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Post by Professor S. on Feb 18, 2022 22:26:59 GMT -5
Wow, Walt! Those are some beautiful watches. The Aquastar is particularly intriguing.
My go-to is the "unofficial watch of the US Special Forces:" the Casio G-shock 'Tough Solar.' I've had it for about 25 years and I absolutely love this thing. It's the only watch I've ever owned that my bioelectric field hasn't killed or maimed.
The Timex Expedition I got when I was an EMT loses 8 minutes every day I wear it. 5-year watch batteries only last me a year at most. If I wear one of my wind-up pocket watches, it's only for show. All of my other watches only keep accurate time if I leave them in a drawer and never touch them. The Casio has never let me down, and it has some other cool features (timers, alarms, world clock) that make it indispensable.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 19, 2022 10:30:06 GMT -5
Wow, Walt! Those are some beautiful watches. The Aquastar is particularly intriguing. My go-to is the "unofficial watch of the US Special Forces:" the Casio G-shock 'Tough Solar.' I've had it for about 25 years and I absolutely love this thing. It's the only watch I've ever owned that my bioelectric field hasn't killed or maimed. The Timex Expedition I got when I was an EMT loses 8 minutes every day I wear it. 5-year watch batteries only last me a year at most. If I wear one of my wind-up pocket watches, it's only for show. All of my other watches only keep accurate time if I leave them in a drawer and never touch them. The Casio has never let me down, and it has some other cool features (timers, alarms, world clock) that make it indispensable. The Aquastar has a Lemanie 1345 movement that allows a 10 minute countdown shown in the 5 circles on the face...this allows those who are racing yachts to get off the race mark start right on time. Not very useful if you are not involved in racing, but still a nice watch selling in the $2,000.00 zone. Now I just need to find a buyer. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 19, 2022 14:51:57 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with Aquastar, but those Lemanie movements are pretty prized, I think.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 19, 2022 15:07:36 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with Aquastar, but those Lemanie movements are pretty prized, I think. That is what I hear...and demands a pretty price, usually over $1,000.00. I'm starting to appreciate horologists and all entailed. |
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Post by Professor S. on Feb 19, 2022 16:42:13 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with Aquastar, but those Lemanie movements are pretty prized, I think. That is what I hear...and demands a pretty price, usually over $1,000.00. I'm starting to appreciate horologists and all entailed. Wasn't Hugh Hefner a horologist? |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 19, 2022 16:59:22 GMT -5
Don't know if I would call him a horologist, but he did collect many watches.
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Post by urbino on Feb 19, 2022 17:08:23 GMT -5
That is what I hear...and demands a pretty price, usually over $1,000.00. I'm starting to appreciate horologists and all entailed. Wasn't Hugh Hefner a horologist?  A lot of the Bunnies would take that rather ill, though. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 19, 2022 17:22:00 GMT -5
I have about 30 watches that I never wear anymore. My best one is an Edox Les Bemonts Certified Chronometer with the Swiss ETA 2892a movement. About half of my other watches are automatic and the rest are dead.
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Post by urbino on Feb 19, 2022 17:25:37 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with Aquastar, but those Lemanie movements are pretty prized, I think. That is what I hear...and demands a pretty price, usually over $1,000.00. I'm starting to appreciate horologists and all entailed. Mechanical watches are -- or can be, to a certain turn of mind -- fascinating little machines. I'm not sure the human race has done better with gears and levers. |
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 19, 2022 17:44:43 GMT -5
Last year, almost on a lark, I bought an Apple watch. Funny little geegaw I thought at the time. Since then it has become a nifty little tool and I like it very much. Not beautiful by any means, like some of the mechanical wonders shown here, but so very useful as a tool. I’ve become very fond of it.
