Spent a long weekend in London. Had a look in Bucherer, Watches of Switzerland and a seiko boutique. Heaven! Just need a big bag of money now.
I was surprised by the amount of preowned Rolexes available in store.
Normally a good place to find them 👍🏻
Did you see the new Seiko Diver GMT with green face and bezel (very similar to a Sjmo with GMT) and if so what did you think of it? Just seen it online so far and very impressed
Have seen it in a few jewelers. It actually looks better in the flesh I think. The Sumo is right at the size limit of what I can get away with though.
Did see the new Seiko srpk17 yesterday really like it and was very tempted. It's not quite as legible as I'd like though, hands could be a little thicker with more lume.
I'd be 99% certain they're will be a Pogue version of it next year. Even as a 3 hander with the gold dial and Pepsi bezel I'd buy it. An auto chrono seems unlikely because of price but maybe they'll use a solar movement or an auto with GMT subdial would still look the part.
I looked at the 3 new Save the Ocean Prospex too. Really liked the dial on them but not the blue hour hand with it. Prefer last years Manta Ray, think I'm going to pick up the Dark Samurai version though I'm still tempted to blow the budget and get the SPB297J1 65 Glacier Dial. It's a lot of the reason I held of buying the Seiko 5 yesterday.
Before he was married and I came along, in 1954 my dad walked into Tiffany in New York where he was living and working at the time(New York, not Tiffany) and bought this:
14Kt Gold "knotted lugs" Longines made in 1950.
Movement imported, cased(by US company Apex) and timed in America by Longines Wittnauer in New York. Back then there were humongous tariffs on imported goods, particularly precious metals, so Longines imported "raw" movements and dials, cased them up locally, made them look more "American made" to avoid the tariffs(like this one they often don't have "Swiss" on the dial). Longines who had always been one of the most popular Swiss brands in the US and the Americas in general got even more traction and were shipping nearly 200,000 movements per year into the states after 1945.
Clearly a good plan so Jaeger LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin approached Longines to get in on the gig and VC and JLC watches went through the same process at the Longines Wittnauer factory. They also came up with the US only LeCoultre brand.
Weirdo lugs were a thing for the 1950's in the US. Knotted lug designs were as 50's as big finned cars and others took up the design after Longines, so you can find them on Benrus, Bulova, Gruen, JLC/LeCoultre(identical cases to the Longines examples, which makes sense as they were put together in the same factory)
Did The Da get a Tiffany dialled example? Feck no. Let me down there, the fecker. 😁 I did ask him why once and interestingly his take was Tiffany was more a "feminine" brand and shop, so why would a man have that on the dial? He did have the receipt, but that got lost years ago. When I was a kid, though he used a chap on Dame St in Dublin to service his other watches, he used to wrap this watch in paper in a large matchbox and send it in the post with a covering letter and loads of stamps to Longines in Switzerland to get a service.😮 A few weeks later it would come back in the same post with a receipt for work done, usually with catalogues, sadly also long gone. He'd then send them a bank draft for the cost. Different more innocent times. 🙂
I see the Glacier is about €1500 here, but ebay have a new one for €770, at least before the VAT man gets it!
does anyone have any thoughts on this watch? I've been able to source this new for just over the 800. Will be my first "expensive" watch so to speak and will wear it regularly but not all the time. Had been looking at Tissots also but this one stood out to me.
Hamilton are a good solid watch in that price range and hit above that price range in a few ways.
It's very dressy IMHO. But then again, if you like it.....
i learned a long time ago if i like a watch not to ask other peoples opinions on it because you're likely going to get someone come in and mug off something about it that you then can't get out of your head and it ruins the watch
if you like it buy it and enjoy it @Browney7
Very nice. Where is it new for €800? Looking at Hamiltons myself. One you linked is quality but I'd prefer it without the power reserve indicator. From my experience the power reserve indicator is pointless. You check the time each morning and give the watch a few winds, no need to know the reserve, it takes from a clean dial. But some people like them
Thanks all - watch purchased and delighted with it. I've a dressy occasion coming up so that was influencing the decision...just have to go buy a nice dive watch now!!!
@Cienciano I got it in 'Hour Passion' and they had a good selection of Hamiltons - nearly pulled the trigger on an American Classic Spirit of Liberty which was a little cheaper.
Just out from my brother's funeral mass. No watch talk but? Churches in Ireland were definitely built with shorter Irish folk in mind than our family 😉
Granted they were all probably built in an era where the diet was subsistence rather than the gluttonous range of menu choices we have these days.
Of the 4 boys remaining, we are 6'4", 6'3, 6'2 and the runt is 5'10 (we love him anyway🤣) and my son and nephew both 6'2ish.
Anyways as we shouldered our brother out of Charleville church, we literally had to limbo under the doors.
Then as we stood outside and a pile of my deceased brothers boy racer & biker friends decided that burning rubber was a far more appropriate way to waft prayers for Colin, than incense 🚗🔥
My son turned to me as cars were donutting on the N20 and asked "Are, are we white trash?"
I thanked him for the family guy reference and told him we are definitely trash adjacent.
Sorry for your loss, mate.
