Anyone here into watches

[bikesnbones]

I love my Omega Speedmaster Professional.
I love the history behind it, and the NASA connection.
It's an old fashioned mechanical manual wind chronograph.
I decided early on that if I was going to spend serious money on a watch, I wanted cogs, springs and wheels, not a battery and circuit board.
It was an awful ot of money, but the way I see it, it's something I can treasure and hand down when I'm gone.
Anyone else.

[leasky]

Are you selling the watch shown?

[Twinspark]

You still wear a watch?

How quaint.

[leasky]

You still wear a watch?

How quaint.

Is that question directed at me?

[eyore]

I love watches too, must have picked it up from my Dad who was that was inclined.
I inherited some jewelery from a granny of mine in 1990 which I sold and bought this instead. Absolutely love it.

[Twinspark]

You still wear a watch?

How quaint.

Is that question directed at me?

Not in particular. It's just that fewer and fewer people seem to be wearing watches, as we now carry a multitude of devices which tell the time.

[bikesnbones]

Are you selling the watch shown?

No and my apologies.
I posted in the sales section.
Should've been geeks corner.
Sorry.
Eyore's De Ville is lovely.
I just love the fact that in this disposable digital age, such an old craft is still thriving.
I mean battery watches should have phased out mechanical one's by the end of 70's, but yet the watchmakers art beats on.
In fact, at the higher end of the market, their popularity has never been greater.

[slparry]

Everyday one is a Citizen Eco Drive



Diving one is an Aqualung Pro 500 meter



Reserved for "best" is a Rolex Submariner

[McBoxer]

Reserved for "best" is a Rolex Submariner

Nice watch - but how did you manage to put it on a gorilla for the photograph?

[Herb]

ahhh would you look at him there with his hairy hands.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_CQrHKna8

[eyore]

Hairy arms................mmmmm Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special

[slparry]

It's not my arm just a pic i got off t'interweb

[nab 301]

I love my Timex expedition, it hasn't let me down yet..

[bikesnbones]

Hairy arms................mmmmm Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special

Watches are like underpants.
Yes when you're buying them you want to see what they look like on the packaging, but not up the crack of some blokes hairy arse.

[Boxermed69]

Hairy arms................mmmmm Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special

Nah. King Kong special.

Mike