Your Wristwatches

slowmart

Tangled Metal wrote:

Seems to me a lot on here have more money than others. Omega, Breitling, Patek and Rolex. I know watches can be investment pieces to pass down the generations. But I reckon if you own those watches I bet your garden shed contents and watch collections cost more than my house.

Those same people with nice watches seem to have the nicest bikes, cycle clothing. etc. It's great that you've got the success to be able to buy yourself the luxuries. Jealous!

My luxury is a £700 bike and it's getting hammered on the commute. Still I'm happy with my lot and my Seiko rip off from H Samuel. Perhaps I'll splash out on a polar m400 and / or a Casio for work one day. More luxuries.

The material existence is bollox, my realization came coming back from a fantastic holiday and one of the highlights was my daughter falling asleep on my shoulder in the car.

If you're happy and content my friend then you are indeed a rich man.

Anonymous

As above. I am a sucker for materialistic bollox and now really want to just spend my hard earned on good times and happy memories. With the odd bit of cycling kit thrown in .

The watch was a gift and has some sentimental attachment, though.

verylonglegs

Indeed, I've had ongoing health issues I would happily give away any of my possessions if it meant being fully fit again. But it doesn't work like that so well being and health is the only thing to really value in life as when you have it at least you are already in a decent position to tackle everything else.

type:epyt

^^^ Get a better job, or keep your 'contentment' to yourself ...

Ben6899

type:epyt wrote:

^^^ Get a better job, or keep your 'contentment' to yourself ...

Who on earth is that aimed at? :?

crumbschief

Just thought of it seeing this thread but does anyone remember a watch from the 80s with a calculator and or one that you could play a game on it as well,it was popular at the time around school a sort of space invaders.

courtmed

most of my mine are ones that were once part of my grandfathers collection. used to flip watches fairly regularly but have found myself coming back to this for the last few years over watches worth more than twice as much

type:epyt

crumbschief wrote:

Just thought of it seeing this thread but does anyone remember a watch from the 80s with a calculator and or one that you could play a game on it as well,it was popular at the time around school a sort of space invaders.

Casio 'Soccer' watch ... I had one of those around 1984 time ... It beeped a tune everytime you scored a goal and I had to sit on it to cover up the noise when I used to play it in church on Sundays ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohStA4Swlc0

crumbschief

type:epyt wrote:

crumbschief wrote:

Just thought of it seeing this thread but does anyone remember a watch from the 80s with a calculator and or one that you could play a game on it as well,it was popular at the time around school a sort of space invaders.

Casio 'Soccer' watch ... I had one of those around 1984 time ... It beeped a tune everytime you scored a goal and I had to sit on it to cover up the noise when I used to play it in church on Sundays ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohStA4Swlc0

Ha yeah i remember that one,but just been thinking about it and i got it mixed up with a calculator watch with games and a Casio MG-880 that i had so that has cleared that up for me,cheers for that back on topic

tangled_metal

Slowmart wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

Seems to me a lot on here have more money than others. Omega, Breitling, Patek and Rolex. I know watches can be investment pieces to pass down the generations. But I reckon if you own those watches I bet your garden shed contents and watch collections cost more than my house.

Those same people with nice watches seem to have the nicest bikes, cycle clothing. etc. It's great that you've got the success to be able to buy yourself the luxuries. Jealous!

My luxury is a £700 bike and it's getting hammered on the commute. Still I'm happy with my lot and my Seiko rip off from H Samuel. Perhaps I'll splash out on a polar m400 and / or a Casio for work one day. More luxuries.

The material existence is bollox, my realization came coming back from a fantastic holiday and one of the highlights was my daughter falling asleep on my shoulder in the car.

If you're happy and content my friend then you are indeed a rich man.

Happy, not poor but not truly comfortable. However my young son means I'm rich in ways money can't touch. I still want to own nice watches though. Naked without clothes and a watch. I even converted my other half into a watch owner too. I still look for a new watch every so often but until I see a bargain I hold off.

tangled_metal

As a primary school kid when calculator watches were the latest thing we looked at them in.catalogues as being beyond our reach. Nobody had . The best my friends had were a basic digital or a cheap Seconda wind up watch.

Then a friend's brother found a roll of £50 held together by a Casio calculator watch. He handed it into the police but they handed it back a month or so later when it wasn't claimed. He kept the money but handed the watch to my.mate. Cue boasting and a lot of kids asking for it go with it.

secretsam

Own one (cheap). Never wear it. There are clocks everywhere.

aberdeenal

My everyday watch is the Omega Seamster which I've had since 2002 and for special occasions I have the Omega 40th Anniversary Speedster which I bought for my 40th birthday although wished I had waited for the Dark Side of The Moon version which is cool as in black!

