could stop it?0 -
Is that not an Aston Martin badge in the middle of that revolting looking watch?0
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360 wrote:sheepsteeth wrote:just looked on google, those watches are ugly as sin, if it wasnt made by a gucci brand no one would give it a second look surely!
The JLC? if you think that you need to learn a little watch history! As far as unique, innovative in house movements go, JLC are second to none.
the aston martin one looks like it is from webbosville no matter what heritage it has, im not familiar with JLC as a brand though0 -
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i dont like watches which endorse something like brietling and bentley or that jlc and aston or omega and james bond.
if i was wealthy enough to own swanky watches, id fancy something like this graham for a busy watch and somethign like this panerai for a more clean looking one.
mind you, i think even if i was wealthy enough for a watch like one of those, id still be too tight to part with the cash!0 -
No matter how swanky a watch is, if it cannot tell me my depth, dive time, no deco time and let me know if my ascent rate is too fast then it can go hang.....0
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360 wrote:
are those tourbillon s just a show case thing or do they do something in particular?
i only ask as i dont really understand them but they are exceptionally pretty things.0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:are those tourbillon s just a show case thing or do they do something in particular?
They were invented in the days of pocket watches to improve accuracy.
A pocket watch spends most of its time sitting vertically in your pocket this means that gravity is always pulling the mechanism in one direction, by having the escapement mechanism in a rotating cage the effects of gravity are reduced.
The gyro tourbillon in the video would be more effective for a wristwatch because the position the watch was left in wouldn't change its effectiveness.
Realistically though they're just a technical tour de force, watch makers and collectors like them because they're almost unfakeable. The chinese can make them now but they're so hard to make that even a chinese copy would cost you thousands.
Anyway back to JLC, they do lots of that kind of stuff and some of it filters down to their more affordable pieces. By comparison Breitling hardly make anything but cases these days, most of the internals are made by others!0 -
slowslowslow wrote:I loved the old Casio watches. especially the one that had its own calculator.
Was I the only one who pushed the stopwatch button twice as fast as I could against the desk to see how quickly I could stop it?
I did that too!
nice watch though Sheeps... top kit.I like bikes and stuff0 -
360:
im more impressed by them having a purpose and they are beautiful looking pieces of machinery.
i did read whilst i was looking around the web about them yesterday that if you could afford a fake, you could posibly afford the real thing and if you could make a fake, you could probably actually build the real thing.0 -
You do get fakes where its driven by a battery or its just a dummy driven off the main spring, but they're really obivious!0
