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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #425 on: 13 May, 2016, 12:10:52 pm »
I wonder - would it be nifty or naff for me to wear a Hamilton watch (my RL first name)? I confess I have been considering this for 50+ years, since the first time I saw them advertised, and done nothing about it.

Nifty.   I am yet to find a Polar Bear branded timepiece, or anything else that I might want for that matter.    :(

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #426 on: 13 May, 2016, 12:33:14 pm »
I wonder - would it be nifty or naff for me to wear a Hamilton watch (my RL first name)? I confess I have been considering this for 50+ years, since the first time I saw them advertised, and done nothing about it.

Nifty.   I am yet to find a Polar Bear branded timepiece, or anything else that I might want for that matter.    :(



HTH

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #427 on: 13 May, 2016, 01:33:06 pm »
Close but no cigar bear!   :D


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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #428 on: 13 May, 2016, 01:43:15 pm »
My watch arrived today - A Mühle Glashütte Antaria Tag/Datum.
....

As me da would have said, health to wear it.  Beautiful watch.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #429 on: 13 May, 2016, 02:49:17 pm »
My watch arrived today - A Mühle Glashütte Antaria Tag/Datum.



In lots of lights it has a slightly gold tinge to the face. The photos all look silver.

That's very nice!

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #430 on: 13 May, 2016, 04:21:50 pm »
That's a nice classic design Helen. I'd prefer it with a dark face but that's just my personal preference, some people like white faces and some black on watches. It will never date.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #431 on: 13 May, 2016, 05:36:54 pm »
The dark face looked wrong on me. I prefer metal straps as I sweat a lot at the wrist and so leather goes smelly but the metal bracelet looked too masculine.

It's beautifully clear to read and the second hand does 5 movements per second so is very nice to watch!
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #432 on: 14 May, 2016, 12:42:30 am »
White face and dark hands == readable upon wakeup for my eyes.

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #433 on: 14 May, 2016, 10:19:09 am »
I don't especially like metal bracelets (they're a bit nasty in summer) but I have to have a waterproof watch because I cycle to work in the rain and get in the shower without taking the watch off.  A leather strap wouldn't work well for that.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #434 on: 14 May, 2016, 10:40:55 am »
White face and dark hands == readable upon wakeup for my eyes.

It's completely the other way round for me.   

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #435 on: 09 February, 2017, 10:55:13 am »
I've been out of the habit of wearing a watch for a while now, but I've finally found the correct-shaped Tuits to get my watches fixed - new mechanisms in both, just from neglect, and then last night a new strap on the leather one.

Sadly the closest matching strap the bloke in the teeny-tiny-Timpsons box outside Sainsburys had wasn't quite right - plain leather rather than the crocodile texture of the original, and it's too dark a shade of brown - but as he did it for a fiver I can't really complain.

From a bit of googling, a replacement Hugo Boss-branded strap is the pointy end of fifty quid! So I'm more inclined to order a cheap spring bar tool from Amazon and try to source a more comfortable/suitable strap myself. Any suggestions for good sources?

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #436 on: 27 February, 2017, 03:36:20 pm »
I've worn a watch every day for as long as I can remember.  The last few years it's been a Seiko Kinetic day/date. All my watches for the last 40 years (which means in practice a Tissot and two Seikos!) have been analogue with day/date.

I'm approaching my 60th, and my wife has offered to buy me a watch - up to £2000. What a lot of choice! First World Problem indeed.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #437 on: 27 February, 2017, 03:49:35 pm »
I've been out of the habit of wearing a watch for a while now, but I've finally found the correct-shaped Tuits to get my watches fixed - new mechanisms in both, just from neglect, and then last night a new strap on the leather one.

Sadly the closest matching strap the bloke in the teeny-tiny-Timpsons box outside Sainsburys had wasn't quite right - plain leather rather than the crocodile texture of the original, and it's too dark a shade of brown - but as he did it for a fiver I can't really complain.

