The (Less intimidating) Watch Thread
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Does the strap your thinking of, not come in the size you need?
The Seiko Prospex Land watch I posted a couple of days ago has 21mm lugs. If I was going to buy it, I’d like a more contrasting strap and a bit of variety and the two that spring to mind are the IH/Pinion cordovan strap in a brown (22mm) and the recently released OGL deadstock military webbing ZULU strap which comes in at 20mm. Bloody typical.
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I'm sure OGL could make you 21mm strap?
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I see.
I had a strap made by Richard for my Rolex. He can make any size you like but you would need to source a 21mm buckle or use a stock 22mm.
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I think you could trim down the edges of a 22mm strap and make it fit without looking junky. I think it would definitely look better than the undersized 20mm.
And manufacturers that make odd sized lugs are irritating. The worst are the ones that do completely unusable ones, so you're forced to stick with the choice they give you. Oris was one of the worst offenders at this for a long time.
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Wow, +-5s / year… Bravo, Citizen.
https://citizen.jp/s/product/the-citizen/lineup/detail/index.html?seihin_no=AQ4030-51E
I have one and I timed it monthly throughout 2012. It was -1.2 seconds for the entire year. There subtle fluctuations with summer/winter but the overall accuracy is untouchable.
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I don’t know about untouchable…multiband 6 is pretty hard to beat
Ok then untouchable for a self contained watch that doesn’t need satellite witchcraft!
And Multiband 6? What is this 2013?!
Go GPS or go home [emoji6]
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Looks like Metallica are getting into the watch game:
https://www.metallica.com/news/2018-08-27-time-marches-on-with-nixon-watches.html
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Actually Casio said in an email to a customer that the entire brand is moving towards Bluetooth sync. Hence, the new Gravitymaster is BT only.
I just got the Mudmaster GWG-100, solar and multi band 6. It's great for running (anything short of that size watch and I can't read it while running, and I have to keep track of the time or I will keep going and miss the beginning of my workday. Digital is unreadable while running for me. The UV backlight is really attractive.
The nice thing about MB6 is I can sync with the clock wave app. So even when I can't get signal I can still manually sync with my phone.
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Found my old "Speedy" in my actual Speedy's box. This was a great watch, loved the alarm back in those pre smarphone times.
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What a nice looking cuff!!
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Yep, the IHSH-165 is a beautiful shirt.
The Maya looks nice, too. Better than I remember it looking, in fact.
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Having umm’ed and ahh’ed over which watch to buy on this thread for about 9 months I’m ready to give up on the project and resign myself to being watchless. The reason for this is that having finally got together some watch money I found that watch money roughly equates to Good Art pimped shirt money and I’m shite at prioritising [emoji15]
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The Maya looks nice, too. Better than I remember it looking, in fact.
It's a nice watch. The drawbacks are: it's on the chunky side, the straps are held with screw bars, the bezel insert is probably aluminum. On the other hand, the case and bezel are nearly unscratchable & the face is super readable.
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^ looking forward to seeing that. It’s on my list for sure.
I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be an everyday watch, so I didn't want to spend more than about £400, so with the discount I think this is a bargain. I really wanted a mechanical watch too to fit with my sensibilities. I think I'll swap out the strap for a NATO band and have found some tasty looking mil-spec + versions that are on my list!
@neph93 well I hear it's waiting for me when we get home at the weekend. I'm excited.
But you are no longer in the market for a wrist watch? I'm lost without a watch. In this age of smart phones and functionally many people considering traditional watches being all but obsolete, I've gone back to full mechanical.
I'm also upgrading my android Samsung phone to a Nokia 3310. I'm done with this damn phone trying to run my life
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@Stuart.T about seven years ago my wife bought me a watch (not one I would have chosen myself) and I quite enjoyed wearing it but that was the first time I’d had one on since I was a teenager. I’ve always enjoyed jewellery but haven’t felt watched have played that role until now.
However while I like the idea of wearing a watch as jewellery, it will only ever be a trinket and therefore all the planned purchases are easily pushed aside by other fancies such as Good Art pimped IHSH-33’s. At the end of the day if I get £400 of play money and weigh up a nice Seiko or Hamilton against a Big Eye clip, a Club Ring or four or five more silver snaps on my shirt then the Hollywood silver is going to win. Because I’m a big tart. So I’m giving up watch shopping as a lost cause.
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@neph93 I can completely understand that. As you can see from most of my pics I wear a lot of silver jewellery. I always favour Crazy Pig Designs of London as they have a lot of sentiment to me….actually considering my next purchase soon!
