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

Cyrus

Well why else have this forum is we cant look at each others watches!

here are my current 2.

Tag Carrera Cv2010 everyday watch and my engagement present from my fiancee, an iwc portuguese chrono.

The tag will be going soon, to make way for maybe another iwc, i also have a tag aquaracer en route as a 'beater'

Wibbs

Ohhhh me likey.. Especially the IWC.

Wibbs

I was going to suggest no posts without pics, but I reckon we see where we go with this. No point being heavyhanded.

Wibbs

Ok here's a few of mine. I've tended to go the vintage route.



From the left; Stocker and Yale US army military issue hi beat mechanical movement, nylon case and strap, very robust. Zenith "aviator" pilots wristwatch from 1936, with large crown for winding with gloves, very nice movement(breguet mainspring, fine regulation and unreal timekeeper), unusual for the time in having a center seconds hand. Longines early wristlet wrist watch silver cased from 1916 on replica period strap, again a very good timekeeper.

Kintarō Hattori

What can I say, decidedly average stuff but I've always had a thing for Seiko's. I'm somewhat lucky I guess in that this is pretty much my dream watch....... for the moment. Perhaps some day I'll have an old Grand Seiko.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamandagnieszka/3343298802/

Cyrus

bedlam wrote: »

I'm detecting a bit of a theme here...

eh

If its a tag theme (geddit) itll be ended soon as the carrera is off shortly, not sure what will replace it yet, maybe an omega PO, submariner no date or a iwc flieger of some description

i bought the aqua racer because i got it for a cracking price (its 2 weeks old and less than half rrp) and i have no watch for general hacking around.

Im half afraid wearing the portuguese, the first ding will hurt :pac:

Cyrus

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

What can I say, decidedly average stuff but I've always had a thing for Seiko's. I'm somewhat lucky I guess in that this is pretty much my dream watch....... for the moment. Perhaps some day I'll have an old Grand Seiko.

have been looking at the mm300 and 600s lately, seiko make some beautiful pieces

also take a look at this beauty

Cyrus

bedlam wrote: »

Chronos

ah i get you now, i do like a chrono, very handy on the rare occasion i cook

the aquaracer is a non chrono

this is the lad, should be here today

Ginger

Have this one..



gets most people due to the movement. Also have 2 oversized fossil ones and a real nice Tissot, all of them are metal straps.

Looking for an Invicta like this one on my through duty free some day



Bit dressier

Wibbs

Like the second one. Reminds me of a diving watch with the crown. easy to read too. I always preferred the white on black writing(though the IWC of Cyrus' is sweet and would defo tempt me;):)). Nice strap too.

Creamy Goodness

Dingatron

Just got this delivered today. Always wanted one since I was a kid but couldn't afford it. Not too pricey either at $6

Wibbs

6 quid!:eek: result:D

Ginger

Also have

These from Fossil

and this one with a metal strap

Also a Tissot which i cant find online

Wibbs

Few more of mine;


Two longines dress watches. One on the left from 1948. Knotted lugs 4 piece case in 14kt gold. On the right from 1955, again 14kt gold case. I used to aim for Longines as they were(and still are undervalued) in the vintage market(the one on the right cost me 150 punts 10 years ago). Cool for buyers. They have more history than a helluva lot of the big name brands today. More aeronautical history than Brietling could dream of for a start. Some serious innovations movement wise too. Their earlier chrono movements are legendary. Pity they've fallen from favour or that the present owners of the brand, dont seem to know how to push them.

Marathon military spec and issued navigators watch.

Hack setting, with radioactive tritium vial luminous for all night viewing(doesn't need to be exposed to light to charge). Mine is the version with the date at the 4 O clock position. My beater watch and just about the only quartz that hasn't died on me in short order. I've had G shocks die on my wrist in a month Actually one of the reasons I got into collecting the old ticking stuff in the 80's, as the new ticking stuff was mad money. Of course now a lot of the old mechanical stuff is climbing in value.

Wibbs

four demicircular(?) pieces. I've seen others from LeCoultre, but they were one piece and so were the Longines/witnauer ones I've also seen.

I gather that knotted lug design was quite popular at the time. Longines seems to have kicked it off(they had stages of really different and radical case design) and others chimed in.

Heres a bulova


Benrus


Weird Longines stuff from the 40/50's. When they got to the 60/70's they went even madder.:)

Wibbs

Well if you're looking for weird lug design the Zenith in the previous page is defo a mad one. It looks almost Victorian as a watch. Defo my fave of all the watches that have gone through my care over the years. Very accurate, surprisingly wearable, surprisingly robust and the history behind it is damned cool to boot.

calex71

mine

Wibbs

Great concept the G-Shock. Big collectors market too.

piaget

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Attached are current pieces, not my pics but you have the idea, used to have only vintage but found them too small, might look for a Stowa soon.

biko

Have


and want an Magnus Automatic Watch

Wibbs

piaget wrote: »

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Attached are current pieces, not my pics but you have the idea, used to have only vintage but found them too small, might look for a Stowa soon.

Nice omega. Yea the vintage stuff tends towards the small end alright. Not such an issue for me on account of girlywristitis.:o:D The 30/40/50's mens sizes were much smaller than today, even with complications. The trend was to show off skill in miniaturisation and the fashion for big watches was pretty non existent. It was thought of as showing off for some.
Except for tool watches like original Panerai dive watches and pilots watches(like my zenith above at 43 mm across) where legibility in extreme conditions was a plus.
Even there the US military stuff was small. Their BUShips dive watch

is small and their weems pilots watch

is damn near microscopic..

