Watch Men

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4 points | by trojanalert 11 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • ggm 10 hours ago ago

    I have a self winding mechanical with a 24h rotating bezel which I love. But, I'm wearing a citizen JJY/DCF synchronised solar powered unit. It's aesthetics are good, and the dual time functions fantastic, and with a rPI radio to sync to NTP (I live outside the radio time signal distances from all of the worldwide sources) it's accurate.

    But I do like owning a simple, albeit self winding mechanical watch. I went Japanese (jsprings which is budget friendly seiko)

    I had a quartz based tissot I loved. Badly made plastic battery case lid. I wish people didn't cheap out on the back. I had a Timex ironman after watching a Will Ferrell film stranger than fiction which featured one, which was lovely but Timex don't do good quality control, the alarm died, and the watch grated as a badly designed badly executed vanity.

    I miss my old Timex with a NATO strap. It lost 5 minutes a day but in 1975 I felt like a grown up.

  • trojanalert 11 hours ago ago

    A delightful essay on the resurrection of the Swiss watch business