What watch are you wearing?

[TNT1]

Awesome, but your reflection is getting in the way of the dial. Maybe take a pic with the light in front of you instead.

 

ok.

[Underachiever]

TAG Aquaracer OR Tissot T-Touch Expert OR Tissot Chronograph OR plastic Swatch

 

 

In London this week, we'll see what bargains are lurking to overpower me at LHR. :-)

 

 

 

Delgado, a Chopard - those costs a fortune!!! Nice!!

[Rickb33]

Tag Aquaracer - had it for 8 years

[Lucky Luke.]

I don't have my TMNT watch any more, but I am quite proud of my orange flip clock. It stopped working in the late '80s so I have it permanently set to 11:59 - adds a sense of urgency to the workplace.

 

[TNT1]

I don't have my TMNT watch any more, but I am quite proud of my orange flip clock. It stopped working in the late '80s so I have it permanently set to 11:59 - adds a sense of urgency to the workplace.

 

 

 

 

Precisely why I wear the boy child's Smurf watch. He always manages to reset the time, so when I wear it, it's such a surreal experience...

[The expat cyclist]

No Right handed watch wearers???

 

my strap broke aboyut 2 years ago and my phone has sufficed till now - busy looking for a running watch (or the bryton cardio 30) at the moment

 

so here's my watch at the moment

 

The time on it is wrong.

[gummibear]

Sinn U1 divers most days

 

I had a look at a Sinn U1 but ended up getting another Tag F1.

[Genesis]

Suunto T6D.

 

Only watch I got - hahaha

Edited November 21, 2011 by Genesis

[King_Crispy]

Dig my Rolex during the week, Polar S725x when I'm on the bike, but my alltime favourite had to be my Tissot Seastar (which was stolen out of my car at Kyalami during one of my training rides)

[Noneking]

[Thug]

My rather battered favourite:

 

Aaaah, but as we are all not operative but rather speculative, we apply...........

[Johan Bornman]

I'm a hoarder, so I kept all my watches and my father's watches and my grandfather's watches.

 

My everyday watch is a Casio G-shock that's about 15 years old. I can still buy all the spares for it, so don't knock Casio. I won't post a photo of this one, it is boring and disgusting.

 

This Camy was my first real watch. The one before this was a Timex that I got i grade one, which I still have but never bothered to restore. It was rubbish. I must have got this Camy in standard 5 or 6.

 

I had the Camy restored against the wishes of grumpy old Ernst Janner who said the watch wasn't worth the cost of repair. I went ahead nevertheless. He replaced the winder crown and spring. It goes well but you have to remember to wind it each day.

 

 

This Seiko was one of Seiko's first quartz watches, at least one of the first quarts sports (i.e. moerse waterproof) watches. I bought it with my wages I earned from holiday work as a student. Very extravagant for what I earned, but it is a fantastic watch. Its first battery lasted 11 years. Thereafter for some reason they only lasted about two years.

 

 

Whilst I was still wearing the Seiko I got all windgat and decided to start a watch collection. My first acquisition was this Rolex from the 1930s. It is an interesting watch. It is tiny with a huge winding crown. It is an early Oyster but from an era where they couldn't put three axles on one spindle and thus the second hand had to go on a separate face. It isn't automatic. I had Ernst Janner restore it for me and it is still a handsome, if somewhat muted watch. I didn't pay much for it and I have no idea what it is worth today.

 

 

I then bought a couple of duds, including a ladies Rolex of as style that only dead grannies will look at. No photos of that.

 

Then watches started coming my way. First my father gave me my grandfather's Tissot from somewhere in the 1950's. I had Ernst Janner restore this one for me too. I can't remember if he questioned my decision or not, he's full of **** in anyway.

 

 

Nevertheless, I still bought stuff from him. One of my purchases was this handsome (the photo is unflattering) Eterna. It hails from the 1970s in an era when thin was good. Seiko had an expensie Lasale and the Swiss fought backwith this Eterna somethingorother. It was as thin as hell - but it was a gippo thin. It was thin at the sides but deep in the middle, to the point where it presses a hole in your arm if you wear it for longer than an hour. It is gold plated.

 

 

After the Eterna, I bought a new Oris. I always wanted an Oris with a black face but couln't afford it so I went for this little rose gold one. I say little 'cause it is small enough to be a ladies watch. In those days watches weren't big yet.

 

 

Unfortunately my eyes started to fail soon after I bought this and now I can barely see it. I never use it.

 

The best part of this Oris is the back. Have a look at this.

 

 

Just look at that detail. Pity no-one ever asks to see the back of your watch.

 

Then I inhereted a couple of well-worn watches from my father.

 

This one I remember him wearing when I was a kid. It is an Omega Seamaster. I had it fixed and restored by...you guessed right. Ernst.

 

 

It is nothing special though and only has sentimental value.

 

The other inhereted watch is also an Omega, this time a Deville.

 

 

It also required restoration.

 

These photos are quite cruel to the watches, they're more handsome than they appear on a macro photo.

Edited November 21, 2011 by Johan Bornman

[Thug]

 

Who gave you permission to wear my watch....

 

Currently on my wrist..

 

[Noneking]

Who gave you permission to wear my watch....

 

Currently on my wrist..

 

 

[no calves]

My Ritchey carbon watch got stolen out of Bowman cycles earlier this year...

[NotSoBigBen]

Was the OP's question 'what watch are you wearing' #justwondering