Watches

[BN9 BHA]

My hot lesbian neighbours got me a Rolex for my birthday.
It's nice but I think they misunderstood me when I said " I wanna watch "

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

When I was on the tools I never used to wear one as it presented a snag hazard.
Now I'm more involved in training, it's all PowerPoint, flip charts and spreadsheets.
I've got a cheap binary watch, it's almost impossible to tell the time by but it looks pretty cool and seems to be a conversation piece

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Ive got a Seiko that was bought in Saudi over 30 years ago, but usually I wear one of my five Swatch watches, which are different colours & styles depending on what I'm wearing. Left wrist.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I have no idea why people wear watches when they can look at their phone!? Just screams pen pusher to me

I don't understand your logic here, one little bit. I work at a desk sonme days, and on construction sites on others. If I'm on site and I want to know the time, I can glance at my wrist. Checking my phone would mean removing my gloves, ripping open the pocket on my trousers, pulling out the phone, waking it up, look at the time, put it away again, then put my gloves back on.

That's quite apart from the fact that mobiles are BANNED on a lot of sites...

 

[Nitram]

A proper watchmaker is a very highly skilled specialist, and there is a real shortage of them Omega founded their own school in the UK, because it was the only was to fill the posts. There are specific Omega movements that only two or three people are qualified to work on.

A more cynical person would say that Omega along with other maufacturers (Omega is part of the Swatch group which with Richemont own most of the watch brands apart from Rolex) are making sure all watches are in house serviced by restricting parts to independent watchmakers, which is the real reason for that industries decline.
No doubt that servicing a manual wind or automatic watch is a labour intensive and highly skilled job though.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Steinhart Ocean One Vintage is what i'm wearing at the moment.

How much was that watch, £1.99?

 

[Boroseagull]

I've worn a Rolex Explorer 2 since I bought it second hand for £300 in 1986. I wear it every day but take it off at night. It's functional, feels reassuring on my wrist and is possibly one of the best investments I made!

 

[Nitram]

I've worn a Rolex Explorer 2 since I bought it second hand for £300 in 1986. I wear it every day but take it off at night. It's functional, feels reassuring on my wrist and is possibly one of the best investments I made!

If that is a 16550 cream/creme rail dial that is the understatement of the day and is a rare and desirable watch.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I don't understand your logic here, one little bit. I work at a desk sonme days, and on construction sites on others. If I'm on site and I want to know the time, I can glance at my wrist. Checking my phone would mean removing my gloves, ripping open the pocket on my trousers, pulling out the phone, waking it up, look at the time, put it away again, then put my gloves back on.

That's quite apart from the fact that mobiles are BANNED on a lot of sites...

Gloves?

Just screams pen pusher to me!

Oh is it that time already? Better go to work.

 

[Boroseagull]

If that is a 16550 cream/creme rail dial that is the understatement of the day and is a rare and desirable watch.

No, it's a 16550 but with black dial and 78360 oyster steel bracelet.

 

[Half Time Pies]

A proper watchmaker is a very highly skilled specialist, and there is a real shortage of them Omega founded their own school in the UK, because it was the only was to fill the posts. There are specific Omega movements that only two or three people are qualified to work on.

But don't you think that most of this complexity is self generated by the watchmakers to make it difficult for anyone else to work on them? I mean this is the only conclusion you can come to when you consider that these watches actually do not keep better time than something you can pick up for a tenner in a petrol station. Neither are they more robust, in fact if worn regularly they seem to fall apart and wear more severely than many cheap watches or at least every single time I have sent one of mine in I have received a eye watering bill.

Ask yourself why a watch actually needs a service? A car needs a service but surely something that sits on your wrist doing nothing for most of the day should go on and on.

When I took my Breitling to a independent he said he couldn't work on it as Breitling wont sell parts to anyone else and this policy basically allows them to charge what they like for servicing.

 

[Frutos]

Yes
Left
Fossil
Yes I wear it to bed

 

[Frutos]

I presume the left wrist is because everyone is right handed?

I'm left handed and wear mine on my left wrist.

 

[mikeyjh]

Nobody considering one of these? http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/tag-heuer-android-wear-price-release-date-specs-958

Would like to see one in the flesh, sorely tempted though.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Panerai luminor chrono in titanium. 158 of 500 made.
Love it.
Left wrist naturally.

PAM052? Nice watch.

I decided to get what I've always wanted and have recently purchased a Ulysse Nardin GMT +/- Perpetual, which I wear rarely (on the left wrist). Mostly these days I don't wear a watch at all, but I guess that my regular one is a JLC Reverso.

 

[madinthehead]

Got several.
2 ice watches, good for everything
1 Samsung Gear Smart watch - currently my everyday watch
1 Jaguar J650 limited edition watch - my special occasion watch
1 very old Tissot ( I think) automatic watch, used to be my grandfathers, don't wear it, needs another repair as is losing time

Always take my watch off for showers and bed..
Wear it on my left hand

 

[driller]

No it a LUMINOR CHRONO DAYLIGHT FIRENZE - 44MM

haf it a few years and love it.

 

[Nitram]

No, it's a 16550 but with black dial and 78360 oyster steel bracelet.

Nice watch short run production and transitional model.

 

[Diablo]

Never wear a watch...plenty of timepieces around inc of course phone and car etc.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

When I took my Breitling to a independent he said he couldn't work on it as Breitling wont sell parts to anyone else and this policy basically allows them to charge what they like for servicing.

It also allows them to monitor and maintain quality for a high end product?