.300wm Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 Fair one Brown Dog, I think it's just what the Crown feel they need to do to stay in "mode" and keep their product line fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbal Posted August 25, 2015 Report Share Posted August 25, 2015 This I clearly getting too hi tech for me..... From the recommendation above I have been playing with the Watch Accuracy app and if i'm reading correctly it just gave me 0.1 seconds per day accuracy on my Sea Dweller. I very much doubt that is true or repeatable but I'll quit while I'm ahead!!! Tony OR, behind ............. by .1 sec ! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 Stupid, but made me laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1967spud Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 Stupid, but made me laugh: always fancied a breitling but had to make do with an alternative from a dodgy geezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradders Posted September 22, 2015 Report Share Posted September 22, 2015 Stupid, but made me laugh: When I posted one of those in the blank testing thread it got deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Is it me; or are these the most bizarrely butt fugly way of spending £10-20K possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggy Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 When you start reading up on the really high end watch market, many of them seen utterly fugly and bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Is it me; or are these the most bizarrely butt fugly way of spending £10-20K possible? I agree hideous. For me if money was no object http://www.patek.com/en/mens-watches/complications/5130J-001, But would like one of these http://www.rolex.com/watches/milgauss/m116400gv-0001.html I regret not buying one of these when I had the chance about in about 2008: http://campaign.vacheron-constantin.com/en/patrimony-ultra-thin-calibre-1731, said I would think about it over the weekend and when I called on Monday to say I would have it: it had been sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 I concur with you Brown Dog, the AP range of watches are a bit of a marmite watch, even their diver isn't really a capable tool watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggy Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 A 'plain' Royal Oak though, is pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 A 'plain' Royal Oak though, is pretty amazing. I just don't see it. Aesthetically, to me, it looks like an 80s Seiko that's been made by an apprentice (all angles and clunky and just hideously inelegant where the bracelet joins the watch). I wouldn't wear it if I was given it! https://www.watchmaster.com/en/audemars-piguet/royal-oak/15400st-oo-1220st-01/x5se3fjxvh?reference_code=SRJ7QVL7MT&MID=GB_SEP_1-2-0_2-13-0_3-170-0_4-127-0_0-0-0_0-0-0_0-0-0&lc=GB&gclid=CjwKEAjw7aiwBRCPgdu70arX70wSJADK6iDD7SH0sMRfP8szhtVWe_wWNglF6rlDbUyzaBQ8AC7NXBoCYS_w_wcB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggy Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 It's all a deliberate design choice - 'using steel as a precious metal'. I've said it before - the watch world would be dull indeed if we all liked the same thing. At the moment I'm enjoying my £100 custom Radiomir homage from Getat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted September 30, 2015 Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 In complete contrast to the AP; I find the Blancpain range of watches just gorgeous. http://www.thewatchgallery.com/shop/blancpain-villeret-6639-3637-55b.html Shame you don't see many of them around in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauer Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 Have citizen aqua land from 1996 as a present from then new wife ( now ex wife) the luminous backing version Worn everyday till not long ago , screen bit scratched but useable Then for 21st from my granny an accurist dress watch , not expensive but nice. Then wife with now another dress accurist Had a g shock but mode button stopped working so it languishes in my drawer somewhere till battery dies I wanted a metal,strapped watch but analogue hands and with a back light for,works could see in the dark. Now have a Casio,edifice in anodised black metal quite plain but can illuminate But seen a Rolex mil gauss black anodised but with green detailing, sounds ugly but really liked it ....some day maybe Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagged 77 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Since my Suunto Vector started letting in water from 10 years of hard use, I've taken an interest. For general outdoors I bought a new Suunto Core. I also have an Elliot Brown Mountain Rescue special edition and a Tracer T3 black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Bamford do a lot of anodising and PVD work Sauer if you're interested in that kind of thing. The prices are a little steep mind....... http://www.bamfordwatchdepartment.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted October 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Made me laugh (quite like the new acronym too!): Rolex: Wearing a Rolex is like driving a BMW 3 Series. It says you've got some money, but nothing interesting to say. Panerai: It’s an action hero watch for the guys who brag about cheating on their wives. IWC: This is the watch for the guy who gets cheated on by his wife. Richard Mille & Franc Muller: These watches are best left to the RAVs (Russians, Arabs, and Villains) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradders Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Why no Baume & Mercier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephentri Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Check out these nite icon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falconstare Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 15 year old seamaster chronometer, bought in geneva airport whilst intoxicated. Got an automatic for the price of a battery one in the drunken confusion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 15 year old seamaster chronometer, bought in geneva airport whilst intoxicated. Got an automatic for the price of a battery one in the drunken confusion! Sounds like a surefire win in my book!! Anyone seen the spec of the new Bentley Bentayga? One of the options is a $175,000 Breitling Tourbillon! Shame the car is so damn horrible looking that the watch cant save it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted November 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Just seen another ex-MOD Rolex Submariner being valued at £40K on BBC. Makes me weep: In 1986, whilst an impecunious student on a piss-up in Weymouth; I remember gazing into the window of a surplus store that had a Naval bent. Unusually for the time, it had a row of G10s surplus, there were also (I can still visualise this clearly) two rolex submariners on G10 straps. The Rolexes were non-date ex-mil surplus. I knew nothing more at the time other than the fact that I fancied one. They were £250 each...................£250!!..at the time, I didn't have the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDBenelliM1 Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Saw it aswell BD. The wife valued it at a grand, 'Tops' she said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.300wm Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 I too saw that episode of Antiques Roadshow, can't argue with £40k! Any idea what the COMEX models are going for these days? There are rumours in the diving world that there was a COMEX Deepsea released but I have yet to see any photos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan534 Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 Same here. Use a GShock rangeman 9400. Ace piece of kit gives me atmospherics and altitude for my shooting too. Always a bonus...originally G Shock were first on sale in 1983, and apparently in April 1983.... Oh that right I was born on the 9th April 1983.... Hahaha weird. Nice collection really I think you need a new G Shock in there also. All the best CZV +1 on the rangeman, compass and alt is great for nav too if used with contour lines (if you remember to set it). Keep looking at omega sea master but very pricy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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