Just because I’m interested, what kind of watches do you guys wear? And what watches are you thinking about/dreaming about buying?
Me, I’m a huge fan of the Tag Heuer Link chronographs, but the watch I’d most like to have is either the Bell & Ross Commando or the Bell & Ross Phantom.
On the “lower”-priced end, TW Steel puts out some nice stuff, too.
And you all?
Comment by DarthRove on 7/26 @ 7:53 pm #
The last watch I wore regularly was a Seiko Mickey Mouse. Before that it was a Casio calculator watch.
What?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 7:53 pm #
i let the shade guide me
and dr who/ he is a timelord
Comment by newrouter on 7/26 @ 8:01 pm #
i don’t wear watches but i hope you don’t mind me posting this from august 1941:
link
Comment by proudvastrightwingconspirator on 7/26 @ 8:03 pm #
My cell phone has the time.
No need for a watch.
Wish I could ditch the wedding ring, too.
BTJM
Comment by sdferr on 7/26 @ 8:05 pm #
Couldn’t really wear them on account of the daily violence, so lost the habit early and never got it back.
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/26 @ 8:07 pm #
My watch cost $10 at Wal*Mart.
It’s Chinese, of course, and probably made out of recycled nuclear reactor parts. I haven’t held it up to a Geiger counter. Actually, I have a Geiger counter available, but I’m afraid to know the truth.
I think it was Woody Allen who remarked that expensive watches just end up being large tips for hotel chambermaids. I don’t travel any more, but the habit persists.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by B Moe on 7/26 @ 8:10 pm #
I mostly use my cell phone. If the need arises that I have to have a watch I usually buy the cheapest one at Wal Mart because I work in an environment that usually destroys watches within a month or two.
I used to have a Seiko I liked a lot, back when I had a more civilized job.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 8:14 pm #
To be honest, until recently I never wore a watch regularly. Now I have a few I rotate, from a nice, basic black quartz Majestic on a big custom leather cuff, which I bought from a New York designer named Freddie Matara; to the higher end automatic stainless steel stuff that I wear on special (or activity-specific) occasions.
I like the Bell & Ross stuff because it’s easy to see. But I guess I could just use the money to get Lasik surgery. Which is what I’d need to read, eg., this.
Comment by John on 7/26 @ 8:15 pm #
I have an $11 Timex in a base-metal-and-stainless-steel case that I bought after the stem on my gold-plated watch corroded through. The battery has run out, so I use my cell phone lately.
John
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 8:15 pm #
My day-to-day watches are a Movado Museum and a Tag Heuer Formula 1. My personal favorite is an early 30’s LeCoutre Automatic or a Patek Calatrava. My dream is an early Vacheron Constantin.
Comment by Frontman on 7/26 @ 8:16 pm #
My favorite of past years has been a Swiss Army, much more sturdy than I would have thought for what I put it through. I also have a Noblia chronograph, gold with a blue face that is for style.
Comment by cynn on 7/26 @ 8:19 pm #
Have had my stainless Bulova since high school. Forget what it cost.
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 8:19 pm #
If you watch Rizzoli & Isles with the sound off, it is really quite pleasant.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:20 pm #
i stuff my spandex with rolex
im euro trash
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:22 pm #
hickery dickery dock
teddy kennedys buick is under water
Comment by cynn on 7/26 @ 8:23 pm #
That must be uncomfortable.
Comment by John on 7/26 @ 8:24 pm #
Jeff,
Those B&R watches are BAD looking! Very SUB-tyle. What are the prices on those puppies?
John
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 8:28 pm #
B&R are very good watches, reasonably priced to their quality. I would prefer the Panerai, but the B&R’s are fine timepieces.
Comment by mongo78 on 7/26 @ 8:28 pm #
Seiko SKX-173 automatic diver’s watch. And I take it off when i get in the shower. Odd, isn’t it?
Comment by B Moe on 7/26 @ 8:30 pm #
Fucking Hell!
I wish I had one to sell you!
Comment by DanFromDetroit on 7/26 @ 8:30 pm #
I usually wear a Citizen Navihawk. For dress I wear a knockoff of a Swiss skeleton watch with three complications.
