Thread: What types of watches do you like?

Donut: I thought you only hung out on the watch forums. Now your showing off your Bling on the Shaving Forums.

Actually I am a wet shaving enthusiast and enjoy this site for the shaving information...the watch thread was just a bonus.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

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.

All of this is true, I've seen it with mine own eyes.

DANG IT.

I thought I had it remembered and tomorrow was my anniversary.

I forgot to change the date at the end of the month and lost a day.

Today is the 5th not the 4th.

I can't win for losing!

I just love mechanical watches although I also think watches are kind of obsolete

I like some of the Panerai's, IWCs and Omega's but I don't want to spend that amount of cash on one. Seriously, when I see what watch fanatics spend on their hobby, it makes the SR shaving hobby look very cheap! And it's not limited to the purchase price, the upkeep of one seems also bloody expensive.

I currently own only two automatics (sorry, pictures taken off the web):



and



This one should reach me this month:

Originally Posted by Donut

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


Cheers,
Rob

That Egiziano pushes all the right buttons for me.
I need to go get me one of those, if at all available somewhere...

Today is Atlantic Worldmaster day:


One of my favorite mechanical watches.

When I was younger (I know for different people that means something different) specifically when I was 18. I was still living at my moms and had landed a job making $17 an hour with no bills I literally had nothing to do with my money... So I was collecting watches and colonges at the time and was seriously starting to have a vast collection of both. I moved out of my moms to a poorer area of colorado and not a month into living in the place my house was broken into and both my watches and colonges were stolen. It was someone I knew because it was a personal crime which also involved them cutting open my couch cushions (with my knives I might add!) got the used litter box and threw it all over the house. Needless to say I as devastated when I get home to see all my hard work out the window and being young my mom insisted on me getting renters insurance but sure enough I was slacking on it. There was about $2,000 worth of watches and about $900 worth of cologne. I refused to get another watch after that, my girlfriend and now wife knew how much it hurt me so on our 10th anniversary she got me this Movado, I have always wanted one but the price tag on them were always huge!!! This is now the only watch I will ever own lmao well here she is....

It has a 42 mm stainless steel case with black PVD-finished bezel, black 3-hand dial with matching minute reflector ring, silver-toned dot and luminescent hands, and date display, stainless steel link bracelet with deployment clasp.
But I could be wrong about all that haha

Just got a Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Wave. It auto-updates via GPS so it's great for traveling.

Patek Philippe.