Kronos Group Buy/SE Watch 2/19/17 - First Rendering!

[kronological]

@Aardvark Spleen

I’m in.

I like analog ones myself.

I’d be happy with $80-100 or so?

The folks over at MVMT make some pretty nice, affordable ones. I picked up their first one off mass drop a couple years ago and love it. They seem like a neat company who might be interested in this sort of thing?

Interesting watches, but very minimalistic. I’m not sure if they would have wide appeal…but they do look cool!

[kronological]

@1dash1

Interesting idea. My thoughts:

Style: Modern

Price: $100

Brand: I tend to buy Seiko and Citizen in this price range, but no real preference.

Movement: Solar or quartz. (I don’t care for self-winders or kinetic-motion watches because of their limited run times, they typically die within 2 or 3 days if left motionless. I’ve gotten rid of all of mine.)

Band: Leather or steel, no preference. They each have their merits.

Features: Minimum 30M water resistant (100M preferred), day/date. Rotating bezels are useful. Perpetual calendar would be nice, but probably not within this price range. Alarms are generally useless (and obsolete when compared with cell phone alarms). I would tend to dispense with chronometer and other timer functions for the same reason (cell phones perform much better).

EDIT: I forgot the GITD hands, especially the sweep hand, and hour markers.

I LOVE autos. Man, they are works of art…IMHO. But I understand your hesitance. It will be hard to get a quality auto for a decent price. Sea-Gull makes some pretty nice movements on the affordable end. We’ll just have to see what pricing is.

I can’t see digital fitting in at this point. If so, it might be an ana-digital watch, but they are not my favorite. Definitely GITD hands and markers though!

[kronological]

@cbrake10

hmmm maybe something from Orient?

I don’t have an Orient, but I understand they are very nice.

So far, I have only contacted my usual Chinese vendors about watches, and none of them carry Orient. But you never know what they can get their hands on. No, I’m not talking about knock-offs!

[kronological]

@The Miller

The only two things I can visualise with a little flashlight are one of those paracord bracelet watches or as an extra item on that Leatherman thing.

I wear a watch when I want to dress up, matching the rings and suit. I only have metal round classical designed watches.
Can’t imagine anything full of trinkets ever slide on my wrist but am curious what you are going to get Kronos on now

I wear a watch every day, and feel neked w/o one. That Leatherman band is interesting, but looks painful to wear, and I would never be able to take that inside to work because tools/sharp stuff not allowed (secure environment).

I also have zero desire for a smart watch.

[kronological]

@djozz

I love a good watch!

But my ideal watch does not exist: a stylish looking digital watch with stopwatch/timer/alarm, everything simple to operate and all displayed together, because I use it all often (I don’t like the ‘Casio UI’ with all button having many functions and toggling through modes, it is a misty mess). But the real difficult part: the digits must be backlighted, not a few seconds operated by a button, but continuous dim lighting. That may require a rechargable battery, like the smartwatches, to be charged once a month (btw, smartwatches are all ugly imo and have too many functions).

Sofar my ideal watch, but if there’s a group buy on a nice watch, I’m in if I like it.

Perfectionist…huh?

I don’t know about digital watches. I’m thinking a classier, analog style…either auto or quartz. At least with a date window, if not more functions.

[kronological]

@Mitko

Great idea Crono! Brand? Timex! Its a US based company, it should be easy for you to deal with them , hehe They goes for relatively cheap, Bush had those while he was a president.

Stainless steel, waterproof, solid - BLF logo: great, i will buy several

I had a really nice Timex (well…nice for Timex) with indiglo, sort of a rolex looking type of watch way back in the day, but it broke. I liked it so much I took it to a jeweler to be repaired, and he all but laughed me outta his shop…heheh

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@The Miller

Digital and stylish are very hard to mix, there have been a few smartwatches that tried to mimic the style of old fashioned watches but there it ends.

I agree…digital is hard to do well.

@The Miller

Sigh, here I was hoping for
AAA X4 / 26650 X7
Followed by
LRxx X3 / dual 18650/26650 X8

Our projects are not mutually exclusive, ya know!

[kronological]

@KaiserSosa

Certainly interested….I have gotten into diver style automatics recently.

Something along the lines of the Orient Mako USA model but with a larger diameter….and hacking movement would be ideal for this guy.

Things I like about the Mako USA is the sapphire crystal…solid endlinks…120 click dial bezel……enhanced luminent.

I like the divers as well, and the Mako looks and sounds quite good.

[G0OSE]

Great idea, although the price point will open up a can of worms lol! For all members to afford one it would have to be less then say $50 really.
For a budget one Megir seem to do some ok watches, and since Banggood sells them we might have half a chance of getting them ‘BLF’ branded

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@Aardvark Spleen

a boxed set that includes…say…an EDC light, watch…maybe also an EDC knife, pen etc.

The Kronos Kollection. I like it.

Something like that…but I think the Kronos name is already taken for watches

[kronological]

@will34

Something like this!

Egads…not sure what to think about that Luminox. Maybe if I was a pro-diver?

[kronological]

@flashination

Neep!

How about a large deep carry flipper instead.

Why not both…eventually?

[kronological]

@sp5it

Good watch won’t be budget for sure.
Mike

Good is quite relative…but yeah, good watches are not cheap.

[kronological]

@L4M4

What about something like that?

Source: Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee Watch | aBlogtoWatch

I think, a bargain-knife would be better (because cheaper :D)

I’ll put you down for 3 Jaeger-BLF Gyrotourbillons

[kronological]

@Gunga

I’m okay up to $350.

I prefer analog, and like automatic, however quartz is fine to fit a price point and popular Vote.

Size, 39-44mm, hopefully less than 14mm thick.

Trits are nice but likely too expensive, so good lume please.

I’m pretty open on other options.

A nice simple style that is easy to read. I personally have dive, pilot, and field watches.

Don’t like nylon (nato) bands but good on anything else.

Hopefully these are helpful suggestions.

Edit: no alarm or chrono unless it’s digital. A Kronos chrono?

$350? WOW!

I was definitely thinking more budget than that! But, nice to know someone likes nice watches.

It is possible, though. I’ve seen some project watches on watch forums in that range, but that might be pushing it quite a bit for BLF…

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@JamesB

Mechanical watch (auto or not) i may be in, analog quartz no thanks. (some chinese movement from Seagull especially are very reliable and less expensive than ETA)

I love autos…so they are definitely on the list. However, a quartz watch might be more reliable for the budget conscious.

Autos can be finicky…and I don’t want to create a lot of drama with returns and such.

[hank]

> Indiglo

That.

But, sorry, I already ordered my Gearbest
Cheap Watch with Square Dial and Leather Watch Band.

What could possibly go wrong?

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@djozz

Hmmm, there’s chinese tritium nowadays, with claim of Ronda movement and saphire crystal…

I’ve seen those, but know nothing about them, other than their logo looks suspiciously like Omega. Gee…think that is intentional?

[djozz]

@kronological

@djozz

Hmmm, there’s chinese tritium nowadays, with claim of Ronda movement and saphire crystal…

I’ve seen those, but know nothing about them, other than their logo looks suspiciously like Omega. Gee…think that is intentional?

There’s a thread on them at watchuseek, someone says that the Ronda and saphire claims are true and they seem to hold up nicely over some time.

[JamesB]

Nomos Metro Datum Gangreserve groupbuy ?

I’m in for cough 100$ cough