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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?

153 Replies to “Time machines”

  1. DarthRove says:

    The last watch I wore regularly was a Seiko Mickey Mouse. Before that it was a Casio calculator watch.

    What?

  2. pdbuttons says:

    i let the shade guide me
    and dr who/ he is a timelord

  3. newrouter says:

    i don’t wear watches but i hope you don’t mind me posting this from august 1941:

    It’s fun–a macabre sort of fun–this parlor game of “Who Goes Nazi?” And it simplifies things–asking the question in regard to specific personalities.

    Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes–you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success–they would all go Nazi in a crisis.

    Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

    Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

    link

  4. proudvastrightwingconspirator says:

    My cell phone has the time.
    No need for a watch.
    Wish I could ditch the wedding ring, too.
    BTJM

  5. sdferr says:

    Couldn’t really wear them on account of the daily violence, so lost the habit early and never got it back.

  6. Ric Locke says:

    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

  7. B Moe says:

    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.

  8. Jeff G. says:

    The last watch I wore regularly was a Seiko Mickey Mouse. Before that it was a Casio calculator watch.

    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.

  9. John says:

    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

  10. JD says:

    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.

  11. Frontman says:

    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.

  12. cynn says:

    Have had my stainless Bulova since high school. Forget what it cost.

  13. JD says:

    If you watch Rizzoli & Isles with the sound off, it is really quite pleasant.

  14. pdbuttons says:

    i stuff my spandex with rolex
    im euro trash

  15. pdbuttons says:

    hickery dickery dock
    teddy kennedys buick is under water

  16. cynn says:

    That must be uncomfortable.

  17. John says:

    Jeff,

    Those B&R watches are BAD looking! Very SUB-tyle. What are the prices on those puppies?

    John

  18. JD says:

    B&R are very good watches, reasonably priced to their quality. I would prefer the Panerai, but the B&R’s are fine timepieces.

  19. mongo78 says:

    Seiko SKX-173 automatic diver’s watch. And I take it off when i get in the shower. Odd, isn’t it?

  20. B Moe says:

     

    My dream is an early Vacheron Constantin.

    Fucking Hell!

    I wish I had one to sell you!

  21. DanFromDetroit says:

    I usually wear a Citizen Navihawk. For dress I wear a knockoff of a Swiss skeleton watch with three complications.

  22. JD says:

    Breitling Navitimeter Montbrilliant is also very high on my wish list.

  23. J."Trashman" Peden says:

    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.

  24. Bob Reed says:

    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.

  25. Merovign says:

    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.

  26. Merovign says:

    Re: Patek Phillipe or whatever – for $20,000, it had better make you bulletproof, make you fly, or have a crapload of hooker coupons.

  27. Merovign says:

    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.

  28. pdbuttons says:

    time is a pink floyd song that im kinda sick of

  29. JD says:

    BMoe – that is one of, if not the single most magnificent watches ever created.

  30. JeffS says:

    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.

  31. JeffS says:

    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.

  32. I don’t wear watches. You’re on my time…

  33. pdbuttons says:

    im watching you!

  34. Ccs says:

    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.

  35. proudvastrightwingconspirator says:

    Watch?
    What’s a watch?
    I’ve been on vacation.

    – Bob Schieffer

  36. USCitizen says:

    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.

  37. bh says:

    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.

  38. pdbuttons says:

    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

  39. Ric Locke says:

    Not water resistant. Damn cheap Swiss stuff.

    Regards,
    Ric

  40. Joe says:

    I hope you are getting a commission for hawking this stuff.

  41. B Moe says:

    Not water resistant. Damn cheap Swiss stuff.

    Regards,
    Ric

    And only a 2 year warranty. That was the deal killer for me.

  42. Brett L says:

    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.

  43. Merovign says:

    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.

  44. Danger says:

    I have a Casio G-shock and a Brietling B-1 I got on closeout from The Air Force Exchange website.

  45. B Moe says:

    Might have to give those G Shocks a look. Seem to be fairly popular.

  46. Jeff G. says:

    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.

  47. Jeff G. says:

    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.

