She gave me two grand instead so could put toward a GMT or maybe a Milgauss!

Purchased this Hamilton watch:

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I like it.

always like the look of that one, wear it in good health.

just managed to get a sea dweller 50th anniversary from a local store, been after one for a LONG time!!

white face, black bezel daytona next...?

Anyone got recommendations for cheapish (sub $200) ani-digi pieces? I like the looks of the casio AMW320 but I've had two of them and they fall apart if you sneeze on them.

The YouTube recommendation algorithm is so good that it can tell if you've recently viewed a pvn post:

Got this a couple weeks ago... The Grand Seiko is a true hand made watch





I also have something else coming from Japan in another week... surprises await.

Archies great... love him and his pain.

his review of an owner with Ullysis Nardin is off the chart hilarious. you have to watch the entire review... he really whips himself into a frenzy at the end

not sure I believe this... ALL the steel sports/tool watches are being rolled directly onto the gray market... FOR PROFIT

I guess it is possible to get lucky, just not likely

lol! no ALL are not being rolled straight to gray.


Maybe my contacts are just better than yours.

Doubtful... but anything is possible.
I can get any watch in the world fairly easily, I just can't get them all at msrp... just like everyone else.

If your contacts are so awesome, get me a 126710blro or a 116710ln at retail and I will escrow you the monies.

Actually I gave a list of the Daytona, Pepsi, sea dweller (which is the one I really wanted) and the batman out to see which could get easily. Was asked to come in next day, and have a chat, very definitely a sounding out to see if I was wearing it or reselling. Then pretty much ordered to take off my omega and they brought in the sea dweller.

They’re friends of my buddy, and he buys quite a bit off them. Get me a nautilus at msrp and I’ll work on getting your pick of those two lol.

I will say it is pretty impossible to walk in and just buy any of the Ss models, but they do have inventory that they seem to quietly keep for regular customers or only allow those customers to be on the list (usual seems to be 50k+ of past purchases)

A little more info on what it can't be. Like, would a Dunhill DM7 for < $200 work?

I think if you're bashing them up that much G shock is the logical choice.

Take a look at the G Steel series:

https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/wat/g_shock/g-steel/

and then amazon the product number.

I just picked up this, its a bit big, but I like it a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-GSTS120.../dp/B06X6NB2K3

That comes in a couple of colour variations too.

In fact if you go to amazon and search G-shock Steel most of the ani-digi pieces that can take a beating pop up...

And as someone said to me, if you do something bad enough to damage one of them, a broken watch is the least of your worries.

I don't know what sort of environment you're putting your watches through, but I've found these watches to be very durable, and affordable: https://www.cwcwatch.com

The 'Captain Willard' finally came in... sla033

I love the other seiko turtle back watches, and nearly picked one up once. That looks HUGE! is it comfortable?

The fit is very comfortable... I am not a huge fan of the vinyl watch band but what can I do, it's the way it came.

The turtles are cool, but this piece doesn't share anything with the existing turtle group... save for the 8l35 movement of some of the marinemasters I suppose. It's hand assembled and hand finished in the Grand Seiko facility and to the same level as GS.

thought that might be a sore point given the price tag

I got a Nomos Club about 2 years ago and now it has having some issues:
-The second timer is fast, If I had to guess every hour the clock is a few seconds fast, when I wake up the watch is a few minutes ahead.
-The winder is broken now/won't stop, usually if I wind it for about 15 seconds the watch would be charged, it would 'stop/click' so I couldnt wind it anymore, and be charged for about 48 hours. Now the winder won't stop/click when I reached the maximum, and I can only wind it for maybe 6 hours at a time before having to wind it again.

Should I send it to Nomos via my warranty and wait a month since they are located in Germany?
Or go to a local watch repair guy? I recently went to watchfinder.ca(high end used watch retailer) which is a 5min walk from where I live at in Toronto, Canada they quoted 250$ about a month ago re my fast second clock.

Thanks, sorry my watch terminology isn't the best.

Guilty as charged... I did it.

I'd for sure send it back to them.


Very nice, the Air king grows on me by the day...

Shame you didnt get a defect one...

https://www.watchfinder.com.au/artic...een-a-rolex-de

Air kings are massively underrated IMO, simple and no BS.

Tercet, DEFINITELY send the watch back to Nomos. There's no real upside to using a local guy in this case. $250 is the floor for this service, you'll probably end up paying a lot more once he gets in there and finds out what's wrong.

What is the deal with there being huge waiting list for Rolex sports watches? Surely a company like Rolex could meet the demand if they wanted to?

Without knowledge of whether or not they could meet demand:

Lots of companies choose for one reason or the other to keep supply artificially low, even without raising prices. There are many potential good reasons. For example:

Let's say a Rolex is a $5000 watch. There's a market for $5000 watches. It's different than the market for $10000 watches.

Currently they produce X watches, which they sell at retail for $5000. But we believe they could in any given year sell 2X at the same price.

Why would they not do that? Examples: 1. Brand dilution: they might have a stake in keeping the feel of exclusivity for long term sustainability instead of immediate cash benefit. 2. They may have a stake in the secondary market, so that they don't actually give up 100% of the profits for the people who are willing to pay >$5000 for a $5000 retail watch. These examples play well together - secondary market buzz feeds consumer demand/hype when watches actually do hit the retail market, and keeps people interested in the brand.

So why not just raise the price at retail? Say they could (and maybe we have data from the secondary market) sell X watches for $10000 at retail. Again, they might have a stake, either financial or branding, in the secondary market. Or it's possible that if the watch at retail were a $10000 watch it would put it in competition with a different set of watches and brands that they don't want to be in competition with. Transactions on the secondary market might target different consumers (at the same price point!), who may or may not think of the brand(s) differently.

Sets of concerns like these (aside from the primary assumption that they could easily scale production) likely dominate. Other concerns are probably more minor, like whether or not they could provide service for a significantly larger base of owners over the long term.

There's some reasonably interesting economics literature you can find on a parallel set of questions: why don't popular restaurants either raise prices or add seats? I'm sure there are other areas where economists have done the research as well, I just know that there are some good, accessible papers on restaurant demand and pricing.

I changed out the Factory Rubber strap for a padded German Shark Leather strap on my sla033... its a nice compliment to the diver.