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NickPSH
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I have a bit of extra money, and I was thinking of buying a watch, nothing too expensive. Any recommendations? Preferably silver, no gold bling bling thanks.
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dablobb
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 16:26 Post subject:
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do it do it
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NickPSH
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NickPSH
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 16:45 Post subject:
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I hate any watches with colored faces.
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gotissues68
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 16:55 Post subject:
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| NickPSH wrote: | | I hate any watches with colored faces. |
So you're racist then .. I see how it is =\
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Xarpolis
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 17:02 Post subject:
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What's the purpose of this watch?
Everyday use?
A bit of 'flash' for working clothes?
Something to impress the ladies at a bar/club?
Answers help to make a better decision!
Also, what's your price range?
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NickPSH
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 17:07 Post subject:
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Just for casual wear. I don't have any f*g shoes or a b***h car to go with an overpriced watch.
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NickPSH
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 17:55 Post subject:
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I always had a problem with the wrist bands on the Timex watches. The pin would always come out and I would lose the watch and have no idea where it went 
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NickPSH
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Posted: 05/01/05 - 18:22 Post subject:
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well.. this one has a deployment buckle whatever that means
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Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 05:16 Post subject:
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What are you wanting to spend?
Annoyingly the current fashion amongst all the decent watch makers is for overly large ostentatious pieces which if not titanium weighs a ton.
If you're buying a decent watch, the smart money would be on Omega or Tag Heuer, you don't get better quality paying more but you certainly do by paying less. But as I said, unless you want chunky you might want to wait a year or two for fashions to change
My Seamaster is practically an antique now but I still wear it every day and it keeps time perfectly. its a nice size, not too small or large and weighs close to a titanium watch weight despite being steel/gold.
Regards,
Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 05:17 Post subject:
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Buy a pocket watch, those are the coolest, then you can wear a little case for it on your belt, and whip that baby out for everyone to see.
Least my english 4 teacher does that, and everyone should want to be him.
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 09:30 Post subject:
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| NickPSH wrote: | | Just for casual wear. I don't have any f*g shoes or a b***h car to go with an overpriced watch. |
hahha 
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 09:43 Post subject:
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For everyday wear and something not to flashy i recommend this:
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 10:14 Post subject:
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Is the band on that made out of baby seal pelt?
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kemble
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 10:21 Post subject:
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| Eduin wrote: | What are you wanting to spend?
Annoyingly the current fashion amongst all the decent watch makers is for overly large ostentatious pieces which if not titanium weighs a ton.
If you're buying a decent watch, the smart money would be on Omega or Tag Heuer, you don't get better quality paying more but you certainly do by paying less. But as I said, unless you want chunky you might want to wait a year or two for fashions to change
My Seamaster is practically an antique now but I still wear it every day and it keeps time perfectly. its a nice size, not too small or large and weighs close to a titanium watch weight despite being steel/gold.
Regards,
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Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, but you definitely get better quality by paying more if you know what you are looking for. You can also get watches for less money and better quality than those. (TAG especially.. They make a 'Tiger Woods' watch FFS)
Spending some time with someone who REALLY deals in watches and not a jeweler will be an enlightening experience.
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Vekril
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 10:42 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, |
Starter? Tags usually run in the range of several hundred dollars, with a few special models past 1000, I suppose that is a starter for high end watches. Omegas start around 1500 and the standard automatic models run past 3000 (all list of course). Starters in the world of luxury watches perhaps, but overall I would say a brand like Seiko is more your starter watch for nice watches beyond the basics like Fossil or other trendy fashion brands (or are Seikos considered standard crap now? they run in the low hundreds).
I guess if you are comparing to brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe, then Omegas are "starters," but most people never reach that level. I do not plan on replacing my Omega any time in the next decade...
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 10:50 Post subject:
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| Vekril wrote: | | Quote: | | Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, |
Starter? Tags usually run in the range of several hundred dollars, with a few special models past 1000, I suppose that is a starter for high end watches. Omegas start around 1500 and the standard automatic models run past 3000 (all list of course). Starters in the world of luxury watches perhaps, but overall I would say a brand like Seiko is more your starter watch for nice watches beyond the basics like Fossil or other trendy fashion brands (or are Seikos considered standard crap now? they run in the low hundreds).
I guess if you are comparing to brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe, then Omegas are "starters," but most people never reach that level. I do not plan on replacing my Omega any time in the next decade... |
Kind of like starter houses 
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Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 15:20 Post subject:
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| kemble wrote: | Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, but you definitely get better quality by paying more if you know what you are looking for. You can also get watches for less money and better quality than those. (TAG especially.. They make a 'Tiger Woods' watch FFS)
Spending some time with someone who REALLY deals in watches and not a jeweler will be an enlightening experience. |
You're quite wrong, actually.
My dad collects watches, he's got half a dozen Omegas and about 10 other multi-thousand pound watches, but more Omegas than anything else. So I know a fair bit about the market.
Once you reach the milestone of quality that Omega represents that's it as far as quality goes, you simply cannot engineer better than that. The only thing you pay for when you spend more is casing materials cost and brand cost.
BTW, fyi Rolex are made in the same factory by the same people who make Omega and TAG Heuer (and Swatch which was their response to Sieko and co in the far east). They're all part of the Swiss Watch Company. Omega and TAG are bang in the centre of their range, Omega being their gentleman adventurer's timepiece and TAG being the sports branding hence the differing sponsorship - Bond vs Woods (the purpose of which does not work if it alters the pricing structure, sponsorship has to be self funding or it serves no purpose).
