What time is it? Watches and horology

Did you look on Watchfinder? They have a showroom in the City somewhere...

Also a couple of shops on the crossing of Clerkenwell Road and St John's Street you might wanna look at... You'll pay more there obvs... Small Junghans Max Bill? No idea if that'll be in your price range... @tilover was selling a beauty only the other day...

@Señor_Bear was selling a little Omega Seamaster as well, might do the job... Very cute IIRC...

Yeah I did thanks TS, not much on my budget on there though! Parkers seem to have some nice Tudors and Omegas in my price range.

Meh...consistent lume here...

Sheet. Better get to work!?

B-)

I like quartz, opens the opportunity for slimmer cases and more money to spend on the case quality, i love my georg jensen koppel and all my uniform wares watches. As a rule i stick to swiss quality (ETA /ronda quartz movements) and for ease of services almost all of my automatics have eta 2824 movements.
Anyhoo, don't rule out quartz entirely. Just don't be cheap if you can afford more... i'd rather have a top quality quartz over a low end automatic every time.

My old man has a quartz Ebel. Must be about 4mm thick...if that floats your boat.

I hear you however for me a quartz watch will never touch mechanical or automatic. Time is alive, it is life, we measure ourselves by it and somehow an auto or mech watch feels closer to time as life, while quartz feels more distant less human.

that's pretty deep for first day back after a bank holiday, but nice sentiment anyway

although if i chose to be romantic, the idea of putting a current through a crystal to create vibrations that can translate into exact time is pretty magical ;)

Maybe if it was a solar/kinetic quartz with super mechanical insides...

Batteries in posh watches >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> #imho #obvs

^^ Nice, like it! But it still doesn't do it for me :)

Nice looking Pelagos homage:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Seiko-SNZF17-Pelagos-Custom-/301556215958?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item463626b096

^That internal bezel is all kinds of wrong. Try and get an auto in here?

pfft.. call that thin.

Automatic movement with sub second complication:

I'd still take a Tudor Snowflake over a Rolex Sub if I could find one...

Is it a mile wide tho?

Youcantexplainthat.jpg

The Altiplano is my favourite dream watch at the moment.

38mm

Magnets / microrotor:

You need to get out of Canary Wharf, it's messing with your brain...

I'm with @ChainBreaker on this one... it's a beautiful watch / piece of engineering.

Then you're not looking hard enough dude ;)

https://www.chrono24.com/en/search/index.htm?query=Tudor+Snowflake&dosearch=true&searchexplain=1&goal_suggest=1

it's a beautiful piece of engineering.

I'll give you that much... Aesthetically, it's fucking awful...

you needed to get 'timepiece' in there somewhere.

otherwise, 8/10

:)

I don't really trust those sites, loads of fakes knockin' about...