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 8:31 pm #
Breitling Navitimeter Montbrilliant is also very high on my wish list.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 7/26 @ 8:32 pm #
Don’t get the Suunto Core. It looks good. is reasonably slim, and has a lot of features – alt./barometer, temp., compass, water proof to around 100ft., history, etc. – but goes kaput for no apparent reason. I had two that did that, and lost the second one before I could return it. Then I read the reviews where I found that others had the same problem. My first similar Suunto from about 15 yrs. prior to those two did work quite well so I had gone with that. But I eventually lost it due to a wrist strap failure in the mountains. I might find it yet. It’s main problem was its thickness which made it an obstacle and it looked like it could have been a small explosive device. Maybe not good for air travel.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/26 @ 8:32 pm #
I don’t wear a watch, ‘cuz I’m timeless like that. But back in the day I used to wear a Bulova chronograph that my parents gave me when I got my gold wings. It wasn’t really high end, like you fellas seem to fancy, but it worked real well for me.
Comment by Merovign on 7/26 @ 8:33 pm #
I used to never wear one, now I have a medical monitor watch (temporary, we hope) and a Casio WaveCeptor (multiple alarms), cause it was on sale.
I wreck watches, so my dream watch would have a face that doesn’t scratch or is easily replaceable. Something lighter and thinner would be nice. A watch band that doesn’t have a flappy bit that always comes loose (steel bands rip my hair out).
I didn’t buy a watch for two years because I couldn’t find one that wasn’t boring and was usable. Never did, this one’s boring.
I’d like a waterproof programmable-face OLED watch that I can program to duplicate the face of a linear direct-read watch with extra information above and below (like a “skin” on an mp3 player).
Bluetooth would be nice (for #/msg info) but I’d prefer battery life. Motion-charging (there are some new electrostatic motion-chargers that are very good), but I’d be willing to charge it.
Most digital watches don’t have enough contrast or low-angle visibility, most analog watches are too fidgety/fiddly.
Comment by Merovign on 7/26 @ 8:34 pm #
Re: Patek Phillipe or whatever – for $20,000, it had better make you bulletproof, make you fly, or have a crapload of hooker coupons.
Comment by Merovign on 7/26 @ 8:35 pm #
I did know someone who bought a Patek Phillipe at a yard/estate sale for $5. In that case I’d buy one. I’d ask if it came with coupons, though.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:42 pm #
time is a pink floyd song that im kinda sick of
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 8:42 pm #
BMoe – that is one of, if not the single most magnificent watches ever created.
Comment by JeffS on 7/26 @ 8:42 pm #
I wore a watch for a long time, usually some battery power Casio, whatever I could get for around $20.
Whilst in Kuwait back in ‘05, I picked up a Glasshutte “original” for $50. (Yes, “original”: sez so right on the watch face, and the bazaar owner at Ali Al Salem Air Base was as serious as they come. Heh!) It’s a self-winding analog model, with dials for day of the week, days of the month, and an AM/PM indicator. Being an analog, I had to roll it over for those months not having 31 days, a minor inconvenience. Very pretty, with a copper sheen, but heavy and a bit awkward to wear, especially with the supplied band. After a while, I stopped wearing it, but I do wind it now and then. My sweat, not so oddly, caused some mild discoloration on the back.
For a long time, I relied on my cell phone for the time, but of late, I went back to a wrist watch, a Casio “G-Shock”, which synchronizes with the time hack transmitted by WWV and similar stations around the world. It’s also solar powered, and is fairly reliable. Changing time zones is a bitch, because you have to reprogram it for the referenced city, and there are some odd codes (“YVR” = “Vancouver, WA”). But I like it, on the whole.
Comment by JeffS on 7/26 @ 8:45 pm #
PS: The “G-Shock” features analog hands, with LCD read outs for date, second, and programming. This is a plus, as I can read the time without my glasses; the date and seconds take a little effort, but I don’t always need those quickly.
Comment by richard mcenroe on 7/26 @ 8:47 pm #
I don’t wear watches. You’re on my time…
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:51 pm #
im watching you!
Comment by Ccs on 7/26 @ 8:52 pm #
Casio G-shock. I only wear a watch when camping (at least 1 weekend a month, 11months a year). I do the scout thing so it has to be rugged. The rest of the time I use my phone.
Comment by proudvastrightwingconspirator on 7/26 @ 8:52 pm #
Watch?
What’s a watch?
I’ve been on vacation.
