That U-boat watch has character but your carbon fiber watch kills it...Today's fun "little" watch, an Italian U-Boat. Mechanical movement of course.
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Citizen Promaster Absurd Atomic Everything Watch
I recently got one of these. It has a built in slide-rule for doing multiplications, divisions and square roots. It synchronizes by long-wave radio in the middle of the night to an atomic clock reference in Fort Collins. It can predict the location of dangerous tornados. The thing is just daft. It's also enormous and heavy. Completely wrong for my girlish wrists and hands. In every respect it is completely not my style and that's why I like it so much. Absurd.When I look at the thing and consider maybe reading the manual, I feel like Richmond in this scene from The IT Crowd
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I saw this in a retailer. It was comically large. I am not a small person either and it made my wrist look Lilliputian.
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Oh man, that's got three sub-dials inside one of its sub-dials. I love it!
Watching 'The Man With The Golden Gun' last night, which I've seen a million times so was paying attention to the background stuff instead and noticed Scaramanga's cool watch.
After a rather a long struggle with the internet I worked out it must be a Rolex 'King Midas'.
Then I found this image:
I quite fancy one but at £30K second hand not realistically going to happen.
Given that Christopher Lee was the inspiration for the character of James Bond, this must mean that Scaramanga is - technically - cooler than Bond, and so the Midas must be a cooler watch than the Submariner.
After a rather a long struggle with the internet I worked out it must be a Rolex 'King Midas'.
Then I found this image:
I quite fancy one but at £30K second hand not realistically going to happen.
Given that Christopher Lee was the inspiration for the character of James Bond, this must mean that Scaramanga is - technically - cooler than Bond, and so the Midas must be a cooler watch than the Submariner.
Has anyone got a Tissot T-Touch Connect Sport? https://www.ablogtowatch.com/watch-review-tissot-t-touch-connect-sport-hybrid-smartwatch/
I'm thinking this might be my next watch, but I'll wait for the software and features to develop a little more first...
I owned the original T-Touch Titanium. I eventually broke this (completely my fault), so I paid for a fixed cost repair from Tissot and they gave me the choice of waiting 6 weeks for my mine to be repaired in Switzerland or accept a refurbished replacement straight away. I opted for the later (my watch was 10 years old and a little tired) and the replacement turned out to be a mint T-Touch Titanium II which I still own today. However, I've been wearing a Huawei GT2 Pro Titanium for the last 3 years, it's a great smart watch and goes a couple of weeks between charges, but I do miss the feel of the Tissot on my wrist. I think the Connect Sport would be perfect if they can add a few more features to get it closer to the GT2 Pro (displaying the time (or alternate time zone digitally and intermittent heart rate monitoring during sleep would be the main ones)
I'm thinking this might be my next watch, but I'll wait for the software and features to develop a little more first...
I owned the original T-Touch Titanium. I eventually broke this (completely my fault), so I paid for a fixed cost repair from Tissot and they gave me the choice of waiting 6 weeks for my mine to be repaired in Switzerland or accept a refurbished replacement straight away. I opted for the later (my watch was 10 years old and a little tired) and the replacement turned out to be a mint T-Touch Titanium II which I still own today. However, I've been wearing a Huawei GT2 Pro Titanium for the last 3 years, it's a great smart watch and goes a couple of weeks between charges, but I do miss the feel of the Tissot on my wrist. I think the Connect Sport would be perfect if they can add a few more features to get it closer to the GT2 Pro (displaying the time (or alternate time zone digitally and intermittent heart rate monitoring during sleep would be the main ones)
BR 03 Cyber Rainbow (Ref: BR03-CYOW-TC/SRB)
Estimate: CHF 45,000 - 55,000
Bidding is still open...
Make sure to request a 'spare' band.
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Beautiful. Just as impressive is what looks like a polished chrome 35mm camera of some type. Amazon has the watch, but makes a distinction between "swan neck" and "no swan neck" models. What does that mean??? Please advise.
That is a beautiful watch... sigh* It even has the red star...
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The "swan neck" is an additional part that allows fine regulation of the watch's timing by turning a screw instead of moving a lever (which is hard to do precisely in practice). It also looks nice.
The movement above does not have it, the one below does (circled in red):
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In keeping with the Seagull theme, the shiny thing on the side of the photo is a scale metal model of a Seagull 205 film camera. Real Seagull 205s are uncommon in the USA.
"Seagull 1963 PRC Air Force Watches" come in a number of variations, from who-knows-how-many different manufacturers. But all seem to use a genuine Seagull (or should I say, Sea-Gull) ST1901 movement. I have no idea why they hyphenate the name.
Most collectable would probably be the Sea-Gull manufactured in Tianjin, but it was a limited run, and prices seem to start around 500 USD. And to be honest, I'm not sure how much difference there is, aside from premium packaging, a totally different, non-display back, and possibly, some added detailing on the sub-dials of the watch face. For my purposes, I figured that a watch from Sea-Gull's sub-brand Gigididi would suffice. AFAIK, Sea-Gull and Gigididi-brand watches aren't offered with goose/swan-neck movements.
My specific example has some added detailing on the movement, including an air force logo.
Stainless steel case
38 mm dia face (Gigididi actually lists it as 37.5 mm)
Dome-style crystal, seems to be glass or similarly hard substance
I’m new to watches, but why would anyone outside of China want to commemorate its military in 1963?
Same reason people wear Che Guevara shirts without really understanding what the man stood for?
Seagull watches are nice because you get relatively complicated watches for lower cost. Unlike
HiFi, the Chinese made watches aren’t SOTA in any way, but they are value priced if you want to learn to play with watchmaking and regulating a watch with a tourbillon or something super complex. The Seiko 5, is another good option to learn to play with a watch movement, but you cannot get the exotic stuff.
Some people like Glashutte Original watches which are East German inspired. Those are pretty sophisticated in their mechanisms but they aren’t as precise as a Rolex or Tudor (among mechanical movements).
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In at least one of his novels, William Gibson explored how products originally designed for military purposes become cutting-edge fashion. And Gibson wasn't the only one to notice:
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/military-style-invades-fashion/index.html
For me, this is simply a nice wristwatch at a bargain price, and the use of the red star imagery in a luxury product is the sort of irony I like.
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