Show your watches!

[DaveP]

Other than a Seiko Kinetic, I wear whatever Walmart has that I like for under $20!

I've always put the money in guitars and worn a cheap watch that I don't have to worry about scratching or damaging. Sure, everyone wants a Rolex Oyster, but we all have our preferences for collecting.

Nice watches, everyone. I have always been interested in fine watches. When I was a kid, everyone would give me their old watches and I took them apart to see how they worked. I seldom was able to fix one, but then I was 9 or 10 at the time.

I do have a Hamilton railroad gold pocket watch that my Grandad kept and used as a conductor for Southern Railway during the first half of the last century. He passed it down to my Dad, who passed it on to me. I wonder what it's worth.

 

[Surf Monkey]

PM me some pictures of your Hamilton and I'll identify it for you, Dave.

I have a similar watch. It was my great grandfather's Hamilton when he was a conductor on the L&N line. He used the same watch for his entire 35 year career with the railroad.

 

[lasttango]

I've always put the money in guitars

I tried collecting those too...
Man... should probably stick to vinyl lps.... more my budget...

 

[DaveP]

PM me some pictures of your Hamilton and I'll identify it for you, Dave.

I have a similar watch. It was my great grandfather's Hamilton when he was a conductor on the L&N line. He used the same watch for his entire 35 year career with the railroad.

It's in a sock at home. I'm at the beach this week, but I'll take a snapshot and post it when I get back. He worked for Southern Railway until retirement and kept that watch the whole time. Last time I looked at it, it was in nice shape. I think he kept it in a watch pocket. Not many people have ever thought about a watch pocket! It's that tiny little pocket in your jeans you never use.

Nowadays, lots of people don't wear a watch, they just look at the cell phone screen. I've always worn a watch and felt strange without it.

 

[DaveP]

I tried collecting those too...
Man... should probably stick to vinyl lps.... more my budget...

I used to trade mine on new ones. Now I wish I still had the Cherry Red Ventures Model Mosrite (1965), The Hagstrom (1966), the Microfrets (handmade 1968), and the Wine Red Gibson SG, (1978). I still have the 1979 Fender Strat I bought new, a Gibson Les Paul Studio (1992), and two Epiphone Les Pauls, one Goldtop and the Heritage Cherry Les Paul flametop, plus a Peavey Foundation bass, a Fender Telecaster, and a couple of acoustics. They aren't collector guitars that are worth huge prices, but they all mean something to me.

Getting back to watches, what is it that makes a $3000 watch worth $3000 new?

 

[lasttango]

Getting back to watches, what is it that makes a $3000 watch worth $3000 new?

Well... same as a guitar really. Craftsmanship... rarity etc...
a timex tells time too... and my uncle can make a broken $50 Yamaha guitar sound beautiful ;-)

For me... it's the complex and delicate symphony of parts inside the watch... I care more about what is on the inside that what is on the outside...

I find wristwatches beautiful... cool...

The engineering that goes into An IWC, Patek Phillipe or Panerai Luminor is phenomenal... even a rolex, omega, ebel etc...

Why is a Maserati more than a Subaru? or a Gibson more than a Guild?







Another dream watch...

 

[lasttango]

PS: Great "Through the Wormhole" w/ morgan freeman this past week... on TIME

Is time real?

Is it something we imposed in order to make sense of our world?
Did we construct time?
Or is it eternal?
Which came first... Space or Time?

 

[MagnusEunson]

Yeah, that tier above Rolex and Breitling, .. that tier has some amazing engineering..

The brands mentioned already and the De Bethune or Dottling. There is this one by De Bethune that I can't get out of my head...

Things I'd never own even if I could afford it. I just don't fit that quality of timepiece. -Magnus

 

[Wylie]

This is my oldest watch. It was made in 1871. It was my great, great grandfather's.

Very beautiful!

Here are a few of my favorites:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/gg/136838-gg-family-pictures-49.html#post3526152

 

[Surf Monkey]

That Panerai GMT is a thing of amazing beauty.

 

[PlanetScribbles]

I can't compete with the above class acts, I do have the titanium Seiko Kinetic I showed off before.
I also recently purchased this quite nice, albeit rather generic movement, ltd edition commemorative

 

[DevilFishPhil]

I'm not a big watch nut, but I do have a soft spot for this watch (more for sentimental value, although I do love how timeless it is)

 

[Sly9377]

Here are my 3 good ones

 

[lasttango]

I am also a big fan of the Accutrons... the old tuning fork movements. Particularly the 214's...

 

[lasttango]

Thinking of picking this up... saw it today in a store... Very Rare JLC... Caliber 479... very few of these out there. 1950's Military...

 

[Surf Monkey]

Very nice!

 

[lasttango]

I am pretty excited... I ended up pulling the trigger on this... very rare... JLC Military with the authentic Cal. 479 Mark X Movement... check out the pics... mine is identical... but with a bit more wear on the case... the inside of mine is as pristine and shiny as the one pictured here...

 

[AlmightyGod]

Nice!

Now I need a new watch!

 

[RXDI]

 

[lasttango]

Love that dial