From a bit of googling, a replacement Hugo Boss-branded strap is the pointy end of fifty quid! So I'm more inclined to order a cheap spring bar tool from Amazon and try to source a more comfortable/suitable strap myself. Any suggestions for good sources?

https://www.watchobsession.co.uk/ have a good selection of straps & tools. 
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #438 on: 27 February, 2017, 07:45:30 pm »
I used to have an IWC but bastardburgler helped himself to it.  After the insurance company eventually coughed up I bought one of these:

(plus a sofa and an armchair)

It's a Stowa with a rubber strap.  I wanted something non-flash and love not having a logo, the rubber is because leather ones always get stinky on me in the summer. It keeps better time than the IWC too.

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #439 on: 27 February, 2017, 07:49:17 pm »
leather ones always get stinky on me in the summer.

Try this
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #440 on: 28 February, 2017, 10:00:09 am »
My watch arrived today - A Mühle Glashütte Antaria Tag/Datum.



In lots of lights it has a slightly gold tinge to the face. The photos all look silver.

That is lovely.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #441 on: 28 February, 2017, 03:05:25 pm »
I used to have an IWC but bastardburgler helped himself to it.  After the insurance company eventually coughed up I bought one of these:

(plus a sofa and an armchair)

It's a Stowa with a rubber strap.  I wanted something non-flash and love not having a logo, the rubber is because leather ones always get stinky on me in the summer. It keeps better time than the IWC too.

Ooh, I like that a lot - what size is it? I find a lot of the B-Uhr-styled watches are just too massive for my weedy wrists. As I'm a fan of the MOD stubby hour hands, and am never going to be able to afford an IWC mk XI (even mk XIVs are silly money these days), I have a lovely Timefactors Speedbird III (the older version with the sterile dial), which is what I wear most days.

Dibdib

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #442 on: 28 February, 2017, 03:06:21 pm »
Re-reading this thread, I am very tempted to treat myself to a Vostok and a NATO strap. Think it might make a nice smart-casual daily wearer, and I can keep the others - which aren't expensive but have some sentimental value - at home.

I'd love an automatic Swiss railway watch but I doubt the budget can stretch to that :(

As a watch novice, any other affordable and relatively stylish/minimal-ish automatics I should consider?

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #443 on: 28 February, 2017, 03:14:02 pm »
Ooh, I used to have a Boctok. Small, dark blue dial. It ran exceedingly badly, on the rare occasions it ran at all.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #444 on: 28 February, 2017, 05:15:42 pm »
I used to have an IWC but bastardburgler helped himself to it.  After the insurance company eventually coughed up I bought one of these:

(plus a sofa and an armchair)

It's a Stowa with a rubber strap.  I wanted something non-flash and love not having a logo, the rubber is because leather ones always get stinky on me in the summer. It keeps better time than the IWC too.


My Aristo (2nd right) looks just like your Stowa:

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #445 on: 28 February, 2017, 06:05:06 pm »
Stowe make some nice stuff.   https://www.stowa.de/en/shop/


I'm quite taken with this Partitio,  a nice legible dial & good lume.



Chris, head over to http://www.creationwatches.com/products/orient-watches-252/ and take a look at the Orient line.  I've got 2 and they are excellent vfm.  Creation are in Singapore, but quick delivery & I've never been done for import charges.


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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #446 on: 02 March, 2017, 09:41:10 am »
The stuff we accumulate



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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #447 on: 12 November, 2017, 04:02:13 pm »
I wonder - would it be nifty or naff for me to wear a Hamilton watch (my RL first name)? I confess I have been considering this for 50+ years, since the first time I saw them advertised, and done nothing about it.



 ;D

Auntie Helen

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #448 on: 12 November, 2017, 08:43:55 pm »
Today we drove through the town of Glashütte near Dresden. It‘s a centre of watchmaking excellence (and where my Mühle Glashütte watch came from(. Fascinating to see 8+ different specialist watchmaking companies there.

Dresden was heaving with jewellers and expensive watches, many from Glashütte. We saw one watch with a price of 102,000€  :o
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #449 on: 25 February, 2018, 11:10:48 am »
Has anybody here seen a Bradley Eone in the wild?   I think that it would be a really good choice for me.