What's on your wrist today

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I'm so glad that digital watches now have simulated analogue displays. Ever since digital watches became popular, I wondered how kids would learn what "clockwise" meant!

Larry
 
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I always wear the Garmin, occasionally wear the others. The 3 left of the Garmin are stored in a self winding box since they are all mechanical so gears don’t lock up.


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Rolex 43mm Sea Dweller

This and my Deep Sea James Cameron are my 2 nice watches - love them both!
My first Rolex was back in 1977, when I bought the origina Red Sea Dweller when I was in Barbados.
Paid $550 new!!
 

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FRO said:
Rolex 43mm Sea Dweller

This and my Deep Sea James Cameron are my 2 nice watches - love them both!
My first Rolex was back in 1977, when I bought the origina Red Sea Dweller when I was in Barbados.
Paid $550 new!!
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Wow - those are nice, but big. Are they comfortable?


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No such thing as too big a watch! :P
My Panerai subs are 47mm and Apple Watch is 44mm.
I must admit the steel models can get pretty heavy but titanium models makes them more manageable.
 
Same I wear most everyday - Apple Watch. My nice watches sit in my dresser unused these days.
 
The legendary Seiko SKX, in this case, SKX009. 179 bucks in 2015.

Non-Hodinkee edition (though Hodinkee has written about SKX's..a lot.)

Entirely "in-house" movement by Seiko. 😜

Modded by me with a double-dome sapphire crystal and a 12 hour ceramic bezel, "Batman" colorway.

Bracelet by Strapcode.

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What's not to like? ;)
 
I haven’t worn a watch for decades…

Way back when I was a teenager, the first digital watch appeared. James Bond wore one in “Live and Let die”, and Bill Bixby wore one in a TV show “the Magician.” I worked at the Worlds Fair in Spokane, WA (Expo 74) and was a senior in high school. I saved my $$ and paid $300 for a “Pulsar.” My foster mom at the time really laid into me for spending that kind of money on a watch “you’ll never be able to afford nice things” she said in the most demeaning way possible. That really took some of the joy out of it!

So around early December I noticed the watch is being remade. I got a serious jones for it, had it as a tab in my browser window for a couple weeks. I have a wee-bit more impulse control these days—should I buy one? No, “just a frivolous purchase for nostalgia’s sake” I told myself, and “you don’t even wear a watch.” Yeah, but its so cool and retro. Finally I closed the browser tab and forgot about it. My more practical side had won out.

But, my sweet wife paid attention and under the tree on Christmas morning I got a big surprise.
 

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I’ll guess the chip inside probably has enough tech to land a man on the moon, dumbed down so much to only use the time function. Nobody makes a chip that dumb!
 

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