- Bob Schieffer
Comment by USCitizen on 7/26 @ 8:54 pm #
I wear Rolex. (Gold, Day-Date with President band for everyday use. Gold and Stainless Date-just for backup.)
Put it on and go!
I only have to change the day after every month that doesn’t end with 31.
Comment by bh on 7/26 @ 8:55 pm #
I think I like the idea of watches, with their tiny and precise mechanical parts, much more than actually wearing one. Something there appeals to my male brain.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:55 pm #
the hundred yard dash
was always time constricted
did the judges notice my flippers?/ no!
and my squeaky dolphin voice?/ no
but i can swim like all get out
Comment by Ric Locke on 7/26 @ 8:57 pm #
Not water resistant. Damn cheap Swiss stuff.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Joe on 7/26 @ 8:58 pm #
I hope you are getting a commission for hawking this stuff.
Comment by B Moe on 7/26 @ 9:05 pm #
Not water resistant. Damn cheap Swiss stuff.
Regards,
Ric
And only a 2 year warranty. That was the deal killer for me.
Comment by Brett L on 7/26 @ 9:06 pm #
I’mm on my second Skagen. Not having huge wrists, or Popeye’s forearms, a low profile watch does me better than some monstrous bit of gear with it’s own cuckoo and coffee maker. It costs about the same as a running watch ($35-$50) and the first one cracked across the face, but ran gamely one for another 18 months. I would replace the battery, but I can buy a new one for $20 more. The second one is a year and a half old and has shown no likelihood to crack. I’m way too cheap to pay one or two orders of magnitude more for a watch which I will treat as an indifferent part of my wardrobe when I happen to see it on the nightstand while dressing in the morning.
Comment by Merovign on 7/26 @ 9:07 pm #
I’d only buy a $2 million watch if I could flip it for $3 million. And I had $2 million.
But if I could, I’d do that all day long.
Comment by Danger on 7/26 @ 9:09 pm #
I have a Casio G-shock and a Brietling B-1 I got on closeout from The Air Force Exchange website.
Comment by B Moe on 7/26 @ 9:14 pm #
Might have to give those G Shocks a look. Seem to be fairly popular.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 9:16 pm #
The B&R Stuff is very rugged. You can find them “reasonably” priced used for anywhere from $1900 – $2800, with the limited editions going for probably double that. The one I wear is this one (only with the rubber strap). With that big 316 stainless steel case, it wears more like a 52 mm than a 46 mm. The sapphire is quite scratch resistant — and it helps that it’s not domed. I love my Tag, too, but having big forearms I do like a substantial watch, and 42mm just seems small to me. Looking to get a slimmer watch — probably a rectangular one (like an old Hamilton physicians watch) — for fancier occasions. I kind of like the TW Steel Goliath series: not too expensive, but nicely made, from what I hear.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 9:24 pm #
Like the swan neck on the Panerai. That watch JD likes has a tourbillon. Explains the significant cost. If I got something with a tourbillon, I might go with a A. Lange and Sohne.
Comment by Mike LaRoche on 7/26 @ 9:24 pm #
pdbuttons is the T.S. Eliot of nursery rhymes.
Comment by Mike LaRoche on 7/26 @ 9:25 pm #
As for watches, I usually wear a gold-plated Seiko Kinetic watch. I alternate it with a black Fossil.
Comment by Russ on 7/26 @ 9:27 pm #
For daily wear, I don’t.
For dressy occasions, when a watch is the only sort of jewelry I’d be caught dead wearing, I wear the Ebel 1911 I inherited from my dad.
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/26 @ 9:30 pm #
Timex Expedition since 2005. I like the compass feature and the on-demand light is nice, too. I just put the third band on it Sunday last. Before that, a series of three Casio G-Shocks going back about twenty years. Random cheap watches before then, all the way back to the Citizen diver’s watch I picked up to replace the Rolex Mini Oyster that I got for high school graduation. The Rolex was subsequently destroyed in a water tight door accident somewhere in the South China Sea about two years later.
Every time I spend more than a hundred bucks on a watch, it dies within a year.
I have a no-name gold and black dress watch for formal outings.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 9:31 pm #
I didn’t until recently, Russ. My dad collected watches, but I was never much into them. I like big seventies-style leather cuffs, though. So if I’m going to wear something, I’m going to wear something.
