Anyone else into automatic wristwatches?

[Fun Size Nick]

Can I recommend a leather punch? I have thin wrists and this has been a game changer. I need a new hole? I punch one.

Thanks - I could definitely do that, but the tail end is long too so it's almost all the way around to the opposite lugs as is! I'll just put up with it for a couple of weeks longer until I get a shorter one in.

 

[bholder]

I still have my grandpa's old self-winder somewhere, it stopped working after I roughhoused wearing it and broke the crystal - had the crystal replaced, still no go. But the self-winding weight still thunks back and forth. Should dig it out and take it to a watch repair place.

 

[Broke]

Thanks - I could definitely do that, but the tail end is long too so it's almost all the way around to the opposite lugs as is! I'll just put up with it for a couple of weeks longer until I get a shorter one in.

I use a pair of EMT shears to cut the ends of mine off.

 

[73BLow]

I recently had these two ostrich straps custom made by Aaron Bespoke for my Breitling Colt 44mm. Now I keep thinking about selling the whole set to support my GAS since I rarely wear it.

I also have the oem black rubber strap...

 

[Baird6869]

Omega Seamaster for me for the last 20 years or so. Love it but my 22 year old has confiscated it for now as he and the rest of the fam bought me an Apple Watch for Christmas.

I had a few Rolexes before that and the Omega is just a better watch IME. Keeps better time and MUCH cheaper to service IME.

 

[73BLow]

Omega Seamaster for me for the last 20 years or so. Love it but my 22 year old has confiscated it for now as he and the rest of the fam bought me an Apple Watch for Christmas.

I had a few Rolexes before that and the Omega is just a better watch IME. Keeps better time and MUCH cheaper to service IME.

Always been a big Seamaster fan too

 

[pica]

I've had this fasination with watches lately. Not the real expensive watches like Rolex or Movado (although I would love to have one) but everyday watches like Seiko, Timex, and Lorus. Anybody else collect watches?

 

[TOOL460002]

I have one nice Citizen. Solar powered and all black. Pretty cool and definitely not cheap nor high end. I will say the MVMT watch I got my brother showed up and was incredibly well built and stylish.

Perhaps that's not a collector's watch, but if I were to get another one (black on black doesn't go with everything), I would honestly just get an MVMT. They're worth looking at, especially if you want, say, three different watches that won't break the bank.

But I'm not super into it. I do like the concept of having a couple watches to coordinate with dark/light/neutral outfits.

 

[2saddleslab]

Been collecting watches for about 15 years. The collections includes purpose driven timepieces such as divers (used for actual SCUBA diving), pilot watches (I do lots of travel for work), and chronographs (to calculate everything from drive times to pizza delivery).

Here's an example of one watch that can do it all, Sinn 757 UTC.

 

[HeavyDuty]

We have this thread, too:

Anyone else into automatic wristwatches?

 

[Fun Size Nick]

Well, it's been a while, so why not resurrect this thread? My Bell-Matic is wearing a custom [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] strap in unlined chromexcel these days, solving both my tiny wrist problems and my 1000% relative humidity problems:

A little while ago I got this little fella as my 'Dad watch' for swimming and general mucking about. Lume is fantastic.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I like just about any watch with the exception of (1) computer-linked, or (2) blingy (diamonds, etc).
Including quartz, mechanical, and digital.

Some of my favorites are vintage style.

 

[Lagado]

1980s, I like the smaller watches, 37mm etc.

 

[Lagado]

Early 1990s S-Wave.

 

[factory presets]

Don't really do watches. Broken a couple trying to wear them at work. Besides which I've had the time on my phone for so long now. Expect they're probably illegal onsite in the safety age anyway.

But lately I've been reading about the Bradley watch.

And thinking that's the type of minimal I could do.

 

[Lagado]

A token digital, 80s Citizen.

 

[Nedmundo]

I like watches that don't require battery changes or charging, and thus prefer automatics and light-powered models like my three Citizen Eco-Drives. I primarily wore an Omega Seamaster (mid-size) for 20 years, but sold it after I bought a Citizen Eco-Drive titanium chronograph, and my wife bought me a nice Shinola chronograph for my 50th. With those two, I would have never worm the Omega.

This left me without an automatic, but last year my dad gave me a vintage Rolex, which my maternal grandfather had given to him. It's an Oyster Perpetual "No Date," which my local watch guy has refurbished. Based on my research I thought it was from the 1960s, but he says it could be 1950s. It's small by current standards, at 36mm, and has a plastic crystal (oxymoron though that is), which apparently Rolex used until the 1980s. I rarely wear it, but when I have a formal event, why not wear a vintage Rolex?

 

[bassdude51]

I have my father's Bulova self winding watch from about 1973. Sorry no photos and I couldn't find it on Google. Needs to be looked at. It's been in my desk drawer for 45 years.

PS. This is it.

 

[Lagado]

Bought new while I was a student in '97, £40 as I remember. I used it for years, it's the smaller version.

 

[Fun Size Nick]

I like watches that don't require battery changes or charging, and thus prefer automatics and light-powered models like my three Citizen Eco-Drives. I primarily wore an Omega Seamaster (mid-size) for 20 years, but sold it after I bought a Citizen Eco-Drive titanium chronograph, and my wife bought me a nice Shinola chronograph for my 50th. With those two, I would have never worm the Omega.

This left me without an automatic, but last year my dad gave me a vintage Rolex, which my maternal grandfather had given to him. It's an Oyster Perpetual "No Date," which my local watch guy has refurbished. Based on my research I thought it was from the 1960s, but he says it could be 1950s. It's small by current standards, at 36mm, and has a plastic crystal (oxymoron though that is), which apparently Rolex used until the 1980s. I rarely wear it, but when I have a formal event, why not wear a vintage Rolex?

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Why not indeed! Beautiful vintage piece, thanks for sharing. Yes, acrylic (plastic) crystals were common back then, it’s a pain to scratch one but not too painful to buff out.