All About Watches

Leitmotif said:
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Seiko SARD011

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The secretaries who drive your KonzernProdukt would love that watch on you.
 
^ The "bullhead" style?

I think that Seiko recently re-released a version of their classic 1970s bullhead chrono.

If I remember correctly, Omega also re-released a version of their bullhead chrono from the 1970s, too, but as with most Omega re-releases, it had been unnecessarily "jazzed up" and was also overpriced.
 
Journeyman said:
^ The "bullhead" style?

I think that Seiko recently re-released a version of their classic 1970s bullhead chrono.

If I remember correctly, Omega also re-released a version of their bullhead chrono from the 1970s, too, but as with most Omega re-releases, it had been unnecessarily "jazzed up" and was also overpriced.
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Kind of but not really. The Bullhead was primarily used to denote a chronograph with top mounted crown & pushers and often an asymmetrical case shape sort of resembling a bull's head.

The ZRC and Triton had bottom and top mounted crowns to prevent snagging when diving.
 
OK - JM and others. I have never paid any much attention to watches other than to note tacky big clunky "sports" "diving" watches and expanding metal bands in meeetings. I have around 6 watches with a mixture of NATO and brown leather bands. All white face except one.

I'm thinking of a black leather band. Edgy hey? Is there a rule of black leather band with silver watch - brown leather with gold?

I don't care too much about the rule - but I can't picture if a black band with gold watch looks aesthetically off or askew. Any help?

I don't want to buy another watch and my dressiest watches are gold. I suppose I could just buy a black leather band and try it - but I must be losing my touch with old age - so I'm asking my anonymous internet best buddies. Just like a Foodles.
 
Okay, I really have to know how this cutesy thick-ass thread tacking on watch bands works, as it looks like they just do two wraps on each side. Is there a big knot somewhere?
 
Coincidentally, just a month after rainmaker posted his lovely, vintage Tudor Submariner, Tudor have announced that they're introducing a "black" version of the the Tudor Black Bay.

Previously offered with a burgundy bezel or a blue bezel, Tudor's now offering it with a black bezel, which I think looks pretty smashing:

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Interestingly, the above pic isn't quite accurate in regard to the finished version, as the version just released has a red triangle in the "12 o'clock" bezel position, rather than a white triangle.

As usual, there's a couple of articles on Hodinkee:

Introducing: The Tudor Heritage Black Bay Black — HODINKEE

A Week On The Wrist: The New Tudor Heritage Black Bay Black Reference 79220N, By John Mayer — HODINKEE

People's main issue with the watch seems to be that the watch uses a modified ETA movement, rather than Tudor's new in-house movement. Frankly, I'm not bothered by that - using a modified ETA movement means that you can use pretty much any reasonable watch repairer to service it, instead of having to send it off to a Tudor-approved service place.

I paid $125 for a full service, including replacing a part, for an Omega with an ETA movement earlier this year. I don't know how much I would have paid if I'd taken it to an Omega service centre, but I'd be willing to bet it would have been at least four times as much and quite possibly more.
 
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I'm not really a eatch guy - I wore a Timex for years, then upgraded to this automatic Hamilton. Once or twice a year I'll put on the Vostok as a conversation piece (bought it in East Berlin in 1992).

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^ As far as three-register chronographs go, the Tutima looks alright, although I'm not such a fan of the red accents. What really puts me off that particular design, though, are the integrated lugs - they make it look rather odd when wearing it with a strap, as I assume that the lugs are meant to fit a bracelet.

As for Seiko 5 watches, I really like them. Excellent value for money, particularly the made-in-Japan models. If you want to get one that looks a bit different/customised, you can get in touch with Yobokies (Seikoboy, backwards) and have him make one for you with a different dial or bezel:
 
fxh said:
OK - JM and others. I have never paid any much attention to watches other than to note tacky big clunky "sports" "diving" watches and expanding metal bands in meeetings. I have around 6 watches with a mixture of NATO and brown leather bands. All white face except one.

I'm thinking of a black leather band. Edgy hey? Is there a rule of black leather band with silver watch - brown leather with gold?

I don't care too much about the rule - but I can't picture if a black band with gold watch looks aesthetically off or askew. Any help?

I don't want to buy another watch and my dressiest watches are gold. I suppose I could just buy a black leather band and try it - but I must be losing my touch with old age - so I'm asking my anonymous internet best buddies. Just like a Foodles.
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black glossy alligator + gold watch = win
 
Leitmotif said:
LKP LKP please send the kgb after this man for such desecration and social danger
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When I was young, the father of one of my best friends had a strap like that, but it even had another piece that clipped over the watch itself to protect the watch from scratches and dings.