Comment by Pablo on 7/26 @ 9:36 pm #
I’ve got a Skagen I never wear, so Droid.
Comment by Ernst Schreiber on 7/26 @ 9:36 pm #
pocket watch from Cabela’s
Comment by JD on 7/26 @ 9:38 pm #
Jeff – I only meant reasonable in the sense of price compared to quality. A. Lange are really really neat.
Comment by geoffb on 7/26 @ 9:42 pm #
Haven’t felt a need or desire to wear a wrist watch since the mid 70s. Only time I’d miss it would be at a mall since malls don’t generally have clocks around except at jewelers. Now I use my cell as others have said here.
Comment by geoffb on 7/26 @ 9:44 pm #
If that is coming back I may start wearing again. Only comfortable way to wear a watch IMHO.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 9:48 pm #
Oh, I wasn’t aiming my scare-quoted “reasonable” at you. I only wrote it that way to suggest just what you’re suggesting: that the price is “reasonable” with respect to the quality, even though most people would likely find such prices quite excessive.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/26 @ 9:49 pm #
Those Bell & Ross watches are really cool, Jeff.
I haven’t worn a watch in decades. I would develop a rash from them, even from a gold band. I used to carry a WWII-era railroad pocket watch, until it stopped working. Now I just use my cell phone.
Comment by John Bradley on 7/26 @ 9:51 pm #
I love my various Skagens (have 4 or 5 of ‘em). They’re not very rugged, but they’re sexy-thin, and very reasonably priced. (sub-$100). A poor man’s Movado.
Thick watches just bug me, for whatever reason.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/26 @ 9:55 pm #
A friend of mine owns a stainless steel Rolex, but always wears a Casio G-Shock. The only time I ever saw him wear the Rolex was when he was Best Man at a friend’s wedding. It did look good with the tux…
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 10:00 pm #
I have one of those watch-winding boxes that rotates my automatics to keep them going. Which was smart, because I’m too lazy to change the batteries on my quartz watches. I always wind up just buying a new watch.
This way, I’m covered!
Comment by bh on 7/26 @ 10:00 pm #
It turns out Casio makes cell phones that appear G-Shock inspired. Based on this thread, they should have monster sales.
Comment by bh on 7/26 @ 10:01 pm #
Oh, link.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/26 @ 10:04 pm #
I mostly wear a G-Shock because I have to time scripts all the time. Then I have one of these with an orange face, a relic of my surfer dude past. And this modest unit if I need to look like a grown up. Never really developed a taste for expensive watches, which is probably a byproduct of not having to dress up for work most days.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 10:12 pm #
I like that surf watch, Abe.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 10:18 pm #
I’m surprised by the lack of Omegas, quite frankly. I long suspected the readers here wore Omegas.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 7/26 @ 10:27 pm #
Omega Seamaster Professional 2254.50.00.
Comment by Swen on 7/26 @ 10:29 pm #
Can’t wear a battery-powered watch — must be my magnetic personality :D — so I usually use my cell. But I’m frequently in areas beyond cell tower range so I occasionally wear one of a pair of Seiko Monsters, automatics with orange and black faces. They keep fairly good time, they’re easy to read, and you could probably drive tent stakes with them. I’m not a diver, but I’ve discovered that the elapsed time bezel is very handy for cooking!
If I had the cash and nothing better to spend it on, I’d be very tempted by MK II watches, particularly their Sea Fighter with 12-hour GMT bezel. Ah well, if I could afford one of those I’d probably buy another gun instead.
Incidentally, you’re supposed to take your diver’s watch off when you bath! The waterproof seals are coated with silicone grease that can be dissolved by detergents.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 10:29 pm #
AHA!
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/26 @ 10:31 pm #
(Oh, that “AHA” was to TaiChiWawa and his Omega. Sorry if I scared you, Swen.)
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/26 @ 10:36 pm #
I wear this, if I wear a watch… which lately, isn’t very often. But it’s nice and sneaky during rehearsal.
Comment by urthshu on 7/26 @ 11:16 pm #
Cheap Timex for daily wear, for 2 reasons. I work in ghettos a lot doing semi-objectionable nosey stuff and won’t care if it gets robbed or whatever, and also the martial art style I studied [wing chun, kind of a short-range boxing] needs small profile/toughness to work best – although no watch at all is better for that.
