Thread: What types of watches do you like?

I really love Citizen Eco-Drive watches. I also have their signature series which are very nice. I also have Bulova which is a precisionist watch that runs on battery and love a pocket watch when working on the farm. Now pocket watches must be mechanical!!!! Call me old school on that frame of thought!

I like a relatively big automatic dive watch that doesn't cost thousands of dollars. I have a big ol' 8 1/4" wrist, so big watches work for me.

Here is my current favorite. It's a 45mm Deep Blue Sea Ram 500m. It has a Miyota 9015 28.8k bph movement, a sapphire crystal, and a ceramic bezel and cost me $250 on sale:

There's big and there's big. With a wrist like yours you can carry a watch in the upper 40mm category as opposed to me with a 6.75 inch wrist. The problem is many of these "professional" divers and sport watches are very thick like 16-18mm and they are magnets for collisions with everything and they won't fit under a shirt cuff. You also get to a point with many where the thing just feels like a lead weight on your wrist and if they aren't designed well they flop around or fit unconformably on your wrist.

Of course it's personal kind of thing. Many like wearing big clunky watches.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There's big and there's big.

Panerai Egiziano...






Cheers,
Rob

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

There's big and there's big. With a wrist like yours you can carry a watch in the upper 40mm category as opposed to me with a 6.75 inch wrist. The problem is many of these "professional" divers and sport watches are very thick like 16-18mm and they are magnets for collisions with everything and they won't fit under a shirt cuff. You also get to a point with many where the thing just feels like a lead weight on your wrist and if they aren't designed well they flop around or fit unconformably on your wrist.

Of course it's personal kind of thing. Many like wearing big clunky watches.

Actually the watch I have pictured is 15mm thick and 52mm lug to lug. I've worn it pretty much everyday for the better part of a year and it has no major dings on it from collisions. I find it very comfortable and it fits me well. I work IT, but usually work from home, so I'm in a t-shirt and jeans (or shorts depending on the season) every day. Even when I do go into the office, we have a casual dress code, so mostly t-shirts there too. I can't actually remember the last time I had to wear a shirt with cuffs.

Actually, with my wrist size, when I put on a 40mm watch, it feels and looks like a women's watch on me. My sweet spot seems to be about 42mm-45mm.

Originally Posted by Donut

Panerai Egiziano...






Cheers,
Rob

Hey Rob,
Isn't that Egiziano 60mm? That IS big!

Murf

Nice fit.
Don't shoot me, l have always wonders what's with the increment's of 20 on the most outer part of the watch. They look fixed? What pupise does it have? If you would rather you can pm me too.FYI: I have the same markings on a chrono face. Do may just be esstetics as far as I know on the watches I have had. Sorry for the hijack.

Originally Posted by murf

I like a relatively big automatic dive watch that doesn't cost thousands of dollars. I have a big ol' 8 1/4" wrist, so big watches work for me.

Here is my current favorite. It's a 45mm Deep Blue Sea Ram 500m. It has a Miyota 9015 28.8k bph movement, a sapphire crystal, and a ceramic bezel and cost me $250 on sale:

Originally Posted by whoever

Nice fit.
Don't shoot me, l have always wonders what's with the increment's of 20 on the most outer part of the watch. They look fixed? What pupise does it have? If you would rather you can pm me too.FYI: I have the same markings on a chrono face. Do may just be esstetics as far as I know on the watches I have had. Sorry for the hijack.

That is the dive timer. The bezel turns counterclockwise, so when you start a dive, you rotate the bezel so that the arrow (shown at 12 o'clock in my pix) lines up with the minute hand. The marks on the bezel are in minutes, so you can tell how long you have been down. The reason the bezel only rotates counterclockwise is so that if it should be inadvertently bumped and moved, it will only go in the "safe" direction, meaning it would show you have been down longer than actual instead of shorter than actual which could cause you to run out of air unexpectedly.

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

Let's switch gears for a moment, there are many fine watch manufacturers out there. However, if anyone, picked up a watch annual lately? Have you seen the prices have you seen the prices of some of these upper tier watches? I so watch manufactured by a company called DeWitt the watch was absolutely gorgeous. And then I looked at the price a mere $750,000 then I looked at some of the Zenith brand their top-of-the-line deify chronograph is in the same neighborhood at about $500,000, it must be nice to be able to go out and buy these. The frightening thing is that they're selling, must be nice.

Originally Posted by ReardenSteel

For a thing which tells time? That is insane. I thought I had splurged when I dropped $250 on a new watch a couple of years ago.

Originally Posted by Otto

Some people might think it is insane to use 750USD on a thing which shaves hair too. It all depends on your income, how much money you have in the bank and your hobbies.
If you have enough money then $750,000 doesn't matter.

I felt I splurged when I bought my Rolex Sea-Dweller in 1999, I can sell it for lots more now.

Years ago. I bought myself and my Dad both a Rolex Submariner Watch. I was in the military and I spent if I remember maybe $750.00 maybe a little more than that. Today they sell for almost $10000.00, (they have priced themselves out of my market) I do not know what ever happened to my Dad's watch when he died, I asked his wife for it and she said he didn't have one. My house was burglarized in 1985 and my Rolex ran away from home.(I guess I didn't treat it right oh well) I bought an Invicta Watch as a matter of fact I had 6 of them. (all pieces of junk IMHO) I have a Seiko Railroad approved watch, the band is broken it keeps good time. It's sitting here on my desk. I bought a Casio watch @Wally World in Ridgecrest Ca. (my invicta that I was wearing the latch on the band broke the gold turned my arm green)paid $85.00 for it.That was in 2008 runs perfect. Should have bought one years ago. I also have a G-Shock Casio watch that I bought in I think 1985 or 1986 still runs, the band broke it's in a drawer somewhere.

Originally Posted by murf

Hey Rob,
Isn't that Egiziano 60mm? That IS big!

Murf

The Egiziano is 60mm diameter, not counting crown or crown guard....the Zenith Type 20 is 57.5mm....both are in Titanium.


Cheers,
Rob