The wristwatch thread

**iva.rpm** · 18th May 12, 16:47

I have a small collection of watches. My favorite one is a Citizen Eco-Drive that my mother gave me as a gift, but I also enjoy wearing my cheap Casio F-91W. I love wristwatches, and I would like to know if there's anybody else here in this forum who enjoys this hobby, too

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**MrJan** · 18th May 12, 18:24

I've got a few, mostly cheapy things. I'm currently wearing a Roamer Incabloc, which used to belong to my grandfather, but my favourite is the Tissot PRC 200 that my dad got me for my 21st birthday. Other than that I've got a Casio F91 in silver (tacky as hell, but I like it), 3 different Swatches, a basic Gul (surfing brand) and one with a picture of Chairman Mao where he waves his hand.

If I won the lottery then I'd immediately blow some of it on an Omega Speedmaster or Tag Heuer Carrera.

**iva.rpm** · 18th May 12, 18:47

I would love to have a Omega Speedmaster or a Tag Heuer Carrera, too. A Rolex Daytona is also a very cool watch

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I'll buy a Orient Poseidon as soon as I can. I've heard that this watch is very rare outside Brazil. Luckily, I live in São Paulo, so I think it will not be hard to find one.

Believe me or not, black Casio F-91W's are very rare here in my country (the silver ones are pretty easy to find). It was very hard to find one for me. I guess Casio stopped selling it in Brazil some years ago.

**iva.rpm** · 18th May 12, 19:48

The watch I use for special occasions is my Citizen Eco-Drive. It has a big sentimental value.

**donKey jote** · 18th May 12, 21:22

I'm a Citizen Titanium donkey... got two of them, an older Chronograph and a more recent Saphire. I use whichever I find first when I get up, neither has a big sentimental value.

**iva.rpm** · 18th May 12, 21:53

Mine is a Super Titanium, too! It's a CA0210-51E. Beautiful watch! These watches are very expensive here in Brazil, they cost more than R$ 1000,00 (which means they cost more than US$ 500,00 in Brazil).

**donKey jote** · 18th May 12, 22:45

Mine are similar, black dial multi-functions (caliber 6870 and 0580 as far as I can make out). I'm buggered if I can find a meaningful model anywhere on the back though, or at least one that fits to the pics google produces for it

They cost me around 200€-300€ I think...

**iva.rpm** · 18th May 12, 23:03

I paid something like US$ 40 in my cellphone, but my watch is worth more than US$ 750 here in Brazil. Other people would do the opposite. I guess I'm a very weird guy

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**tfp** · 19th May 12, 00:53

I like the watches you see on the advertising with the F1, exept the price, you could buy a cheap car for that money!!

**Rollo** · 19th May 12, 03:03

I have a 12-year old Seiko which is the forerunner to this: http://www.roachman.com/seiko/quartz/SJW041P.jpg
12 years and it still matches with the pips every time daylight saving/wasting time comes about.

I've not doubt that it wobbles throughout the day, but the heat cycles it gets put through are quite regular and by now the crystal must have aged which has increased accuracy and reliability.

**Malbec** · 19th May 12, 11:38

Originally Posted by Rollo

I have a 12-year old Seiko which is the forerunner to this: http://www.roachman.com/seiko/quartz/SJW041P.jpg
12 years and it still matches with the pips every time daylight saving/wasting time comes about.

I've not doubt that it wobbles throughout the day, but the heat cycles it gets put through are quite regular and by now the crystal must have aged which has increased accuracy and reliability.

I prefer automatics and I've got three Seiko ones which look a bit like the one in your pic. None of them cost more than £80 and they look smart enough and keep time precisely enough for me.

Would love an expensive watch but its a bit too difficult for me to justify shelling out too much money on something that doesn't do a better job than something much cheaper.

**Malbec** · 19th May 12, 13:48

Originally Posted by henners88

I can certainly understand that but in my case a watch isn't just a practical item purely for telling the time, I like the style element of it too. Asda jeans cost £9 and do the same thing as my Levis 506's but one looks alot better than the other IMO. Seiko make nice watches however and I'm not denying they are very stylish in their own right.

The fact that I've lost a few watches in my time might have something to do with it too. Losing a £70 watch is bad enough, I don't want to know what its like to lose a £7000 one....

**MrJan** · 19th May 12, 19:50

Originally Posted by henners88

Thats certainly a valid point. I've never lost a watch but damaged a few and thats bad enough.

Yeah I'm quite clumsy with my watches. My Tissot has a few scrapes on the casing, one of the Swatches has a broken 'buckle' (too tired, can't think of right word) and another is marked where I sprayed myself with mosquito repellant and the chemicals marked the plastic. I like those types of marks though, they all had to the character of the watch.

**ioan** · 19th May 12, 21:42

I might be the only one around here who doesn't have a wrist watch, and I didn't wear one for the last 10 year at least.

**ioan** · 19th May 12, 21:43

Originally Posted by MrJan

I've got a few, mostly cheapy things. I'm currently wearing a Roamer Incabloc, which used to belong to my grandfather, but my favourite is the Tissot PRC 200 that my dad got me for my 21st birthday.

Does that mean it was made in PRC?!

**iva.rpm** · 19th May 12, 21:45

I remember when I got my first watch (it was a Casio W-800-HG). A week after I got it, I hit it on something and it got a big scratch. I was very upset about it. But it is still my everyday watch, and I don't care about the marks on it anymore.

**race aficionado** · 19th May 12, 23:35

I don't wear a wrist watch since the 90's. Now my iPhone reminds me of the time. I've had some fancy ones but my favorite was a Casio that had a calculator and a storage system to have addresses and phone numbers. It also had a cool and practical alarm.

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**Kneeslider** · 20th May 12, 05:00

tag-heuer-monaco-watch.jpgLike most on here, I have always admired nice watches, and when I was younger I used to spend quite a while on the look out for something unusual and a little different from what most were wearing. A long time ago, when most were wearing Swatches I had a white Avia Turbo, analogue, which just seemed a little more interesting.

I think that there is a definite correlation between liking cars, motorcycles, and anything to do with engineering and a fondness for things horological.

When I first started to make a bit of money I was on the look out for a Tag Heuer Monaco, the reissue, with a black face and 3 subdials, rather than the more classic McQueen blue face with two subdials. I remember seeing one in the window of a jewellers in London when they came out, and marvelling at such a beautiful thing, and also the price tag! Fortunately, after much Ebay trawling, one turned up for under half the retail price.

That was over 10 years ago now, and more recently I was after another watch. I always liked the look of the Breitling Navitimer series, and I decided that I wanted one with a blue strap and dial, but with arabic numerals. There are always a few on Ebay, mainly advertised by dealers for inflated prices, but I noticed one, which came up for £1500, and my wife bought it for me for my 40th birthday.

**Roamy** · 20th May 12, 05:17

i have a bunch of cheap sh!t i bought off peddlers But I have one 1982 Ferrari original from cartier - that I am going to frame and stick on the wall

**Rudy Tamasz** · 21st May 12, 10:37

I wear Sekonda. This brand is made in Belarus, cost me about $30, looks very simple, classic and perfectly suits both business suits and ripped jeans.

I toyed with the idea of buying Graf Zeppelin at about 300 Euro, buth then thought, what the heck, and went for a practical option.