SCR Pedro

Nothing too flashy for me. I also have a Rotary Moonphase, which doesn't get worn, because I can't be bothered changing the battery.

capt_slog

Tangled Metal wrote:

Happy, not poor but not truly comfortable. However my young son means I'm rich in ways money can't touch. I still want to own nice watches though. Naked without clothes and a watch. I even converted my other half into a watch owner too. I still look for a new watch every so often but until I see a bargain I hold off.

Nicely said.

I consider myself quite rich as i wake up every morning and I'm able go for a poo in a toilet. Doesn't sound a lot but it sure as hell beats being fastened to a colostomy bag like my colleague at work.

Stevo_666

seanoconn wrote:

Has anyone actually dived with their divers watches?

Not diving proper but been swimming with it...

Anonymous

I've been diving with my Tag but not that deep and tbh I don't really like diving all that much. Was very peaceful and fun to do every now and then but not really a hobby for me.

davis

Maybe one day...

gethinceri

Rolex GMT 2
Oris Full Steel
Seiko "Dress" Watch
3 Swatch (various)
Silver Pocket Watch

fnq59

TAG F1
TAG Carrera Cal 1887 Chrono
Tudor Heritage Blue Chrono
Oris Great Barrier Reef II (had to given where I live)
Longines Heritage Moonphase
Bausele Chronos Series Red
G Shock
Citizen Ecodrive

tlw1

I've got a Raymond Weil chronograph as a daily watch and birth year Rolex Oyster

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diamonddog

seanoconn wrote:

Has anyone actually dived with their divers watches?

I taught scuba diving for many years and always wore a watch as back up to the dive computer, dived up to four times a day when needed so they really got used.

Grahamsjz

seanoconn wrote:

Has anyone actually dived with their divers watches?

I wore my IWC Aquatimer when I was obtaining my PADI license.

I have the huge rubber strap for my Jaeger LeCoultre but I like it so much on leather band I have never let it get wet. 100ATM that avoids a running tap.....

seanoconn

fnq59 wrote:

TAG F1
TAG Carrera Cal 1887 Chrono
Tudor Heritage Blue Chrono
Oris Great Barrier Reef II (had to given where I live)
Longines Heritage Moonphase
Bausele Chronos Series Red
G Shock
Citizen Ecodrive

You live by the Great Barrier Reef?

seanoconn

TLW1 wrote:

I've got a Raymond Weil chronograph as a daily watch and birth year Rolex Oyster

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I'd love a cool watch from my birth year. I found a Timex from my birth year :?

ballysmate

seanoconn wrote:

TLW1 wrote:

I've got a Raymond Weil chronograph as a daily watch and birth year Rolex Oyster

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I'd love a cool watch from my birth year. I found a Timex from my birth year :?

Not practical for some of us.

seanoconn

Ballysmate wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

TLW1 wrote:

I've got a Raymond Weil chronograph as a daily watch and birth year Rolex Oyster

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I'd love a cool watch from my birth year. I found a Timex from my birth year :?

Not practical for some of us.

That would wreak havoc on your wrist

ddraver

diamonddog wrote:

seanoconn wrote:

Has anyone actually dived with their divers watches?

I taught scuba diving for many years and always wore a watch as back up to the dive computer, dived up to four times a day when needed so they really got used.

My Dad has times the start of a few races with his seamaster when we ve lost the proper stop watch a few times...

twist83

I have a few

Tag F1 Chrono (Never wear anymore)
Rolex GMT Pepsi 16700 - Given to me by my father on my 21st Birthday. He bought it new when he retired in 1999. Very special to me as he passed away last December
Omega Speedmaster Automatic
Tudor Blackbay Black

Next purchase will be a IWC Pilot Chrono I think.

4kicks

I went through a "watch phase" -
Rolex Submariner
Bell & Ross 126 Vintage
Seiko Bellmatic
Rolex Dress Watch
Chronoswiss
But they all now just sit in a safe, dont really wear any apart from Ive just bought myself a Garmin Fenix after my last GPS computer died. Im really over the whole watch thing, would sell them if I could be assed, the point of the post is what I really want is my dads watch
He was presented a Gold Rolex Day Date by the Sultan of Oman for some "work" he did in the Dhofar counterinsurgency in the 70s. Its a bit like this:
Hes still got the box and the certificate, its, of course, very valuable as I think ten were made.It was always to be my heirloom but, hes eighty and still going very strong, so I suspect it will actually be handed directly on to my son, who is now nine and currently wants nothing more than a Mickey Mouse watch.