This thread is about the appreciation of horology, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.
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Is it true rolexes don't tick.
Like even if you press your ear against it?
reminder that /wt/ is shit on weekends, don't bother
You can hear them if you put your ear up to it.
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And nothing of value was lost.
Strange though, as it's only like 2 years old.
>buying a watch from a pen maker cum tryhard junk leather goods maker that's german but everyone thinks is swiss but is not, but is now basically swiss and pretends to still make shit in germany but really it's made in romania and chinitaly because costs and richemont tricks lol
Yeah, no.
Their pens aren't even that good. Just marketed prolifically, and their other accouterments (leather) may have been good at least until a decade ago. Now they're just lacking in quality. The usual cost-cutting tricks you'd expect over time from a company slaved to a larger mass conglomerate.
They do go to some creative lengths to disguise the cheapness of their bags and shit though, now that's clever, but it's still doesn't make them good.
When people say they don't tick, they mean that the seconds hand doesn't move in 1 second increments, but is smoother. That's not specific to Rolex watches, but to all mechanicals.
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Got my Seiko Turtle (SRP775) in this Friday. I love it, its my first actually nice mechanical. Does it look too large on my 7" wrist?
Wow, someone on /wt/ with a worse camera than mine.
Looks good with the Zulu, wear it in good health :^)
Looks fine, but that retarded strap doesn't.
Anyway, I'll never understand the appeal of cushion cases.
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nice tissot
What are the chances of getting a reasonably regulated SNK809 Seiko 5 that I bought from skywatches? How much do you think a watch specialist would charge for regulating the movement? First auto by the way. Thanks for the rec.
Zulu or NATO strap for an everyday wear field watch? I'm leaning towards NATO as Zulu adds a bit of bulk under the wrist which would be annoying when typing.
What do you guys think about this Orient?
looks like a big watch. the hands are too short, the placement of the day and date show that the movement is a lot smaller than the case.
OK thanks.
The diameter is 42mm, which doesn't seem to be too big.
The model is Fev0u003b and I can get it new for $95. Just wondering if it's a good choice for a first Orient.
If you think about it the Spring Drive and the Elnix are the polar opposites of each other. The SD is a mainspring driven quartz while the Elnix is a battery driven mechanical.
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Nightmare fuel the watch...
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Are Grand Quartz a meme or are they genuinely good?
I've fallen in love with this one, it looks fantastic but then again.. i could go for a King Seiko Automatic too.
>King Seiko Hi Beat or Grand Quartz Twin, what would /wt/ do?
Pls rate.
>Are Grand Quartz a meme or are they genuinely good?
Why not both?
Unfortuneately I can only afford one of them and they both come at a good price. Both are 70-80's watches branded "vintage".
Can anyone identify this watch?
Did i just buy a shitter thats going to make me look like a strange fella?
Addicted to 3rd world shitters tbqh
What is a good watch for molesting children?
something that will attract them and be comfy to wear when touching them?
it's a modded seiko skx007
Good watch, very accurate, mine only lost 7 seconds in the 6 months between adjusting for BST.
The strap is a bit stiff though so I swapped it for a Watch Gecko vintage strap, it also wears quite large as it's 40mm I think & 99% dial.
No he means why can't they be both good and a meme. They are a meme for a reason, because they are good.
But that's a 2nd world shitter.
It's a Carl F Bucherer Manero AutoDate. I got that info from a 30 second Google search for 'watches in John Wick 2', dickhead.
Carl F. Bucherer Manero
carl-f-bucherer.com
Is this OK should I buy this? it's $225
Ah sorry. Yeah when you/he put it that way. Hmm.. shit that makes it even harder for me to chose. When I said meme i thought "install gentoo lulz".
how do you put the gears in it
You have to buy a gear pusher
absolutely not.
>tfw want to buy an alpinist, but can't justify spending the money on something I wouldn't wear to work, and would only really wear like once a month maybe
It's just looks so fucking nice
What's your job? Unless your in the trades you should be able to wear it.
He works at a Swiss watch company.
lel
I'm a physicist. I work at a medical device manufacturing facility.
I wouldn't wear it there because 1. My boss wears a Gshock, and nobody really wears flashy stuff, and I don't really like to stick out too much, and 2. I don't want to risk it getting contaminated.
Normally I wear either my F-91W, gshock GW-M5610, or amphibia
Do classy digital watches exist?
Your first point is bad, but the second one makes sense.
Reason 1 - who cares. if they'll aren't into watches they won't even notice.
Reason 2 - valid excuse.
casio
why the fuck is it two hundred twenty five dollars without a movement
This watch isn't practical to wear everyday. The dial isn't legible and the lume no longer works.
What digital watch should I get for an everyday watch? G Shock maybe
$299
someone will buy it too
>What are the chances of getting a reasonably regulated SNK809 Seiko 5
It's almost always within spec, i.e. the quoted +- 25s/day or thereabouts.
What you probably want though is to achieve the 5s/day or less that you often see quoted.
