The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological

[FullMotoJacket]

I always thought Breitlings screamed I-fly-a-restored-P-51!!! My doc's Super Ocean on milanese is nice and understated, though.

 

[GreyGhost]

I always thought Breitlings screamed I-fly-a-restored-P-51!!! My doc's Super Ocean on milanese is nice and understated, though.

If you fly a restored P-51, a breitling is probably your cheap beater watch. 1M USD up front and ~4200 USD per hour to fly. You could buy a breitling instead of starting your plane.

 

[crankcall]

Super ocean on mesh would work for me .


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[Priller]

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To today’s consideration, I finally pulled an 80s Brietling out and put it back into service . It’s enormous on the wrist , like some rapper jewelry.

And as treat for me I bought a new Rotary dive watch , automatic Henley . I needed a watch with a splash of red .


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That Breitling is so big it appears to need two crowns? Also, the amount of numerals on that dial is a real achievement. All that said, I really like it, which is not usual for watches like that...

Digging the Rotary. That skeletonised minutes hand is bang on.

 

[GreyGhost]

That Breitling is so big it appears to need two crowns? Also, the amount of numerals on that dial is a real achievement. All that said, I really like it, which is not usual for watches like that...

Digging the Rotary. That skeletonised minutes hand is bang on.

Left crown is probably internal bezel for the calculator.

 

[crankcall]

Yes left crown turns the internal bezel thing , so I can time an 8 min hard boiled egg,

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Left crown is probably internal bezel for the calculator.

You need two rotating bezels for the slide rule on a true flight watch. They're both external on my Kinetic Flightmaster.

 

[Soulcatcher668]

 

[FullMotoJacket]

It's nice, but it's close to something I already have (Devil Diver), so it was a no. I was interested in a GW-9500-1JF Mudman he had but I can get it from Creation in HK for $100 less than his best price.

Ended up picking up a GR-B200-1A Gravitymaster (the "Helicopter") instead of the Mudmaster for a good price.

 

[crankcall]

There is a lot going on there . How thick is the owners manual .


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[mimico_polak]

Listening to a cool podcast about Swatch. Basically outlines their history and how they formed the swatch group in response to the onslaught of the Japanese Seiko brand once the quartz mechanism came out.

Something something Switzerlands watch industry was on the brink of collapse as market share grew for the quartz movement so the Swiss came up with their own version of the quartz movement (made in Switzerland) as a response.

And here we are.

 

[crankcall]

The Japanese ( and Chinese) quartz watch almost killed the Swiss industry. The “ we don’t do that “ Swiss old guard almost let it die , much as I dislike swatch , they saved an industry.


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[mimico_polak]

The Japanese ( and Chinese) quartz watch almost killed the Swiss industry. The “ we don’t do that “ Swiss old guard almost let it die , much as I dislike swatch , they saved an industry.


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I'm halfway through the podcast, although it's light on details, but basically the guy they hired to buy and sell firms to consolidate the Swiss watch brands basically said 'no...let's not do that. Let's build a Swiss version of the quartz watch'.

From then on...the rest is history.

'Stuff you should Know' is light on details, but enough to give you the gist of the history.

 

[mimico_polak]

Here’s one for the collectors…

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[FullMotoJacket]

There is a lot going on there . How thick is the owners manual .

Casio manuals = medicine bottle labels - need a magnifying glass to read them. Most of the Master of G watches have BT, so you can leave the manual in the tin.

-turn on bluetooth (connect button)
-add bluetooth equipped phone to casio watch app
-click on the watch you want on the list of your available watches
-a list of functions opens up. You can click on the function you want and adjust/save settings through the phone
-bottom of list is a link to an easy to read casio mobile tutorial to operate all functions manually via the usual four A-B-C-D buttons

If set to ON, watch will sync to phone 4 time a day if within range to sync time. You can see in the main app page my GA-B2100 Casioak synced yesterday at noon(ish).

 

[crankcall]

My watch tells time. Mine is synch’d to the microwave , I walk into the kitchen , look at the microwave and reset my watch .


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[FullMotoJacket]

My watch tells time. Mine is synch’d to the microwave , I walk into the kitchen , look at the microwave and reset my watch .

My GWM-5610u starts a receiver at 2am every night to pick up the signal from the Atomic Clock Transmitter in Fort Collins, CO and set it's time for me while I'm sleeping.

 

[crankcall]

Those are so cool , I’ve been trying to get the muppets that run our boat races to use GPS time or atomic clock so at least half the fleet knows what time 11am actually is . Nope $2.00 kitchen timers . They weekly **** up a 5 min start sequence so maybe a kitchen timer is fine .


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[Mad Mike]

Listening to a cool podcast about Swatch. Basically outlines their history and how they formed the swatch group in response to the onslaught of the Japanese Seiko brand once the quartz mechanism came out.

Something something Switzerlands watch industry was on the brink of collapse as market share grew for the quartz movement so the Swiss came up with their own version of the quartz movement (made in Switzerland) as a response.

And here we are.

I was pretty close to the watch biz back then, it wasn’t Asians that started the Quartz revolution, it was the Americans. They figured out practical quartz movements in the 1930s. Bulova, Seiko and Timex all pioneered economical quartz movements for watches in the 70s, Timex democratized the market by cutting the cost of dependable watches in the late 70s.

This spawned the idea of Swatch, necessary for the Swiss to recover often losing dominant share of the market.

 

[Priller]

Those are so cool , I’ve been trying to get the muppets that run our boat races to use GPS time or atomic clock so at least half the fleet knows what time 11am actually is . Nope $2.00 kitchen timers . They weekly **** up a 5 min start sequence so maybe a kitchen timer is fine .

Ha! Glad it's not only our club that can't sequence properly. To add insult to injury, they run a one minute buffer between the five minute countdown for each class, so a yacht timer watch with five minute intervals doesn't work. Maybe I should thank them for saving me from buying yet another watch...