The watch thread.

Lazmo

Old and hopeless
Well, sort of the antithesis of the last bunch of very nice watches in this thread...

I've parked my trusty Seiko for an eWatch... a Garmin 45.

It was brought on by the need to always have a heart rate monitor on when I'm riding, in case I have an AFib episode, like recently... plus the obvious ride tracking benefits. I was just going to wear it while riding, but the thing weighs stuff all and is so comfortable... I can even sleep with it on. So other than charging it every few days, it stays on my arm.

I have a protective glass on it and custom heart based watch face on it, and am loving it.

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creaky

XMAS Plumper
Well, sort of the antithesis of the last bunch of very nice watches in this thread...

I've parked my trusty Seiko for an eWatch... a Garmin 45.

It was brought on by the need to always have a heart rate monitor on when I'm riding, in case I have an AFib episode, like recently... plus the obvious ride tracking benefits. I was just going to wear it while riding, but the thing weighs stuff all and is so comfortable... I can even sleep with it on. So other than charging it every few days, it stays on my arm.

I have a protective glass on it and custom heart based watch face on it, and am loving it.

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Out of interest, how does the watch HR sensor perform for that kind of monitoring? Does it pick up enough individual beats, or just average over a 10 sec or so period?
 

Lazmo

Old and hopeless
The watch HR sensor seems responsive, and if you use the watch HR stats it seems to change constantly, whereas the custom watch face averages it out … but I have no clue whether either will help during an AFib attack. I hope not to find out, but I suspect the watch stats will pick it up, or be so weird that it is obvious.

When riding it needs to be two holes tighter on the wrist, which is still comfortable, to work 100% of the time.
 

ausdb

Being who he is
New watch day! It's pretty low end by the standards
of most of the watches posted here. My first real divers watch was one of the originals but with the gold trim (forgive me it was the 80s). I had been looking for a work watch for a while and saw this on a star buy deal over the weekend and couldn't resist for sentimental reasons and the price. I've still got the original somewhere, I should dig it out and try to get it going again. I remember it was a battery monster and gave up on changing them and getting it pressure when I stopped diving a long time ago.
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Asininedrivel

caviar connoisseur
No need to make excuses for a Citizen watch @ausdb, they're great bits of kit. I've got an quartz eco-drive thingy as my daily and love it. Really nicely made and durability is top notch.
 

ausdb

Being who he is
No need to make excuses for a Citizen watch @ausdb, they're great bits of kit. I've got an quartz eco-drive thingy as my daily and love it. Really nicely made and durability is top notch.
I was actually umming and aahing over one of these or a similar atyle mechanical Seiko.
The eco drive appeals as I had bought my wife a titanium ladies eco drive as an everyday watch it its been great.
Fortunately/unfortunately nostalgia over ruled that plan, now to buy a 24mm NATO style band as the band on this is as uncomfortable as the original one was on a bare wrist.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
I have worn the Rolex DeepSea SeaDweller James Cameron Edition pictured there. Its quite nice.

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Didn't expect to see a watch thread here. There was a time I was into watches and started a collection.

IWC pilot chrono in blue (between straps at the moment after coming back from a service a little while back)
The rolex sea dweller 50th anniversary edition.
A maurice lacroix masterpiece lune retrograde in blue.
And my daily garmin sapphire 6x.

After getting the garmin, I sort of lost interest in collecting nice watches, and really I think the ones I have cover most bases as it is. Still wear the automatics on occasion, but for a large part just don't do it for me anymore. They do set off a nice set of threads when required though.
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Oddjob

Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Didn't expect to see a watch thread here. There was a time I was into watches and started a collection.

IWC pilot chrono in blue (between straps at the moment after coming back from a service a little while back)
The rolex sea dweller 50th anniversary edition.
A maurice lacroix masterpiece lune retrograde in blue.
And my daily garmin sapphire 6x.

After getting the garmin, I sort of lost interest in collecting nice watches, and really I think the ones I have cover most bases as it is. Still wear the automatics on occasion, but for a large part just don't do it for me anymore. They do set off a nice set of threads when required though.
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I wonder what the future holds for the like of IWC, Piaget, Hublot, Rolex, Patek etc.

The marketing just gets sillier by the year. No one has dived with a Swiss dive watch since the 80s. Garmin and Suunto has pretty much cornered the technical market for sailing, golf, cycling etc. Apple and Samsung rule non technical smart watches. This pretty much only leaves Omega with specialist aerospace models and Tag with some of their smart watches.