Understandable as the cumbersome aspect comes into it. If you walked around back in the day with some of the current monsters people might look at you funny. I gather you can even get bespoke shirtsleeves that allow for the wearing of some of the really big watches today.

That's fashion for you and of course the bigger size allows for more complications and adds to the fashion aspect more as nowadays time is everywhere so watches are largely redundant. The mobile phone is the pocketwatch of today in a lot of ways. It does make for some interesting designs now though, so all in all I like the big stuff and because of my girly wrist the older stuff is cheaper:D

Cyrus

piaget wrote: »

255422508.jpg

28_zenith.jpg

Attached are current pieces, not my pics but you have the idea, used to have only vintage but found them too small, might look for a Stowa soon.

stowa MO is lovely

Cyrus

thinking of replacing my tag carrera with this one folks

what say you!

Wibbs

I do have a soft spot for IWC stuff. Of the modern stuff I have to say I like their offerings the most, with a few of the smaller makers thrown in.

Cyrus

bedlam wrote: »

Hold out for the GO Sports Evolution GMT. It's only a little (for little read double) bit more... or the GO Senator Navigator Chrono to keep you on theme ;]

id be holding on for a while

piaget

Cyrus wrote: »

stowa MO is lovely

Stowa MO is indeed a beauty, have been on the wait list for over a year for a Stowa Airman Original with swan neck and display back. Hope I can still afford it when it becomes available.

Anybody here own a Stowa (new or old)!!!!!!!!!!!

Wibbs

I turned down a stowa B uhr navigators watch ten years ago. Doh! doesn't come into it, as it was going cheap, though I had the Laco version at the time. Too big. They make a Panerai look like a childs watch.

Looked like this.


My mum of all people has a stowa pendant watch from the 70's. Dunno if that counts:)

jesus_thats_gre

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

What can I say, decidedly average stuff but I've always had a thing for Seiko's. I'm somewhat lucky I guess in that this is pretty much my dream watch....... for the moment. Perhaps some day I'll have an old Grand Seiko.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamandagnieszka/3343298802/

I have one of these myself. Have a major thing for Seiko watches for some unknown reason and virtually ignore every other brank. Will have to post up the other two that I have (lost a Sportura one about 18 months ago too )

MagicMarker

This is my watch, don't have a picture of the actual thing and this is the largest image I could find.

Wibbs

Funky crown on that one.

baldbear

SNIP

Wibbs

baldbear take a two day break for trolling.

Owen

Here's my Tag, I also have a Yves Behar motion watch, which is a bit out there, I'll post photos of that another time.

Mint Sauce

my last and current watch, both g-shocks, still looking for my ideal dress watch, but still with that sporty look, the rugged g-shock doesn't go great with the shirt and cufflinks

Wibbs

Gshock and dress watch?


G Shock G011D-1A

sorted. well kinda.

Mint Sauce

nice, bout how much will one of those set me back

Wibbs

From what I gather around 200 quid online

unkel

@Wibbs - some collection you have there!

Cyrus wrote: »

the aquaracer is a non chrono

this is the lad, should be here today

Beautiful watch. Very nice indeed. Gets my vote of the best looking watch on this thread

Here's a picture taken from the interweb of the same watch as mine. I've had it since '96:

Wibbs

I tend to prefer the simpler dials myself. Must be the shortsightedness:D

Fabritzo

Cyrus wrote: »

ah i get you now, i do like a chrono, very handy on the rare occasion i cook

the aquaracer is a non chrono

this is the lad, should be here today

I wouldn't be a tag fan but that's a handsome watch, any more details about it?

gaz wac

Hi,

Dont know how to upload pix so here is mine...

http://www.professionalwatches.com/seikovelatura_oceanracer-thumb.jpg

used to have the old verson ( when you could twist the front, but left it in a filed after training ) it was a prez for my 18th or 21st so gutted !!!!

love the kinetic's

Cyrus

Fabritzo wrote: »

I wouldn't be a tag fan but that's a handsome watch, any more details about it?

Dont have it long but the basics are its a 1000ft dive watch, automatic (base eta 2824 swiss movement)

here are some 'artier' pics

Bill-e

I got this watch back in 2006. Not really a watch person until this time.
I often get complimented on it even now and it looks just the same as it did except the black Tachymeter text has come off. IMO the most important feature for a watch is comfort. With this one unless I look I don't even know I'm wearing it...

Snowie

here's mine don't have a picture of it, the face is blue on mine and the hands arnt so bulbuss at the end....

Noffles

Here's mine, INTERNET picture but you get the idea, as someone else has said they like Seiko stuff... as do I ... Although I'd love a Breitling one day.

n1ck

This is mine.

Snowie

that Grand Seiko SBGM003 is pronography.......

stuning watch slumph....

Ass

Cyrus wrote: »

this is a thread for people to post pictures of their watch, your contribution has been to slag someone off but post none yourself

If you must insist...

Cyrus

Ass wrote: »

If you must insist...

loks lovely, quite fitting :pac:

Snowie

Here's mine, swatch watch my every day watch. Ive got an old Omega think its dateing back to about 1950s, left to me buy my grandad (not shore on that) and another one I cant remember:).. Yup i know the date has'nt been changed eather ...



Il have a pic of the other two when im back home at my perent's:)