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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>tfw want to trade some old watches
>the only stores in my area that I'd want to buy from don't accept trades or buy watches
Can someone sell me on a $90 cordovan strap vs a 15-20 calfskin hadley roma? Anyone own cordovan on /g?
Your talking about Russian divers the epitome of cut corners and unnecessary risk. And who gives a fuck about cosmonauts they have nothing to do with this.
You've clearly never dived or you would never defend an act as stupidly reckless as trusting a Bocтoк literally with your life.
What point? You never said anything.
If you were the guy like 3 weeks ago about a redial who cares it's a Bocтoк not a Rolex. You're talking $10 of lost value.
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What watch is he wearing?
Here's the new watch I bought this evening, faggots. If you only know low end watch brands, let me dumb it down for you. This is called a Rolex Presidential.
I never wear cheap watches like working class faggots who act rich and wear trash tier brands like Casio and Timex. Money isn't a problem, but that's not something you can understand. Your overworked palms are too dirty to even be near expensive things.
To you middle class peasants who barely scrape by on bad credit, have fun dying early. I'll retire around the same time you're buried. This watch easily costs more than the shitty cars you drive, if you even own one.
AMA. If you are extra kind, perhaps I'll give you some life tips to be rich as I am. Just maybe you can luckily work for me some day, if you get up the ranks? Maybe serve me a glass of four figure priced wine?
Not as valuable as my pickup. Please buy an actual luxery watch and try again. Maybe one that's actually worth the gold it's made of (since you clearly can't afford any other metal).
Goddamn that looks tacky
Can't have enough diamonds
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You are like little baby. Watch this.
At least you don't need to worry about scratching it.
I love those old quartz Seikos but they're really popular nowadays so you can't pick them up cheap. Did that British twat on youtube review one recently or something?
>tfw 6 inch wrists
Anything above 37mm makes me look like a child wearing their dad's watch. Even 37 is big
Wow
My Aston Martin`s flaked real gold paint job is worth more than your cheap steel, plastic working class pickup. Please try harder poorfag, you are picking fruit from the low end of the tree.
>TFW /k/ has better watch threads.
I guess today is cunty entitled retard day. Already had one guy I just wanted to sock in the mouth.
Do you need to talk about it?
>size his bracelet
>"oh no it's too tight"
>flops around his wrist like a hula hoop
>"nah brah it's fine" I sez
>hesitates for another five minutes before he decides I should put a link back
>by then I'm struggling with another customers chink shitter
>says he won't wait anymore, he'll come back later
>whatever.sh
>comes back like one and a half hour later
>at the EXACT same time as some other guy, I think at first they're together
>other guy gives me his watch first
>nothing unusual I guess
>first guy loses patience, and shit
>all politeness goes out the window
>how long has he have to wait, he doesn't have all day, what kind of service is this yaddy yaddy da, usual shit
>alright fucking gimme that
>put back his fucking link
>"You know I was collecting watches before you were even born."
>his watch is a fucking black PVD Fossil
>don't say a word, since all I would say is something ugly
>"You know I'm just not used to this kind of treatment"
>give him his watch, he leaves
>other guy is like wtf
I swear the average normie is on a really short fuze and when that runs out they revert to animals.
Hey anyone know which casio Gshock square case 5000 series has the slimmest dimensions? Amazon measurements seem to be all over the place. Wristlet here and hoping to get something not too huge.
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>>"You know I was collecting watches before you were even born."
>>his watch is a fucking black PVD Fossil
Nice one.
>"You know I was collecting watches before you were even born."
>can't even size his own shit
lol
Aww yea
It's not just that his watch was flopping around on his wrist, and when I sized it to normal he said it was very tight, like the people who get their first ever watches do. So he may have been bullshitting me on being a decades-old dogshit collector.
Have you guys ever seen it when they put a collar on a dog for the first time some of them start to act like they're choking even if it's very loose? Normies act the same way, when anything that doesn't fall through their hand closed is too tight for them.
Also February must be "I just lost my fucking mind"-month, just last week another customer was screaming at the girls for no good reason. That guy had roughly the same problem too, on how he's treated as a customer or some bullshit. Didn't even file a complaint in the end, deep down he knew he was being a maniac for no reason.
Seiko A904 vs
Casio A168, pic related
The older Seiko's display is thicker, giving the appearance of the numbers hovering off the face, while the newer (~2012) A168's screen looks more like it's trying to emulate paper. The numbers are more legible, but it has no depth.
What do you like in a digital watch?
Very good/10
I love my Ray II
>$2000 for a Rolex in good condition
It's the nice version of the airking too. If I didn't already have a Rolex I'd jump on it
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>My Seiko Chrono Solar broke
>take it to watch repair to get a quote to fix it
>$500 please
>look online
>can buy the same watch brand new for $250
How much am I talking for a decent condition Omega Speedmaster? Is £1500 enough or would that get me an absolute dog?
I won this POS on Buyee. It look beat, but a few minutes in the ultrasonic, and a light buffing and it might look pretty good. Of course I'm going to service it too.
Wew surprised someone on reddit could pick up a good air king.
Welcome to the world of Quartz watches
i thought you bought one with a red dial????????///??????
Don't get a reduced or auto if that is what you are looking at. If you are going cheap get something like a Mark ii.
Honestly, if it looks like a Speedmaster, I'd be happy. Does the reduced have a different movement?
>34mm
That is very nice.
