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I would love a nice Hamilton at some point. I started to get into watches and bought a few cheap ones, just because. I found I was only wearing my skx007 as it was a much nicer watch than the cheap casio. So sold the rest of them.
Granted the seiko is the most expensive watch I own, and it was only £170 but still compared to timex it makes me happy.
Do what makes you happy, I can't afford to spend £2400 on a watch and I would rather have a few quality pieces for up to a grand rather than fifty cheap watches. You can extrapolate this into anything; same with shoes or clothes etc.
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Clearly my phone is ‘bang on’ accurate when it comes to telling the time - but my watch in a different league in terms of longevity and joy of ownership. It’s 31 years old and cost about twice what my iPhone cost me. A new one costs about 10 times as much as my phone. That looks like decent value to me....
Which is completely different from my attitude to guitars, but there you go.
Guitar = Timeless
Watches do take up a lot less room than guitars too.
My interest is mainly vintage watches, here's an old Seamaster 120 of mine from 1972....
The calibre 565 movements in these are beautiful....
Mmmm... the whole inhouse movement thing doesn't have as much steam as people think it does.. it seems to be bandied about a lot these days like its a nostalgic thing that everyone used to do when they didn't.
The main difference is that back then a lot of manufactures bought in ebauches which they then modified and decorated, whereas a few years ago ETA stopped selling ebauches and would only sell completed movements, although thy would modify them to spec at the buyers request. There's a list somewhere of the modifications IWC would perform on the 7750 movement before it went in a pilots chrono. When ETA stopped selling Ebauches, they built the mods into the &&50 for IWC going forward.
That is until they limited the sale of OEM movements full stop and a bunch of manufacturers moved to Sellita.
In anycase, even Rolex used the Zenith El Primero movement in the Daytona up until the 90's
There were actually very few movements that were truly in house as a general rule.
Granted Omega's were actually in house. thy ruled the 70's and that 120 is stunning.
I'm pretty sure I look just as much of a wanker no matter what watch I'm wearing.
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there was a guitar in the window of one of the edinburgh watch shops a few months back, was gibson in association with longines or maybe Tissot. If you took the relative value of each piece if they ,weren't a set The watch was overpriced because it had gibson on it and the guitar was overpriced becaus it had some miniscule reference to watches somewhere on the guitar, i think it was the inlays.
I have a Zenith Chronomaster GMT, white face, with the El Primero movement. It keeps impeccably good time, better than any other watch I have, and it looks lovely, very different to other watches really.
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That is gorgeous mate! honestly i feel that the zenith el prim is one of the most underrated Chrono's out there. It'd be my first choice. Maybe in a few years when i get back into regular work.. I rather like the 36000vph 1969 38mm.
Rolex actually slowed it down to 28000 for the daytona.