Thread: What types of watches do you like?

Yea, well, it happened again, got a fantastic deal on this Panerai Luminor Marina 8 Days - 300 meter water resistant, beautiful piece.

8 Day Power Reserve - wind it every Sunday! lol

I was unsure of Panerai, but having this on the wrist, really is a beautiful piece, next one will be an older reference with a Blue "Sandwich" dial.

This is reference 510, early versions of this watch had the coveted "sandwich" dial, and this replaces the Panerai 111 I believe.

These watches were once upon a time developed for the Italian Navy, specifically for their divers, and very early Panerai's had Rolex movements and shared the "Oyster" case. The "Luminor" is no joke, in the dark (or underwater) you could light a room up it's so bright.

Either way, beautiful, completely different style watch.

It's a solid watch. It's too big for my small wrists but you can't go wrong with it.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yea, well, it happened again, got a fantastic deal on this Panerai Luminor Marina 8 Days - 300 meter water resistant, beautiful piece.

8 Day Power Reserve - wind it every Sunday! lol

I was unsure of Panerai, but having this on the wrist, really is a beautiful piece, next one will be an older reference with a Blue "Sandwich" dial.

This is reference 510, early versions of this watch had the coveted "sandwich" dial, and this replaces the Panerai 111 I believe.

These watches were once upon a time developed for the Italian Navy, specifically for their divers, and very early Panerai's had Rolex movements and shared the "Oyster" case. The "Luminor" is no joke, in the dark (or underwater) you could light a room up it's so bright.

Either way, beautiful, completely different style watch.

Nice watch, Phrank.

Well the mark on the face of my vintage mg watch is in fact some of the face material itself somehow nicked and folded back onto itself. Way to delicate to fix so leaving it as is. You can’t see the speck with the naked eye and the thing works fine so leave it alone.
Whilst chasing that watch I did find a German made new in box still MG watch I decided to order as well. More as a day to day wearer.

See through case, 25 jewels and German made, with a power reserve indicator and I laugh that I can now say I have an automatic MG.

Fairly good lume at night and an ivory colored face.
It’s not my normal style of watch, but I like it in the collection. Once I changed the band out to a leather deployment clasp, I liked it even more.
Cheers gents.

The power reserve is a nice touch, I have never owned anything with such a thing. Nice watch!

Thanks. It’s a first for me as well.
I’d imagine the complication is a strain gage type lever off the main spring. Presume it’d only be handy when on the dresser to let you know when it needs winding, if you wanted to keep it accurate date wise. It’s always full while the watch is worn.
The crown is adorned with the MG logo and is octagonal shaped as well. I like that they didn’t build the watch around the logo, and it’s all kind of subtle in its markings.
It’s eye catching, at least in Orangeville circles. Hehe.

Never got interested in watches.

I thought about it but just never found the time.

The power reserve indicator or up down indicator was a complication used mostly in pocket watches. In the early 20th century when a watch was bought by its components that was around a $40 option.

It's more rare on wrist watches. It never was very accurate, more a style thing.

It works through gearing connected to the ratchet wheel on top of the barrel which contains the mainspring. It has a catch so when you wind the watch it moves and when you stop or it's fully wound the catch disengages it until the wind starts again either up or down.