the edc WATCH thread

boardboy330 said:

Yeah, gave my Father a Citizen Eco Drive dress watch for Christmas. Found it on sale for $50.

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Oh, yeah... Hamilton too.

http://www.hamiltonwatch.com/

Tissot.

http://www.tissot.ch/

teratos said:

No, still overweight and homely.

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Awww poor you. To make yourself feel better you can take me shooting when my elbow recovers

really though, I just have a cheap ecodrive Citizen and a Timex Expedition.

RichB said:

Awww poor you. To make yourself feel better you can take me shooting when my elbow recovers

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Lol. We'll have to figure out a time.

joppaj said:

Of course not, I'm only mildly OCD. The Casio's atomic clock feature doesn't work as well as I'd like, I have to do manual time syncs a little more often than I'd like but I really like the watch.

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Very strange, mine has never been more than a second off




My other i trade in and out is Luminox

I found more photos. Jeez, I guess I'm more of a WIS than I thought I was!

This Breitling Chrono-Matic was my first "real" watch. It was glorious...right up until you tried to tell the time on a bright day. It was very hard to read and the face is extremely busy. I guess if I was pulling a Lindbergh and flying a small plane somewhere without instruments it would have been invaluable, but I only owned this one for a while. Gorgeous, though.



This is a watch that a friend of mine in Canada made for me. He was an engineer and wanted to get into watchmaking and repair as a part-time business. This is one of his first creations. It's made from an ETA Unitas movement. Fairly large at 42mm, but the case, face, and hands are "Breguet style." It's a very handsome watch.



These are my two vintage watches. Each one belonged to one of my grandfathers.

The first is an American-made Hamilton Yorktowne that dates to 1941. Vintage Hamilton's are nice to find and they're relatively easy to keep maintained. I sent this one to my friend and he did some gentle cleaning on the face and managed to find a NOS movement on eBay to replace the seized original. Pretty cool he could find a "new' movement that would have been original to it.



This one is a LeCoultre Memovox. This is a superb watch made in Switzerland by Jaeger LeCoultre. In the 1950's and 60's tariffs were incredibly high so watchmakers would send the finished parts to the US where they would be assembled - thus avoiding the tariffs. As part of the agreement, they had to alter the name so the "Jaeger" part was dropped, but this is indeed a Jaeger LeCoultre. The Memovox had a mechanical buzzing alarm feature. I've had this cleaned and it keeps great time.



This next one is one I no longer own, and kinda wish I did. It's a really cool watch - the Bell & Ross BR03. It was a bit sterile when I got it, but after I had a strap made for it I really liked it quite a bit even though it was almost too big. This is a watch that got sold when I was hot to get a Rolex.



Somebody mentioned Hamilton watches. They are making some nice stuff right now - all Swiss made. I have one of their Frogman watches. This is an homage to the watches they issued to Navy frogmen during WWII.



Finally a couple of Marina Militaire watches. These are definitely copies of Panerai watches - which I really like but was never willing to fork out the money to get one. These fit the bill. Got these from eBay. The one on the left is the better of the two as it has a nice Swiss movement in it. the other is a Chinese copy of the Swiss movement and isn't bad. Once I put a couple of decent straps on them I decided that I really liked them a lot. Incidentally, the strap on the watch on the right side was made from a WWII era German ammunition pouch. the cool thing about watch straps is that you can give a watch a whole new look. The German ammo pouch strap is on the other watch (on left in first photo) in the second photo.





I also have about 6 Casio G-Shocks that I wear as beaters. These two are my favorites.

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Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Really liking the LeCoultre. Not that the other ones are bad. ;-) As much as I like the styling and history of Patek, VC, or AP... JLC is it for me for the "classic" piece with the Reverso... especially the Reverso Duo. What a beautiful piece!

Anyone have experience with Reactor watches? I hadn't heard of them.
Saw this video and was sold.

I just ordered the Reactor Gamma T01 Black. Looks like this:
http://www.watchtime.com/mdisher/press10/reactor_gamma_blk_lg.jpg

While looking for my first "real" watch, I had decided that I didn't want anything bigger than 40mm, just no way it would look right. So to get used to wearing one, I found a no name G-Shock knock off I bought on a cruise and have been wearing it for the last 10 days or so. Been feeling pretty good and I decided to finally measure it tonight.

Yup, 50mm.

As if I needed a bigger pool of watches to pick through

HarCo2ANewb said:

The hairs on my wrist are screaming at me just looking at that band

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+5000

I've worn this as my everyday watch for a few years and its my scuba watch (PADI certified since I was 12, probably have close to 500 dives logged). The battery died recently I haven't gotten around to getting it replaced yet because it needs to be in a pressurized container or something to do it (clearly I am not a watch savant). My dad (also a diver) sends his watch to somewhere in Kentucky that does a good job of replacing batteries in dive watches when his dies. I'll have to do it soon.

