Post pics of your watches Part II
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New beater/holiday watch. I do like my g shocks for daily wear but analogue divers are my favorite type of watch. Citizen BN0150–10E.
The strap seems to be sized for 9 inch wrist and a bit stiff. Much more comfortable and sits better on the Barton elite. Will have to get a black one. I might get something better with a deployment though. Probably will pick up the bracelet for it too. The blue lume is a nice change.
It is quite nice for the money though it a step below a Seiko Prospex it's less than half the price. 60 click bezel and non drilled lugs are main things missing.
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Been a while since I posted, between work and everything I've not had time to post/keep up with watch content. Great news during the week. Had a great experience with Swatch post-sales service. A few of you may be aware my Hamilton Khaki Field messed itself after only 2 months of ownership. Even though I bought it from a questionable grey dealer in the Canary Islands on Chrono (thought it was in EU, listed as Spain), the service was second to none. Dealer was zero help, had a Spanish colleague phone up for me and all.
Swatch had a label to me in less than 12 hours, collected the next day, turned around in about 4 weeks from the UK service centre with a new strap worth €70 (sent watch head only), spring bars and a nifty service case. Zero customs delays or issues. Full service done (was expecting a replacement watch or movement, it's the same one just rebuilt). Main spring was defective and snapped. Hoping it's not indicative of things to come with the modified low beat rate ETA 2824. Aside from the obvious issue with main spring, I have to say winding feel, accuracy etc is above and beyond any of my previous hand wounds (Nomos Alpha Tangente, Stowa Marine 2824). It's flatlining +0spd when I leave dial up overnight after 5 days and a wind daily.
Anyway, what I thought was a catch and release, is now reigniting my passion for watches. Added a Bulang & Sons 20mm leather nato I originally purchased for my Tudor and it's elevated the watch to a new level for me. Sure the strap costs about 33% of the watch, but I don't care, it's a fun beater watch, perfect size and looks great IMO.
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Wearing this today. And a thought came to me earlier while sitting in traffic...
You know the way the vast majority of chronographs have two buttons? The top one starts and stops the hand, the bottom resets. OK well the two button layout was invented by Longines in the late 1920's, so I asked myself why? Chronographs before had one button. Like a stopwatch. Start, stop, reset. Fine. So why add a second button which requires an extra step and change of finger position to reset? It makes no sense.
But it does when you consider that Longines had also invented the flyback function, whereby you can reset to zero without stopping the timing so you can time a second event. You simply couldn't do that with just one button alone, so they had to add a second button(well being Longines they did produce a one button flyback of sorts that had a constantly running seconds).
This effectively means that all chronos that followed that don't have the flyback complication, which is the vast majority and include Speedies, Daytonas and various TAG's Pateks, AP's et al and MoonSwatches,😜 have no need for that second button at all.
It also begs the question why don't more just have this function? Especially at the expensive end. It's useful and it's not that much extra involved at all to do.
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So after an aborted attempt to sell its back on the wrist. Dog spent 45 minutes in the dog park and it was too hot for either of us. Honestly its such a nice watch maybe it just I am unable to be happy with anything long term, I have had this a while now. Had a long chat with my dealer and suffice to say the market is in disarray, nobody know whats going on or what will happen. Unless you fire sale nothing selling. "Cheaper" watches are still trading but over 20k buyers and sellers are spooked and ultra cautious. Do have an offer to swap this AP for a solid rose gold daytona which is tempting but honestly I dont know anymore, AP is a bit more different and unusual.
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I know that on monetary value, the gold Daytona might be close to parity with your AP but, it's not at all as nearly good a watch IMO.
On stuff not selling? I am thinking your watch was in Belfast? I have a far lesser chrono there at the moment too and same story. It's there about 3 months one expression of interest and no follow up.
I'll leave it there another while yet, I'm in no rush to sell and I have bigger fish to fry at the mo in any case.
Onto photos! I've decided the GMT deffo has to go on holiday and the 2nd slot will be my U2-W. They may even get a dive or 2 in if I can convince my son to give it a go. On the U2-W, I love the lume on this one if they'd only kept the GMT it'd be a near perfect watch IMO.
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Well, yesterday but today too.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Sitting here looking for inspiration while writing my dissertation on a rare day off and cursing the fact that I ever thought that going back to college would be a good idea. Seiko SPB143 on a very comfy Zuludiver waffle strap.
In the background my trusty Marathon clock is reminding me that the day is slipping by...🙈
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