The (Less intimidating) Watch Thread
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The Timex is going to go for $170
It's up on the Cabourn website now. The price is £129, so excluding VAT will be where @DougNg said.
If anyone's interested, it is a 36mm diameter, which is more common for vintage watches, and will be very small compared to the usual 40mm or so for modern designs. But that does mean it'll fit onto one of Tender's very nice oak bark tanned NATO straps.
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I saw one of the Cabourn watches at the newly-reopened Pickings and Parry in Melbourne. It's a really nice piece.
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@tmg unless you have forearms like Arnold Schwarzenegger at his peak, you'll find a small watch looks weird for a few days, and then you'll adjust. I think that there are a lot of weenies on sites like Hodinkee who're convinced that they can only get away with something in a small range. They're wrong.
I'm pretty big, but normally wear a Tender watch that's the same size as the Timex. I'm good with it. I'm also toying with an IWC Big Pilot's Watch, which has a corpulent 46 mm diameter.
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Hodinkee have a review of the Certina DS PH200M diver watch.
It's priced around $700, though not available in the US, which puts it in the same ballpark as a micro-brand diving watch. However, Certina is a part of the Swatch group, and (as such) benefits from their Powermatic 80 ETA movement.
Looks a decent piece. Might be worth investigating if you're into divers.
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ChrWard Trident Vintage Pro on top my ihsh-100
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I'm liking the full metal G-Shock that Casio announced at Basel.
There's a hands on at aBlogToWatch, and it's got some interesting tech built in. The watch can be connected to a smartphone to set the time or reminders.
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@neph93 you mean something like-this?
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I have mixed feelings about that metal square G-Shock.
On one hand, it's pretty cool and I kind of want one.
On the other hand, I feel like a $500 metal G-Shock is kind of an oxymoron. G's are supposed to be lightweight and relatively inexpensive (on top of being super durable).
It's like expensive Chinese food.
Or jumbo shrimp.
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You ever watch Ugly Delicious?
David Chang makes some interesting points about the historical denigration of Chinese food and why we think it has to be cheap. It's a good show…
