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Post pics of your watches Part II

Wibbs

And we're onto a new thread... Here's to the next 10,000. My first post in the last thread featured this watch I'm wearing today as it happens so seemed appropriate.

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scwazrh

I’ve been watching that YouTuber for a while now and really like him.The video quality is second to none and is a very comprehensive review of each part of the watch.
That Rolex is disgraceful though and you would have to hope that he just happened to have a particularly bad one.

unkel

Let me be the first to mention this though. I have never seen a GS in the flesh, never mind owned one. Just going by these videos. Hopefully at some stage I will have a snowflake on my wrist and I can make a better judgement then.

redlead

unkel wrote: »

That said, with my modest, untrained, naked eye, that entry level Rolex looks far, far more money than a top of the range Grand Seiko costing roughly the same

I would say the exact opposite. A GS snowflake looks double the money it costs. An OP looks half the watch it costs.

unkel

Wibbs wrote: »

IMHO not even close and I'd bet the farm you'd say the same if they both had Casio on the dial.

Not sure what you mean there, Wibbs?

I guess you prefer the Grand Seiko because you know and appreciate they have a far superior finish / polish. And because of the innovative spring drive they keep far better time than any watch Rolex has ever made?

Is it a bit like preferring the quieter, more reliable, better built Lexus LS over say a BMW 7-series or Mercedes S-class?

Wibbs

unkel wrote: »

That said, with my modest, untrained, naked eye, that entry level Rolex looks far, far more money than a top of the range Grand Seiko costing roughly the same

IMHO not even close and I'd bet the farm you'd say the same if they both had Casio on the dial.

unkel

CarProblem wrote: »

This guy makes nice videos, not the first time Rolex finishing has been poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPZURSJEDQ

Very interesting video. For the first 6 or so minutes, he shows the watch and gives details about the specs. It's the entry level Rolex watch, yet it looks great. The whole package is class, from the proportions to the bracelet

Then he shows macro pictures that reveal awful blemishes. Scratches, dents, the lot. Appalling is right.

Or is it? He mentions at least 4 times that none of these blemishes can be seen with the naked eye. So how exactly is it relevant then? I've always loved Seiko and always will and only this year have I bought a few Rolex watches

That said, with my modest, untrained, naked eye, that entry level Rolex looks far, far more money than a top of the range Grand Seiko costing roughly the same

micks_address

Do you mind if I ask price for the gs?

[Deleted User]

Fitz II wrote: »

what size is the watch?

40.2mm I think - not sure what it is lug to lug. I do not have big wrists however!

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

When taking photos it helps if you remove the stickers like in the last couple of shots.

I was just taking snaps before and after I removed and set the date. Uploaded the lot :P

redlead wrote: »

Thats actually amazing how superior the finishing is on the GS to those two, especially to the Omega. You hear about it, but cool to see the macro shots .

This guy makes nice videos, not the first time Rolex finishing has been poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPZURSJEDQ

Skyflake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkVqRio3IA

Original Snowflake

redlead

Thats actually amazing how superior the finishing is on the GS to those two, especially to the Omega. You hear about it, but cool to see the macro shots .

Ryath

The finishing and attention to detail on them really is something special. Well wear.

Click on pic for full res.

somebody_else

And now something different, last one for they year (at least for me).

Cyclingtourist

CarProblem wrote: »

Delighted with it so far - my photography skills and phone camera wont do it justice

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Nice watch.

When taking photos it helps if you remove the stickers like in the last couple of shots.

Wibbs

The quality of Grand Seiko finishing is off the scale. As good as anything at the top end of what the Swiss offer. The Spring Drive is a very clever piece of kit too and one of the true innovations of horology. That's a very nice piece of kit CP. Well wear.

SeaFields

Beauty. Am really considering a GS to mark something recently. Spending more time browsing in chrono than talking to the Mrs!

banie01

Well wear on the Snowflake, that is stunning!

Fitz II

That blue dial on the snokflake is lovely, what size is the watch? No denying that that is a high class watch wear well.

redlead

Congrats, that's a beautiful piece. GS really are the king of dials!

[Deleted User]

Ok I'll try this image hosting malarkey. Bought this in May - but it only arrived today :eek:

Was convinced the Chrono 24 seller had mispriced (this is the cheapest new one I've seen from the EU by quite some distance) and was hoping I'd cancel if they stalled enough but I stuck with it. Grand Seiko Skyflake (SBGA407) - while I know others have far more expensive/exotic watches this is a "big hitter" piece for me. Delighted with it so far - my photography skills and phone camera wont do it justice

Lorddrakul

Well, Christmas is a time for family, and stories of old and discovering ancient heirlooms!

A casual conversation with my Dad (in his 80s) revealed that his dad, born in 1900, gave him a watch he acquired in Dublin while working there in his youth.

As far as I can tell, it is a Gruen Precision Quadron, in art deco style, possibly in a nickel finished case, with the 17 jewel manual movement with a running seconds sub-dial complication. The numerals and general style date it to the second half of the 1920s.

I could not see any hall marks, but didn't have any tools with me, so I could not remove the later addition mesh strap to see if there were any marks on the inner lug surfaces.

On the back there is what looks like a machine engraving of a bouquet of flowers in a wide, shallow vase.

My dad says it still works if you wind it!

He has no history as to when or how my grandad acquired it, but as he worked mostly as a bar manager during his time in Dublin, in the 1930s, this must have represented quite an outlay. That said, my grandad was an accomplished amateur turf accountant, so this may have represented a big win.

It is a gorgeous piece and from an interesting company, having been founded in Cincinati in the nineteenth century.

If anyone has any knowledge or could point me to some decent sources, I'd appreciate it.

Fitz II

micks_address wrote: »

Such knobs (on those watches)

Bunch of Wagners

micks_address

Such knobs (on those watches)

Wibbs

Sticking with the old dudes

IrishPlayer

Another walk with a different watch

dinorebel

Wibbs wrote: »

What I've mostly been wearing this week:

As good or better than any Swiss movements of the time. And a time when American brands were far more likely than Swiss to be innovative and on more than one level with it.

Great as these are the Ultronic would never leave my wrist.

fulladapipes

It does indeed. I couldn't read the logo from the photo. Thanks

somebody_else wrote: »

Looks like Wagner

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MENS-WWII-era-WAGNER-Germany-airforce-PILOT-MILITARY-WATCH-good-condition-/183747626031

somebody_else

fulladapipes wrote: »

What is the second one from the left Wibbs?

Looks like Wagner

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MENS-WWII-era-WAGNER-Germany-airforce-PILOT-MILITARY-WATCH-good-condition-/183747626031

fulladapipes

What is the second one from the left Wibbs?

Wibbs

What I've mostly been wearing this week:

Mostly. I'm such a slut.

Though on a smaller size buzz of late.

Tonight this one in particular:

1914 American made Hampden. Cracking little movement in these.

As good or better than any Swiss movements of the time. And a time when American brands were far more likely than Swiss to be innovative and on more than one level with it.

Ian OB

saccades wrote: »

Watch glass cutting in Abergavenny - fixed my wife's smashed Raymond Weil a treat (Inc replacing one of the diamonds).

Do work for some of the watch bloggers (watch guy I think, where I got the name from).

Go raibh maith agat, I'll investigate them in the New Year.

fulladapipes

Christmas was good this year. A leather bund from Atelier de Griff in Belgium for the new Speedy, and a couple of books. The Man and his Watch book is very good; the Rolex one is effectively a reference book for every watch they've made up until recently.