Author Topic: Wearing a watch (Read 127449 times)

geraldc · « **Reply #625 on:** 09 March, 2021, 11:11:18 am »

If you ever want to kill a bit of time try watching some of these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NekkidWatchmaker/videos

They're good as they're non snobbish and don't make you want to go buy new watches, but rather it makes you appreciate the ones you have more.

It's also nice to hear someone talk about watches not with a Swiss/German/French/American accent.

salar55 · « **Reply #626 on:** 09 March, 2021, 11:15:19 am »

A watch that looks after itself. Junghans mega solar

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #627 on:** 09 March, 2021, 11:34:07 am »

Quote from: Salvatore on 09 March, 2021, 10:51:39 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 06 March, 2021, 09:02:35 am
Professor Larrington and I are competing vigorously to be the ones not to inherit the family grandfather clock, a timepiece of singular hideousness.

Me: Larrington Towers is too small. I ent got space for him.
She: The ceilings at Larrington Colij Oxfod are too low. He wouldn’t fit.

Etc.

She didn't mention it when I heard her on a podcast this morning.

Well, she wouldn’t. Not relevant in her quest for Media Tartery

andrewc · « **Reply #628 on:** 11 April, 2021, 12:36:18 pm »

Oh that's rather pretty , and a snip at €1.35 million

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jaeger-lecoultre-reverso-quadriptyque-introducing

https://youtu.be/tVFy40_W44k

hatler · « **Reply #629 on:** 11 April, 2021, 03:43:28 pm »

Mechanically impressive but, I'm sad to say, stylistically hideous.

andrewc · « **Reply #630 on:** 11 April, 2021, 04:05:51 pm »

I suspect most of the 10 they plan to make will be locked, unworn in bank vaults as investments. The Faberge egg of watches. I like the Reverso style, but would prefer a simpler & cheaper model.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #631 on:** 21 May, 2021, 07:02:08 pm »

I seem to have acquired a aged* Rolex Air King, so I suppose I'll have to start wearing a watch regularly again.

* circa 1960.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #632 on:** 21 May, 2021, 08:16:56 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 06 March, 2021, 09:02:35 am

Professor Larrington and I are competing vigorously to be the ones not to inherit the family grandfather clock, a timepiece of singular hideousness.

Me: Larrington Towers is too small. I ent got space for him.
She: The ceilings at Larrington Colij Oxfod are too low. He wouldn’t fit.

Etc.

My dad had nice watches but elder brother seems to have inherited them and I got the grandfather. It’s proper old though.

geraldc · « **Reply #633 on:** 30 January, 2022, 09:50:26 am »

As an adult I’ve never had a watch without lume or a button I can press to activate a light. Is it possible to tell the time cycling at night with a dress watch without lume?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #634 on:** 30 June, 2023, 08:35:50 pm »

I have just found out that the Rolex Deepsea Challenge exists, for a mere £22,000. Waterproof to 11,000 metres (and it's done it, too). 9.5mm thick glass. As a sucker for very waterproof watches (I have two Citizen 300m ones) this is on the list after any lottery win.

Jurek · « **Reply #635 on:** 30 June, 2023, 08:50:00 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 30 June, 2023, 08:35:50 pm

I have just found out that the Rolex Deepsea Challenge exists, for a mere £22,000. Waterproof to 11,000 metres (and it's done it, too). 9.5mm thick glass. As a sucker for very waterproof watches (I have two Citizen 300m ones) this is on the list after any lottery win.

11,000m ?
~~Should've Rolex have had a chat with Stockton Rush before his last dive?~~
ETA - Let me re-phrase that: Shouldn't Stockton Rush have had a chat with Rolex before his last dive?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #636 on:** 30 June, 2023, 08:53:37 pm »

Takes a lickin', keeps on tickin'?

Except that’s already been used by, IIRC, Timex.

Jurek · « **Reply #637 on:** 30 June, 2023, 08:58:17 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 30 June, 2023, 08:53:37 pm

Takes a lickin', keeps on tickin'?

Except that’s already been used by, IIRC, Timex.

Best thing I saw by Timex was a poster with the strapline: Some people have said that last Monday was a really long day. But we've checked, and it wasn't.

andrewc · « **Reply #638 on:** 30 June, 2023, 08:59:51 pm »

I think James Cameron had one of those strapped to the outside of his submersible when he went paddling in the Mariana Trench. https://www.rolex.com/en-us/watches/sea-dweller/deepsea-challenge

Roger, you don't simply ~~walk into Mordor~~ buy a new Rolex. You have to establish a relationship with your dealer (by buying tat you don't want). Do that for a couple of years & you might be added to the waiting list...

And if you try the 2nd hand market you'll find they sell for well over the list price of a new one. Go for an Omega instead....

Basil · « **Reply #639 on:** 30 June, 2023, 09:06:15 pm »

Or just buy a fucking watch.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #640 on:** 30 June, 2023, 09:14:40 pm »

I've got one

But I didn’t buy it; Captain Larrington did, in the duty-free shop at the RAF base in Aden in 1960.

Jaded · « **Reply #641 on:** 01 July, 2023, 09:07:38 am »

Quote from: Basil on 30 June, 2023, 09:06:15 pm

Or just buy a fucking watch.

One of those self-winding wanking watches would be more practical.

robgul · « **Reply #642 on:** 01 July, 2023, 09:17:43 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 01 July, 2023, 09:07:38 am

Quote from: Basil on 30 June, 2023, 09:06:15 pm
Or just buy a fucking watch.

One of those self-winding wanking watches would be more practical.

Yep - I still have a MuDu automatic watch that I was given by my parents in 1958 - I haven't worn* it for a long time but it still works and keeps perfect time. The "automatic" bit is a plate as a quadrant in the back of the watch that swings around as you move and winds the mechanism - left on the table it runs for a couple of days.

*Other for a couple of days, twice, I haven't worn a watch since June 2013 - on holiday in France and the battery packed up in my Swiss Army watch - never bothered to replace it. I don't really need to know what time it is . . . and I only know what day it is by the day stamp on the pills I take

T42 · « **Reply #643 on:** 01 July, 2023, 11:15:18 am »

Quote from: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 21 May, 2021, 08:16:56 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 06 March, 2021, 09:02:35 am
Professor Larrington and I are competing vigorously to be the ones not to inherit the family grandfather clock, a timepiece of singular hideousness.

Me: Larrington Towers is too small. I ent got space for him.
She: The ceilings at Larrington Colij Oxfod are too low. He wouldn’t fit.

Etc.

My dad had nice watches but elder brother seems to have inherited them and I got the grandfather. It’s proper old though.

Ours has a pic of the Bull Dog larruping Le Frog at the top of the dial.

noisycrank · « **Reply #644 on:** 03 July, 2023, 11:57:16 am »

Checking your watch is still a good social cue that we are now having the same conversation for the third time and its time to quit in a way that looking at your phone doesn't quite replicate.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #645 on:** 03 July, 2023, 07:18:29 pm »

You can’t beat a good pocket watch for that. Gold of course.

MattH · « **Reply #646 on:** 03 July, 2023, 09:45:33 pm »

I've used a gold pocket watch for the first time this year. I've had it for a while, but don't often wear a waistcoat. The watch is from 1917 (looking at the serial numbers), and belonged to my Grandad. It still works, and has quite a nice patina. I actually thought it'd been stolen from my parents some years ago, but my wife had it in her "treasure" box.