I'm with Squid. I have a Goldeneye Seamaster Professional from my parents. But I only wear it 2-3 times a year and use a Garmin Forerunner 99% of the time and a Suunto Dx dive watch.


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Asininedrivel

caviar connoisseur
I wonder what the future holds for the like of IWC, Piaget, Hublot, Rolex, Patek etc.
I've got a Tudor on order (self-gifting for my 40th) and I'm currently on a circa 4 month wait. Sure, could be they're cutting back production to boost demand and resale. But during my time spent "researching" and cruising around all the boutique watch shops in Melbourne they were all busy and making sales. So anecdotal evidence would suggest there's still plenty of demand for them despite objectively being outclassed by a $100 quartz, let alone a smartwatch.

Also as a massive nerd, it's much more fun to have a tiny microcosm of insanely complex mechanical engineering strapped to my wrist rather than yet another microchip.
 

Oddjob

Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
I've got a Tudor on order (self-gifting for my 40th) and I'm currently on a circa 4 month wait. Sure, could be they're cutting back production to boost demand and resale. But during my time spent "researching" and cruising around all the boutique watch shops in Melbourne they were all busy and making sales. So anecdotal evidence would suggest there's still plenty of demand for them despite objectively being outclassed by a $100 quartz, let alone a smartwatch.

Also as a massive nerd, it's much more fun to have a tiny microcosm of insanely complex mechanical engineering strapped to my wrist rather than yet another microchip.
I don't doubt it, but I suspect the tide is turning. I've got a guy at my gym who wears his Hublot watch to the gym and he just looks like a ridiculous tosser. To be fair he is a ridiculous tosser, so I may be a bit biased.



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Squidfayce

Eats Squid
I wonder what the future holds for the like of IWC, Piaget, Hublot, Rolex, Patek etc.

The marketing just gets sillier by the year. No one has dived with a Swiss dive watch since the 80s. Garmin and Suunto has pretty much cornered the technical market for sailing, golf, cycling etc. Apple and Samsung rule non technical smart watches. This pretty much only leaves Omega with specialist aerospace models and Tag with some of their smart watches.

I'm with Squid. I have a Goldeneye Seamaster Professional from my parents. But I only wear it 2-3 times a year and use a Garmin Forerunner 99% of the time and a Suunto Dx dive watch.


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There's still a huge market. Luxury goods aren't falling off in terms of sales. Heaps of people getting richer and buying these things.

A lot of makers also create roadblocks to getting these watches, so the demand is even greater among those that buy them. Rolex is great at doing this. Generally speaking, you can't walk into rolex and pick what you want. Like Ferrari, you either have to have a relationship and go on a waiting list, or buy through a dealer who has the relationship. And the dealers generally have limited models to offer etc.

I think as far as diving, tool watches etc. It's all just wank now. It's lovely want, and you feel great wearing something so nice, but it's still wank. Garmin has by far been the most usefull thing I've worn. Future for these brands is solid IMO, I 100% don't think luxury automatic watches are going away.
 

Tubbsy

Packin' a small bird
Staff member
Automatic watches are fascinating, magical, perpetual-motion works of art. I could stare at mine for hours. A ‘sports watch’ is not on the same fucking planet.

I have one, it’s for excerise only. The E-bike of the arm, the nouveau riche of the wrist.

I will not be taking any questions.
 

Squidfayce

Eats Squid
Automatic watches are fascinating, magical, perpetual-motion works of art. I could stare at mine for hours. A ‘sports watch’ is not on the same fucking planet.
My seadweller is waterproof to 1.2km and tells the time and date.

My garmin controls My Spotify, tracks my sleep, workouts, suggests exercises, finds my phone, has an altimeter, connects to GPS, tells several people if I fall off my bike and I hurt myself, tracks my pulse ox, stress, HR, gives me my sms and email without needing to touch my phone, and about 49 other things. Oh it yells the time too.

You're right, it's not on the same planet. In fact I think I must have been on another planet when I bought the sea dweller.
 

safreek

*******
Didn't expect to see a watch thread here. There was a time I was into watches and started a collection.

IWC pilot chrono in blue (between straps at the moment after coming back from a service a little while back)
The rolex sea dweller 50th anniversary edition.
A maurice lacroix masterpiece lune retrograde in blue.
And my daily garmin sapphire 6x.

After getting the garmin, I sort of lost interest in collecting nice watches, and really I think the ones I have cover most bases as it is. Still wear the automatics on occasion, but for a large part just don't do it for me anymore. They do set off a nice set of threads when required though.
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If you are giving away the IWC, count me first in line;)
 
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