BeLeafer
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Nothing so gaudy.
OT: The M-Fing Food Thread
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CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
He looked at his watch. It was a Nomos Minimatik with a champagne-colored dial. Nomos was his new thing. They were not expensive watches, they topped out at 20K, but they were made in the tiny German town of Glashütte, far from all that overpriced Swiss razzle-dazzle, and they stuck to a strict but playful Bauhaus aesthetic. The watch did its work. It calmed him. The creaminess of the dial, the great rushes of open space between the arabic numerals, and, most important, the tiny orange second hand, a child’s hand, really, elegantly, sweeping around its little subsidiary dial, as if life were easy and bright. The watch sucked up the inhuman glow of the space around him and substituted beauty and hope.
--Lake Success
LeafOfFaith
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Yeah, I could give a shit about status and showing off anything honestly. And nobody is really busy staring at your wrist which is only even exposed to view sometimes.
It's about spending money on quality, not junk. These types of watches are really durable for sure, they sometimes hit something hard and you figure you smashed it, but it doesn't even have a scratch. And sure, it looks nice, but only if you have good taste, otherwise you spend a bunch of cash only to wear some garish thing that people laugh at you for.
Having said that, I don't think I'd ever spring for a genuinely expensive one. There's nothing too interesting about one that's $25k or even $250k that you can't find the equal of for everyday purposes in one that is a couple grand or so. Just my opinion, of course.
It's about spending money on quality, not junk. These types of watches are really durable for sure, they sometimes hit something hard and you figure you smashed it, but it doesn't even have a scratch. And sure, it looks nice, but only if you have good taste, otherwise you spend a bunch of cash only to wear some garish thing that people laugh at you for.
Having said that, I don't think I'd ever spring for a genuinely expensive one. There's nothing too interesting about one that's $25k or even $250k that you can't find the equal of for everyday purposes in one that is a couple grand or so. Just my opinion, of course.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Gotta be a problem with the rotor. If it's an auto (as the dial suggests) and the movement of being on your wrist isn't providing energy to the movement, the rotor isn't doing it's job
The big piece of metal stamped with Hamilton...tis the rotor. It is supposed to swing freely and it's movement charges the mainspring.
BeLeafer
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Nah, it came like that. I specifically bought a manual wind. I drive manual too.Gotta be a problem with the rotor. If it's an auto (as the dial suggests) and the movement of being on your wrist isn't providing energy to the movement, the rotor isn't doing it's job
The big piece of metal stamped with Hamilton...tis the rotor. It is supposed to swing freely and it's movement charges the mainspring.
It's a Baume and Mercer ... no idea why they put "automatic" on their mechanical watches.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
That is weird. Bravo on buying a manual wind though, that's some purist shit.
BeLeafer
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Dying breed. I can no longer buy my car with a manual transmission.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
It's a novel about a hedge fund manager who takes a trip across America via Greyhound buses after his life falls apart.
His only connection to his past is a small suitcase filled with his favourite watches.
It's fucking hilarious.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I could see myself going stupid on a grail watch at some point. Something that really shows high end watchmaking at it's best (as I said before, I very partial to A. Lange & Sohne). But short of something really horologically interesting, I agree. There's a ton of good quality watches in the 500-2000 dollar range. You're going to get the high end finishing of a luxury watch, but for durability and function? Yeah, the equal of stuff many multiples their price.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
I gave up trying to look. Had a 330i (07, I think) that was stick, the last manual I owned.
LeafOfFaith
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There are some that are in the $5k range that I’d consider but going to $10k and beyond just seems like a stupid use of cash unless you’re a professional investor looking to flip it one day.
My gramps who is 85 has never worn more than a $50 watch and thinks it’s ridiculous to buy even on the lowest end of these. So I always have his voice in my head laughing at the thought of any of these. And really when one can put $5k into Tesla and become a zillionaire, these kinds of purchases are pretty shortsighted.
MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Functional tool
trujaysfan
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Kangaroo filet... so good
Habsy
Not playing around anymore.
There's your first mistake. It's not about you. If you're not into timepieces those that are generally don't care. It's an admiration for a finely tuned piece coupled with aesthetics. You either love watches or you don't. Both equally fine. Enjoy your watch.so who wants to explain to me why my Timex watch is inadequate and what the benefit of the expensive ones is? unless it is just vanity, in which case, carry on
my approach is almost entirely functional... i.e. I really only care about my watch's ability to tell the time, so long as it is not inappropriately ugly... and I have minimal complaints about the functionality of my Timex... (I prefer old school analog watches and typically wear them for a decade plus...)
