Watches! What do y'all have on your wrists?

[pseudoid]

My mate handed me one of her watches and asked if I can change the battery... I said sure and took credit for obeying to her commands, except that I did not tell her the one she wanted a fresh battery was an automatic!

This was the automatic watch:

She also does not know that I had paid just $20 USD on wish.com for it...
Hint: Valentine's is coming up and you can go cheap!

 

[Descartes]

None!

 

[cookiefactory]

I really can't see myself wearing anything but a "smart" watch of some kind. Even here the usefulness is barely existent so a "dumb" watch would be purely ornamental. Not knocking the hobby but just not my thing.

 

[JRS]

100 dollar solar citizen. Looks nice, never need to set it. Money saved funneled to things that matter, like a new Eigentakt that keeps it's own pure time.

 

[pseudoid]

Eigentakt

You mean "self-clocking" like synchronizing a timepiece to UTC, GMT, TCB, TCG, TDB, TDT or TT?

 

[Count Arthur]

You mean "self-clocking" like synchronizing a timepiece to UTC, GMT, TCB, TCG, TDB, TDT or TT?

I think he's talking about an amp: https://purifi-audio.com/eigentakt/

 

[pseudoid]

I think he's talking about an amp: https://purifi-audio.com/eigentakt/

You mean to tell me that I forgot the dang smilicon @the end?
I was rushed for time when posting, realizing that my watch was not eigentakt'd and running a bit slow.

 

[rdenney]

Wearing this for the last couple of weeks, and it’s obviously an old photo. One can’t hide when a photo was made of a properly set perpetual calendar, and that’s what this is—the Ebel Perpetual Calendar Chronograph, caliber 288, one of only a few dozen made. Assuming it is kept wound and never needed service (both false), it won’t have to reset except for daylight savings until 2100. It tracks day, date, month, and moonphase, properly accounting for month lengths and leap years. This is the grandest of the grand complication watches I own. But I’m glad I wear trifocals.

Rick “not looking forward to when this watch has to be serviced” Denney

 

[sunao]

Mine is very casual, accommodate Seiko.
I enjoy replacing it's strap occasionally, squeezing bezel in a morning, listening a sound of mechanics. Nice (^^)

I astounded my first post here becomes a watch, not audio things ...

 

[Jmsent]

Junghans Max Bill

 

[pseudoid]

I astounded my first post

Welcome aboard!
Was it also the very first post that you read all the pages of?

 

[pseudoid]

2022/02/15 WallStreetJournal reporting: "Why demand for vintage watches soared during the pandemic?"

 

[GD Fan]

Dusted off a favorite tonight.

 

[TimF]

Do you think if I bought the Omega (wrist watch) Speedmaster 57 Automatic Chronograph for a discount at $7,635, down from $15,000 that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, would say that I was too cheap to buy the Rolex Submariner "Kermit" Automatic Chronometer which is $26,500, I think, and not available at a discount. I sooooo love a discount.
I guess that does mean that I was too cheap to buy the Rolex. The damn shame of it. Oh, the shame.
I hate myself.

 

[DonR]

Mi Band 4

 

[rdenney]

Do you think if I bought the Omega (wrist watch) Speedmaster 57 Automatic Chronograph for a discount at $7,635, down from $15,000 that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, would say that I was too cheap to buy the Rolex Submariner "Kermit" Automatic Chronometer which is $26,500, I think, and not available at a discount. I sooooo love a discount.
I guess that does mean that I was too cheap to buy the Rolex. The damn shame of it. Oh, the shame.
I hate myself.

Neither one of those is discounted enough for me. I don’t own a Rolex in part because there were never any unique buying opportunities. And now they are just ridiculous.

But, yes, it means you were too cheap to buy a Rolex.

Rick “we will survive the shame…somehow” Denney

 

[Vict0r]

Picked up this vintage Citizen a while ago. I'm a sucker for 80'ies Seiko and Citizen chronographs. This was Citizens answer to the Seiko 7a28/7a38 series. I believe this specific model even predates them.

 

[pseudoid]

Per an article in WSJ this past week, the talk is that the "Vintage Watch Market" is very hot during our current pandemic situation. During which time, as people are stuck at home and pawning their vintage watches that are fetching some nice ROI.
Not similar to what has become of the used-car market prices but you may wish to consider your keep/sell strategy...
EDIT: This may be one of the articles of interest.

 

[Peterinvan]

Citizen Titanium Eco-drive
If you care about function over form, or you don't need a status symbol on your wrist. The band is very high quality. I use the bezel daily for timing my walk/swim/parking. Titanium is much lighter than SS. Accuracy between months when I change the date +/- 4 seconds. Only fault is the date is too small and recessed to read.

 

[JeffS7444]

Just spotted this article (non-subscribers will hit a paywall if site detects that you've already checked out too many articles lately):
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/fashion/watches-luxury-sustainability-social-responsibility.html
TLDR: Gen Z is expected to account for 70% of the luxury watch market by 2025 and they want their brands to reflect values of inclusivity and the planet, and purpose over profit.

The Mondaine watch people used to offer a version of their Swiss Railroad Watch made from recycled metals, and at the time I passed on it because I didn't know what those metals would be, or how long they'd last, versus stainless steel. I don't know if that was a good assumption, but at least I still own the watch.