What time is it? Watches and horology

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  • For £100 I'm pretty chuffed with this, the bracelet doesn't even need adjusting.


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  • Very clean.
    Also your keyboard looks like a dog...

  • I got a keyboard like that too. Useless.

  • Cute fucking doggo alert!!

  • 4 hours later - stick ticking normally, keeping time and five seconds still showing on the reserve... I guess the capacitors a fine after 10years neglect!?

  • I'm not amazed by my new MWC. Its fine, but and its a perfectly nice watch but if I had paid £300+ for it I'd be pretty fucked off. Not least of all because the NATO straps it comes with are the worst I have seen.

    Quality is commensurate with a £175 watch apart from the straps. Its a decent workhorse for the money. Packaging is shoddy which is a giveaway. Gaseous lume is nice touch albeit very dim compared to conventional lume.

    Definitely won't be keeping in my collection. I have enough work-horse divers.

    Anybody want one of these for £175 posted? Roughly half price compared to direct from MWC.

    https://www.mwcwatches.net/products/mwc-­24-jewel-300m-auto-military-divers-watch­-with-tritium-gtls

  • you really sold it

  • Well, I'm being honest. Its a £175 watch with TGLS lume and Seiko movement sitting in a large collection of dive watches. Its all relative. Its a good watch, just not doing it for me.

  • Had a look on WuS and elsewhere and saw really mixed opinions, so decided against buying one myself. Shame to hear it's a bit of a wet flannel.

    Btw I think they do returns on that ebay

  • I'm probably being a bit harsh but then again, side by side with my 007 it is clear which is better value for money.

    It all comes down to whether you really like the idea of having the gas lume shining 24/7 or not I think. Not very useful to most people.

  • Well, indeed. I've been pining after a nice automatic diver, but for reals it's just an extra toy and something like a 007 seems way nicer anyway.

    Desperate to get new (and lumed) hands on this Stendardo and just be happy with its little battery movement. Nearly bought some on cousins but I remeasured and need 120/70 with 11mm max on the minute hand, so their 12/12.5mm options are duff.

  • Sounds rubbish - £100!

  • Just binned the NATOs and put it on a CUDA and it suddenly makes a load of sense :D


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  • That's more like it! The lume tubes look very cool.
    Bezel is a little unoriginal tho. Nitpick.

  • It has grown on me a fair bit but I still think I'll flip it and buy a Marathon.

  • Nice, but not £175 nice.

    Really tempted to buy a modern Vostok. At least you know what you're getting with Ruskies.

  • Amazing, I love that bracelet

  • Submariner watch out, 44 and 42mm versions available in 316L steel.


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  • I don't get Panerai.

  • Big fo suits ay...

  • Basically, they were verrrry cool back in the day, Rolex actually made some of their cases years ago.

    Then in more recent history they just made HUGE, ugly, weird looking, steam punky watches with bog standard ETA moments.

    Within the last 5 years or so they have begun manufacture of their own in house design movements. Overhauled a few cases and realised that people want cool complications, classic displays and don't always want that to be in a 48mm case that looks like a clock.

    I think they are heading the right direction, they're actually boasting about how light this steel is, and how comfortable the bracelet sits on the wrist. It's like they actually have a design team now, genuinely shocked.

  • I saw a Thomas The Tank Engine wall clock today, where the eyes follow the second hand up around the dial.

    Would totally wear that as a watch.

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