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Doog_de_Jour
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The website The Art of Manliness (which I really enjoy reading actually) has some great articles on watches if you boys want to beef up on the subject before @Swaye poasts about his next piece.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/category/dress-grooming/watches/
Doog_de_Jour
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Not at all. We’ve never assessed your watch expertise...you could be Rolex repairman for all I know.
In other great news, my Rolex perpetual appears to only be about 4 secs fast per day. So perhaps not magnetized after all.
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Oh man, you are all set then. Rolex has a reputation for being bulletproof. I wish my entire collection could be Rolex one day....but there is a whole discussion to be had around the hyper inflated prices on current Rolexes, and how hard it would be to establish a collection of Rolexes with current pricing - unless you are rich bitch! Maybe that would make for a fine addition to the Yella Gentleman's Gazette one day...
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SWAYE'S WIGWAM WATCHES
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@GrundleStiltzkin
Gilbystaint
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The Art of Manliness? This was all we needed in the day my dear friend.
Doog_de_Jour
New Fish
In all seriousness, I actually read all of your watch threads @Swaye because I’ve always loved men’s time pieces. Last women’s watch I owned (no joke) was the original Swatch “jelly fish” in grade school. Here’s a pick for you youngsters who were but a gleam in your mother’s eye when Swatch was big:
So Eighties!
I love the look of this Jaegar LeCoultre:
Or a Cartier:
So Eighties!
I love the look of this Jaegar LeCoultre:
Or a Cartier:
Be still my beating heart. I knew there were some folks out here who actually liked watches. They just didn't want to out themselves on a football board (not you but others). For some odd reason many think it isn't manly or some such shit? I kill my own dinner, and ride motorcycles and go off-roading and love football and all this other "manly" shit, and I love watches. And to be fair, the coolest dudes ever pretty much all loved watches. High end ones.
Steve McQueen with a Submariner in Bullitt (he was first know for earlier wearing TAG Monaco's)
Paul Newman and his Rolex Daytona (most expensive watch ever at auction btw - 17 million)
JFK famously wore Omegas. Charles Lindburgh famously wore Longines. Sir Edmund Hillary summited Everest wearing a Rolex Explorer. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in an Omega Speedmaster. Chuck Yeagar broke the speed of sound wearing a Rolex Oyster.
And who could forget Sean Connery as Bond wearing a Rolex Submariner in almost all of his films.
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To be fair, most all the modern Bonds have worn Omega. And those kick ass too (except Pierce Brosnan fuck that guy).
Anyway, no reason to think loving a kick ass watch is anything other than manly as shit. I got deer blood all over my Breitling Chronomat this year while skinning it out. That's just bad ass. 6K watch covered in deer blood. 'Merica!
@Doog_de_Jour also I LOVE JLC. Never been a huge fan of Cartier, but though most would assume as a luxury jewelry maker they don't make a good watch, you would be mistaken. They are actually full in house production movements on many of their models. Really well made watches. The looks have just never appealed to me, but lots of folks love them.
JLC is a super interesting brand....from a horological perspective they are the bar. Guess who the only manufacturer Patek ever sourced a movement from? Yep, JLC. I mean fuck, Patek! 90% of the world doesn't know what Patek is, but they make Rolex look like Seiko, and do almost ALL of thier own movements, but int he past, when they have needed a specific complication and didn't want to tool up to build it themselves, they went to JLC. Fantastic watches. Wish they held their value better. But the value proposition is a thread unto itself i may actually tackle one day if there is enough interest from our little knitting circle of watch nerds.
JLC is a super interesting brand....from a horological perspective they are the bar. Guess who the only manufacturer Patek ever sourced a movement from? Yep, JLC. I mean fuck, Patek! 90% of the world doesn't know what Patek is, but they make Rolex look like Seiko, and do almost ALL of thier own movements, but int he past, when they have needed a specific complication and didn't want to tool up to build it themselves, they went to JLC. Fantastic watches. Wish they held their value better. But the value proposition is a thread unto itself i may actually tackle one day if there is enough interest from our little knitting circle of watch nerds.
Doog_de_Jour
New Fish
Be still my beating heart. I knew there were some folks out here who actually liked watches. They just didn't want to out themselves on a football board (not you but others). For some odd reason many think it isn't manly or some such shit? I kill my own dinner, and ride motorcycles and go off-roading and love football and all this other "manly" shit, and I love watches. And to be fair, the coolest dudes ever pretty much all loved watches. High end ones.
Steve McQueen with a Submariner in Bullitt (he was first know for earlier wearing TAG Monaco's)
Paul Newman and his Rolex Daytona (most expensive watch ever at auction btw - 17 million)
JFK famously wore Omegas. Charles Lindburgh famously wore Longines. Sir Edmund Hillary summited Everest wearing a Rolex Explorer. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in an Omega Speedmaster. Chuck Yeagar broke the speed of sound wearing a Rolex Oyster.
