Just wanted to share that moment with you all...

[ioerror]

I know that may sound silly to some of you, but here are probably the only people that would ever understand me.

We are all crazy about the best gear we can find that fits the bill and performs excellent every time we use it.

Here i am, sitting in front of my computer, browsing the latest and greatest of the wrist watches world. Looking at my two watches (Casio and Seiko) on the desk. Now in terms of accuracy and ability to withstand bad treatment you cannot beat the quartz Casio. Simple, not so expensive, good looking (that also could be said for a lot of other brands), but as i am looking through that transparent back cover of my Seiko 5 and i see the little balance wheel going back and forth, ticking quietly... it's a kind of magic. It's like it has a heart, like it is alive. Yes. Yes i admit that we have to be careful not to hit the watch, because we can easily break an automatic watch. And they tend to lag or rush with few seconds, but that one look tells me that a mechanical watch has always been and will always be something special. And i love that way i can tell that something is wrong by only listening to the sound the mechanism makes. It's the same as if i was in a car and by the change of the engine sound i can say that something requires my attention.

I know that these are just objects ;-)

Share you experience (about any element of your gear or everyday life, that made you feel like that)

ioerror

 

[Shorttime]

Interesting thread.

I have a similar moment with most of my gear. Usually, it takes me a couple of tries to find something that works for me. When I find something that does work, it may take some time of using it before I decide that I've found the right thing. My boonie hat was the rare first try success. I went through a few carabiners before I found one that I like, and my Benchmade Mini-Griptilian is slowly overtaking all my other knives for pocket time. But, eventually, I do have that moment where I say to myself: "yeah. This works."

Then it's on to the next thing!

 

[jacksterp]

There is something about those Seiko 5's. Have two of the sports models (both made in Japan) and they have never let me down.

Love 'em!

 

[thatotherguy]

It's cool to just watch a mechanical device run, do its job. In the case of watches, quartz and digitals are lifeless and unimportant. They often fit many, many different watches with the exact same movement, lifeless. Mechanicals such as automatics live. In most cases, each different watch model has a slightly different movement, working a slightly different way. It's magical to just watch it run, see the craftsmanship and beauty that goes into each piece.

 

[holygoat]

Yes i admit that we have to be careful not to hit the watch, because we can easily break an automatic watch.

As a sidenote: your watch is tougher than you think. If you can clap your hands while wearing it — and you most assuredly can! — then you can shoot, play tennis, and drop the thing on the ground.

Enjoy it!

 

[thatotherguy]

^^^
yeah, there's a reason that Rolexes are preferred by professonal divers. Reasonably tough. I personally prefer the Vostok Amphibia movement for diving, but it's only because it's less expensive.

 

[SharpByCoop]

I"ve started collecting vintage mechanical stopwatches, for just this reason. Hundreds of precision parts.

I'm restoring them, and learning a part of a craft. I paid almost $900 for a 1920's Heuer Micrograph, which measured hundredths of a second. It revolutionized the 1920 Olympics.

Any $15 quartz stopwatch will be more accurate, but that's not the point. Before quartz, this was how it was done.

I love the Seiko 5's. I have three. I get it.

Coop

 

[xbxb]

got it on my wrist right now. It loses about a minute a week. Like I care----- I really like watching the little whizgiget going around in a circle or whatever it does.

 

[fast14riot]

Watches are really cool but for me that moment comes from finding that perfect combination of pen, ink, nib, paper, mood, and lighting. When it just flows.

I found a wonderful combination one evening with this Esterbrook J, a 2668 nib, vintage Skrip jet black permanent ink, and Strathmore 400 green cover paper.

I wrote pages and pages when in the zone, just enjoying it tremendously. Watching the words form as if someone else is writting them. I guess I go the writers gene.


-Xander

P.s. Coop, I used to make parts for those types of watches occasionally, usin the LIGA process at my old job. Sure felt more satisfying than making parts for weapons the Army uses.

 

[bdmicarta]

I have a lot of mechanical watches and prefer wearing them during the week. I do have a couple of quartz watches that I wear for special reasons, one of which is for working on my car or on my house. The problem that I have with automatic watches is that sometimes on weekends I don't wear one enough to keep it running so I wear a quartz watch on weekends when I need a watch. I like my quartz Luminox watches for travel and camping.

 

[ioerror]

Watches are really cool but for me that moment comes from finding that perfect combination of pen, ink, nib, paper, mood, and lighting. When it just flows.

I found a wonderful combination one evening with this Esterbrook J, a 2668 nib, vintage Skrip jet black permanent ink, and Strathmore 400 green cover paper.

I wrote pages and pages when in the zone, just enjoying it tremendously. Watching the words form as if someone else is writting them. I guess I go the writers gene.


-Xander

P.s. Coop, I used to make parts for those types of watches occasionally, usin the LIGA process at my old job. Sure felt more satisfying than making parts for weapons the Army uses.

Exactly what I ment