The (Less intimidating) Watch Thread
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Can anyone recommend a good quality leather watch strap maker in the UK? I’ve found the Toshi website and the offerings there look pretty good? Does anyone have experience of these?
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Equus Leather do some very nice watch straps. Unfortunately they cost £150 and up, so probably not in the scope of this thread.
Tender offer some good straps through the Trestle Shop in Bakers bridle leather. They're £45, but only come in an 18 mm width. (Someone should suggest to Will that a 20 mm model would be a good idea. The hardware could fit that size.)
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Equus Leather do some very nice watch straps. Unfortunately they cost £150 and up, so probably not in the scope of this thread.
Equus have a 15% off promotion that's running until 28th January, use code EQUUS15.
@neph93 the Visodate looks nice. I'd be tempted to push the budget up (err, nearly double it), and get the Tissot Ballade Powermatic, which has their sweet, chronometer grade movement.
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Hodinkee have a write-up of the Visodate, which seems positive. I found it whilst trying to find their article on the Powermatic watches.
They also have an introductory piece on the Ballade, which goes into why I like it, along with a hands on.
Whilst searching, I also found their hands on with the Tissot Heritage 1936. It's a nice looking watch, but now discontinued. (Jomashop still have them, and there's the similar T-Complications Squelette, though it's a more contemporary design.)
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Wide date windows have always annoyed me. They seem pointless and are unappealing aesthetically.
Otherwise, I kinda like it, too.
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I know in my heart that this is fugly but I'm still strangely attracted to it…
I know it’s not necessarily a “high end”
Watch, but Victronix makes some damn good watches.The jewelry store I bought my wife and I’s wedding rings from had a massive sale on some the week before our nuptials, so I bought myself and my father one.
He wears his ever single day, and it looks as good as it did the day I have it to him.
I wore mine primarily for the last 3.5 years and it was never more than a few seconds off time.
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Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical 38mm.
The picture's from Monochrome's piece.
It's a 38mm case (as the model names says), so not too big. It's got a hand-wound ETA movement, so should be accurate and reliable, as well as cheap and easy to get serviced.
I figured it might suit @neph93, as it looks like the baby brother of the Hamiltons he posted a couple of weeks back.
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conservative, and relatively straightforward…
So was John Major…
True, but I’m so Boris Johnson otherwise that I need a bit of Major for balance.
Does the Tissot have a grey face like Major too? I prefer a black face on my watches…maybe I'm more Diane Abbott in taste than John Major
