Watches - another OCD problem
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Watches and Wonders is coming in a few weeks, and new watches are being released in the run-up. Blancpain has just announced the Fifty Fathoms Tech - Ocean Commitment IV, which is a 45 mm titanium piece. Jason Heaton drew the short straw and got sent to the Philippines to test it.
The watch looks quite nice, but I'd probably get a Bathyscaphe in titanium in preference.
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@mclaincausey I like the SeaQ Panorama Data more than the Fifty Fathoms, and I think that it's better finished. However, the FF is a bit slimmer, which makes it more wearable.
Of course, I'd probably buy an Omega Ploprof instead, which is the same sort of price, and far less practical...
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@Graeme fair. Though I would go for a regular FF over this one personally.
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I was looking at the mark XX recently. all these IWC pictures are tempting
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Watches of Switzerland has opened a dedicated Rolex boutique on Old Bond Street. It's a conveniently short stroll from Rivet and Hide. Hodinkee has published a write-up, which is basically a PR puff piece. (There are a lot of snarky comments asking whether customers can actually buy watches there.)
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Keep walking, Grand Seiko isn't too far away on New Bond St...
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I haven’t got the watch game of many here, but I’m proud of this Carrera Heuer reissue from 1996 that I picked up 10 odd years ago. I’d always liked the Carrera TAGs, but this reissue just struck me as classic and unfussy.
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@Bridger Thanks. Although made after Heuer sold and they became TAG Heuer, they did the re-creation of the 60s classic right by keeping the old logo. They even kept it to the original 36mm case, a lot smaller than most watches today, but another feature I quite like.
A quick check shows it worth a little more now than what I paid 10 years ago, but still quite affordable. I also discovered they did a Monaco re-creation the following year in 1997, along the same vein - Heuer branding, small case - and now I'm wondering if I should add it to the collection ...
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@ManiacLachy said in Watches - another OCD problem:
I also discovered they did a Monaco re-creation the following year in 1997, along the same vein - Heuer branding, small case - and now I'm wondering if I should add it to the collection ...
Would be a shame not to have a matching set...
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My inflight neighbor was wearing a model that looked like this. Does anyone here have one? Thoughts? It looked like a great balance of causal and stylish.
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@Bridger the Portugieser Chronograph looks a lovely piece, but I haven't paid much attention to them. I do like the Year of the Dragon model with the red dial, though.
They swapped the movement out from a Valjoux, ETA, or Selita calibre to an in-house one in 2020. The versions with the newer, in-house movement have a sapphire back, whereas the older models have a solid caseback.
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The red is cool @Graeme, but I like the more less attention grabbing white.
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@Bridger I used to own a Portugiesier with the black dial. One thing I didn’t quite get until after I bought it was that its 42mm size is nearly all dial so it wears much bigger compared to a similar size watch like a Sub or a Seamaster.
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That's a good point @broadstreetbully and probably the reason that I am attracted to it.
May I ask why you got rid of it?
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@Bridger I started to type a whole diatribe but instead of putting you through that the short and simple answer is that it was stolen before I could sell.
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Ah shit @broadstreetbully, that sucks. Sorry man.
