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What watch do you wear?
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Casio A178WA-1AV
Maratac NATO strap
I bought it on sale for $10. It had the worst bracelet I've seen, but 18 mm lugs and spring bars, and just enough clearance for a NATO strap. On the NATO it doesn't look bad.
FYI it has fat spring bars. They look sturdy enough but I don't know where you'd buy replacements. Don't lose them! (I spend 5 minutes on the floor looking for one amongst the dust bunnies.)
My advice to Casio: drop the fat spring bars, the little apron over the lugs and that crapola bracelet. Give it a bead blasted finish, welded posts instead of spring bars, and sell it with a NATO or Zulu strap. 50 M water resistance would be nice. That would be a winner.
Maratac NATO strap
I bought it on sale for $10. It had the worst bracelet I've seen, but 18 mm lugs and spring bars, and just enough clearance for a NATO strap. On the NATO it doesn't look bad.
FYI it has fat spring bars. They look sturdy enough but I don't know where you'd buy replacements. Don't lose them! (I spend 5 minutes on the floor looking for one amongst the dust bunnies.)
My advice to Casio: drop the fat spring bars, the little apron over the lugs and that crapola bracelet. Give it a bead blasted finish, welded posts instead of spring bars, and sell it with a NATO or Zulu strap. 50 M water resistance would be nice. That would be a winner.
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Seiko SRW011P1
No date window!
Obligatory lume shot
No date window!
Obligatory lume shot
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Some nice watches here! I'm a … bit of a collector, with about 60 or so watches. I've got some cheap ones, some expensive ones, but in general I like some of the more odd watches.
One favourite is the Lip Mach 2000 chronograph. Fun fact: Lip liked my photo so much, they actually stole it and put it on their own sales website… without permission.
One favourite is the Lip Mach 2000 chronograph. Fun fact: Lip liked my photo so much, they actually stole it and put it on their own sales website… without permission.
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I don't wear a watch, they always just stop after a few days. When I do use a watch, I carry my 1866 J. Favre Jacot silver hunter case. Key wind, Key set. Had it cleaned and refurbed in 1986 and it has kept perfect time since. I'm really not fond of watches that dont tick. My Jacot is like having history ticking in the palm of your hand.
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Stowa Flieger. Here's their stock photo....
This is the perfect wrist watch for me. Simple and not common.
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Some nice watches here! I'm a … bit of a collector, with about 60 or so watches. I've got some cheap ones, some expensive ones, but in general I like some of the more odd watches.
One favourite is the Lip Mach 2000 chronograph. Fun fact: Lip liked my photo so much, they actually stole it and put it on their own sales website… without permission.
That is a very peculiar watch. I like it! Never heard of Lip. Where are they from? What kinds of movements do they use? I really like the strange looks of that watch.
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Thank you! Lip is a French watch company, with a history dating back to the 1890's. They have quite a past with upheavals and takeovers, but they are still producing watches today.
This particular watch is currently still being sold. It's called the Mach 2000, and is the modern version of a watch designed in 1975 by French designer Roger Tallon. Mr Tallon is also the designer of some iconic home products like TV's and washing machines, but he's most notable as also being the designer of the French high speed train TGV.
The modern Mach 2000 is available with a quartz chronograph as well as a regular quartz three hand movement. My watch has a Ronda 5030-D, others are Ronda 705. Ronda is a Swiss company and the movements are quite reliable though otherwise unremarkable in terms of build and accuracy. One feature that I like is that it has a separate hour hand setting, so you can just move the hour hand without upsetting the minute hand. Handy for switching time zones and from DST. The original 1975 version of my watch had a mechanical chronograph movement.
It really is a wonderful watch. If you like the styling, I can highly recommend it.
That one isn't even my most peculiar watch. Another one is the Think The Earth WN-2 by Seiko. It has a little rotating globe under a glass dome. You read the time by setting a little orange ball for minutes, and a little white location marker that points to your location on earth. The globe rotates once every 24 hours, moving the marker with it and indicating hours. It has a 24 hour dial, so you can see exactly what time it is where, all across the globe.
The watch is so designed that, at arm's length, your view of the earth is the same as if you were standing on the moon.
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No offense but the Flieger design is actually very common to a number of different brands. Though with Stowa, you've got one of the best versions of that iconic design.
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Thank you! Lip is a French watch company, with a history dating back to the 1890's. They have quite a past with upheavals and takeovers, but they are still producing watches today.
This particular watch is currently still being sold. It's called the Mach 2000, and is the modern version of a watch designed in 1975 by French designer Roger Tallon. Mr Tallon is also the designer of some iconic home products like TV's and washing machines, but he's most notable as also being the designer of the French high speed train TGV.
The modern Mach 2000 is available with a quartz chronograph as well as a regular quartz three hand movement. My watch has a Ronda 5030-D, others are Ronda 705. Ronda is a Swiss company and the movements are quite reliable though otherwise unremarkable in terms of build and accuracy. One feature that I like is that it has a separate hour hand setting, so you can just move the hour hand without upsetting the minute hand. Handy for switching time zones and from DST. The original 1975 version of my watch had a mechanical chronograph movement.
It really is a wonderful watch. If you like the styling, I can highly recommend it.
That one isn't even my most peculiar watch. Another one is the Think The Earth WN-2 by Seiko. It has a little rotating globe under a glass dome. You read the time by setting a little orange ball for minutes, and a little white location marker that points to your location on earth. The globe rotates once every 24 hours, moving the marker with it and indicating hours. It has a 24 hour dial, so you can see exactly what time it is where, all across the globe.
The watch is so designed that, at arm's length, your view of the earth is the same as if you were standing on the moon.
That is the most bizarre/insane wrist watch I've ever seen. Props to you.
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My new daily: Seiko Shogun
