Post pics of your watches ***Please NO QUOTING PHOTOS***

a few pics of my newest addition, excuse the phone quality pics ..

It is a Hamilton Khaki aviation pilot auto . There is also a quartz version but its a lot smaller.This one is 46mm width with a 22mm strap .It has the eta 2836 movement and should have a 48hr power reserve but so far the most I have noticed is about a day and half.
I was looking for a pilot watch for a while and am impressed with this one.Its a nice change from my other watches that are all S/S bracelets .It really is a solid heavy watch and looks much nicer on the wrist than in pics.

Ball Hydrocarbon Spacemaster..




The gas tubes


and the caseback..

Treated myself to a Tissot Expert Solar with black PVD titanium finish, it's quite a big watch but nice and light to wear:

Now ...all of you, sit down, breathe deeply and remove all sharp and pointy objects from reach ...

Ready?

I bought a ....quartz watch :eek::eek::eek:


But not just any old quartz watch, no sir.

In a parallel universe (German watch forum) people are getting infected by the 262 kHz fever and it has spread as far as me now.

262 kHz ...that's the frequency of Bulova's latest quartz movement, 8 times higher than a regular quartz watch, which means that it should be accurate to within 10 seconds a year aaaaaaand ...it has a sweeping second hand :pac:

Bulova more or less quietly launched that movement a few years ago with the Precisionist range and at this year's Baselworld extended it to somewhat more retro models of the Accutron II range.
Some beautiful watches in that range http://www.bulova.com/en-GB/collection/accutron/5220c541142993b037000003/ but at around € 400 by the time you get them to Europe way outside peasant territory.

They also have the more affordable Military range, very nice watches there http://www.bulova.com/en-GB/collection/military/details/96B229/ ..but I just don't like coin edges and a watch that "old" looking needs a mechanical movement really.

So I bought an old, discontinued Precisonist instead, comfortably under the pain threshold financially and brilliant value for the technology and fit& finish you're getting.

My camera is borked, so I'll post two videos instead






At 46mm the watch is huge and with all the screws and fussy detail waay more blingy than what I'd normally go for ...but hey, I bought it for the movement and if peasant goes modern he might as well go all way and get what all the kids wear these days

300 m water resistant, curved mineral glass, comfy strap that doesn't attract dust, decent lume and fit and finish that sort of explains the price tag in the one vid. It so happens it fits like a glove...big, yes ...but not too big for my wrist...just.

Minor niggles:

The lume dot on the bezel is too small and very weakly lumed, the hands are a tad too short for a precision watch to read it properly and the minute hand has about 10 sec worth of play either side when you try and set it ...needless to say I had a few attempts to get my precision watch set to bang on time and index with time.is ...but three days later it still sits there

I'm happy

Wibbs wrote: »

Those Precisonists are very cool watches. One of the very few new watches I've been tempted by. Well wear.

Bored with it already* ...been wearing it constantly all week and no matter how hard I squint at it with time.is open in the background, I can't see the tiniest deviation..not even a fraction of a second ...booooring.
Even my radio controlled Junghans (without signal) would be out by 2-3 seconds by now.

I'm not sure I'm quite ready for all this precision


The precisionist movement sure is cool ..not so sure about the watches. The design is very much New American-Japanese Baroque, ever so slightly over the top.

The Accutron II series with remakes of old tuning fork designs however ..I could see myself owning one of those once prices come down a bit.



*may not be factual

That's a cushion case, if I'm not mistaken. A bit less elegant, but a bit more affordable: Longines

I like that Longines with the exception of the lugs. They look a bit out of place.

What about a Monza as an alternative?

Eoin wrote: »

Good spot - wire ones would look much better.

Hamilton make a nice one too, with or without a chrono. Can't remember the model name, (it's not the Pan Europ).

If it's the one I'm thinking of it might just be called the Hamilton cushion or possibly jazzmaster cushion?

893bet wrote: »

My PO! After 4 months with omega!

Looks good. What did they do that took so long?

DT that is a thing of beauty.. Well may you wear.

I suspect the photo doesn't do the dial justice!

G rock wrote: »

For future reference (i hope!) where does one buy a sinn?

You can buy direct from them also but I obviously you would be paying full whack as opposed to getting some sort of a discount from an AD / grey dealer.