What time is it? Watches and horology

I use the bezel on my dive watch every day, to time how long my dinner has been in the oven. I also dropped my swimming goggles in the pool the other day so it's been a full 1% of its dive depth too!

Pretty, typically German overengineering!!
Is a thing of beauty tho

That bracelet is astounding. Looks better than the one on my GST Aquatimer and that's saying something. Lovely watch.

Rare day with LOLEX on today. Still going!? 😀

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Cheers dude! The GO logo is the push button that operates the microadjust - you don't even have to take it off your wrist. Which is handy as my wrist changes diameter through the day like a bullfrog in mating season....

Meet Stealthy McStealth:

Needs black lume.

I WISH I could get a black lume for my #Gothmariner...

^^ Not as stealthy as mine, Joel...

I saw an old boy with a weathered Pepsi Rolex the other day looking like it had seen as many years. I would expect it to have seen a few reefs in its time too. Your point being?

Good on him. I don't see the point of buying tool watches if people don't use them. No quibbles with those that do.

You're quite correct in that a £10 shell suit from Sports Direct will more than adequately keep me warm and protect my modesty - I do have a thing for Hugo Boss suits though.

If you bought a Hugo Boss suit and put it in a display case I'd think you were a bit strange.

If you're wearing it, good on you.

I agree that one should buy a watch to use. (I have never bought one to collect)

However if you have disposable income, would you not try to invest it?

Is that wrong?

It's not wrong, but it is only possible because of commodity fetishism and I find the whole thing a bit weird - that the value of the watch is its resale value, not its usefulness as a watch. Okay, that's how jewellery often works, but with tool watches it seems just impossibly self-contradictory. But yes, I'm well aware mine may be a minority view.

I assume its down to how popular and collectible tool watches are. Because of the popularity watch makers are putting more details and complications into supposed tool watches to make them even more collectible.

Obligatory keyboard shot of a 40mm Helson Shark Diver. Love it.

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^ Over size limit. Two tics

Matchy matchy

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Only 200m? Pffft >>>>>

The thing that I find amazing about high end jewellery is the structure.

I watched a fascinating programme on a certain high end jeweller in London.

All designed and made on site.

The craftsmen, (the ones with talent imo) the ones who actually make the things only get a fraction of the profit.

The kudos and big salary all goes to the ditzy 'designers'.

I believe this is the same across most industries tho.

Tool watch you say? Deeper than 200m you say?

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It's called branding, it's been robbing craftsmen for centuries probably never more than today. There was a great programme about Faberge recently, beautiful craftsmanship.

Watches are not that great an investment in my experience, good brands hold their value reasonably well but bare diamonds are easier to store/transport & sell. Jewellery was originally a means of transporting wealth easily after all.

I'll see your thousand and raise you another thousand :P

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^because diving to 1km is so wuss.

Desk divers unite!

Here we go...

Basically you need 10k or GTFO.

How else am I gonna get my watch back from the Mariana Trench?