Galstan said:

I've worn this as my everyday watch for a few years and its my scuba watch (PADI certified since I was 12, probably have close to 500 dives logged). The battery died recently I haven't gotten around to getting it replaced yet because it needs to be in a pressurized container or something to do it (clearly I am not a watch savant). My dad (also a diver) sends his watch to somewhere in Kentucky that does a good job of replacing batteries in dive watches when his dies. I'll have to do it soon.

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It's the place locally that also does diving and courses. They have a plane from a movie in a large canyon here...I want to say Con Air?? It's submerged.

boardboy330 said:

It's the place locally that also does diving and courses. They have a plane from a movie in a large canyon here...I want to say Con Air?? It's submerged.

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wow, cool! But yeah I need to get it replaced soon. I haven't been wearing it for a couple months now and I miss it.

I got certified in a quarry in PA in April. That was quite cold (even in a full wet suit) but they did have some cool stuff under there. Some old construction equipment, mail truck, ice cream truck, and platforms held at different heights underwater by chains/buoys. I prefer Florida or the Caribbean where I can go in just my swim trunks / T shirt

Galstan said:

wow, cool! But yeah I need to get it replaced soon. I haven't been wearing it for a couple months now and I miss it.

I got certified in a quarry in PA in April. That was quite cold (even in a full wet suit) but they did have some cool stuff under there. Some old construction equipment, mail truck, ice cream truck, and platforms held at different heights underwater by chains/buoys. I prefer Florida or the Caribbean where I can go in just my swim trunks / T shirt

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Wifey wants me to get my cert...not sure if I will this year or not. Not like we have any place to go...other than KY.

Seems like yet another thing I can say I've got..but would rarely use

Since this is a watch thread...here is a Citizen Nighthawk in Stainless. Only watch I found with a usable E6B built in (needed it for flying). Worked well with the shallow depths I swim in (30m or less).

Loving the watch thread, keep it going.

I've picked up a several and sold a few in the last 6 months. I like Seiko's-lots of bang for the buck.
A mix of tough, accurate quartz work watches, a couple Kinetics, and some automatics.

My poor man's collection currently stands at:

Deep Blue BlueTech Master 500 Diver (White/White)
Seiko SKX781 "Orange Monster"
Seiko SKAA61 "Orange Knight"
Seiko SKA369 "BFK" Pepsi
Seiko SKA371 "BFK"
Seiko SRP043K1 "Spork"
Victorinox Swiss Army "Maverick GS" 241436
G-Shock GD-100-1B
G-Shock GR7900KG-3
Reactor Gamma Ti
Luminox 3063.LM Khaki

2SAM22 said:

Loving the watch thread, keep it going.

I've picked up a several and sold a few in the last 6 months. I like Seiko's-lots of bang for the buck.
A mix of tough, accurate quartz work watches, a couple Kinetics, and some automatics.

My poor man's collection currently stands at:

Deep Blue BlueTech Master 500 Diver (White/White)
Seiko SKX781 "Orange Monster"
Seiko SKAA61 "Orange Knight"
Seiko SKA369 "BFK" Pepsi
Seiko SKA371 "BFK"
Seiko SRP043K1 "Spork"
Victorinox Swiss Army "Maverick GS" 241436
G-Shock GD-100-1B
G-Shock GR7900KG-3
Reactor Gamma Ti
Luminox 3063.LM Khaki

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Pics or it didn't happen!!! No seriously...I would love to see that Reactor.

boardboy330 said:

Pics or it didn't happen!!! No seriously...I would love to see that Reactor.

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Here's the Reactor. Super light and comfortable. I prefer the Luminox all tritium to the "ND" system on the Reactors and there is no tritium on the second hand so once the lume wears off you're SOL on the second hand at night.

The Reactor is built to take abuse though. There are some Youtube videos out there where the company shoots them and drops them out of planes.

The Deep Blue is the really interesting one in the collection. No wrist shot but here are a few.

That Reactor looks awesome. The Deep Blue is a really nice one as well. I thought about it after I posted but didn't edit. I will be looking into one of those right now.

EDIT: Thanks. I just looked and Amazon has a few older stock models for $300 or so. The newer models like yours are around $700.

boardboy330 said:

That Reactor looks awesome. The Deep Blue is a really nice one as well. I thought about it after I posted but didn't edit. I will be looking into one of those right now.

EDIT: Thanks. I just looked and Amazon has a few older stock models for $300 or so. The newer models like yours are around $700.

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Both can be had for less on some of the watch boards. Also if you can get access, govx.com has the Reactors (and other stuff) discounted.