  48. Mike LaRoche says:

    hickery dickery dock
    teddy kennedys buick is under water

    pdbuttons is the T.S. Eliot of nursery rhymes.

  49. Mike LaRoche says:

    As for watches, I usually wear a gold-plated Seiko Kinetic watch. I alternate it with a black Fossil.

  50. Russ says:

    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.

  51. TmjUtah says:

    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.

  52. Jeff G. says:

    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.

  53. Pablo says:

    I’ve got a Skagen I never wear, so Droid.

  54. Ernst Schreiber says:

    pocket watch from Cabela’s

  55. JD says:

    Jeff – I only meant reasonable in the sense of price compared to quality. A. Lange are really really neat.

  56. geoffb says:

    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.

  57. geoffb says:

    I like big seventies-style leather cuffs

    If that is coming back I may start wearing again. Only comfortable way to wear a watch IMHO.

  58. Jeff G. says:

    Jeff – I only meant reasonable in the sense of price compared to quality.

    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.

  59. Spiny Norman says:

    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.

  60. John Bradley says:

    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.

  61. Spiny Norman says:

    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…

  62. Jeff G. says:

    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!

  63. bh says:

    It turns out Casio makes cell phones that appear G-Shock inspired. Based on this thread, they should have monster sales.

  64. Abe Froman says:

    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.

  65. Jeff G. says:

    I like that surf watch, Abe.

  66. Jeff G. says:

    I’m surprised by the lack of Omegas, quite frankly. I long suspected the readers here wore Omegas.

  67. TaiChiWawa says:

    Omega Seamaster Professional 2254.50.00.

  68. Swen says:

    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.

  69. Jeff G. says:

    AHA!

  70. Jeff G. says:

    (Oh, that “AHA” was to TaiChiWawa and his Omega. Sorry if I scared you, Swen.)

  71. I wear this, if I wear a watch… which lately, isn’t very often. But it’s nice and sneaky during rehearsal.

  72. urthshu says:

    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.

  73. Big Bang Hunter says:

    “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.

  74. pdbuttons says:

    i ask people/ hey/ what time is it?

  75. pdbuttons says:

    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

  76. pdbuttons says:

    big bang hunter! swish!/ funny!

  77. pdbuttons says:

    bobby orr

  78. Merovign says:

    I carry a piece of paper with the time written on it.

  79. pdbuttons says:

    mike tyson has a tatto on his forehead with his address on it
    for the cab drivers

  80. Big Bang Hunter says:

    – Then there was the blonde who took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept.

    *rim shot*

  81. Big Bang Hunter says:

    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.

  82. bour3 says:

    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.

  83. Silver Whistle says:

    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.

  84. serr8d says:

    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.

  85. Big Bang Hunter says:

    – 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.

  86. serr8d says:

    And then one day you find
    Ten years have got behind you

  87. alppuccino says:

    It’s interesting that Tiger Woods was a spokesman for Tag Her.

  88. Big Bang Hunter says:

    “Ten years have got behind you”

    – The “behind” part is probably why woman subconsciously abhor all time keeping machines.

  89. alppuccino says:

    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?

  90. mastour says:

    Omega Seamaster is my daily wear. Have a Invicta sitting on my dresser that I don’t wear enough.

  91. alppuccino says:

    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.

  92. Jim in KC says:

    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.

  93. Carin says:

    Mostly just a (not too cheap) New Balance watch that picks up my heart-rate from my monitor/strappy thing.

  94. Carin says:

    Resting heart rate? 67. Just in case anyone was curious.

  95. serr8d says:

    Good numbers, Carin. Stress test:

    OBAMA happyfeet ANDREW SULLYVAN amanda marcotte THOR helen thomas JANET RENO

    check it now. )

  96. JD says:

    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.

  97. BumperStickerist says:

    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 .

  98. bh says:

    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.

  99. ak4mc says:

    what kind of watches do you guys wear?

    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.”

  100. jwest says:

    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.

  101. 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.

  102. pdbuttons says:

    who watches the watchers?
    in the land of blind a guy with a stick shall lead them

  103. In the land of the colorblind there are no leaders
    therefore
    RACIST!

  104. Carin says:

    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.

