What time is it? Watches and horology

Bloody Hell. They all seem to be quite a bit more than I was expecting. Thanks for the link - that's pretty useful!

No more than £20. I'll do you favour and give you £25 for it. You won't get a better offer.

Besides the positional aspects of being Veblen goods, someone once suggested to
me that expensive watches are also a good way to hide assets in plain sight, away from taxmen and spouses. Not being a Russian oligarch, I don't know.

I have a Steinhart and an Oris because I find automatic watches strangely calming and I like the GMT complication. I feel faintly guilty owning things that are quite so expensive when I used to be fine with a cheap quartz though. If I could have bought a Seiko 5 with GMT I probably would have done instead. (Yes I know they have a bunch of watches that have a rotatable bezel with time zones on that they call GMT - that's not what I mean)

I found a casio solar I like

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Fifty dorrah. Sell it and buy a Toyota.

Only if it's an old HJ/FJ Mk1 Land Cruiser...

What's the watch equivalent of one of those Toyota pick-up trucks that insurgent armies love to attach heavy weapons to and use as motorised cavalry? 'Technicals', I think the jargon is.

Hah, yeah

Yeah but it has "anus" on the dial.

#wouldrep

I managed to fry my only solar watch by trying to quick charge it by putting it to close to a hot lightbulb. This may be the replacement.

@Well_is_it doesnt, wouldnt anus put a smile on your dial?!

You're an idiot...

I need a new Bomber...

Go with a pro-trek! Awesome watches. I've had a couple over the years. One died after a failing to enjoy a -50 degrees centigrade incident in Canada, Casio replaced it as a goodwill gesture even though that was outside of operating guidelines. The replacement has put up with a lot of abuse since.

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This is my one

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ummmmmmm

thats ugly as sin

#nooffencemeant

Its a tool watch bruv. I wear it when my wrist is likely to be bashed or scraped against rocks and also when the abuse it will get would potentially fuck an auto.

But yes, its not a looker. Probably the best watch in my collection though.

my tool watch is

YOUR a tool... #etc

😐

So many climbing memories attached to mine. I'll be genuinely sad when it finally dies.

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I have one of these

Maybe not quite as tough as a G-Shock but not far off, and it's got a built-in compass.