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The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological
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Much nicer than that Swatch thing.
32K USD list. It is a strange alloy that is about 30% gold.
The box is pretty fancy too. I hope to god that it is metal and not plastic. Plastic would be an embarrassment (especially considering the price).
For the price, given that they only need 555, they may have been able to buy real rolleimarin housings. Every case would then be unique with history and character. They just need to make the padded inserts.
Bronze-gold alloy. Blancpain refers it as 9K Bronze.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the $1B....is that real item value? fake item value?
How the hell do they get that value...
I am always annoyed by police in these releases. They always value the pile of imports at full designer msrp. If I'm buying a Louis cotton purse from a guy on the sidewalk in a trench coat, I both know it is fake and it didn't cost LV a sale as I was never going to buy a real one. Now, if they were being sold as legitimate through plausible channels or included documentation like fake receipts to try to fool second hand buyers, I am more annoyed. Cops don't bother differentiating as they just want a big number in the press release and to protect the corporate overlords.
Drugs are always street value. Makes the cops look better at the press conference.
They make up the highest possible value. For weed, they weigh the plants with dirt on the roots and sometimes even including the container, multiply times the street price per oz of dried bud and put that in the press release. Complete lunacy but big numbers drive promotions even if they are essentially fraudulent.
Priller
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Not that I've ever been a member of the High Horology club, but even my Humble Horology membership is under threat, as I picked up a Citizen CZ Hybrid smartwatch recently (on sale for ~60% off at Best Buy):
I had a 'normal' Samsung smartwatch a few years ago, and I absolutely hated it. Crap battery life (1.5 days, typically), screen off most of the time, and difficult to see in bright sun. I don't need alerts or much from the display, just activity tracking and the actual time and date.
This one lasts 18 days on a charge (or thereabouts, mine is at 64% after almost exactly a week), has actual hands, and an e-ink screen that's always on and easy to read outdoors (plus a light for the dark). It does do lots more smartwatch stuff (Amazon Alexa integration, alerts, messaging, weather, etc.), but I don't use most of it. I mostly use the activity tracking, and it's nice to have the temperature always on my wrist so I can decide what to wear when taking the dogs out. It's also got heart rate and blood oxygen for fitness tracking, along with the usual sleep and activity monitoring.
It's not going to fool anyone into thinking it's fine jewellery, bit it feels solidly made and much better than most smartwatches. My main complaint is that it's fricking huge (46 mm case and 26mm lugs), though I suppose it needs to be to have room for a battery that can last that long. It's also not waterproof, so not suitable for swimming, which seems like an odd oversight.
Overall, I'm very happy with it. It's nowhere near as interesting as an automatic, but it's a lot more useful...
I had a 'normal' Samsung smartwatch a few years ago, and I absolutely hated it. Crap battery life (1.5 days, typically), screen off most of the time, and difficult to see in bright sun. I don't need alerts or much from the display, just activity tracking and the actual time and date.
This one lasts 18 days on a charge (or thereabouts, mine is at 64% after almost exactly a week), has actual hands, and an e-ink screen that's always on and easy to read outdoors (plus a light for the dark). It does do lots more smartwatch stuff (Amazon Alexa integration, alerts, messaging, weather, etc.), but I don't use most of it. I mostly use the activity tracking, and it's nice to have the temperature always on my wrist so I can decide what to wear when taking the dogs out. It's also got heart rate and blood oxygen for fitness tracking, along with the usual sleep and activity monitoring.
It's not going to fool anyone into thinking it's fine jewellery, bit it feels solidly made and much better than most smartwatches. My main complaint is that it's fricking huge (46 mm case and 26mm lugs), though I suppose it needs to be to have room for a battery that can last that long. It's also not waterproof, so not suitable for swimming, which seems like an odd oversight.
Overall, I'm very happy with it. It's nowhere near as interesting as an automatic, but it's a lot more useful...
Those are real hands and not digitized? Looks good. I get decent life out of my Garmin Phoenix smart watch (12-15 days) but it doesn’t look as good as that Citizen. The garmin has golf courses I can look at though to see just how crap I am.
I’m really liking the Citizen pro master I got from that Best Buy sale. It has the blancpain vibes without the price tag. I kind of wish I bought a few for presents now.
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It's shocking that non-dress watches aren't at least 50m water resistant these days. I'm glad to see more manufacturers going with smart watches with week+ battery life instead of the current standard of almost daily charging.
Garmin has a few hybrids. They want a lot of money for them imo.
Priller
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Real hands, though they do lots of party tricks like spinning in opposite directions when you look at the watch with an exaggerated motion, or acting as the pointer when selecting various items on the screen. What I like better is the screen is always on, and doesn't even look like a screen until you push a button. You can customise it, though, so it's always showing the info you want. The trade-off is it's black and white, transitions slowly, and is relatively low-resolution.
Don't think this one does anything golf related. Which is fine by me, as I'm allergic...
I think the fact that it's trying so hard to look like a dive watch makes it more irritating that it's only water resist. They do one that's more casually styled that wouldn't bug me as much:
The Garmin ones are definitely styled to be more 'sporty' and still look very smartwatch-ey. Skagen and Fossil make similar hybrids to the Citizen, I think with identical screen and internals. If I were buying MSRP, I probably would have gone with something like the one above, but the sale was limited to a few models, so I couldn't be too choosy.
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