Well, you can't. The issue is consistency. If you watch runs at +13s/d in the morning, -7s/d in the evening, +10s/d next morning etc., there's nothing to regulate.
To be able to regulate a movement, it has to be at a relatively consistent daily rate, be it +10s/d or 40s/d. Then you just turn a lever to offset the (consistent) error and you're done. a watch that runs consistently at +40s/d can be regulated to much greater accuracy than a watch that runs +7s/d one day and -12s/d the next.
The 7s26 movement is mass produced and robot assembled, and inherently designed for robustness and low cost, not consistency.
If you are lucky and get a consistent movement, a watchmaker can regulate it to +-10s/d or less in 5 minutes on the timegrapher.
Hey Ontario seiko man one more question about the Seiko Brightz what is the bracelet like? Or anyone who actually owns the skx033 what is the bracelet like on thay? Specifically the things which hold the links together
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Great info. So is there something I should do when I'm not wearing the watch (eg sleep)? I read somewhere about putting it dial down on a desk to help not lose stored energy.
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I'm not him but I have a SARK005 which has a very similar bracelet to the SDGM. It's quite nice, made out of a lot of pieces and well finished. No microadjust, just two half links which in theory should provide sufficient adjustment unless like me you needed every single link for the thing to fit. Pin and collar, just like I assume the SARB033 you're asking about.
>wake up
>still dont own a no date sub
fuckiinngnNG FUCKKK
Best watch of all time
If by all time you mean the time you're too fucking poor to buy something that isn't shit then yes
Odd way of saying pic related.
>why the fuck is it two hundred twenty five dollars without a movement
for a fake case wtf
The daily rate in a watch changes with regards to the position it's in. So, for instance, it might be gaining +8s/d when resting face up, but lose -4s/d, when resting on the side, crown down.
So if you know your watch is gaining time, when you take it off (for the night, or whatever), you let it rest in a position that it's known to lose time, so the errors kind of cancel out roughly.
Also, many watches perform better on the wrist, exactly because these small errors cancel out.
Having it on your wrist yields another advanatge too, because it keeps fully wound, and fully wound watches perform better than when they're towards the ened of their power reserve.
So, my only advice is, just keep it on your wrist and enjoy your watch.
Why the fuck is a Tudor worth somewhere around $5,000? $299 seems reasonable price for materials/labor if it is made to the same quality. I imagine without their branding, an equivalent movement to a real Tudor Black Bay would be around $1-1.5k just materials and labor.
How do you know the case is of similar quality to a real tudor?
>an equivalent movement to a real Tudor Black Bay would be around $1-1.5k just materials and labor.
>material and labor
mate a rolex movement is ~250 in "materials an labour"
Tudor is just a cheaper Rolex
Thanks man! I've got a tan NATO comin' in soon enough, saw a pic and it looked like a great combo.
I fitted the bracelet to my hand and it felt really nice, but I want to dress the watch down for casual use, as much as I love watches, I don't like the flashiness, I like to be under the radar as much as possible. Also
>muh NATO security
I've heard that the spring drive is very accurate, what of the elnix (compared to another traditional mechanical in it's price range)?
>an equivalent movement to a real Tudor Black Bay would be around $1-1.5k just materials and labor.
I see you're not very well versed in mountain Jewry
Seiko Spring Drive
Yeah, I'm pretty settled on this model at this point. Though I don't know whether to pay a little extra and get the blacked out version on a metal strap shoppinginjapan.net
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>spending this much on a casio
Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Why not get an f91w for like $5 and put the rest towards purchasing a cool "beater divers" or some vintage watches?
Idk I just found all the japanese models and there's so many choices. Can't decide which one out of these.
They are all pretty gay, the middle one is the least ugly.
I never post my 035. So here you go, fags
The Alpinist has some of the ugliest, cheapest looking applied indices and numerals I have ever seen. I honestly don't know why everyone here faps over them.
You're retarded
Zeitwerk
I've had one of these for a while, did I fuck up?
How do I get this back in
just coil it back up bro
fug
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Any /wt/ ever tempted by the Timezone watchschool courses?
Yes.
They can't be more than $10 each. Get them all.
im trying its cutting up my fingers
use gloves and pliers
Because it's not meant for complete fucking know nothing plebs like you. Go buy your Chinkshit garbage "affordable luxury" shitters and fuck off from /wt/.
>Because it's not meant for complete fucking know nothing plebs like you. Go buy your Chinkshit garbage "affordable luxury" shitters and fuck off from /wt/.
what's not meant for plebs? Tudors or fakes on ebay?
why so mad
if you like it that's great
it's not a very good watch, but you already know that.
Best watch for $200?
don't fail me /wt/
Orient Ray II
one vote for Orient Ray II
any others?
why do you people act as if this isn't a subjective matter
It is you are right
but what is a really good watch (pref diver style) for $200?
Do you actually follow through?
Was it worth it for you?
if you're looking for a diver then I also say the Ray II, or the Mako II
Yes.
new skx