Date: February 28th, 2021 3:52 PM Author: Low-t dilemma
Tudor BB58 looks good as fuck and probably stands on its own but you just know everyone thinks "if it's not a rolex it's shit", otherwise I would have copped.
My latest buy was a nomos tangente, pretty good value for $1100 secondhand. In house manual caliber, sapphire crystals, and neutral enough I swap straps frequently between the OEM black shell cordovan, brown leather, and a couple colored suedes
Date: February 28th, 2021 3:54 PM Author: lemon shrine
I am interested in the Nomos Club Sport Neomatik 42, their new bracelet looks 180000 and it's durable enough to travel with, sufficient water resistance to swim in, etc.... I am not a Tudormo though. I am not a big PROLEX fanboi either TBF.
Date: February 28th, 2021 3:58 PM Author: Low-t dilemma
Woah that new bracelet looks sweet, although I wonder how it wears at 42mm. I'm not a wristlet by any means but the 35 wears huge compared to that number due to the long straight lugs.
The neomatik 41mm date would be my choice for the next one, having it display on the perimeter with the dots moving around bracketing the day is just so unique and cool
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:25 AM Author: henna love of her life
I copped a tangente as a dress watch for work like 2 weeks before COVID lol, with both the black and brown shell cordovan straps so I can match my ALLEN EDMONDS.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:33 AM Author: henna love of her life
Yeah I like the aesthetic and the slimness. It wears more like 38mm due to the lugs and dial size (dial is bigger than my 38-39mm divers and casual watches)
Would prefer a more true white dial vs a silver that presents as white in bright light, but it seems like silver is more common for dress watches these days
Date: February 28th, 2021 4:03 PM Author: erotic costumed forum
Will get an omega speedy sandwich this year, as well as an IWC climate action ingenieur from 2008. Mostly wear my explorer ii polar and my Apollo 13 speedy.
Date: February 28th, 2021 4:04 PM Author: lemon shrine
180, how do you like your Explorer II? I am considering picking up one of the older 40mm explorer IIs with a black dial and the red GMT hand. Prefer it aesthetically to the current model. IWC are 18000, I have a Le Petit Prince pilot chrono that I love.
Date: February 28th, 2021 5:25 PM Author: lemon shrine
That is a dope look, I don't even hate the GMT with the white meteorite dial, but I dig the steel pepsi on jubilee and the over the top LOL of the POTUS.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:30 AM Author: henna love of her life
Either another inexpensive vintage inspired dive watch (squale 1521, a kooky zodiac sea wolf, maybe a used oris divers 65, etc) or perhaps a stowa flieger klassikkk 40mm
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:43 AM Author: lemon shrine
Have a look at Yema. I’m wearing a Yema Superman Heritage63 right now, I think it’s better looking than the Oris but a similar vibe. They’re cheap and their new gen are in-house movements. Generally they offer a 39mm and a 41mm option.
Date: February 28th, 2021 4:09 PM Author: Low-t dilemma
Redpill me on these, it seems like a fashion brand found a way to charge $5k for a pretty cool looking watch. Does Chanel have some history with fine horology like Cartier? Or did they slap a stellita movement in a pretty case and mark it up 500%
Date: February 28th, 2021 4:10 PM Author: lemon shrine
"The movement inside is the cal. 12.1 produced by Kenissi, a movement maker now in Geneva that will inaugurate a massive new production facility in Le Locle in 2021.
Chanel owns a 20% stake in Kenissi, with the rest being owned by Tudor and a Swiss-French group that produces components for the watch industry.
Consequently, the cal. 12.1 is actually derived from Tudor’s MT5600 family of movements. It is COSC-certified, runs at 4Hz and has a 70-hour power reserve. Like the Tudor MT5600 family, the 12.1 has a free-sprung balance secured by a distinctive balance curved bridge."
I wear it during the work day so I seem like I'm responsive to meetings and emails when I get alerts on it. Other than that, it's just my running watch.
Otherwise it's either my Tudor BB, Sinn 857 UTC/VFR, or if it's formal a Nomos Orion.
Date: March 1st, 2021 9:08 AM Author: 180 sick mood theater stage
seems like the "step up" from the apple watch is the Garmin Fenix 6 etc.
Looks like a G Shock, has insanely good battery life (like 3 weeks) and GPS life. I'd get an apple watch but its hella lame to have to charge it every night
Date: March 1st, 2021 9:14 AM Author: Smoky mentally impaired house
i prefer the forerunner over the fenix personally
i wore a garmin for quite a while, got an apple watch then took it back. game changer for me was earpod pros + apple watch to be able to run with music/podcasts and not need my phone.
on the waitlist for a no date sub but thinking of maybe getting an omega speedmaster instead
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:38 AM Author: milky library therapy
You dont think it is freakin amazing beyond belief that you can have a 380 part perpetual calendar mechanical computer thing running on nothing but gears and a prayer on your wrist and that the calendar will not need any manual adjustments for 100 years? You are insane. Grand complication watches are AMAZING. I will grant that regular watches with no crazy complications can be flame but they are basically a way for upper middle class dudes to subsidize the grand complication builders. When you buy the $10k watch you are subsidizing production of the $60k crazy watch.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:44 AM Author: lemon shrine
Nah, watches are 180. It’s fine if you’re not into them but they’re 180. It’s not like anyone but other watch autists would recognize most nice watches, it’s something you do for yourself (unless talking about PROLEX).
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:37 AM Author: vivacious ebony goal in life
CR, a $200 is fine for worker ants who toil in obscurity and if they're late, they're late. For the sort of person a $20,000 watch is aimed at, precision matters. Proles don't understand this.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:40 AM Author: milky library therapy
Plus, a legion of slaves spent 3 months and 250 man hours doing the finishing by hand (assuming you arent buying a TTT Rolex). You are paying for that.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:54 AM Author: soggy claret corner faggotry
I use it to be able to fuck around at home then when emails or IMs come in, be able to walk back to my computer and respond ASAP. It makes me seem like I'm intensely online and engaged in my work when in reality I'm lifting, shooting pool, or shooting hoops w/ my kid.
Date: March 1st, 2021 7:09 PM Author: Multi-colored personal credit line pistol
It’s a great way to filter out whether or not something is important. Just flip up your wrist to see that last text was from mom: ignore. Got an alert about a new johnsmayer thread: pick up phone immediately.
Date: March 1st, 2021 10:56 AM Author: Stimulating Knife University
I work in private equity and everyone has an apple watch.
A couple MDs wear TAG (one rotates a shinola as well)
One principal has a panerai--he is the "watch guy"
A couple of the associates have gift rolexes
I wear a TAG I got as a graduation gift
Everyone else wears apple watch or no watch
I associate nice watches with chubby boomers and mustard on your tie aesthetic. All the new elite ppl are wearing lululemon work pants and apple watches and into FITNESS
Date: March 1st, 2021 11:42 AM Author: milky library therapy
Doing as new money does is faggot. Also, the elites not being into elite things is FLAME to try to protect their power. Because Zuckerberg wears an H&M hoodie we are supposed think he is a regular Joe and not rich enough to have everyone in the entire building killed. LJL at that.
Date: October 18th, 2021 6:41 PM Author: Beady-eyed honey-headed indian lodge
i'll drop this anecdote here, looks close enough:
i bought a yellow gold president last summer from bobs watches for $14k. they are currently selling them for $19.5k. i was interested in trading for the same model number in white gold, thinking it might cost me $5-1000 for the swap. laura cohen (seriously) responded to my email and offered me $14.5k max for mine, depending on condition. nice business model they've got.