Your Wristwatches

I had been avoiding wearing a watch or having any interest in watches my entire adult life, largely due to the fact that I knew what would happen. I cannot afford a watch collection/addiction but after witnessing my father in law bidding for a beautiful vintage Tissot, I was bitten by the bug. Having spent the last two weeks obsessing, a Swiss movement, fairly non brand dress watch is winging it's way to me from America.
70's Gruen.
And obviously I'm lacking a casual watch so have my eye on this Seiko diver, in case there's a sudden flood on my way to work? :oops:
Both watches are on the smaller size as my wrists are quite thin, 6.5"
Being as i nearly stopped a stranger in the street today to ask him about the watch he was wearing, I would love to see your watches, what's on your wish list, reviews, straps you like, basically anything watch related.

And obviously I'm lacking a casual watch so have my eye on this Seiko diver, in case there's a sudden flood on my way to work? :oops:

Being as i nearly stopped a stranger in the street today to ask him about the watch he was wearing, I would love to see your watches, what's on your wish list, reviews, straps you like, basically anything watch related.

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Love the look of Panerai but way outside my budget.
Do bike and ski stuff.
Like this, but with a yellow face
And this one
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Apparently not . . . but if it doesn't turn up in 4 weeks . .
Do bike and ski stuff.
Then went off the idea of having posh expensive watches, so sold it and bought one of these instead, which I wear for all occasions..
Strava - Alex Taylor (sportstest.co.uk)
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It's the large one, but it's still on the small side. I don't have particularly big wrists. I get away with the Monaco, but large round watches look wrong.
Like Nap, I wear my F1 most days (every day really, otherwise the Monaco) and have done since 1993. It's had three new batteries. Three.
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Day to day though I'm just rubbish with watches, I lose them/break them and stuff. Plus I rather like the look and functions of a vivoactive HR too...
- @ddraver
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My watch collection started at about 7 years old with a wind up Sekonda (still got it and I believe it still works). Then a Casio digital which broke. At 18 my parents spent a bit on an Accurist moonphase watch. That lasted almost 2 years before every watch repairer said the mechanism was dirty inside and probably couldn't be repaired.
Then I got given a Casio 200m rated digital as a leaving present. Still got that 20 years after.
Bought myself a Tissot watch for £160 at half price from a shop run by an old fella who was retiring without anyone to pass the business on to. I felt guilty but I didn't have much spare cash and needed a new watch. I can't be without one. It was a lovely steel bracelet watch with a white face IIRC. It failed in 9 months but I didn't have the retailer to go to and there was another reason why I didn't go for a replacement or fix.
Went for a few years with that old Casio divers watch after that until I got myself a Seiko for £110 in a h Samuels half price sale. It's still going after 3 years. That's unusual for me as the only watches that survive my careful use are cheap watches less than £50. I am very gentle and care for all my watches but they somehow die. Just seen that Seiko has out still at £125. Annoyed with h Samuels and their stupid half price sale that's not really half price. They must have sold it at almost twice the market value for some time before the "sale" .
http://www.seiko.co.uk/collections/men/other/sne095p2#.V88eNqXTXqA
Also have a very odd watch called a Chromachron that I got for my 21st. It has a coloured face split into 12 segments. No hands but a disc with a cut out the size of one segment. The disc moves at the speed of an hour hand and you tell the time by how far the cut out is between segments. So you can only tell the time to within a few minutes, but that was accurate enough. Will try to post a picture later.
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Do bike and ski stuff.
I'd quite like a Festina watch cos cycling. Oh and a Rodania too
- @ddraver
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The Patek was a thing of beauty and I regret moving it on. The sub, once you get past the negative connotations of Rolex, is a great watch, 3 years and never missed a beat and looks like knew despite being a daily wear.
I don't sleep around, drink much or do drugs but I do love mechanical excellence :shock: boring int I.
Desmond Tutu
The time on the watch in the image is nearly 7.40 as the missing slice is a little over halfway between 7 and 8. Found some waffle written about them
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
...also have a raymond weil dress watch (another automatic)
have had them 15+ years, not really inclined to change, though i did lust after this for a while... http://www.vancleefarpels.com/eu/en/la- ... piece.html
And one of these for 33 years...
Lots of others, but nothing too flash.
Im a PADI instructor and diving with watches is now a bit old school.. Many people now use a wrist mounted computer to dive with. I do have a diving watch from Apeks which manufacturers diving equipment and I do take it on some dives as a back up with some tables.
My best looking watch is a Raymond Wiel Freelancer , beautiful watch.
I have a very early seventies Rado Diastar which is quite funky and a drawer full of various divers watches etc.
Watch freak.