All About Watches

prince nez said:
For LKP LKP :

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That's verri sexi. Not an original one, right?
 
I really like this. If some people like two-tone to wrist, I would have to say steel watches with gradient blue dials are my special peccadillo - the TV shape on this one just caps it off.

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Just broke my third strap on my G-shock GA-100. The "top-rated tactical watch." The mechanism is unkillable. The bands suck balls.

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Time to get serious.

I ordered a composite bracelet with deployment clasp, the 6900 series band. They're both 16mm lugs; they should line up the same.

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Gonna make this little bastard into my zombie apocalypse watch. I'll post pics when the mod is complete. Should be 2 weeks for delivery.
 
All three resin bands have torn away from the bottom lug. Repeatable point of failure. Never a good thing. I'm hoping the composite band holds up better; I hate the look of a NATO strap.
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I really like this with the new band. Still a hideous watch -- I'd never wear it with anything other than a uniform or a T-shirt -- but the new band raises the badassery quotient way past a NATO strap and it's ridiculously comfortable.

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Question Rain Man Rain Man since you are high speed low drag and have velcro all over your outfit, why didnt you go for suunto?
 
Leitmotif said:
Question Rain Man Rain Man since you are high speed low drag and have velcro all over your outfit, why didnt you go for suunto?
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Because every swinging dick around here has a Suunto Core. The SPS's (self-propelled sandbags) wear digital G-Shocks, and the chiefs wear Explorers.

Plus, I'm a sentimental cuss. I don't know that I could bring myself to buy another field watch as long as this one is still functional. It has street cred -- it has some nice dings, and unthinkable grime ground into it from six countries: forensics would find sand, blood, hydraulic fluid, explosive residue, toxic waste, Scotch, and camel shit. And while I could get a new one and "break it in," I promised my wife that once I commission I will start avoiding the exact kinds of unpleasant and boxers-soiling circumstances that tend to fuck up a nice new watch.

In this kinder, gentler, participation-trophy, garrison mentality, where commanders are telling their troops to remove their combat patches because the younger troops and REMFs feel left out, a beat-to-crap old watch with blood and sand in the cross-hatchings may be the last piece of cred us salty bastards get to carry. I hope to find a jeweler who can make me a custom-milled backplate so I can engrave my tours in it.
 
I like the look of this - though for the price I wish the bracelet was integrated into the case better. I understand it is copying the old vintage Constellations but the cheap gold-filled bracelets on those old models really aren't worth replicating IMO.

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Time for a new leather nato for my Hamilton. I do love cxl8, but it might be too soft, thick and markable for a strap. Kangaroo? It appeals to my Aussie roots, for damn skippy. Thoughts?
 
Dropbear said:
Time for a new leather nato for my Hamilton. I do love cxl8, but it might be too soft, thick and markable for a strap. Kangaroo? It appeals to my Aussie roots, for damn skippy. Thoughts?
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Initially I would have thought Kangaroo to not be suitable for watch straps because of stretching. But on doing some searching it seems like it lends itself well to watch straps.

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Somewhere in the annals of StyleForum I remember reading someone who said metal watch bands are casual and leather bands are for dress. Is that true?
 
Fwiffo said:
Somewhere in the annals of StyleForum I remember reading someone who said metal watch bands are casual and leather bands are for dress. Is that true?
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It would depend on the metal and the type of leather band obviously - a jubilee bracelet is more formal than a cordovan NATO. Typical SF generalisation.
 
Okay - it's stainless steel bands. I have a Rolex, a Seiko (I'm told the cheap one) from mum, and my Omega I inherited from my father and his father.

I mean I like leather straps but travelling, I tend to pick one watch rather than bring a cotterie of them.
 
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