What's on your wrist?

Stickman393

Stickman393

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Alright fuckers. Hear ye, hear ye: time is a flat circle. In observation of its flatness and circleness, I present to you:

Watch yo ass. Erm. Wrist.

I like watches. It's another one of my hobbies. I do minor alterations and work on em. Nothing major. My eyes aren't that good. I've fucked up a decent number too.

My particular niche is "not fucking expensive". I don't like to think of a watch as a piece of jewelry, I like to think of it as a tool. A tool that is redundant in everyday life due to technology. Stickman does, in fact, still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

But I am a simple man, a simple man who prefers automatic watches, because it pleases me to know that a small, marvelously engineered device that is *so much more complicated than it absolutely needs to be* allows me to look at my wrist, struggle to remember what the little hands mean, and eventually come to the conclusion that I'm late again.

But I accept all types. Digital? Quartz? Hand wound? Smart? Fuckin, let's talk shop.

As for myself, I shall kick it off with this:

Some folks say that oversized watches are gauche. I don't have much in the realm of options given my size, unfortunately:

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1980ish Seiko, with arabic calendar. Unfortunately, the works need to be completely redone on the inside. Stopped working about 10 years ago after I dropped it.

I am absolutely a F-91w fanboy. My daily driver after the Seiko stopped. I switched from black to metal band cause it looks $5 fancier.

Apple SE w/ cellular. I wear it for medical reasons. I disabled all the notifications except for timers and alarms. It’s ok, but the F-91 is my fave.

Sometimes I’m really cool and wear two watches. 🤓


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I work with watches a lot in my day job. I've seen the insides of many of them. My favorites are anything old world, heavy, and expensive. Also, Timex indiglo. I wear a Skagen, but not every day

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I have two.

* Garman forerunner 235 - it has the attractive large digits for those with aging eyesight.. I've smashed the toughen glass screen protector many times over and this has survived.. only issue is the sensor plastic is fracturing and cracking. Works still.

* Maurice Lacroix Phase de Lune (gold bevel version) - bought years ago to mark first sale. The straps disintegrate so it's currently sat with a broken strap. It's an ETA movement so a common mechanism under the hood.

Would like a pilots watch but I have an aversion to pilots watches with anything but a simple face and perhaps the manufacturer name, any more (a good example is "Ref: 0101101" etc I've seen) and the watch is a dead loss to me. I hate also the inner redundant dial that shows 12-24. Either it's 1-12 or 1-24 but not a useless inner dial. Clean, simple, elegant.
 
Wow I just caught the Casio watch bug last May and I've bought 5 so far.

First up is the ABL-100 with step tracker and Bluetooth

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Then I got an F-91W


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Which led me to buy an A159, no picture.

Then I got this Japan only F-84W

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And finally this tan A158 that is going to get a brown leather strap this week

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I suppose I'll have to get a G-Shock eventually but this spending spree has to stop now.
 
jcpst said:
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1980ish Seiko, with arabic calendar. Unfortunately, the works need to be completely redone on the inside. Stopped working about 10 years ago after I dropped it.

I am absolutely a F-91w fanboy. My daily driver after the Seiko stopped. I switched from black to metal band cause it looks $5 fancier.

Apple SE w/ cellular. I wear it for medical reasons. I disabled all the notifications except for timers and alarms. It’s ok, but the F-91 is my fave.

Sometimes I’m really cool and wear two watches. 🤓


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That's no F-91W. It's an A158
 
All ya needs is one of these:

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Shoot, pocket watches were the original wristwatches.

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Oh, you fancy, huh?


Sometimes I let my meat-man wear my watches.

This is a Milifortic W10 replica with a date complication on a Nick Manky chrono-grip. Dude lives one town over from me.

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What's on my wrist?

Last night it was handcuffs, the fun kind not the go to jail kind.

Day to day I wear an Apple Watch for work, it goes on as I head out the door and comes off as soon as I’m home. I can quickly check notifications without having to stop what I am doing, make sure it isn't something on fire.

For certain meetings, I throw on a $50 Fauxlex I got in Chinatown during a biz dev trip. Watch people usually notice, it leads to the funny story about being led into a sketchy backroom, I thought I was getting kidnapped. It breaks the ice. Non watch folks just think I’m a baller.

I do have a real Rolex Submariner from the early ’60s, passed down from my godfather. He got it from his dad when he graduated. It lives in a fireproof box, serviced about a decade ago, probably due again even though I have only worn it once.

I crew on a sailboat for some races during the summer, I use a Garmin to track speed and start times. Don’t bother with it when cruising.

That is a lot of watches for someone who doesn't like watches......
 
andare said:
suppose I'll have to get a G-Shock eventually
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This thread is making me want to get one… that was my most consistently worn watch from like age 10–22. Just dropped watches altogether after that. Just dead simple and tough. Loved those.

Went hiking around this old dried up lake/reservoir back in like 1993 and found one still "ticking" underneath this rotted tree branch. Only had to replace it when the battery died and nobody knew how to change the battery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what can I say? I was a dumbass. Got one of the more round ones, but the bezel/bumper fell off and eventually I broke the buttons.

Lesson learned: don't give G Shock watches to stupid kids.
 
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