Another advantage with Omega over the rest is that they tend to be the first for new technologies - so with Omega you get the latest features which will eventually appear in TAGs, Rolex and get resold to other brands. My watch has the original Dual Time inlay feature which is now found throughout the SWC brands and several other makers by license (and is almost identical in every Dual Time luxury watch to this day). I've got the same functions in my $150 Pulsar I use for sports and stuff, licensed by Seiko from SWC.
Regards,
Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 15:29 Post subject:
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more like YOU have vegetable salty
ohhhhh
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 15:56 Post subject:
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| atarom wrote: | more like YOU have vegetable salty
ohhhhh |
zing!
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Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 16:15 Post subject:
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Nice but still a bit bulky for me, I really do like the slimline watches. Mine is a Seamaster Polaris which is the perfect fit for me :-
This shot shows the Liquid Gold multifunction display on :-
Regards,
Eduin
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 16:17 Post subject:
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Spending that kind of cash on a watch is like buying a $100 Lego Death Star, only less interesting.
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Vekril
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 16:22 Post subject:
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I got the smallest size Eduin, it is really not that large at all, especially for a diving watch. I think it was the 35mm size? I have fairly large wrists (no I am not fat for you flamers, just tall with a broad build) and the small Rado-style watches don't look right on me.
My last watch was a big bulky Seiko diving watch that I have had since high school and never replaced. I wanted something much smaller and lighter, without any flash to it - not quite a Movado, but something classic and simple. Metal band with 3 links as opposed to the more intricate 5 link styles, black face with only white graphics, low-key bezel, etc.
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kemble
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 16:37 Post subject:
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| kireol wrote: | | Vekril wrote: | | Quote: | | Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, |
Starter? Tags usually run in the range of several hundred dollars, with a few special models past 1000, I suppose that is a starter for high end watches. Omegas start around 1500 and the standard automatic models run past 3000 (all list of course). Starters in the world of luxury watches perhaps, but overall I would say a brand like Seiko is more your starter watch for nice watches beyond the basics like Fossil or other trendy fashion brands (or are Seikos considered standard crap now? they run in the low hundreds).
I guess if you are comparing to brands like Rolex and Patek Philippe, then Omegas are "starters," but most people never reach that level. I do not plan on replacing my Omega any time in the next decade... |
Kind of like starter houses |
hahaha that made me laugh. Wish I had thought of it.
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kemble
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Posted: 05/02/05 - 17:07 Post subject:
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| Eduin wrote: | | kemble wrote: | Omegas and TAGs are good starter watches, but you definitely get better quality by paying more if you know what you are looking for. You can also get watches for less money and better quality than those. (TAG especially.. They make a 'Tiger Woods' watch FFS)
Spending some time with someone who REALLY deals in watches and not a jeweler will be an enlightening experience. |
You're quite wrong, actually. |
I'm quite right actually.
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My dad collects watches, he's got half a dozen Omegas and about 10 other multi-thousand pound watches, but more Omegas than anything else. So I know a fair bit about the market. |
Your father collects a certain brand of watch so that makes you knowledgeable? OK.....
Its clear you are jaded by your Dad collecting Omegas. Its understandable. If you listen to someone tell you how great product X is as they rationalize to themselves and others as to why the purchase they ultimately made was the best you are bound to eventually fall in line with their thinking.
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Once you reach the milestone of quality that Omega represents that's it as far as quality goes, you simply cannot engineer better than that. The only thing you pay for when you spend more is casing materials cost and brand cost. |
You really are showing your ignorance on the subject in this little gem of a paragraph. Tag & Omega don't even make movements! They buy them from ETA and Zenith. They use off the shelf movements slap a TAG rotor on it, and toss them in a case they design (but which is also made by someone else).
Please show me an Omega complication type watch (if you know what that is). I don't me a simple chronograph... I'm talking a tourbillion or perpetual calendar, etc. Are you going to tell me that engineering a watch to compensate for whether it is vertical or horizontal via handmade mechanics or knows when its a leap year or how many days are in a particular month only using mechanical gears and springs is equal to the 'engineering' Omega puts into a watch?
There is no increase due to materials used, or brand. Its from engineering and craftsmanship
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BTW, fyi Rolex are made in the same factory by the same people who make Omega and TAG Heuer (and Swatch which was their response to Sieko and co in the far east). They're all part of the Swiss Watch Company. |
And they are all crap. What a coincidence!
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Omega and TAG are bang in the centre of their range, Omega being their gentleman adventurer's timepiece and TAG being the sports branding hence the differing sponsorship - Bond vs Woods (the purpose of which does not work if it alters the pricing structure, sponsorship has to be self funding or it serves no purpose).
Another advantage with Omega over the rest is that they tend to be the first for new technologies - so with Omega you get the latest features which will eventually appear in TAGs, Rolex and get resold to other brands. My watch has the original Dual Time inlay feature which is now found throughout the SWC brands and several other makers by license (and is almost identical in every Dual Time luxury watch to this day). I've got the same functions in my $150 Pulsar I use for sports and stuff, licensed by Seiko from SWC. |
Blah, Blah, Useless drivel, Blah, Blah, more justification that I think my daddy is the smartest man evah, Blah, Blah
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