Thread: What types of watches do you like?

The bigger the better, with my eyesight I need all the help I can get

Well then you get yourself a vintage pocket watch.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well then you get yourself a vintage pocket watch.

TBS - on another forum I read that they only made this Tag for one month during 1991 I believe...do you know anything about this? It's the Tag 765 406, Valjoux 7750 movement.



Aha...found the old post:

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february 1991...a LOT rarer due to a limited 28 days production month haha!

It may be rare but is that doesn't mean it's worth a hill of beans. It depends if there is demand for it and then the condition.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

It may be rare but is that doesn't mean it's worth a hill of beans. It depends if there is demand for it and then the condition.

LOL - it's an old Tag, never expected it would be, just love the old automatic watches and the analog movement....

That's still a mainline mvmt used commonly today. It's cheap and reliable and lasts forever. Now if you can find yourself an old Heuer Autavia (the first auto wind chronograph) then you would really have something.

It's still a nice watch though.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Need to add , your opinion, telling us that all of our watches suck azz is not very nice or correct. Tc

Sorry that came out wrong. What i mean is that many of todays chronos do tell time wery well (often 10-100 times more accurate than my speedmaster), but the legibility (is that the right word) is subpar. I mean I have seen very expensive watches with black dial, same black subdials with like gray pointers and gray/black indices. Then I simply fail to see the point of that watch. Then its more a "fashion statement" to me at least. Yeah sure they look cool and all but telling what time you chronoed in a moving car or bike or whatever?? Not going to be that easy. I regad most watches today as fashion accessoirs. But still there are some models that are really functional.

I'm not saying my watch is the best watch of all watches, far from it. Its about 5-10 seconds off a day, and its quite ugly. But the very chrono function of it is extremely legible at speed and in the dark. and thats why I got mine. Its my bike computer

Then there's the guts of it. I got this one partly because its one of most produced movements in the world. This is not a ferrari or even an m3, its a tractor. And i like that. In a hundred years people will still be able to easily repair this and it will run just as good as today. Because its super simple movement. Why overcomplicate things?

I'm starting to look into a zenith chrono now (the classoc model that I forgot the name of). Not for actually chronoing stuff but more because I like the way it looks. Not selling the speedmaster any time soon though.

I will tend to agree lots of very nice watches tend to get very busy and hard to read, that's why I like to stay fairly simple, I have my daily which is a Seiko, and I have a Tag that is very plain that reads well, I get to where I can take a pic I'll see if TBS, can tell me if mine are acceptable, I can't tell what my dad has, he's still kicking at 91 and won't let me have his , Hamilton, pocket( not sure if that's it, and he has an old Rolex and Longines. I guess someone will get them later , but the way he's going hell outlive me!! Tc

If you're a watch designer and you work for an outfit that sells premium watches you have a real job. I mean a watch is a watch so how much can you modify things? if you go one way they say you imitate. If you go another it's too busy. If you go another it's ugly. If you go another it looks cheap. Another and it's too big or too small or too thick or too thin or it's too light or too heavy. So you have to navigate all that to make something folks like and will pay your price.

One outfit made a watch made from the rusted steel plates from the Titanic. They jumped on him saying he robbed a graveyard and disturbed all the spirits. Maybe someone's ancestor was part of the watch and the watch was ugly too.

My new dress watch.