Other than that, I’ve a few rather expensive ‘formal wear’ things that I never seem to need.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/26 @ 11:24 pm #
“I have one of those watch-winding boxes that rotates my automatics to keep them going.”
- I used to have a box that did that…..but it didn’t last. I guess her arms got tired.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 11:43 pm #
i ask people/ hey/ what time is it?
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 11:46 pm #
most people arent a smartass like me/ they will generally tell you but if u ask me what time it is/
ur gonna be late
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 11:52 pm #
big bang hunter! swish!/ funny!
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 11:53 pm #
bobby orr
Comment by Merovign on 7/26 @ 11:57 pm #
I carry a piece of paper with the time written on it.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/27 @ 12:07 am #
mike tyson has a tatto on his forehead with his address on it
for the cab drivers
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/27 @ 12:37 am #
- Then there was the blonde who took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.
*rim shot*
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/27 @ 1:01 am #
In other news….
Protesters will stand tall (and conspicuous) if Arizona law goes into effect here.
- I’m sure with some brainiacs walking around with T-Shirts emblazoned with “We will NOT comply”, profiling will be real necessary. Some of these doorknobs seem to think this is like a simplified game of “where in Arizona is Carmen Sandiego”.
- The police are going to need a lot of buses with lots of paste in case they get hungry.
Comment by bour3 on 7/27 @ 1:26 am #
Shirley, you jest. The last watch I got was a Time promotional. It said “Time” on it, and I thought that was apt. It totalmente chupa la iguana muy grande, just like the magazine, so now it sits and does nothing.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 7/27 @ 1:28 am #
While I own a 1967 Omega Constellation, I never wear it – I’m scared to take it out of the box. The classic Connies are the most beautiful watches ever made. Everyday wear: Casio G-Shock, 200 m waterproof. They are very hard to kill, and if you do, who cares? Buy another one for $80.
Comment by serr8d on 7/27 @ 1:50 am #
I likes that Animal Zephyr Abe Froman linked. I too destroy watches; there’s a couple dress watches malingering in my gunsafe that rarely get to see daylight. My day-to-day is a Swiss Army, blackface, understated, always ready, no frills except the date. And it’s scratched all to hell.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/27 @ 3:08 am #
- Time, the very concept, has always fascinated me, not just because it was an integral part of my formal training, but because its one of those things like gravity that defies every effort to discuss it rationally using our best language skills.
- At present quantum physics has moved the bar even higher with time, length, and distance quanta.
- The time quanta is projected to be in the order of 10E-238, which in normal terms means we are still way short of being able to measure such a thing. Even worse we’d have to have a watch that operated in a much higher dimension to even attempt it, otherwise the pieces of time would be nuch smaller than the particles that made up the atoms of the watch. It would be like trying to write the lords prayer on the head of a pin with a 10,000 pound ballpoint pen.
- Even if we could, delivered pizza would still arrive luke warm in spite of the “hot bags”, shopping with your woman would still seem like an eternity, and buses would still pull away just as you got to the stop.
Comment by serr8d on 7/27 @ 3:20 am #
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
…
Comment by alppuccino on 7/27 @ 3:25 am #
It’s interesting that Tiger Woods was a spokesman for Tag Her.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/27 @ 3:34 am #
“Ten years have got behind you”
- The “behind” part is probably why woman subconsciously abhor all time keeping machines.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/27 @ 4:20 am #
So BBH, if you were so tiny that it took you 30 seconds to run distance that the second hand must sweep in one tick, would your life span be like 1500 years?
Comment by mastour on 7/27 @ 4:50 am #
Omega Seamaster is my daily wear. Have a Invicta sitting on my dresser that I don’t wear enough.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/27 @ 5:13 am #
And speaking of time, I find it hilarious that the morons in the Obama gang fired some AA twit based on what they thought Fox News might do in the future, or better described, for fear of what FNC might do. But they are unable to understand that biz is hoarding cash for fear of what the Obama gang might further do, as opposed to what Bush may or may not have done in the past eight years.
They are truly idiots.
Comment by Jim in KC on 7/27 @ 5:17 am #
I’m a cheap watch guy, because I’m hard on them. I’m on my second straight Timex Indiglo with a twist-o-flex band. I’d love to have a nice expensive watch, but I’m so inattentive that I’m afraid I’d tear it up and hate myself for it.
