Thread: What types of watches do you like?

My family has had fun with time capsules at our camping land. Long story but we put a questionaire in and one of the questions the last time was when will the watch quit? The closest one won the watch and you had to be present to win.

I won!

It is a little small for my wrist so I will have to get a battery and give it to one of my grandaughters.

Let me add my two cents about Rolex, my parents bought me one when they went to Switzerland, a day just (sic) with a white gold bezel, I don't know if they all have that, but be that as it may, to make a long story short, this was the worst watch I ever owned, as far as keeping time. I sent it back to Rolex twice and it still didn't keep time well, much less than being a superlative chronometer,. The third time I added a little letter asking how they got their reputation as being one of the best watches in the world, when I had to send a brand new watch back three times in a row, and how was it that this was a certified chronometer, did they not check? That time it came back working properly. If my life depended on it, I would use the Sea Vulture over the Rollie. Makes you wonder, one of the worst watch companies made a watch that I would bet my life on over an overpriced cult icon. JMHO

Any "good watch" can come off the production line with issues. Rolex is a mass produced watch. It's not as if it was custom made. When watches come off the line they get a certain amount of regulation but jarring in transit, magnetic fields and sloppy production and much more can cause a watch to run poorly no matter the brand. Reputation can be bought and mean little.

Personally, over the years, I've had plenty of issues with "very well respected Swiss brands" and what was worse was the treatment by their authorized factory service centers and incompetence.

You want a watch that runs great out of the box and doesn't cost much? Buy a Seiko or a Citizen. Right now I'm wearing a Citizen Diver which runs to within 3 seconds a day and it cost me less than 600 bucks.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Any "good watch" can come off the production line with issues. Rolex is a mass produced watch. It's not as if it was custom made. When watches come off the line they get a certain amount of regulation but jarring in transit, magnetic fields and sloppy production and much more can cause a watch to run poorly no matter the brand. Reputation can be bought and mean little.

Personally, over the years, I've had plenty of issues with "very well respected Swiss brands" and what was worse was the treatment by their authorized factory service centers and incompetence.

You want a watch that runs great out of the box and doesn't cost much? Buy a Seiko or a Citizen. Right now I'm wearing a Citizen Diver which runs to within 3 seconds a day and it cost me less than 600 bucks.

I couldn't agree more. Lately I've been seeing so many "hey look at me watches on most of the watch forums, and I don't care whose feelings I hurt with this comment but can anyone tell me what's so special about the Royal Oak from AP? Personally I think it's one of the ugliest expensive watches out there. Of course you're opinions may vary....

It blazed the trail when it comes to watch design and became an instant classic. You may or may not agree with that but you know it's like when someone told you to eat something when you were a kid and you didn't like it and they told you, you should LEARN to like it.

Har har.

Yeah I know it was Greold Gentas so called masterpiece, but still not for me.

I have one Rolex and I hate it. It was my fathers watch and I hated him. Plus it’s ugly. I feel compelled to keep it because it was his. But looking at it reminds me of him. Plus, it’s dated and ugly anyway. I’d like to trade it for a thousand other watches I can’t afford. But it just doesn’t feel right. So I don’t wear a watch now.

I'm wanting to get a nice dress watch for formal events, normal day activities I don't wear one though. Wanting to get a Cartier Tank, however think that might be silly with how little I would wear it. Might look at the Sieko tank alternative.

Seiko makes more models than you can shake a stick at. They make many thin dress type watches that are very affordable.

I think spending a mint for a watch you only wear maybe once a month or less is crazy unless of course you be a multimillionaire and it's just chump change to you.

So here's my story about this: I knew a guy who owned a pretty large construction outfit and he owned a solid 18k Patek. He finally thought, why did I spend so much for a watch I wear 3 or 4 times a year and it sits in a vault the rest of the time. So he started wearing it every day and he be a hands on guy who likes to get down and dirty with his concrete crew. The watch in short order looked like it well, fell into a cement mixer. I thought it was blasphemy to wear it like that. He thought he was getting his money's worth out of it.

Go figure.

When I was looking for a dress watch I considered the Rolex Day-Date 36 but went for an old Tudor, the Rose logo they had before the shield.
It is a wind up.


I had a Suunto dive computer but the strap broke…
maybe just bad luck, but now I use a different brand.
Another dive computer just went black, beyond repair. During a wreck dive
That made things interesting…