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The infamous Don Juan watchband on a vintage Fossil
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I have a couple of dozen nice watches gathering dust because I wear a watch with sentimental value. This windup Hamilton and Navajo band was my grandfather’s daily wear watch. It was passed down to me when he passed over twenty years ago. I’m 62 and the watch is at least my age. It will stay in the family when I pass.
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I miss my old swatch watch. Swiss. Black plastic quartz. About $30 in the early 80s. Very light. Very thin. Very accurate. Analog. Used to wear it swimming. No issues at all. Battery powered.
It eventually broke; stopped running. After 15 years or so. Maybe 20. So far as I know, it is not repairable. Solid plastic, other than the battery compartment.
I liked that watch.
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$25 on eBay with $5 shipping. Not too often one can pay the same price for the same item 40 years on:
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04-27-2024, 07:04 PM
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I have a few watches, nothing fancy. An early 60s Bulova radium dial, an old Timex, one of the Pulsars like was previously shown, and a Rolex that was clearly made in China. It keeps time though.
I wear a Samsung watch nowadays. I feel like Dick Tracey when I make a phone call or text on it......
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Those old Chinese made Rorex's are getting valuable..... 
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04-27-2024, 08:43 PM
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I have one dress watch - 1996 IWC “Small Portuguieser” and a 2005 Seiko 40th Anniversary Dive Watch - mine is #1800 of 2005.
The IWC is my daily wear and keeps time to +2-3 seconds/day. Have to replace the custom leather straps about every 4-5 years.
The Seiko is the “vacation” watch and keeps time to +15 seconds/day. The pins are starting to migrate out of the band, so thinking about sending it in for its first service.
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04-29-2024, 11:31 AM
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I miss my old swatch watch. Swiss. Black plastic quartz. About $30 in the early 80s. Very light. Very thin. Very accurate. Analog. Used to wear it swimming. No issues at all. Battery powered...
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I miss my inexpensive Victorinox because I've worn a watch since forever and my left wrist just doesn't feel "right" without it.
Went to have the battery replaced a few months ago and the guy couldn't get the back off. and didn't want to force it. I believe it has a faux- Rolex back with micro-serrations that suggests it unscrews but it is in fact just a press fit. However, there is no way it will come off! I took it home and gently tried prying it, using a home-made "spludger" as well as gently levering it up with a suitable thickness of feeler gauge. Nope. Even gingerly applied a micro-drop of Kroil around the perimeter. I liked it because it has a black face with while markings and hands and is easy to read.
I still have my dad's wind-up Seiko, which I sent off to have repaired several years ago and for some reason the (idiot) official service depot in Toronto ended up replacing the dial face. But I think it still runs.
On another level entirely is the Waltham pocket watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor and which has just sold at auction for £900,000 - three times the asking price.
Mr Astor, 47, went down with the ship [Titanic], after putting his young wife Madeleine into a lifeboat and smoking a last cigarette.
Also in the auction was the violin bag of Wallace Hartley, from Colne in Lancashire, who eight-piece band famously "played on" to calm passengers as the disaster unfolded around them. Both items were retrieved when the bodies of their owners were recovered from the water.
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The infamous Don Juan watchband on a vintage Fossil
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Did it turn your wrist blue?
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Here's my fancy watch, It's a Seiko Quarts Chronograph 7A28-7029 with a 7A28 movement, the RAF uses that movement in their issued watches. It's from 1984. It's actually my second, long story.
I wear a small quarts analog on an RAF band daily, but get out the Seiko for barbeques.
The first one cost me $279 in 1984.
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Got one in stainless that I gave to my oldest son a couple of years ago.
I've been wearing Seiko 007 dive watches since 1989.
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04-29-2024, 07:52 PM
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I read about that as well.
What perplexed me is if Astor went down with the ship, how and when did they recover the body (and the watch)?
I'm guessing he put on a life jacket, drowned anyway or died of exposure, and they then found him floating around shortly thereafter. And then someone thought to have the watch cleaned and oiled pretty promptly...
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Seiko makes watches for just about anybody.....
Lot's of different shapes and sizes, as well as purpose built versions, i.e., dive watches, gents dress up and other sports watches.
Here's a few of my favs....
The majority of these are "Seiko 5" watches and the two at the bottom right are the famous "Captain Willis" dive watches, made popular by the movie Apocalypse Now...........
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Since this is a S&W forum....
Enjoy
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Some Hamiltons (top row) and Omegas (bottom)
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I was a slave to a wrist watch in my working careers ...so when I retired...I took the wrist watch off...have not worn one since......but on the occasion I need to keep/know the time...I will wear one of my pocket watches.....this mechanical one keeps extremely good time....wind it once a day....
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