Comment by Carin on 7/27 @ 5:52 am #
Mostly just a (not too cheap) New Balance watch that picks up my heart-rate from my monitor/strappy thing.
Comment by Carin on 7/27 @ 5:52 am #
Resting heart rate? 67. Just in case anyone was curious.
Comment by serr8d on 7/27 @ 6:42 am #
Good numbers, Carin. Stress test:
check it now. )
Comment by JD on 7/27 @ 6:47 am #
My favorite timepiece, priceless, is my grandfather’s pocketwatch from the Central Illinois Midland Railroad. It is a Hamilton, still keeps perfect time, and it has all of the calibration logs.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 7/27 @ 6:59 am #
Timex Expedition – $40. If I’m at a formal occasion I take the watch off and keep it in my pocket.
Maybe it was my early exposure to ‘Trading Places’ that made me not care too much about watches.
[i]No, no, no. This is a Rochefoucauld, the thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland and water-resistant to three atmospheres.
This is the sports watch of the 80s. $6,950 retail.
Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London,
Paris, Rome and Gstaad.[/i]
Well, I’m from Philly and in Philadelphia a watch like that is worth fifty bucks.
-
There’s a watch battery kiosk at nearby King of Prussia mall. It’s <$10 for a replacement battery, installed. I drop off the Citzen dress watch I got my wife, my Timex, go to the Food Court .. come back in half an hour and am set for two years.
The downside being that I have to mentally figure out the concurrent time
Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London,Paris, Rome and, last but not least, Gstaad
.
Comment by Vlad the Impala on 7/27 @ 7:08 am #
Now THIS is a watch.
http://www.seahope.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=48
Comment by bh on 7/27 @ 7:40 am #
Carin’s a legend, BBH has interesting thoughts on optimum watch specifications, I wonder what JD means by calibration logs, and I’m happy to hear a couple hints that I’m not the only one suffering from the condition known as “girly wrists”.
That is all.
Comment by ak4mc on 7/27 @ 7:48 am #
Years ago, while on a vacation in Wyoming, my wife’s watch crapped out. We walked into the local Walmart and she bought a Timex that updates itself from the Atomic Clock radio signal out of Boulder every night. I, of course, went into full-on WANT!!!! mode, but was unable to find such a watch anywhere after we got home.
Finally that Christmas my mother-in-law gave me one she managed to find somewhere. I love it and pet it and feed it and call it “George.”
Comment by jwest on 7/27 @ 7:51 am #
Rolex. Day – Date, yellow gold, president band. Classic, understated and definitely not gay.
Last week on a flight to Houston I sat across the aisle from a pro football player wearing the new style of watch which was approximately the size of a salad plate. Even on this hulk, it looked out of proportion.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 7/27 @ 7:55 am #
I wear a Seiko Model SNM037 pretty much all the time when I’m home and dressed (which is rare), it’s a big block of stainless that can get wet and I can see it at night. I got skinny wrists, so it thumps around.
For traveling and on the weekends I wear an Oregon Scientific Smart Heart Heart Rate Monitor Watch. keep the strap in my luggage and the watch doesn’t set off the metal detectors. I wear the cheapo rubber digital watches out quick, but this one has a replaceable battery, vibrates when I hit my target heart rate and has a pretty cool “tap screen” feature to reset the stopwatch. It scratches pretty easy, but so far they buff out with a magic eraser.
I bought a couple of 1970’s windup Timexes that still work from a guy in the flea market for ten bucks. Big numbers, big faces, tick loud. Need to replace the horrible stretchy bands, but I probably won’t since I never wear them and I’ll bet you a beer that my wife has either thrown them out or donated them.
I’m one of those guys who would like to think he would like to dress well but can’t ever justify spending money on anything “in style” so it’s Levi’s, Lacoste, Land’s End and LL Bean up top, Bass and Sperry down below.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/27 @ 7:55 am #
who watches the watchers?
in the land of blind a guy with a stick shall lead them
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 7/27 @ 8:04 am #
In the land of the colorblind there are no leaders
therefore
RACIST!
