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Przepraszam
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..is the best thing that have ever happened.
Unless you don't wear it over the weekend and you wake up Monday morning be like WTF!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00152QLL4
Best purchase ever -,-
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| Posted: Sun, 2nd Aug 2015 23:45 Post subject: |
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Its a fucking watch it tells the time, all that seems to be is some status symbol lol. I bet you got the time on your mobile smart phone right and the clocks on the wall where you work and the pc 
waste of money 
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mtj
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tonizito
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I stopped wearing a watch 15 years ago, when I got my first mobile phone, it seemed unnecessary anymore
| Lutzifer wrote: | | and yes, mine is only average |
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Aug 2015 12:00 Post subject: |
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It's a style thing these days but I once bought a watch which, for me, was really expensive (€125 in today's money) back when I was in the last year of high school. Took all of two weeks for someone in the locker rooms to break the wrist band and since then I never bought anything but cheap watches that still last a long time.
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Been wearing a 100M graded water resistant Seiko automatic watch for 3-4 years now. It's brilliant really. Can go swimming with it and never have to change battery (It will die at some point I expect but still).
IMO a reliable watch (not some iCrap) is very convenient and not just a style thing.
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Aug 2015 16:55 Post subject: |
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| neeger93 wrote: | Been wearing a 100M graded water resistant Seiko automatic watch for 3-4 years now. It's brilliant really. Can go swimming with it and never have to change battery (It will die at some point I expect but still).
IMO a reliable watch (not some iCrap) is very convenient and not just a style thing. |
To be fair, an "iCrap" watch (on a smartphone, or some other "smart" device) is likely to be more reliable overall due to online or GPS syncing, which will use atomic clocks as its source.
It might not be as accurate second to second, but that kind of a thing is very rarely of any use to most people.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 02:18 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 03:28 Post subject: |
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I'm not a big automatic fan myself. While I do own many higher-end automatics, I prefer the older mechanical winds. My Speedmaster Pro is my favorite watch, period.
The reason I say this is that automatics simply need to be serviced more often as the first thing to go is always the rotor. My manual wind watches always go much longer without being serviced.
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tw1st
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 12:55 Post subject: Re: Automatic Watch |
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| Przepraszam wrote: | ..is the best thing that have ever happened.
Unless you don't wear it over the weekend and you wake up Monday morning be like WTF!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00152QLL4
Best purchase ever -,- |
I don't get it, what's so special about it that it costs 400USD? |
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Il_Padrino
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 14:02 Post subject: |
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Personally, I don't like these models. Too much stuff on it. When it comes to analog watches, the wind up ones are the way to go (preferably the skeleton models that shows the mechanic).
I have one of these:
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Don't batteries last like ... two years or so?
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 18:42 Post subject: |
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | | Don't batteries last like ... two years or so? |
yep.
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Aug 2015 19:59 Post subject: |
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I understand the appeal of mechanical watches, but they don't have to be automatic, right? They can run on batteries, correct?
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | | I understand the appeal of mechanical watches, but they don't have to be automatic, right? They can run on batteries, correct? |
.. Then it's a quartz watch. Any 'digital'/quartz watch that has gears and hands isn't fully mechanical.
Mechanical means completely driven by a spring.
And again, not all mechanical movements are automatic. You can have manual wind as well.
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So is there any real significant difference between a quartz/digital and mechanical ones? Or is it just simply the price tag and status of it?
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Aug 2015 16:32 Post subject: |
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| Prefetian wrote: | | So is there any real significant difference between a quartz/digital and mechanical ones? Or is it just simply the price tag and status of it? |
price tag and status
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Aug 2015 17:47 Post subject: |
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Well, I buy it because I like the engineering behind it and it's something I can understand.
I do not like a lot of mechanical watches, and most people wear something that isn't interesting.
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Invasor
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Aug 2015 04:23 Post subject: |
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Cartier is a fashion brand and thus is over priced crap more so then even a Rolex.
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