All About Watches

Monkeyface said:
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Really don't like this Longines 1945 Heritage:

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Lord Buckley said:
Really don't like this Longines 1945 Heritage:
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There are a couple of things I don't like so much about it - the seconds subdial is perhaps a little small, and I prefer to have numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 rather than the arrangement that they've chosen. However, I like the numerals and it's a nice-looking watch in general.
 
Journeyman said:
There are a couple of things I don't like so much about it - the seconds subdial is perhaps a little small, and I prefer to have numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 rather than the arrangement that they've chosen. However, I like the numerals and it's a nice-looking watch in general.
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I think the original version was available with Roman numerals. I don't like the colour scheme, or the strap. Agreed the subdial is too small.
 
Now that I have my sports watch out of the way. I'm now looking at a dress watch and the Jaeger LeCoultre Watch Master Ultra Thin has caught ol' formsta's eye.

Any recommendations? Watch makers with more pronounceable name are especially welcomed ;)

As an aside, I was rather taken by a Zenith El Primero Chrono but that's a future purchase maybe.
 
Chronomaster.co.uk is a good source for Zenith El Primero's. The Rainbow version is the best.

The Master Ultra Thin is superb, but it's a tad too subtle for my liking. Unlike the Reverso's.

Well worth considering, and not just because I've got one, for a very understated classical look with zero pretentions is the Ole Mathiesen's. Super thin and just there. A watch that looks like it could have cost several thousands or 50 quid. It really is handy when you want to not demonstrate wealth, or luxury with a client. It's my good to go for business meetings.

Then again, the Ultra Thin also serve this purpose. Albeit, more expensively.
 
Lord Buckley said:
Chronomaster.co.uk is a good source for Zenith El Primero's. The Rainbow version is the best.

The Master Ultra Thin is superb, but it's a tad too subtle for my liking. Unlike the Reverso's.

Well worth considering, and not just because I've got one, for a very understated classical look with zero pretentions is the Ole Mathiesen's. Super thin and just there. A watch that looks like it could have cost several thousands or 50 quid. It really is handy when you want to not demonstrate wealth, or luxury with a client. It's my good to go for business meetings.

Then again, the Ultra Thin also serve this purpose. Albeit, more expensively.
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Plus Neil at Chronomaster is a nice fellow to deal with.
 
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For a moment I thought it was called the Kipper, which would have been appropriate - because as a design it stinks.
 
formby said:
Now that I have my sports watch out of the way. I'm now looking at a dress watch and the Jaeger LeCoultre Watch Master Ultra Thin has caught ol' formsta's eye.

Any recommendations? Watch makers with more pronounceable name are especially welcomed ;)

As an aside, I was rather taken by a Zenith El Primero Chrono but that's a future purchase maybe.
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of those two i suppose i'd pick the zenith. like Lord Buckley Lord Buckley i've always found the jaeger boring. what are you looking for in the watch? sleekness? stylishness? something unique?
 
prince nez said:
For a moment I thought it was called the Kipper, which would have been appropriate - because as a design it stinks.
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I quite like the original Skipper 7754 design - it's not only a yachting watch, which are typically brighter, with noticeable dial markers, but it's also from the late 1960s - early 1970s, when some watches were really colourful.

However, I don't particularly like this edition, because it crams together two different Heuer models - the Skipper 7754 and the Carrera Dato 45, and I don't like the Dato 45. This is mainly because I just don't like single-subdial chronographs as I think that they look unbalanced but that it, of course, subjective.
 
Journeyman said:
I quite like the original Skipper 7754 design - it's not only a yachting watch, which are typically brighter, with noticeable dial markers, but it's also from the late 1960s - early 1970s, when some watches were really colourful.

However, I don't particularly like this edition, because it crams together two different Heuer models - the Skipper 7754 and the Carrera Dato 45, and I don't like the Dato 45. This is mainly because I just don't like single-subdial chronographs as I think that they look unbalanced but that it, of course, subjective.
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Exactly. Two colorful subdials like the original would have been a quirky but appropriate design and doghouse doghouse and his mates would be all over it for sure.

As it is that date window is a crime against horology.
 
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Journeyman said:
There are a couple of things I don't like so much about it - the seconds subdial is perhaps a little small, and I prefer to have numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 rather than the arrangement that they've chosen. However, I like the numerals and it's a nice-looking watch in general.
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Better?
 
Rambo said:
most of the original Heuer designs were great. all these new models and repros suck.
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The Heuer branded Carrera re-editions from the mid to late 1990's were spot on. Around 1,500 GBP back then.

They did a good job at the time of rebranding themselves and getting away from the mass faked Formula 1 colourful quartz monstrosities. But now, yuk.
 
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Longines Conquest v Tissot Visodate.

Feel free to compare.

Tissot is under £400. Longines is twice that. Neither is the very expensive gear.

Used watch sellers always say how great Longines used to be. Now Swatch own it, so it loses cachet.

Price of these watches is one thing, but then you will need to get them serviced.
 
Kingstonian said:
Longines Conquest v Tissot Visodate.

Feel free to compare.

Tissot is under £400. Longines is twice that. Neither is the very expensive gear.

Used watch sellers always say how great Longines used to be. Now Swatch own it, so it loses cachet.

Price of these watches is one thing, but then you will need to get them serviced.
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Tissot has some fans and they've done a couple of beauts in their Heritage range, but nothing comparable to Longines in their equivalent ranges. The Visodate is good, larger than the Conquest and between these two watches there is a good Vs match to be fought. Especially if you bring in the Visodate as an everyday office watch.

But.....of the two watch makers, Longines, hands down! No competition.

The top end of Longines are as good as the luxury watchmakers dress style watches for half the price. I'm not referring to their sport watches and other lesser ranges of course.

Interestingly, when I had business dealings with Kazakhs and even here now, I notice they all sport Longines (top of the range ones mind you). I asked a Kazakh colleague (a member of their elite, only by his father's genetics, he was affectionately known as the "Idiot son of a wealth Kazakh business man" which was somewhat cruel) about this once and he said, yes, everyone had Rolex's given to them at their 18th birthday, but a Longines was a watch of integrity a sign that you couldn't be bought. Of course, some of them can be bought, but why advertise it.

I'm actually in the market to sell my Longines Heritage Conquest at the moment, but only because I am bored and seldom wear it. It's a bit small at 36mm for my current mood.
 
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Lord Buckley said:
Tissot has some fans and they've done a couple of beauts in their Heritage range, but nothing comparable to Longines in their equivalent ranges.
I'm actually in the market to sell my Longines Heritage Conquest at the moment, but only because I am bored and seldom wear it. It's a bit small at 36mm for my current mood.
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Patel Philippe Calatrava is about 36mm. That size watch will inevitably become fashionable in due course.
 
prince nez said:
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Sorry, that breakfast with your pimp after he's counted your earnings and is pleased with you look doesn't quite work for me.

Whereas I think these new toned downed, simplified and clean looking Seiko Astron's are spot on:

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The gripe is of course, like with digital cameras, you're really buying a consumable that will be outdated within 18-14 months. Nevertheless, I could be tempted with either of the above two.
 
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