[Closed] Nice watch haters..

Enjoyably full of laughs for a watch thread!

Good work 🙂

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On the wrist of a man who's got his hand on a BMW gear lever; shifting into fourth as he accelerates out of town. An image that really captures the elegance and power of a successful modern man. It's what we all strive for. Perfection.

I'd rather stick mine on my right wrist as I masturbate to free porn websites and simultaneously ruminate on your insightful reflections on the aspirations of 'modern man'.

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, people justify spending the amount of a decent second hand car on a bike which will be worth half that figure in a year, a fraction of that after 10, not to mention completely obsolete technically. But that watch will still be on my masturbating wrist, and probably worth 50% more than I paid for it (not a reflection of my technique).

I'd rather stick mine on my right wrist as I masturbate to free porn websites and simultaneously ruminate on your insightful reflections on the aspirations of modern man.

No. Buying things is bad. Unless it's a new TV or a nice caravan. Otherwise, buying anything nice is evil and kills Syrian refugees you heartless bastard!

And bicycles, don't forget buying them has a positive impact on the world. . For every bike you buy a kitten or puppy finds a loving home. Fact.

My uncle used to say "you either buy a 10 pound watch or a 10,000 pound watch, there is no in-between".

Interestingly, he never owned a watch.

Jamie - Member

I don't know, some people just roll in here after nearly a year long absence with no explanation...

Oh sorry was there something else going on?

Clearly you have too much money, if you can afford a Stihl moisture meter. (Looks the same as my no-name ebay special.)
But a nice watch!

Gonna troll back and say, why didn't you give the money for your new telly to MSF or just post it to your preferred Syrian?

A question to which I have no good answer.

Looks like something off Welly' market!
Enjoy telling everyone how much it cost

My car has a smaller user manual than that watch!

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On the wrist of a man who's got his hand on a BMW gear lever; shifting into fourth as he accelerates out of town. An image that really captures the elegance and power of a successful modern man. It's what we all strive for. Perfection.

You've missed out the glimpse of the long legs / short skirt on the gorgeous blonde sitting in the soft leather seat next to him.

You've missed out the glimpse of the long legs / short skirt on the gorgeous blonde sitting in the soft leather seat next to him.

Who is secretly regretting selling herself so cheaply and wondering how much alimony she can get?

Might be an argument that Capitalism, driven by people's desire for shiny, actually ultimately helps create more wealth that can be funneled into good causes? Maybe.

(Or there might have been once, except now we know it doesn't.)

Well our desire for shiny tech certainly has helped the emerging economies. Because they suddenly have a big asset that we need - labour. So we can progress technology.

Important to remember that not all tech is pointless consumerism. Some of it improves lives, like medical tech. Plus their making of it not only grown their economies but fuelled our desire to buy it, which has increased volumes, which has made it far cheaper. So scientists can now do things that were never possible before. And whilst we buy shiny new smartphones, the cost of normal and basic smartphones has plummeted to the point that people in emerging economies can afford it themselves. So information and ability to do things has spread to some pretty out of the way places, which empowers them to improve their lives. Sometimes, at least.

You could have bought a car at that price!!!
ps. very nice watch

Nice watch you capitalist filth bag 😀

Anyone know anything about expensive Wellies? Not Hunters!!!

That bloody operating instructions book though!

1 page in each major language and many of the niche ones too telling the owner to get it serviced regularly and don't drop it!

Nice watch and garlic presentation box.

Crikey! Some people really don't like nice watches 😉

Nice enough if you like that style of watch; never appealed to me, I'm afraid.
I'm sure the OP will enjoy many happy years wearing it.
Currently happy wearing my forty-odd year old Yema Rallygraf, which seems to be keeping very good time.
Provided I wind it up every day!

Doesn't your phone (which is likely about your person 100% of the time) tell the time?

Jamie - Member

Kryton57 - Member
I don't know, some people just roll in here after nearly a year long absence with no explanation...

+1

CountZero

Seems we've regressed a century even as the technology has advanced.
Human's can be pretty dumb, sometimes.

Yeah we've regressed to the point where the "pocket watch" can make calls, send texts, access almost all the information in the world, every photo, video, film and it can shoot 4k video and take 20mpx photos. 🙄

Anyway, nice watch op. I wouldn't know if it cost £100 or £10,000 but it looks classy, not gaudy like a lot of expensive watches.