>Your talking about Russian divers the epitome of cut corners and unnecessary risk
I along with tens of thousands of people have trusted a Vostok with my life and it has not let me down. I would take a vostok amphibian over any other watch if i had to rely on it wit my life. There is not a single shred of evidence anywhere about a vostok failing or getting someone killed.
>You've clearly never dived
Actually you clearly have never dived because you don't rely on a fucking bezel to keep you alive. On top of that the vostok bezel is very solid underwater; you should go check it out.
> who gives a fuck about cosmonauts
Divers, pilots, tank commanders, astronauts all used an amphibia as a critical instrument. They work and work well. Where the fuck did this meme come from? Look they are not finished well and they are not Rolex submariners but they are fucking solid pieces of kit end of discussion.
Oh god.
It not only has a different movement, but the thing is basically a piece of shit to service. It is an ETA with a DD module. They won't even fix the chrono if it breaks they just replace the thing. Don't bother with wasting your time.
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Alright you walk into a Rolex boutique and can get any three of their current models. What do you pick?
Didn't I already tell you? You are not allowed to criticize Vostok here! He will keep screeching about how Vostok is the greatest watchmaker in the history of the human race for as many posts as it takes for you to give up, just so you know.
I just realised that the omega I have had for years doesn’t have the original crown. Would I be able to buy one and replace it myself or would I need specialist tools and a had as steady as a rock?
Ok phat boy.
Assuming to wear and not to sell.
Oyster Perpetual 36 Grape (or maybe 39 Grape or Rhodium, I'd have to try them on)
Steel Daytona, white dial
GMT-Master II (Batman since there's no Coke or Pepsi for the steel one)
Just ordered this
Did i dun goofd?
(I'm into bouldering and wanted gshock but it felt 2 nerdy 4 me)
Apart from looking worse, being less durable, having less functionality and keeping worse time than a G Shock; yea, great choice...
B-but mu-muh boctok s-stonk!
im not a fan of the dial but if you like it there you go.
Jesus. That watch is the anti-poon. I could find dozens of watches under $50 that look better than that trash.
G-shock is the fedora of watches when worn by people who don't actually need them
I generally agree. This guy said he wants it for bouldering so it's definitely a good idea to wear a shock resistant watch in case you smash it into a rock.
I have a white G shock but I only wear it when I'm longboarding or cycling. G Shocks can work with a certain urban fashion sense as well.
Automatic mechanical.
I miss the train with an error of 1 minute.
Cellini Moonphase, GMT-Master II, and Air-King
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Air King, Milgauss and GMT Master II.
BEGONE THOT
I'm suspicious of the case, looks far too clean and rounded
Dude, the train is right there.
>Air king
2/10 bait
Grape Oyster Perpetual 36mm, Milgauss, SS Daytona.
As an aspiring aviator I'd love to have an aviation-oriented Rolex
/k/ just had better taste
They are def the thinnest of the gshock, but I don't know if the 5600 is cheaper. The original 5000 are relatively pricy in comparison
How's your rabbit?
Then get a gmt master, that was actually made for pilots. The new air king is retards-oriented.
This maybe fits if you see a fedora lord walking around with a frogman, but lower end gshocks have functionality for the everyman and still look really cool
GMT-Master II was in my list as well
Cheap taste in watches, and cars. Shocking.
So you admit you didn't use the watch to dive (even though we know you've never dived or you wouldn't say you put your life on a $50 watch). You used a computer like I said in the first place didn't you?
Pilots tank commanders and astronauts still have nothing to do with this stoo trying. Stop trying to push this gueniuenly unsafe ideathat you can actually use a Bocтoк for diving. Some user dumb enough might listen to you and end up with the bends or worse.
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I see this watch posted a lot. Every single time I think the hands are recycled car keys.
that watch looks amazing in motion
I quite like this. Link to buy one?
www.drunkslavtinscrapagarbage.ru
Air king is the most tasteful and least gaudy Rolex going.
Now you're not even trying anymore. Either that or you haven't been keeping up and are thinking of older models.
Not owning one of these bad boys.
I am going to trust my life to this and you can't stop me
Just got a new strap
Weird pallet fork and gold-plated screw, what am I building?
Thrown in a shockspring as a hint.
Smart watches are glorified phones that have a shelf life of a few years before the forced obsolescence kicks in, then you are forced to buy a new model.
Real watches of any note last for 20-40 years.
I just looked at their website and the air king stood out as a nice casual watch. I mean I personally dislike Rolex and find that they’re only worn by posers. Submariners and the like just scream desperation to me.
that watch isn't very nice
do rolex make them good anymore?
i've never been bothered looking for one, i work in me lords kennels see.
but they're widely regarded as trashy flashy nigger cuffs yeah?
why
i think you're the only man who builds watches here.
ALS is great and all but the little things like those overlapping dials even though there space to put them next to another kill it for me.
This is bait though, right?
What are the best affordable Swiss/European watches? What's the euro equivalent of Seiko that doesn't use miyota or ST movements?
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This. I've been trying to find a good one for months but I refuse to pay over 150
Sinn or Damasko probably.
>affordable
>Sinn
>Damasko
Seiko has them beat in pricing.
Some weird Seiko
How big is that looks neato.
Also go for it, jut don't grab for my spare air :>)
Looks like something with diashock. Seiko hi-beat of some kind?
Hamilton?
Did you even read the post I quoted? There's nothing cheaper than Sinn that's European and not shit.