Comment by Carin on 7/27 @ 8:13 am #
ood numbers, Carin. Stress test:
OBAMA happyfeet ANDREW SULLYVAN amanda marcotte THOR helen thomas JANET RENO
check it now. )
Ha. When I get worked up (working out) I hit 160 at my hardest. 165 if I’m running and feeling really good. But it shoots right back down nice and quick the moment I stop.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 7/27 @ 8:28 am #
My problem with watches is that wrist watch bands don’t usually fit. I picked up a couple of nice watches at yard sales that I can’t slip my hand through. My son has them now. The Twist-o-Flex wristband ends up being spread open, so it’s pinching my wrist like some sort of Opus Dei office-wearable celice.
So, having thought about this a bit, I found this:
http://www.oldschoolleather.com/Watchbands.htm – the wrist measurement is a drop-down. which might be worthwhile.
My wrists are 8.75″ which, per their chart, puts me in the “thewy sinewed” category.
Comment by JD on 7/27 @ 8:34 am #
Bh – check your email.
Carin is a freak.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter on 7/27 @ 8:35 am #
“would your life span be like 1500 years?”
- Time is relative, so from your perspective that would be true, which means she’d be nagging you for 1470 years, but the good news is you’d only have to pay rent every 30 months, and a night out with the boys would last through 90 happy hours.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 7/27 @ 8:36 am #
Repro WWII GI watch. 29 bucks. Looks just like the one a former Flying Tiger who was my college chemistry teacher wore.
Comment by B Moe on 7/27 @ 8:47 am #
Too cool! I didn’t know you could get bands like that any more, might have to buy a watch now just so I can get one of those, lol.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/27 @ 8:53 am #
jwest,
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/27 @ 8:54 am #
HTML fail.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/27 @ 8:58 am #
i like flavor flav the rapper dude
he had a big clock hanging around his neck
it was proper/ or dope
Comment by jwest on 7/27 @ 9:08 am #
Spiney,
I thought about mentioning the douchebag aspect to the NFL player, but held back after considering the time and expense it would have taken to scrape my lifeless body off the bulkhead of the plane.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 7/27 @ 9:45 am #
Timex Ironman. It does everything I could ever want it to do, except look good.
And really, if I were in this for the looks, I’d probably have my eyebrows done on a more regular basis.
Comment by Carin on 7/27 @ 9:47 am #
l.Carin is a freak.
SMMMMOOOCH.
But, ya-know, I don’t want to get busted my Michelle my Bell and her BMI nazis.
I think I am, in part, motivated by the stupid nanny-state government mindset that we need “them” to tell us how to live. With their “nudging” and placing pies on the higher shelf.
FAAAACK YOU BARACK.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 7/27 @ 9:54 am #
s/more//
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/27 @ 10:39 am #
An easy decision, I would imagine.
;^)
Comment by Federale on 7/27 @ 11:01 am #
I like my Tag, but the Submariner is in my dreams.
Comment by Another Bob on 7/27 @ 11:18 am #
Daily wear: Rolex GMT-Master II, stainless, Coke bezel.
Dressier: Rolex Datejust, stainless/gold, Jubilee bracelet.
I’ve spent a working lifetime around digital electronics and somehow like the strange idea of an analog mechanical device.
Comment by cranky-d on 7/27 @ 11:39 am #
I got that, Slart, but I’m not sure how many others did. Then again, I am often surprised by what people here know.
Comment by mojo on 7/27 @ 11:42 am #
Wenger. Swiss Army officer’s
Comment by ThomasD on 7/27 @ 12:30 pm #
A Cyma Sea Wave in brushed stainless.
Bought it as a present to myself when purchasing my wife’s engagement ring. Being an actual diver I’d always been a fan of dive watches, but they are usually quite big and bulky and I was havoc on them. Plus I needed something a little more subdued for work and formal occasions.
The Cyma is thin, about a quarter of an inch. Which means it does not take nearly the abuse a larger watch would get. It’s over a decade old and the crystal doesn’t have a mark on it.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 7/27 @ 12:41 pm #
Any watch at WalMart for less than seven dollars.
I am hell on watches, and my Salvation Army sneakers are more than enough to telegraph my social status.
Comment by David R. Block on 7/27 @ 1:07 pm #
A Fossil Blue. Which, oddly enough, actually has a Grey face.
Fossil Outlet Store, Allen, TX.
Comment by KingShamus on 7/27 @ 1:25 pm #
I have an older square face Diesel 5 Bar watch that I’ve been attached to for a while.