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Post by urbino on Feb 19, 2022 17:53:58 GMT -5
Last year, almost on a lark, I bought an Apple watch. Funny little geegaw I thought at the time. Since then it has become a nifty little tool and I like it very much. Not beautiful by any means, like some of the mechanical wonders shown here, but so very useful as a tool. I’ve become very fond of it. I can see where it'd be very handy. Mom sure likes hers. She couldn't keep a mechanical watch working for any time (and here I mean to include quartz-driven ones). Don't know if it was something about her skin chemistry or maybe her kitchen appliances giving off particularly strong magnetic fields, or what, but they'd poop out after a few months. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 19, 2022 18:30:41 GMT -5
 Only watch that worked on me was the Rolex the Navy gave me, all others would run then stop.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 19, 2022 18:30:47 GMT -5
I have about 30 watches that I never wear anymore. My best one is an Edox Les Bemonts Certified Chronometer with the Swiss ETA 2892a movement. About half of my other watches are automatic and the rest are dead. Now that is a very nice watch!! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 19, 2022 18:35:08 GMT -5
I have about 30 watches that I never wear anymore. My best one is an Edox Les Bemonts Certified Chronometer with the Swiss ETA 2892a movement. About half of my other watches are automatic and the rest are dead. Now that is a very nice watch!! It is a nice watch and keeps great time. I gave $300 for it about 20 years ago on eBay. It appeared to be unworn and came with the box and paper work. I wear it about once every 3 years or so. I really like that yacht timer of yours. I have an English watch that looks like the last Cartier, but I can't keep batteries in it. Mine has 2 faces though. It flips to a black face, like the previous governor of Virginia. 😛🤠 |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 19, 2022 19:56:27 GMT -5
Ron, you need to wear the watches that you have to keep the oils from settling and hardening which causes the watch to need repair frequently...now I have to rotate between watches so that they continue to keep good time.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 19, 2022 20:59:34 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder! I guess I need to oil my Apple watch…
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Post by roadsdiverged on Feb 19, 2022 21:03:26 GMT -5
pepesdad1 That Cartier Twenty~4 with the numbers on the outside is really cool. Nice set of watches! I like watches but can't afford nice ones. I don't wear them at work because it's a snag hazard, and these days I don't go out too much. I used to have a few pocket watches and I loved them. "Lost" them in divorce numero uno
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Post by urbino on Feb 19, 2022 21:24:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder! I guess I need to oil my Apple watch… Don't be ridiculous. Just re-bias the tubes now and then. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 19, 2022 21:53:06 GMT -5
Ron, you need to wear the watches that you have to keep the oils from settling and hardening which causes the watch to need repair frequently...now I have to rotate between watches so that they continue to keep good time. I have the good ones on an 10 watch rotator. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 20, 2022 11:08:04 GMT -5
Ron, you need to wear the watches that you have to keep the oils from settling and hardening which causes the watch to need repair frequently...now I have to rotate between watches so that they continue to keep good time. I have the good ones on an 10 watch rotator. Excellent idea! |
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Post by toshtego on Feb 20, 2022 12:12:58 GMT -5
Wearing a Nivada Grenchen Depth-O-Matic from the early 1960s. Keeps excellent time, was serviced about three years ago.
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Post by rastewart on Aug 8, 2022 14:44:31 GMT -5
Currently I have two pocket watches and two wristwatches working. One of the pocket watches my dad gave to me many years ago; a gold-plated Illinois watch. He got it from his oldest sister's husband, my uncle by marriage, who died years before I was born; he in turn had bought it, the family story goes, from a fellow soldier in France during World War I. So there is a lot of history there, and while I don't wear it often, as you can imagine that is the last watch I would give up. The other pocket watch is an elegant little Longines left me by my father-in-law. I'm not sure where or how he came by it; it was not what I would have thought to be his style. But he was a sociable man and very well liked by many people in many walks of life; I wouldn't be surprised if it were a gift.
But for everyday use I find a wristwatch more practical. So a couple of years ago, when the last of a series of fairly cheap watches died and could not be revived, I picked up a Timex Expedition at Walmart (about $46 including tax) to tide me over while I saved for a nicer one. Darned if it hasn't turned out to be an excellent watch. Keeps accurate time, and even the leather band, which I figured would have to be replaced in a year or two, still looks good. As you may know, Timex makes about 15,000 different models in the Expedition line; this one has a round case, I'd say 38 mm, with a greyish-bronze finish and analog face, and is quite versatile--I wear it working in the yard or knocking around the neighborhood, to work, or for the rare evening on the town, and it's comfortable in whatever setting.
