I have mixed feelings about Rolex. I love the brand reputation, I hate the price gouging. Back in the 90s you could get Sub’s any day of the week for $3k. Today, that won’t even get you on the waiting list.
Used to be a saying.
Want Wrist Jewellery…. get a Rolex. Want a proper watch that will keep good time…. get an Omega.
Both have succumbed to stratospheric pricing and exclusivity, but you can still get a vintage Omega for a reasonable price.
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I purchased my Submariner new in 1980 for $900.00. It’s been my primary timepiece for some forty years and still looks great and keeps excellent time. I’ve worn it on countless underwater adventures and in the construction of untold job projects. You get what you pay for IMHO.
No regrets.
Another fine timepiece in my rotation is my Vintage 1971 Omega Speedmaster.
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EDC 99.9% of the time: Casio ProTrek PRW-3000B, replaced polariser to fix the negative LCD it came with originally. Alti, baro, compass, sunset/sunrise etc., solar charging, syncs to DCF-77 and other precise time over radio services. The extra functions are nice to have but the extremely precise timekeeping (even when sync fails, this particular specimen only drifts about a second per two weeks) is what keeps this watch on my wrist all the time.
For dressy situations that I fail to avoid there’s Casio LCW-M100DSE, this one also syncs to radio and has solar charging, though it’s not nearly as good at keeping the time between syncs as the ProTrek, drifting almost a whole second per day.
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Yahoo auction, this model was only released in japan in the early 90s
where did you get the wrist sundial!!>???
i have one from amazon that is not so nice, but i think it was about $20
I got my first Citizen solar analog watch back around 1993. Since then I’ve bought about 4 more, the last being a “grail” watch, a 20th Anniversary Citizen Altessa made of Duratec coated titanium. I’m more into vintage G-Shock watches these days, but still enjoy the old Citizens. When my G-Shocks with atomic radio signal fail to sync (atmospheric fluctuations), most of the time my Citizen still syncs. Fantastic movement.
oh - i just noticed it isn;t a real sundial, the hour markings are wrong
oh
i saw others on ebay that had hours marked like a normal watch
they have both
Christopher Ward C60
Oh my the combination of the sky blue accents and the rainbow glow rods is simply dashing! What a pleasant aesthetic!
I have a watch collecting issue too…….
nice
with the never-used ‘tachymeter’ feature!
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tachymeter on one
slide rule on the other
i have a citizen with a slide rule
so i can;t make fun
but i never used it
even though i learned in college back in the day
it does not have a ‘cursor’ which makes many calculations impossible
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