Comment by ak4mc on 7/27 @ 2:04 pm #
That sounds a lot like why I used to buy reading glasses at the dollar store — where for some inexplicable reason they were $1.25
Now I get ‘em in a three-pack at Walgreens, and now of course I couldn’t lose or break a pair if I tried.
I need to figure out something similar for sunglasses though.
Comment by LS on 7/27 @ 2:21 pm #
I actually have a Chairman Mao watch my mother brought back from a China trip. His hands wind around the face like a Mickey Mouse watch.
Of course, being Chinese-made, it stops ticking 20 minutes after it’s wound.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/27 @ 2:27 pm #
I don’t use watches to telegraph any kind of status. I just like well-made and/ or beautifully designed things.
Comment by mojo on 7/27 @ 3:02 pm #
Then go with the Wenger – tough, easy to read, and not expensive.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/27 @ 3:18 pm #
we had a chinese girl/ college shit
she told me mao was good for women
taught them english
she said his rep was not deserved
Comment by Benedick on 7/27 @ 3:52 pm #
I have a very simple Movado that my parents gave me 5 years ago. It’s all I wear.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 7/27 @ 4:06 pm #
I [Jeff] don’t use watches to telegraph any kind of status. I just like well-made and/ or beautifully designed things.
The Jack Bauer watch meets most of the criteria, including the fluid nature of time itself.
http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bauerwatchis7.png
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Comment by Squid on 7/27 @ 4:14 pm #
One uses a telegraph to telegraph. One uses a timepiece to tell time.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/27 @ 4:41 pm #
Not terribly fond of the designs of Wenger watches. A shame, I guess.
Comment by bh on 7/27 @ 4:50 pm #
That’d make you the punctual one at the nudist colony.
Comment by Rusty on 7/27 @ 5:35 pm #
Here’s the deal.
If I’m late I don’t want to know how late.
If I’m early it doesn’t matter.
Besides I got a cell phone.
#
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/26 @ 8:22 pm #
hickery dickery dock
teddy kennedys buick is under water
It was an oldsmobile.
Comment by SteveG on 7/27 @ 6:38 pm #
“no thanks, I’m not into time…”
Comment by guinsPen on 7/27 @ 9:32 pm #
zono had hers tattooed on
Comment by triggerhippie on 7/27 @ 10:48 pm #
Massey-Tissot bracelet chronograph with sapphire mineral crystal. I love to tap my fingernail on the crystal, just to feel how impervious it is.
Comment by Rusty on 7/28 @ 5:45 am #
There is/was a site out there on the net where a some guy made his own watch. Gears and everything.
Comment by -Ed. on 7/28 @ 6:13 am #
I wore a rubber Casio digital when I was in the Navy, but haven’t worn a watch since. I’m just not that into time. I have thought about tying a feed store calendar around my ankle, however. Raaaaaacist!!!
Comment by ThomasD on 7/28 @ 7:52 am #
That Bell and Ross Phantom looks sharp. When I used to wear dive watches I was partial to oversized nylon and velcro bands.
Anyone know of a half way decent knockoff? Because I really can’t justify a watch with a price that exceeds the value of my ride.
Comment by Jake on 7/28 @ 12:50 pm #
Why wear a watch at all when your cellphone has all that?
Comment by mojo on 7/28 @ 1:23 pm #
Jaeger-LeCoulture is soooo declasse’
Comment by F. Flav on 7/28 @ 6:00 pm #
I wear one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/pbxq64
Comment by B Moe on 7/28 @ 6:18 pm #
wtf
Comment by JD on 7/28 @ 6:24 pm #
BMoe – That just cracks me up. All I can picture is a drunk Flavor Flav with a huge clock hanging around his neck, Viking horn helmet, chasing Brigette Nielsen around.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/28 @ 7:51 pm #
Because the cell phone looked really stupid strapped to my wrist.
Comment by B Moe on 7/28 @ 7:57 pm #
I am thinking about just dressing normally this Halloween except for that big clock and helmet. If anybody asks what the fuck I’ll just say “Dude. It’s all the rage.”
Comment by F. Flav on 7/28 @ 8:23 pm #
If you want to spend the big bucks, buy the official licensed “Flava” Flav gear, Mr. High Roller.
Or you can have the same prestige and high quality at a surprisingly reasonable price with the “Flavor” Flav brand.
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