So, what does it do apart from tell the time? It must do lots of things judging by the size of that instruction book.

It tells the time.
Like food fills your tummy.
And sex with a sex robot ticks a box.

Or.. Life is a journey where pleasure can be gained at every single step of the way... And every time he looks at his watch, he feels a sense of enjoyment and impressiveness at the wonder of little springs and cogs and engineering on his wrist.
And when he dies, he's no better or worse than the man with a £4.99 Casio.
But until then, he's happier than he would have been without this watch.

And I suppose that's as important as anything else in life.

It's a lovely watch. There's people who won't understand it. And that's ok!

DrP

(When I got my omega I said to the chap who sold it to me that I might just bin the box. He looked aghast at me, and I've been guilted into keeping it. It really is obnoxious!!)

Box and papers are important for resale value if you want to sell in the future.
If you aren't bothered about that sort of thing them fling them, I tend to keep mine just in case.

I thought that after I said it!
I rarely sell things on in 'as new condition' - I've no intention in selling this (watch) on - I got it with the intention of giving to my son when he's older 🙂

DrP

I'm sure it's a lovely watch, and the OP must like it very much, but I'm still interested to know what else it does according to that huge instruction book?

Edit: Silly me, you're all blokes, not one of you will have read an instruction book 😀

I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years. Anything else would just be far too pomp for STW 🙂

Human's can be pretty dumb, sometimes.

I was thinking the same thing! 🙂

The big instruction manual helps gives the box some more gravity. A heavy box is a sign of quality 🙂

Exactly the reason wris****ches were invented, because it was much quicker and easier than fishing a fobwatch out of a pocket while in the trenches during WW1.

Wrist watches were invented in the 16th Century.

The instruction book may be fat, but only because it tells you the same thing in about 20 languages.

 

I'm nice and I hate watches.

Imagine my disappointment opening this thread. I was hoping for some right-swipes.

The big instruction manual helps gives the box some more gravity.

It's big but not so large it distorts gravity.

The bigger the thing the more gravity it has. It doesn't distort anything.
Clearly you're too silly to afford an exquisite time piece , beautiful box and extended manual 🙂

Nice watch OP! However, I love the Casio!

And a Merry Christmas to [s]me![/s] you all, and your respective loved ones 🙂

Love, Capitalist Pig.

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The bigger the thing the more gravity it has.

Poorly phrased, there seems to be a drinking festival going on is my excuse. 8) Hic.

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Daily wear. Do I boast about it/bore people with stories about how much it cost? (Just short of 5k if you're interested) No, no I don't. If anyone enquires I will tell them. Did I have any real reason to purchase it? Am I a deep sea diver? No. Its just a well crafted beautiful thing. It makes me happy to have it on my wrist. If watches are not your thing then I don't feel you will ever understand and I respect that 🙂 I also own several other watches - from £50 G-Shocks to a 1976 Seiko Bell-matic auto. Love them! 😀 Nice watch btw OP

fills the sports/gents watch gap well.

What does this even mean? That's just words.

Question, at what price point does your watch demand that you drive a white car?

Daily wear. Do I boast about it/bore people with stories about how much it cost? (Just short of 5k if you're interested)

🙂

Happy Christmas.

Question, at what price point does your watch demand that you drive a white car?

Have you been reading my skoda yeti thread???!!!

White yeti on order for march...... 😉

DrP

that's a lovely watch bearnecessities enjoy sir 😀

p.s i don't celebrate xmas myself but have just bought myself a ps4 and no man's sky the last guardian good times 🙂

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Nice OP. Abit pricer than my new one. Where did you get it and how much % off RRP? I'm after a Omega

Enjoy. There's nothing like a bit of understated excellence.
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Those wondering about the box and papers? February 1970 and counting
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The instruction booklet is so thick as it contains instructions in loads of languages.

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Pressie off the wife, had one years ago as a young submariner back in the 90's. Lost but now replaced 20yrs later! Had no idea I was getting it 🙂

Nice watch that and the box is just what I've been looking for, for me mums ashes if your chucking it with the rest of the Christmas packaging I'll have it at postage cost.

Nice watch OP. Very nice indeed.

Yours, with a touch of envy........Z

And a Merry Christmas to me! you all, and your respective loved ones

Love, Capitalist Pig.