However, I also would prefer the aroma of Castrol R 2T, and the smell of burning silicon, lamp black and rubber than the miasma of frankincense from a censer and the murmurings of some senile celebate.
Oh I agree, church wouldn't be for me, especially after today to be honest. 1st time doing a cremation and I'm a fan of the lack of religiosity and far more human touch to it.
The requiem mass was for our dad and others. My Mam & Dad and the younger side of the family moved down to Charleville about 13yrs ago. The help, support and kindness from the entire community down there during my brother's illness has been staggering. Blow-ins or not? They were well minded.
My brother's place was in Ballyhea and had him reposing at home Monday evening and Tuesday. He had a love for anything with an engine and he made friends easily. Yesterday as he was waked, there were at least 7/8seats of tyres burned out from wheelspins in his yard and the road in front of his house.
This morning after his mass and before we went to the crematorium. His friends layed down a lot of rubber.
Same again back at his house today.
I know its silly, but it made me smile
B, really sorry for your trouble, had hoped he would bounce back after your last post regarding his illness.
Glad he had a fitting send off, seems he had unleaded in his veins.
R. I. P. And condolences to you and yours.
Really appreciate it H. It's been quite the month. I was down with Col last Wednesday to drop him off a photo of his whiteboard. My young lad had drawn a sketch of him on it last Monday and Col wouldn't leave anyone near the whiteboard in case they smudged it or God forbid wiped it 😉
I told him I'd be down with a photo print of it on Wednesday so not to worry if anything happened it. I got back down to him with the photo in a frame. I arrived down whilst he was with his physio and she was delighted with his progress, so much so that she asked me to bring down his runners so they could start work on getting him walking.
Then Thursday morning he suffered a 2nd haemorrhagic stroke and was gone. I can't praise the staff in CUH enough, they really fought to give him every chance possible.
Further to that the crew from ODTI who coordinated Col's organ donation. It's my 2nd time around with donation but during the 1st. There was no ODTI, it was done via the team in Beaumont. It is a far better process now. The coordinator arranged locks of hair and handprints from Col and they will be treasured by those that get them.
I'd say "it's been quite the month" doesn't even come close. Talk about a roller-coaster.
Worked in cuh in the past (non medical) and with family working there still I know what you mean about those depts giving their all. Everyone should work in a hospital at some point, real eye opener on many levels, was for me. They move the world for all patients where they can.
Take some time for yourself Banie and again, condolences to ye.
Might just pick me up a second hand bargain...
Rolex, Patek Prices to Keep Falling as Supplies Remain High, Morgan Stanley Says
* Secondary market price declines to continue: Morgan Stanley
* Most Rolex, Patek, AP trade above retail despite price drops
Them crypto bros need a dig out.
Thinking this might interest some on here. Finally managed to take a trip to the IWM Duxford. Was in a few aviation museums, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington DC and Kbley Aviation museum Prague but Duxford was the highlight!
Bit of a trek, heading from Reading through London towards Cambridge but completely worth it!
The minute I entered ,B17 bomber was just about to touch down! Here's a video of it taxing
Also spotted a Hurricane pass by
Absolutely incredible place! So many amazing aircraft! One that stood out for me was the B52, absolutely massive! Here's a link to an album of pictures from the day
Next on my list, The tank museum Bovington! 😎
Friend has always raved about Duxford. Hopefully will get to it next year
Seems slightly surreal to me that this watch likely was on my father's wrist when he flew Hurricanes:
Duxford is a short trip from Stanstead. Make a grand day trip.
Really have to visit Duxford some day.
However, I only recently discovered this place...
Planning a trip before the end of summer.
i took my son to the raf museum in london a few months ago and can't recommend it highly enough, it is certainly possible for a day trip, it has 6 hangers to check out and we were there for 4 hours and it is free too
I might take a spin there via SNN - STN before uni term starts 🤔
20 minutes from my house to SNN and 25 from STN to Duxford.
i am not sure if anyone else has followed the timepiece gentleman lately so thought i would share the latest, his consignment model was basically a massive ponzi scheme and he is now in trouble with $5m in debt to customers and other dealers, he seems to think he can recover from it and has made a video about it since everything was exposed on reddit
The question here now is could this end the consignment model with other companies like nico
Help Me Please 😱
So I'm considering a few future watch purchases which may include an Invicta 1953, perhaps a Yema of some sort and maybe a Timex Q but, before all of that, I have seen and kinda want the below. It's really not a handsome watch, I'm sure there's no real redeeming qualities of any sort but, it's the sheer ridiculousness of it that has me wanting it (I would prefer it with a black dial but hey):
https://www.jomashop.com/invicta-hydromax-quartz-green-dial-dive-mens-watch-44745.html
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCCA_en&sxsrf=AB5stBitUDljwdRf4bj5FAJ_U8fhNhUEcQ:1691050067967&q=INVICTA+Hydromax&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_w-S0hMCAAxVdVkEAHV-iA8EQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1920&bih=969&dpr=1#imgrc=dvAsNqD-LfbWzM
Talk some sense into me please.
Gotta be a hard no from me but hey who the hell am I if you dig it.
I just see some David Beckham wanna be with too much lynx and brylcream wearing it lol.
29mm thick, good jaysus.
