Post pics of your watches Part II

Kev is my oldest friend....he had first refusal on that, never has any watch been so well suits to a person.

Just to clarify that by "oldest" he means long-standing. I'm still young and cool.

Have been very busy the last few weeks, (of which some is watch related, will post in more detail soon ;) ,so apologize for not being around much lately.

Took a fantastic walk out to Poolbeg Lighthouse today, lovely weather and great spot for some wrist shots :)

A Patek and wines for under €7, probably not a combination you’d see that often!

Cassiopeia (and Seiko Monster!)

New phone has astrophotography mode I've being trying out. Need to use a tripod and holder to get best results. Was just giving it a go while out walking our dog. Had tried a few other nights but the Seiko lume was too bright and blowing out the night mode! Shot tonight was about an hour after leaving the house!

Was a bit cloudy to they were being lit up by light pollution. I really don't understand why people feel the need to light up their houses like christmas trees in the country side. Just use sensor lights! I'll try with the tripod and go to a more isolated spot next clear night.

Not mine but it can get some pretty impressive shots.

Thats lovely but was going to say the strap is taking away from it . A rich brown strap will set it off

I've been messing about with different bracelets for the Speedie Mark II, including the Uncle Seiko US1171.

Then, just to see, I tried out the US1171, with the Speedie Pro hollow end links on something else.

Well, slap my leg and call me Henry, if it didn't fit just nicely!

Authentic vintage looks on a modern homage.

Ah wibbs. The ultronic diver. I missed out on one of those recently in Italy. I bid a grand, it sold for 1100. It was the green dial version.

Anyway. This has arrived from our japanese friends. It has an 8f56 movement, perpetual calendar and an accuracy of 20 s/y. It does have an integrated bracelet.

It has a pink dial, salmon pink, pink is not for everyone, Rolex do a pink, if you are wearing a watch and it's pink, it gets noticed. It's a Seiko and it's pink. That's the whole pink bit sorted.

Oh it's a GMT, it took a minute to figure out how that works, the minute hand and GMT hand are set by the one position on the stem. The hour hand is independent.

I am in in the hills outside Lisbon, and a little bit drunk. I just got somewhat lost in the hotels garden.

As far as I can tell late 90s early 2000. It's an 8f56-0020. There's this one and a black dialed version in steel. There is also a Titanium version.

The movement uses a large coin cell for a 10 year life. Setting the perpetual calendar is done by shorting contacts on the movement. If you pull out and return the crown, it'll index the date wheel to show the month, second hand will take a position to indicate which year in the leap year cycle it is.

Here is a better pic showing the handset and indexes.

As Madonna sings in Hung up, Time goes by so slowly.

Orange Doxa Sub, me holiday watch.

Just after arriving in the post! 🙂

After getting it out of the bubble wrap, I couldn't believe how nice it is! My journey into watchmaking begins! First thing will be to research the moment before diving in and of course get some tools.

Huge Thank You to @NIMAN for sending me this fantastic little Timex and to @banie01

No it is Sintra outside Lisbon. We planned to go to lake como but the forecast was for flash floods and 100mm of rain for the week.

There are currently three homages I know of, Maranez, Tactical Frog and Seestern. Theres also a bit of kerfuffle about a reissue of a Synchron Military by the chap who is credited with Doxas revival in the US.

beautiful spot, have you been down to cascais?

It really is a lovely watch

Gorgeous watch, does that have the roulette date wheel?

Red and black date wheel . I don’t think they’re available in the new model 41

Red/black alternating date wheel.

They really are great bang for the buck IMO. The German brands in general just have a combo of quality, craftsmanship and value that stands out.

Their retail prices have had a bump recently too but their range has a peg for most holes at this point IMO.

I am very much considering a couple of Sinn's at the mo, a 144 GMT chrono and perhaps an 856 UTC Lufthansa.