Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

Best of luck with it

i tried ignoring my gut instinct years ago over the size of a watch and it was impossible to shake off

That was a lady's watch though at 37mm 😂

Beautiful all the same, was very tempted to buy it myself when 893 mentioned it for sale here first.

Just wondering if anyone has purchased a watch from The Little Green Bag?

Spotted a lovely Casio at a decent price I think.

https://www.thelittlegreenbag.ie/watches/g-shock/classic-ga-2100-1a1er/91860?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3eGfBhCeARIsACpJNU_DlBCTI7xJUJABF5GiozW1ltF0vbYzgET_okauhJBNSHpMBFjYQzsaAjqzEALw_wcB

185 delivered from there.

Is the green bag in the eu for customs?

For anyone interested I purchased a watch from “the little Green bag” and all is well. Ordered Sunday received today.

Exactly that @banie01 😂

Search on tz-uk is brutal but nowhere near as bad as on boards.ie

Took a trip into London today to see the Clock Maker's Museum which I didn't get around to last time I was there. Here's more details about it:

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/clockmakers-museum

Free to visit, located in the Science Museum along with many other exhibits to see.

Here's some pictures of the Watches and Clocks on display

Album 1.https://ibb.co/album/Y7yCtw

2.https://ibb.co/album/XXgMpC

3.https://ibb.co/album/pJWz7S

Another part that was of interest to me and I know some on here as well was the Flight exhibit. Some really cool aircraft, including a Me 163 Komet along with engines used in the 262 and He 162

Also got to complete the pictures from my grandfather's honey moon trip to London in 1967

Victoria Memorial

Thanks for that LD, I actually know next to nothing on the production spam of the MK2 and any info is appreciated.

I'm not currently looking for a birth year watch but, it could and would be used as part of my excuses should the need arise. Maybe for my 50th but that's still more than a few years off 😉

Edit

The Sinn 303 sold, I'd say cheaply too tho it was good value at what it was listed at. So the field is narrowing.

Welcome 😁

You already have a nice pair to start off with and you are already succumbing to the virus of "nextwatchitis" 🤣

Some nice ones on your list too.

Hey @mik_da_man - good to see you in here 😁

I second @OmegaGene. The seamaster is a fantastic first step into luxury watches. It was my grail watch for a very long time, until I could finally afford one. Was very happy owning it for years - as my only watch! Until some bastards in here started planting the love for Rolex into me. I still don't know how they did it, but they won 😂

My meandering over on Reddit's faker's corner has brought my eye to this.

A fake of the automatic winding module from the Rolex 3235. Now what's catching my isn't the effort that was made by the factories faking this yoke. Rather, it's the fact that not only did they make a decent effort at it, albeit let down by the finishing. It's that the part itself, and much of the entire fake movement are interchangeable with the real thing.

I know Wibbs touched on the problem of vintage Franken-watches and mixed origin pieces particularly older Rolex with cases from Vietnam and fakers matching spec of old stuff. Seeing relatively new stuff being faked to this level? Is as I always end up saying, very worrying for those of us with little knowledge.

If ever the adage of buy the seller needed reinforcement, this should be it.