What time is it? Watches and horology

Hey @robadob can you fix this for me? Date wheel turns once every 48 hours which is super annoying

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That’s very cool.

Ah, I remember being kind of taught German analogues at school when we were typing stuff out on their rubbish computers that only seemed to have French accents in the character set. I taught myself Turkish accents just so I could by records in the market book stalls in Istanbul. I was SO bad at making myself understood in Turkish.

I couldn’t begin with Turkish. I am, after 10 years (half dozen) of trips to Poland thinking I should finally learn a few words. It was only 18 months ago I was seeing dzięnkuje written down and associating the ‘ng’ sound it puts on the ‘e’.

I’d aleays heard that Turkish was an easy language to speak, in that it’s supposedly quite phonetic - once you know what the accents and some of the pairs of letters (excuse my ignorance of the correct terms) do, you just sound it out.
In practice, that was not my experience of speaking Turkish :-)

Went to Bulgaria once - that’s a fun language to try and read!
Also, the nodding/shaking for yes/no bring reversed - took me till the last day I was there to get the hang of, then we went to Romania where they do it the way round we do.

Had an incredibly traumatic/amazing trip to Bulgaria once (kind of a ‘goodbye’ week with an ex). Despite that situation I thought Sofia was amazing. Agreed that the language is totally alien to a westerner, but the flea market by the old church, the various relics of each period of history, the military museum, and that ridiculous taxidermy in the natural history museum... I would love to go back under different circumstances.

Yeah we liked Sofia. Pleasantly tatty and a good art/music scene, from what limited time we spent there.

My experience of Bulgaria is kind of the opposite to yours in that I proposed to my wife there :-)

Right - sorry about thread derail. I had a watch question:

Since browsing this thread, I’ve gone from disliking divers to wanting one. My budget is at the lower end of the spectrum - what would I get for <£200?

If you want a watch that is credible for actually diving, Seiko SKX007 every time.

Not diving as such, but definitely swimming including in the sea, so that looks pretty spot on for the money. Ive been pleasantly surprised wth my Seiko 5 after a recommendation here.

I probably shouldn’t look at this thread - my watch budget seems to be slowly creeping up. Currently considering giving myself 6 months to save for a nice dress watch to replace my very average (and ruddy noisy) Skagen.
(Also, I didn’t have a watch budget before....)

It gets worse.

Yes, eye-wateringly so it seems :-)

i'm too not crazy about diver watches but this caught my eye. it comes out in october and its only 700 euro. love the old school look.

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Matching the bezel gradients to the dial, makes it ferociously confusing.

For me, clarity is the most important quality in a diver.

That won't be used as a diver therefore looks matter more?

bingo. a friend who actually goes diving is looking to buy this one http://www.nzwatches.com/casio-g-shock-gulfmaster-multi-band-6-quad-sensor-water-depth-driver-watch-gwn-q1000mc-1a-gwnq1000mc.html

You can get a very, very good Suunto dive computer for that money. And have change for the SKXOO7.

Eyegasm. Shame about the price.

Like 99% of divers.

But it still needs to fulfil the basic criteria, otherwise it's just a bracelet and not a diver.

I’m not sure how legible I’d find that, even without a diving mask on.
Makes me want to play darts, for some reason :-)

Not a fan. Looks like its permanently entering hyperspace.

I just ordered a digi tuna SBEP001. Really looking forward to giving it a go.

Looks great but 49.5mm...

If its anything like the traditional Tunas it'll wear way smaller than that.

Tunas don't have lugs to speak of which makes a big difference.

Just thinking about how misleading dimensions of a watch can be on paper and I'm not sure exactly why it happens.

My Max Bill Chrono is 40mm but feels larger than that on the wrist.

My Garmin Fenix 5 looks and wears like a 42mm but is actually 47mm.

My sub is 40mm but wears like a 38mm.

Maybe it is down to lug length or thickness too?

My sub is 40mm but wears like a 38mm.

Thats not good having just ordered the homage