I like watches...

VaTom said:
Question: Does anyone wear their watch on the underside of their wrist rather ( like me) rather than on the top? My dad a WWII and Korean War vet always wore his that way and I guess that's how I picked it up. Maybe an old school or military thing?
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I always carried a pocket watch until I started taking flying lessons at age 16. The pocket watch wasn't convenient in the cockpit of the Cessna, so I bought a Hamilton Khaki mechanical from the Hamilton outlet store near Lancaster. My instructors (one a B-17/B-29/B-36 pilot) all wore their watches on the inside of the wrist, so I did to. It is much easier when flying, you can read the watch without taking your hand off the yoke. Plus it's a cool pilot thing, like the A-2 jacket and Ray-Bans (I have those too).

I have lost track of how many watches I have, but they are all mechanical or automatic. There are pocket watches by Arnex, Elgin, and Waltham. One is a key wind Waltham. My wrist watches include a bunch of Hamiltons, several Benrus, a couple of Walthams, Gruen, Elgin, and an Omega. The Hamiltons include a few Lancaster built mechanical watches, plus a few newer Swiss production automatics. My newest watch is Hamilton Khaki Field automatic that I got on sale at Macy's right before Christmas.

That first Hamilton I bought in Lancaster cost me $50 brand new. I still have it, and wish I had bought a bunch of them at that price.
 
Hard on watches.....

2ffat said:
I'm hard on watches, too. That's why I buy the cheapest Timex and Casio. They seem to last longer than the expensive ones and I don't cuss when I break them.
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I had a nice Benrus (Something better up my sleeve) I came through a crash door in school and the thing closed on me and tore my watch off. I had to scrape the pieces off the floor, The crystal and half of the dial numerals. I took it to get it fixed and wore it for a good time with three numbers missing. I'm hard on clothes, too.
 
Seiko has always been my watch of choice, have two nice dress watches, one is back at Seiko for repairs.
Also have a nice Pulsar dress and my everyday watch is a Bulova chronograph.
Do have some pocket watches I carry at times and my coveted Rocky and Bullwinkle watch! ;)
 
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Casio came out with this first gen FISH EN TIME watch in about 1990. I wore one, or one like it, for about two decades. It's basically a little moon phase/moon position computer. Tells you when the moon rises, sets, where it is in the sky, when it's directly overhead, and it's phase. It's easy to scroll around and look at details for for any day of the year.

It's all based off your longitude and latitude, of course. Where you are on the planet. So if you move about the county, or globe, or even from one side of a State to the other, you had to re-enter your coordinates. It also told you the precise sunrise and sunset for your location, to within a minute or two.

There is definitely a correlation between wildlife activity (not just fish) and when the moon rises, sets, and it's phase. I used it for hunting mostly. Knowing the exact sunrise and sunset time was real important in the State I hunt in, and the way I hunt - dawn/dusk. It also came in handy for picking nights to go star gazing.
 
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Rastoff said:
You made me look it up. Not phosphorescent because that would dim in a short time. Luminox calls it "borosilicate glass capsules". I have no idea what that is, but it glows at night better than any other watch I've ever seen. That includes the old radioactive ones. I really did think it was Tritium. At least the ACOG really has Tritium in it.

The Omega Seamaster is my dream watch. Alas, every time I've ever even got close to having enough money for it, I bought some trivial thing like tires, car repair, fix the air conditioner on the house....
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I picked up the Seamaster I posted earlier from Bernard Watch. They sell mostly excellent condition used watches and have been excellent to deal with.
 
I always ruined watches in short order. Then bought $9.95 Timex's which lasted a year and was tossed.My BIL picked up a Rolex GMT Master in Hong Kong in 1967 New for $165.00 ! Great watch,worn hard even when scuba diving. In the past 50 years has gone to Rolex for cleaning and brought back to "new" condition for about $600.00 each time. Valued now at $8,000.00 to $10'000.00. A pleasure to own and wear and I wish I had invested in a bunch of them.
 
Ever have a good Swiss watch?


I have a couple of Tag Heuers, but my favorite is my Montblanc with a Titanium case and band. There is a Breitling I would like, but now we're getting into very serious money.
 
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My dad mentioned once that he couldn't wear watches. He put one on and within a day it would be broken. Not smashed just broken. His father in law, my grandpa told him he was full of it. Took his watch off gave it to my dad and by the end of the night the watch had stopped. Craziest thing I've ever seen.

