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Help choosing a watch
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05-08-2014 12:00am#1
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And what you want. That's the important thing. You know your own environment and what will work within that. When I was in school digital was the thing. Bonus cool points for alarms and calculators. My dad was of a generation that thought automatics were for the lazy, handwind all the way and digitals were an abomination on the world, but he bought me one as a xmas pressie cos he knew a plastic casio calculator digital would trump a Patek Phillipe in the classroom.Take Your Pants Off wrote: »Its not really about what other people think but mostly what looks good on me.
There are watch nuts and there are normal people
even fashionistas fall into the latter category and would have about the same knowledge of different watch brands. Basically Rolex, Omega and Tag Heuer would be the only Luxury watches they'd know and if you mentioned Girard Perregaux they'd think you were talking about that fat French bloke who's a great actor.
As for fashion watches? Watch brands are all pretty much fashion watches depending on how you look at it. To a Patek collector Omega might be seen as obvious and tacky. To another a watch is lesser unless it was handmade in a hidden valley in Switzerland, using an inhouse movement made from local metals mined by magical elves.
Wouldn't surprise me TBH. Diamonds are actually pretty cheap. Under a certain weight they're very cheap. There's a reason why DeBeers pushed the marketing of "diamonds are forever" as they didn't want people reselling them and finding out how much they were actually worth secondhand.The armani one has real diamonds and thats 195..
TL;DR? You know your audience and you know yourself. I say go with your gut, don't spend too much(200 quid sounds about right) and enjoy. OH and post pics when you get what you get.
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And what you want. That's the important thing. You know your own environment and what will work within that. When I was in school digital was the thing. Bonus cool points for alarms and calculators. My dad was of a generation that thought automatics were for the lazy, handwind all the way and digitals were an abomination on the world, but he bought me one as a xmas pressie cos he knew a plastic casio calculator digital would trump a Patek Phillipe in the classroom.
There are watch nuts and there are normal people even fashionistas fall into the latter category and would have about the same knowledge of different watch brands. Basically Rolex, Omega and Tag Heuer would be the only Luxury watches they'd know and if you mentioned Girard Perregaux they'd think you were talking about that fat French bloke who's a great actor.
As for fashion watches? Watch brands are all pretty much fashion watches depending on how you look at it. To a Patek collector Omega might be seen as obvious and tacky. To another a watch is lesser unless it was handmade in a hidden valley in Switzerland, using an inhouse movement made from local metals mined by magical elves.
Wouldn't surprise me TBH. Diamonds are actually pretty cheap. Under a certain weight they're very cheap. There's a reason why DeBeers pushed the marketing of "diamonds are forever" as they didn't want people reselling them and finding out how much they were actually worth secondhand.
TL;DR? You know your audience and you know yourself. I say go with your gut, don't spend too much(200 quid sounds about right) and enjoy. OH and post pics when you get what you get.
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Take Your Pants Off wrote: »I was quite interested in the second one, I had looked at it before but the thing was that I was not sure of the actual value of the watch.
I had never seen the company/brand before nor have I ever seen someone wearing it.
If I could get that style of watch in a citizen or some other good well known company I would easily buy it.
The second one (the Le Locle) is a very nice watch, and as Eoin said, Tissot is a good company - an actual watchmaker, like Citizen, rather than a brand, like Armani. Was tempted by one myself the other week, but picked up a Hamilton instead. (Still lusting after a Tissot Visodate though!)
Not seeing anyone else wearing one would make me want it more if I was you to be honest
But nonetheless, the most important thing is what you like, you'll be the one wearing it. My brother has a fossil watch that I really like actually. Of the ones you listed, the differences are entirely subjective (and I guarantee that they're all more accurate than my new Hamilton ) 0 -
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its a lovely watch they have them in hsamuels if you want to try it on
should be very reliable and accurate with the kinetic movement and the li-ion power storage and as has been said its a Seiko so its built to be used
I bought this watch many moons ago after your recommendation... but the trigger finger is strong these days...
any thoughts, from anyone, on this..
http://www.chrono24.es/oris/bc3-advanced-day-date--id2079051.htm?dosearch=true&merchantName=relojesexclusivos&pageSize=120&resultview=list&showpage=3&sortorder=1&dosearch=true&urlSubpath=/search/index.htm0 -
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