Traditional folders and watches/timepieces

Into the night with a bit of the unusual
A Victorinox Swiss Army Knife with only one tool
Omega Seamaster Omegamatic, only issued for a couple of years in the late 90's

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Repost - I was a little pre-occupied when I posted earlier and reused a pic from July that also had a Spydy in the shot. I knew better but wasn't paying enough attention when I picked the image. My apologies.

Not going to retype everything. Watch below has become unreliable, so I'm watchless until some replacements arrive this coming week.
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mrknife said:
im loving the look of this watch more and more every time i see it!!!
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I like the looks a lot - subdued, clean and simple dial. Timex seems to be trying to up their game a bit in some lines (The Waterbury, Marlin, American Documents...). The new Expedition North watches are stainless steel cases with sapphire crystals with solar quartz and mechanical drives. And they're not the huge pie plates, that solar I received is a 36mm case, and the mechanical above is a 38mm. Not sure how durable the finish and drives will be. Haven't found much info on these yet at the typical watch review spots.

Pic thread - the other sleeplessly bored image from early this AM.
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OldHercDude said:
I like the looks a lot - subdued, clean and simple dial. Timex seems to be trying to up their game a bit in some lines (The Waterbury, Marlin, American Documents...). The new Expedition North watches are stainless steel cases with sapphire crystals with solar quartz and mechanical drives. And they're not the huge pie plates, that solar I received is a 36mm case, and the mechanical above is a 38mm. Not sure how durable the finish and drives will be. Haven't found much info on these yet at the typical watch review spots.

Pic thread - the other sleeplessly bored image from early this AM.
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how is it in thickness? timex expeditions was one of my childhood watches. i have the ani/digi quartz from the old days.
 
mrknife said:
im loving the look of this watch more and more every time i see it!!!
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I really admire that one too, sleek, tasteful and purposeful.
Metal bracelets can nip your hair or skin, true but all other straps wear out pretty fast or get sordid. I wear a watch all the time even asleep so leather/canvas straps soon gets crappy. Metal is durable but that too gets filthy...

Nice to hear Timex are putting out other stuff, my 'work' watch for garden jobs, hammering etc is always a Timex Expedition. Lately battery replacement here in Europe has gone sky high, more than 20€ if a jeweller does it and that adds up! So I got some tools and batteries and do it myself BUT the Timex Expedition I cannot get the back on :poop: Are they vacuumed or something? The one before I wrecked by using a padded vice....🤪
 
mrknife said:
how is it in thickness? timex expeditions was one of my childhood watches. i have the ani/digi quartz from the old days.
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Their specs say 8.5mm. Eyeballing it mine looks closer to 10mm on a tape measure (calipers are in storage somewhere). A little thicker than the Weekender it's replacing, not as thick as the Casio Seiko dive watch I had years ago.

As a kid in the '70s, I wore whatever cheap Timex Dad picked up for me at the Post Exchange until I entered the Air Force, then I bought my own. Dang thing was rough, I was hard on watches as a kid. It got wet and was dried out multiple times. Band or pins broke on the regular, and it would go flying off onto whatever surface I was running/ scrambling/ biking over. The acrylic had several cracks. And it just wouldn't die. 🤣 My newer Timex haven't been the same, I've gone through a handful the last 42 years. Hopefully these newer ones will last.

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