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Anyone else into automatic wristwatches?
- Thread starter HeavyDuty
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These are super cool, and have a great story attached to them. There's a shop close to my work that carries them - the only caveat I have is that they wear pretty thick due to the straight-up-and-down side profile.
Heck yes! Love me a 6139 chrono.
That's got some wrist presence!
What a beast of an SKX.
Cool. I love Oris watches, and bought my wife one for her 30th birthday. That was, let's say, awhile ago, but it's still running strong.
Technically, eco-drives do not have a battery. They have a capacitor to collect the solar energy.
I recall several Seiko models, own a couple of them, too, and another I wish I still had (the Seiko "astronaut" watch I had throughout the '80s).
I had a couple of nice conventional watches over the years... but these days when I need a watch (usually while fishing), I rock a Casio G-Shock Atomic Solar. Sets itself daily to the atomic clock (yup, it's got a built-in receiver) and it's solar powered. Sounds gimmicky, but this thing is absolutely killer and it ran me a whopping $59 on eBay!
Got my first divers watch while in the navy in '70....a Zodiac Sea Wolf. Not because I was a diver, but because I needed a watch that I could wear in the shower! lol Great watch, lost it or gave it away, can't remember.
Then in '76 got a Seiko diver which lasted many years, but needed a new plastic band almost every year.
A few years later, a lady sold me her ex-hubby's beat up '68 Rolex Submariner for $50. No cyclops date, non-rotating bezel. Wore that Rolex everyday for 20 years until it stopped dead one day. Fortunately I had a good friend who was a certified Rolex watchmaker, and had a store in Boulder. He refurb'd the watch for free. He informed that the model I had was the most basic Submariner version, and that production was short lived. IOW rare and collectible to the right nerd. I listed it on ebay in 2006, got $2850 for it. It never kept very good time, but it had great snob appeal. Got lottsa comments about it from the players when I was a poker dealer.
Next, a Seiko diver that looked just like the Rolex. Kept crappy time for a few years until I broke the bezel off...POS. Meanwhile a buddy had given me a used Invicta diver. Just a cheap watch, I thought. Threw it in my junk drawer. But when the Seiko broke I started wearing the Invicta. Turns out the Invicta has a Japanese movement and keeps amazingly accurate time. And what I initially thought was a cheap alum casing and band is actually titanium. Yep, the feather-weight Invicta Titanium Pro Diver...~ $160 retail. When this one eventually fails I'll buy another in a heartbeat.
Then in '76 got a Seiko diver which lasted many years, but needed a new plastic band almost every year.
A few years later, a lady sold me her ex-hubby's beat up '68 Rolex Submariner for $50. No cyclops date, non-rotating bezel. Wore that Rolex everyday for 20 years until it stopped dead one day. Fortunately I had a good friend who was a certified Rolex watchmaker, and had a store in Boulder. He refurb'd the watch for free. He informed that the model I had was the most basic Submariner version, and that production was short lived. IOW rare and collectible to the right nerd. I listed it on ebay in 2006, got $2850 for it. It never kept very good time, but it had great snob appeal. Got lottsa comments about it from the players when I was a poker dealer.
Next, a Seiko diver that looked just like the Rolex. Kept crappy time for a few years until I broke the bezel off...POS. Meanwhile a buddy had given me a used Invicta diver. Just a cheap watch, I thought. Threw it in my junk drawer. But when the Seiko broke I started wearing the Invicta. Turns out the Invicta has a Japanese movement and keeps amazingly accurate time. And what I initially thought was a cheap alum casing and band is actually titanium. Yep, the feather-weight Invicta Titanium Pro Diver...~ $160 retail. When this one eventually fails I'll buy another in a heartbeat.
Sadly, the reason Invicta got such a poor reputation originally had *nothing* to do with the quality. People resented them because they were so popular for a new brand. And they copied other styles. But they weren't the only brand to do that, just one of the most popular. Their only sin was being a "new kid" on the block.
