Post pics of your watches Part II
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Today its a Breitling homage/ripoff by Jaragar. Wife got it for me on wish. Under €30 including postage. Runs a little fast, but still under 1 minute per day.
It stopped working a week after arrival. She got on to wish, no quibble refund Yay!!😁 Out with the vice grips to open the back of it. Gave the little gold wheel a poke with a knife & we're back in action.
For those who don't use their timepieces as stores of wealth, its hard to go wrong for €30 in fairness.
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I agree with this tbh, very much the usual "good" 1st watch. But, that could well be because a tranche of us in here were hit in our formative yrs with the Omega/Bond ads 🤔
I am considering a Seamaster currently. One I don't see often, it's the 2535.80.00 wave dial from early noughties.
I've seen one on insta on an aquaterra rubber and it's caught my eye tbh. Explorer 2 size and heft without the Rolex price tag.
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+1 Omega among other things went the fashionable route, Rolex went and have gone since the 1970's the very conservative route.Fashionable can certainly work, QV TAG Whooer's massive popularity back in the 90's into the early 00's. One could argue Hublot are similar with extra zeros at the end. The conservative route works far better for the middle aged middle class golfist bloke, who as a demographic tend not to like loud noises in their lives or to appear too loud themselves. Where a slight bezel colour change causes ripples, but not too many ripples. Unless there's a mid life crisis afoot of course. 😁 When someone is paying for luxury, conservative that is recognised as such is by far the better bet in that demographic. The young and very flush are more likely to go for a modish Hublot or gangsta PP, iced out of course. If they go for a watch at all.
Plus there is a big general difference between watch collectors and general watch buyers who will buy only one Good Watch, though depending on the current waves there can be some overlap. But there is a bit of a gulf. The aforemented TAG at the height of its wave as the Good Watch to buy was looked down upon by the cognoscenti.
I'm not so sure of the Bond/Rolex thing in the middle aged types though. Not unless you're at the very top end of that age group. Speaking as a middle aged fart myself, my first Bond memories are not of Rolex, or Connery, but of Moore and a swath of Pulsar and later digitals. At least in period. I suspect the Bond Sub thing is far more a newly formed nostalgia fostered by the interwebs if you know what I mean. Though I do recall watching a Connery Bond on the telly with my dad and asking him why Jimmy was checking his watch with a gieger counter and him telling me about the radioactive glow in the dark stuff, but that was the early 80's.
On topic.. 😮😁 And speaking of middle aged farts, it's my birthday today and I usually wear this on this date as other than a couple of family hierlooms it's the watch I have the longest.
And it's way older than me so there's that. 😊
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