Is that, is that a scratch on the Bezel? 😉

What a bunch of show offs ,what's wrong with a Casio for 30 quid ?I bet you lot are pub bores with your displays of wealth ?

Metal straps look cheap ..

Edit: Silly me, you're all blokes, not one of you will have read an instruction book

What watch was Sid Fiddler wearing in Carry on Girls?

I have a few Breitlings. My favourite is my B1 on a metal strap. However, nobody comments on them, but.......my Suunto Core Black on a Zulu strap gets loads of compliments!

So, save yourselves a few grand and buy a Suunto.

I also agree with all the comments about keeping the original paperwork and boxes. If you intend to keep the watch or pass it on as a heirloom you should keep all the original stuff, they are worth far more with all of them.

Non metal straps are cheap.

A lovely watch OP. I love posh watches and if my lotto numbers came up (if I played) then i'd definitely be building up a nice collection. Unfortunately only got one, a Breitling my wife bought me when we got engaged, only the entry level model at the time - around £1k. Wasn't quite as much as her engagement ring, but that wasn't the point. The thing is with these things they appreciate in value. I had mine valued recently and it has appreciated between £500 and £700 over the 12 years I've had it (probably more than her ring), so if I sold it now, taking off the few hundred quid a service cost me then i'm at least a couple of hundred quid up, and it's a daily wear - so these things might be expensive to purchase initially, but in the long run they are effectively free. You can't say that about anything else these days, not even cars. I'll never sell it though. Can't beat a nice watch. They are a pricy extravagance, and not sure i'll ever get another one, but the quality of a nice watch definitely shows.

only the entry level model at the time - around £1k.

A Top Time? I think that may be what Sidney Fiddler was wearing...

Oh, bl88dy 'ell,that was a mistake, I've just shown this thread to t'other half - and he says he'd like a Seamaster!
*goes off to work out how much of inheritance is left*

Oh, bl88dy 'ell,that was a mistake, I've just shown this thread to t'other half - and he says he'd like a Seamaster!
*goes off to work out how much of inheritance is left*

Is he "mid life"?

@lady gresley
Go in store to Ernest Jones. They can "adjust price" through manager's discretion if you pay cash. Vulgar to mention it, I know, but I got a substantial "adjustment" last month.

Is he "mid life"?

Haha, no, well past that!

Edric64, I drive a 2k car. I don't display my wealth through a 20k VW Golf TDI.

So why not spend money on something that is appreciatable and appreciates?

I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years.

Not sure what that sentence means ... but I did get one of these for Christmas

Edit : oh, link not working .

Edit: DW-5600, if you know your G-Shock product codes.

Lovely watch OP - I keep hanging my nose over a Planet Ocean Seamaster and I am sure I will have one one day soon. These borelords who keep wittering on about casio's (which are nice watches, for cheap) just don't get it - they are probably just filling in time between this and bemoaning christmas on the other thread - tight f*****s.

I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years.

Not sure what that sentence means ... but I did get one of these for Christmas

It related to handing down a watch as an heirloom.
I also have a 5600, it's a classic watch which I love. Awesome watches don't have to be expensive.

i think a nice watch is a great item to own. Personally I am a Bremont fan. Just picke up myself another Martin Baker111 on a stainless bracelet as my everyday watch.

I love the fact Bremont are English made and a reason I buy the brand.

DW-5600/5610 is a great watch for knocking about in.
I wear one for work and don't have to worry about it.

Depends what you do for work. Something like that would be very out of place in the environment that I work.

Not knocking Casio but everyone has a different requirement of a watch. In my eyes a good watch is to a man what jewellery is to a woman.

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The 'box' is a massive rubber disk that's utterly ugly and impractical. Surprisingly the instructions fit on one single piece of A4 card.

(Although, to be fair, it doesn't touch on how to work a slide-rule properly)

I had a quick look at the Omega website and saw a nice lady's watch - £16,010!!!! I'll just keep wearing my mum's gold watch then.

True

My new watch as of yesterday thanks to Mrs RNP

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Just over 100 years old.

My grandads old watch. Turns telling the time into an event!
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Still keeps perfect time.

This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather’s war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane’s luck wasn’t as good as his old man’s. Dane was a Marine and he was killed, along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his dad’s gold watch.
This watch. This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it’d be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you. 😀

^^ does it have a methane release valve?

And because of your girlfriend, Vincent Vega died

Or, y'know, just post the video 😀