  105. BumperStickerist says:

    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.

  106. JD says:

    Bh – check your email.

    Carin is a freak.

  107. Big Bang Hunter says:

    “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.

  108. slackjawedyokel says:

    Repro WWII GI watch. 29 bucks. Looks just like the one a former Flying Tiger who was my college chemistry teacher wore.

  109. B Moe says:

    http://www.oldschoolleather.com/Watchbands.htm – the wrist measurement is a drop-down. which might be worthwhile.

    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.

  110. Spiny Norman says:

    jwest,

    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.

    It’s popularly called the “6 Lb. Watch” and is one of the first signs of being a douchebag, NFL or not.

  111. Spiny Norman says:

    HTML fail.

  112. pdbuttons says:

    i like flavor flav the rapper dude
    he had a big clock hanging around his neck
    it was proper/ or dope

  113. jwest says:

    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.

  114. Slartibartfast says:

    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.

  115. Carin says:

    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.

  116. Slartibartfast says:

    I’d probably have my eyebrows done on a more regular basis.

    s/more//

  117. Spiny Norman says:

    …but held back after considering the time and expense it would have taken to scrape my lifeless body off the bulkhead of the plane.

    An easy decision, I would imagine.

    ;^)

  118. Federale says:

    I like my Tag, but the Submariner is in my dreams.

  119. Another Bob says:

    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.

  120. cranky-d says:

    I got that, Slart, but I’m not sure how many others did. Then again, I am often surprised by what people here know.

  121. mojo says:

    Wenger. Swiss Army officer’s

  122. ThomasD says:

    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.

  123. The Lost Dog says:

    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.

  124. David R. Block says:

    A Fossil Blue. Which, oddly enough, actually has a Grey face.

    Fossil Outlet Store, Allen, TX.

  125. KingShamus says:

    I have an older square face Diesel 5 Bar watch that I’ve been attached to for a while.

  126. ak4mc says:

    I am hell on watches

    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.

  127. LS says:

    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.

  128. Jeff G. says:

    I don’t use watches to telegraph any kind of status. I just like well-made and/ or beautifully designed things.

  129. mojo says:

    Then go with the Wenger – tough, easy to read, and not expensive.

  130. pdbuttons says:

    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

  131. Benedick says:

    I have a very simple Movado that my parents gave me 5 years ago. It’s all I wear.

  132. BumperStickerist says:

    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

  133. Squid says:

    One uses a telegraph to telegraph. One uses a timepiece to tell time.

  134. Jeff G. says:

    Then go with the Wenger – tough, easy to read, and not expensive.

    Not terribly fond of the designs of Wenger watches. A shame, I guess.

  135. bh says:

    I have a very simple Movado that my parents gave me 5 years ago. It’s all I wear.

    That’d make you the punctual one at the nudist colony.

  136. Rusty says:

    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.

  137. SteveG says:

    “no thanks, I’m not into time…”

  138. triggerhippie says:

    Massey-Tissot bracelet chronograph with sapphire mineral crystal. I love to tap my fingernail on the crystal, just to feel how impervious it is.

  139. Rusty says:

    There is/was a site out there on the net where a some guy made his own watch. Gears and everything.

  140. -Ed. says:

    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!!!

  141. ThomasD says:

    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.

  142. Jake says:

    Why wear a watch at all when your cellphone has all that?

  143. mojo says:

    Jaeger-LeCoulture is soooo declasse’

  144. F. Flav says:

    I wear one of these:

    http://tinyurl.com/pbxq64

  145. B Moe says:

    These items are often bought together…
    Flavor Flav Clock Necklace+ Horned Viking Helmet
    Get both for $29.98 Choose from the options below
    This item: Flavor Flav Clock Necklace $14.99
    Horned Viking Helmet $14.99

    wtf

  146. JD says:

    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.

  147. Jeff G. says:

    Why wear a watch at all when your cellphone has all that?

    Because the cell phone looked really stupid strapped to my wrist.

  148. B Moe says:

    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.”

  149. F. Flav says:

    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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