A Casio watch that was the predecessor of the G shocks was the first watch he owned that lasted more than a week.
 
I also have 2 A-11 military watches Bulova and an Elgin, the Waltham has eluded me so far.
 
Rastoff said:
You made me look it up. Not phosphorescent because that would dim in a short time. Luminox calls it "borosilicate glass capsules". I have no idea what that is, but it glows at night better than any other watch I've ever seen. That includes the old radioactive ones. I really did think it was Tritium. At least the ACOG really has Tritium in it.
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The borosilicate is the material that encapsulates the tritium gas. Several manufacturers are now using it, but Luminox was the first. Add Doxa Sub 800 Ti to my short list of dream watches. I've always been a Dirk Pitt fan and have wanted one of those for awhile now.
 
VaTom said:
Question: Does anyone wear their watch on the underside of their wrist rather ( like me) rather than on the top? My dad a WWII and Korean War vet always wore his that way and I guess that's how I picked it up. Maybe an old school or military thing?
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With the work I do on copiers it would scratch up the crystal ten times faster than I already am on my EcoDrive.:D
 
I've had more watches in my life than I can remember. When I was a kid, I had all kinds of them. I got a nicer dress watch when I graduated high school, want to say it was a Casio. The crystal on this one shattered about 2 years after I graduated.

Shortly after that I had a Fossil watch that had a button which changed the face from black to blue. It was about the perfect watch, since at the time I wasn't sure if I wanted a blue face or black face watch. I think I still have this one around, but the battery is long dead.

A couple of years ago I was given a Harley Davidson watch made by Bulova. This rekindled my interest. For the most part, I'm a Bulova fan, and as it happens my grandfather's old gold watch was also a Bulova. (One of the many common interests I've learned about since he passed)
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I also was given a Invicta Grand Lupha Special Edition 2 years ago as well. I'm not a fan of the yellow face, but I like the shape, size and feel of it.
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The one I'd love to have is the Bulova UHF Precisionist
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or any of the Omega 007 watches..battery is dying, so I'll let you do some searching on the internet about them..
 
I'm lucky. I inherited two railroad grade pocket watches that was used by my great grandfather during his time with the Canadian Pacific RR. I've amassed a small collection of watches since then. I mostly go for whatever I find mechanically interesting. The spring-drive watch mentioned a few posts back being a good example(will never afford it).

I used to wear/carry a watch all the time, but l rarely do so now except when I feel like it. In that case I wear a Chinese made mechanical that has 24 hour markings on it. Its keeps good time and is easily fixable if I break it.
 
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Sometimes I wonder why I even wear a watch, since being retired I have all the time in the world! ;)
One time we were going out for dinner or something and it was coat and tie.
The son is all dressed and ready to go and wearing his New York City purchased Rolex! :D Street corner special ! :D
Well anyway getting close to leave time the wife asks JR. What time it is? He replies he didn't know, the wife responds well you're wearing a watch, which he replies well it's not working? Her reply, then why are you wearing it if it don't work? His reply,,,, Well it looks cool! :D:D:D
 
I have several Seikos that I used to wear before I started carrying a cell phone all the time;)
 
eveled said:
My dad mentioned once that he couldn't wear watches. He put one on and within a day it would be broken. Not smashed just broken. His father in law, my grandpa told him he was full of it. Took his watch off gave it to my dad and by the end of the night the watch had stopped. Craziest thing I've ever seen.

A Casio watch that was the predecessor of the G shocks was the first watch he owned that lasted more than a week.
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My wife was the same way. She was a watch killer.

VaTom said:
Question: Does anyone wear their watch on the underside of their wrist rather ( like me) rather than on the top? My dad a WWII and Korean War vet always wore his that way and I guess that's how I picked it up. Maybe an old school or military thing?
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I've been told that doctors & nurses wear it that way so it's visible while taking a pilse.
 
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Like lots of things in my world, I view watches as solely utilitarian. Dad had a very nice Rolex, which I made sure my brother received, along with the various Presidential cuff links from Commander in Chief visits to our fair part of the country over the years. His job and life are much better suited to those things than mine. This self-winding Seiko Five has been my go to for many years. On my third one, and probably fifth band . . .
 

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