And who could forget Sean Connery as Bond wearing a Rolex Submariner in almost all of his films.
.
To be fair, most all the modern Bonds have worn Omega. And those kick ass too (except Pierce Brosnan fuck that guy).
Anyway, no reason to think loving a kick ass watch is anything other than manly as shit. I got deer blood all over my Breitling Chronomat this year while skinning it out. That's just bad ass. 6K watch covered in deer blood. 'Merica!
I was giddy reading this. Three of the hotness men ever and hawt watch talk. Pure bliss.
I will never for the life of me understand men who think elegance and class aren’t manly. Some of the TUFFEST dudes I know wear beautiful tailored suits and spend more on shoes than a lot of women.
Speaking of James Bond, his watch game wasn’t always on point. He wore some pretty cheap looking Seikos during the Moore years (I don’t care how many cool gadgets Q added, they looked awful).
https://www.thrillist.com/gear/iconic-james-bond-watches-ranked
I’ll admit my love of Omegas comes from Bond. This Omega Seamaster is gorgeous:
Doog_de_Jour
New Fish
Yeah, Cartiers are a lot like the handbags of watches...you’re paying for the name and the design. Not that they’re bad watches! Just not the best.
That’s impressive about Patek sourcing from JLC! I think most people don’t know about Patek as there’s no way they could afford them. They’d rather drop that cash on a car.
Be still my beating heart. I knew there were some folks out here who actually liked watches. They just didn't want to out themselves on a football board (not you but others). For some odd reason many think it isn't manly or some such shit? I kill my own dinner, and ride motorcycles and go off-roading and love football and all this other "manly" shit, and I love watches. And to be fair, the coolest dudes ever pretty much all loved watches. High end ones.
Steve McQueen with a Submariner in Bullitt (he was first know for earlier wearing TAG Monaco's)
Paul Newman and his Rolex Daytona (most expensive watch ever at auction btw - 17 million)
JFK famously wore Omegas. Charles Lindburgh famously wore Longines. Sir Edmund Hillary summited Everest wearing a Rolex Explorer. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in an Omega Speedmaster. Chuck Yeagar broke the speed of sound wearing a Rolex Oyster.
And who could forget Sean Connery as Bond wearing a Rolex Submariner in almost all of his films.
.
To be fair, most all the modern Bonds have worn Omega. And those kick ass too (except Pierce Brosnan fuck that guy).
Anyway, no reason to think loving a kick ass watch is anything other than manly as shit. I got deer blood all over my Breitling Chronomat this year while skinning it out. That's just bad ass. 6K watch covered in deer blood. 'Merica!
I was giddy reading this. Three of the hotness men ever and hawt watch talk. Pure bliss.
I will never for the life of me understand men who think elegance and class aren’t manly. Some of the TUFFEST dudes I know wear beautiful tailored suits and spend more on shoes than a lot of women.
Speaking of James Bond, his watch game wasn’t always on point. He wore some pretty cheap looking Seikos during the Moore years (I don’t care how many cool gadgets Q added, they looked awful).
https://www.thrillist.com/gear/iconic-james-bond-watches-ranked
I’ll admit my love of Omegas comes from Bond. This Omega Seamaster is gorgeous:
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Yeah, during the "Quartz" crisis of the 70's-early 80's the Swiss lost their shit, and so did everyone else. We got to see shit tier Seiko's in Bond flicks. FML. Most of the big watch makers went bankrupt, which is why there are so few truly independent watch houses left. Swatch owns 2/3rds of the industry, and Richemont owns almost the balance of what's left. Then you have a bunch of small independent makers nobody has ever heard of (like the NOMOS I showed to kick this whole watch thing off), and of course Rolex and Patek (and Cartier). Tudor is still owned by Rolex, and even last year mighty Breitling got bought out by a consortium. Omega has been owned by Swatch for years.
Anyway, it's those goddamn quartz Seikos that did it.
Funny we are talking Omega. I have owned two. Currently have one on the winder. The deal I am trying to broker right now would actually include the one Omega I have left, and my last Breitling.
Yeah, people think dropping 8-40K on a Rolex is something...40K is damn near where Patek starts (I mean they have lots of 25-30K sport watches and their "low end" dress watches), but really, Patek starts at 40K and goes up from there. I will likely never own one.
The watch I am trying to get right now is 13K, and I am trying to negotiate a trade of two watches, plus cash, to get it. This will be the most expensive watch I have ever owned. And it's like pennies compared to the true high end world. Rich fuckers.
BennyBeaver
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Apple Watch 3
Flame away.
Flame away.