The nicer one I finally got this past February is a Bertucci A-2T Super Classic. Bigger than I was looking for at 40 mm, but I got comfortable with that quickly. It looks good and seems to be built like a tank, and may very well be my last watch.
Ron, you need to wear the watches that you have to keep the oils from settling and hardening which causes the watch to need repair frequently...now I have to rotate between watches so that they continue to keep good time.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 8, 2022 19:12:17 GMT -5
The thread that wouldn't die, although many of the people who posted have.
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Post by exbenedict on Aug 8, 2022 23:38:17 GMT -5
Rolex Submariner...love this thing.
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Post by urbino on Aug 9, 2022 0:53:37 GMT -5
Currently I have two pocket watches and two wristwatches working. One of the pocket watches my dad gave to me many years ago; a gold-plated Illinois watch. He got it from his oldest sister's husband, my uncle by marriage, who died years before I was born; he in turn had bought it, the family story goes, from a fellow soldier in France during World War I. So there is a lot of history there, and while I don't wear it often, as you can imagine that is the last watch I would give up. The other pocket watch is an elegant little Longines left me by my father-in-law. I'm not sure where or how he came by it; it was not what I would have thought to be his style. But he was a sociable man and very well liked by many people in many walks of life; I wouldn't be surprised if it were a gift.
But for everyday use I find a wristwatch more practical. So a couple of years ago, when the last of a series of fairly cheap watches died and could not be revived, I picked up a Timex Expedition at Walmart (about $46 including tax) to tide me over while I saved for a nicer one. Darned if it hasn't turned out to be an excellent watch. Keeps accurate time, and even the leather band, which I figured would have to be replaced in a year or two, still looks good. As you may know, Timex makes about 15,000 different models in the Expedition line; this one has a round case, I'd say 38 mm, with a greyish-bronze finish and analog face, and is quite versatile--I wear it working in the yard or knocking around the neighborhood, to work, or for the rare evening on the town, and it's comfortable in whatever setting.
The nicer one I finally got this past February is a Bertucci A-2T Super Classic. Bigger than I was looking for at 40 mm, but I got comfortable with that quickly. It looks good and seems to be built like a tank, and may very well be my last watch.
Ron, you need to wear the watches that you have to keep the oils from settling and hardening which causes the watch to need repair frequently...now I have to rotate between watches so that they continue to keep good time.
My Expedition recently bit the dust. It was my leave-in-the-truck, just-in-case watch. Bought a lower-end G-Shock to replace it. |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Aug 10, 2022 0:25:17 GMT -5
Garmin Fenix fitness watch these days, but if I didn't want it for tracking runs then I'd still be wearing my good old Casio Protrek. That thing is entirely bulletproof and all the sensors are darn accurate.
I do love mechanical timepieces too though. I recently inherited an old grandfather clock from father-in-law that hadn't run in years and is now ticking away smoothly with a level of precision I cannot believe. It's beautiful. I marvel at the people whose brains can actually design such an intricate mechanical device. I'd be lucky to be able to jam a stick in the ground straight enough to make a usable sundial. 😁
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 10, 2022 10:02:11 GMT -5
Forgot about this one...my father's watch from WW2 a Hamilton GCT...been since 1944 and still keeps excellent time. Has a 51 hour run time between windings.  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 10, 2022 10:03:32 GMT -5
Changed the strap on the Aquastar to a shark mesh...I think it looks a lot better.  |
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Post by trailboss on Aug 10, 2022 11:24:35 GMT -5
A fine looking pair of timepieces, Walt!
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 10, 2022 13:40:18 GMT -5
Thanks, Charlie!
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Only watch that worked on me was the Rolex the Navy gave me, all others would run then stop.