He was one of the most "manly" men I've ever known. A qualified electricial and carpenter, he largely built his family's home himself. He was a keen hunter and fisherman and could skin and field-dress a carcass with ease. He had a private pilot's license and used to fly his kids to remote cattle stations in western Queensland during school holidays, where he'd take them hunting for wild pigs and foxes. When I was fourteen, he sent my friend and I off into the wilderness near their place with a sealed envelope, map, compass, water and rations for three days and told us that he'd see us when we got back. When we opened the enveloped, we discovered that we had to hike about 15 miles through rough terrain to the shores of a lake, retrieve something that he'd deliberately left there for us in a cairn of rocks, and then return home again. Of course, this was well before anyone had mobile phones or EPIRB beacons.

So, if you're a hipster-doofus who wants to look like an urban lumberjack with a watch strap like that, then definitely LKP should send the FSB after you. But if you're like my friend's dad, and you lead an active life and actually have a reason to protect your watch, then it's OK - although I personally don't like the way it looks.
 
Journeyman said:
When I was young, the father of one of my best friends had a strap like that, but it even had another piece that clipped over the watch itself to protect the watch from scratches and dings.

He was one of the most "manly" men I've ever known. A qualified electricial and carpenter, he largely built his family's home himself. He was a keen hunter and fisherman and could skin and field-dress a carcass with ease. He had a private pilot's license and used to fly his kids to remote cattle stations in western Queensland during school holidays, where he'd take them hunting for wild pigs and foxes. When I was fourteen, he sent my friend and I off into the wilderness near their place with a sealed envelope, map, compass, water and rations for three days and told us that he'd see us when we got back. When we opened the enveloped, we discovered that we had to hike about 15 miles through rough terrain to the shores of a lake, retrieve something that he'd deliberately left there for us in a cairn of rocks, and then return home again. Of course, this was well before anyone had mobile phones or EPIRB beacons.

So, if you're a hipster-doofus who wants to look like an urban lumberjack with a watch strap like that, then definitely LKP should send the FSB after you. But if you're like my friend's dad, and you lead an active life and actually have a reason to protect your watch, then it's OK - although I personally don't like the way it looks.
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I totally agree with what you're saying, function over form and so forth. A whole different game is a hipster driving a G55 in a well off area that has no need for anything like that. I shall seat down and read over the news the newest person killed by Polonium thanks to our KGB liason LKP LKP
 
Leitmotif said:
I totally agree with what you're saying, function over form and so forth. A whole different game is a hipster driving a G55 in a well off area that has no need for anything like that. I shall seat down and read over the news the newest person killed by Polonium thanks to our KGB liason LKP LKP
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The Bund strap favours pilot watches, chronographs and the like. Makes no sense for a diver.
 
What was the name of your father's friend? Crocodile Dundee? I don't see the point of this type of straps and I don't think I ever will. If you have the end to protect the watch in such way you could wear a different model. Erg. A casio g shock.
 
robertito said:
What was the name of your father's friend? Crocodile Dundee?
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Crocodile Dundee was a girly man next to my father's friend!

When I was in high school, my friend invited me over to see their pig, as they'd been raising a pig for a couple of months. I rode over one afternoon after school, but no-one was home and I couldn't find the pig. As I was riding back down their driveway (which was a couple of kilometres long and which ran though rugged bushland), I met them coming up in their old Willy's Jeep, with a couple of large, black plastic garbage bags stacked in the back.

When I asked my friend where the pig was, he pointed to the bags in the back of the jeep and said, "Here".

His dad had shot the pig that afternoon and they'd scorched off the hair and jointed the carcass, before taking it down to the butcher to be cut up into pieces.

My friend's mum made fresh pork sausages that evening, using the pig's intestines as sausage casings. I've got to say that those were the best damned sausages I've ever had - I can still remember the taste a couple of decades later.
 
robertito said:
I don't see the point of this type of straps and I don't think I ever will. If you have the end to protect the watch in such way you could wear a different model. Erg. A casio g shock.
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A band that served specific purposes from a historical perspective, though there is not concensus. If you look back, prior to wristwatches becoming the norm, pocket watches were modified to wear on the wrist of flyers (also evidence of military use). Lugs were soldered on and then the watch was affixed to straps that were wide given the size of pocket watches.

Additional theories include:

Securing the watch to the wrist to prevent jarring not for the watches sake but for he wearer.

The most common theory is that leather is a natural insulator and separates the metal of the watch from the wrist to protect the skin against temperature: freezing and heat (fire)

Now flyers were their watches over their gloves & nomex sleeves. No metal touching skin.
 
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