What time is it? Watches and horology

Halifax, Nova Scotia?

Does anyone know whether you can still get those red Omega travel cases and if so, how much I should be expecting to pay?

Yup!!

Nice. My inlaws live there. Where else are headed on your trip?

Mont Tramblant Montreal for a week of snowboarding 😊 Can't wait!

I'll be coming out this way in the future, so I'll need to figure out where the best pubs and clubs are. Also may need to get used to public transport or drive.

We may also want to keep track of each other so we can do forum YHZ beers.

Awesome. I've not been to Mont Tremblant yet but Montreal is a great city. Tonnes of good bars and restaurants. I know less about Halifax apart from a few places in the centre of the city. I'm in Toronto so feel free to message me!

Toronto is next on my list to go to! So we can grab one in a few months when I'm back.

Sounds like a plan!

I've got one you can have for £20 if you're able to collect from SE1

Thanks for the offer but it's a bit of a trek! I'll get myself along to the local AD and see if they still sell them.

Are you serious? Finally! Good work.

I haven't posted a watch for a while. Mainly because I've been wearing an f91w for most of this year.

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get it on the wrist

Worn every day this week.

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Very nice. Did you really?

Solid start this week, eh.

Yes !

I see no G M T ? 😊

GMT!

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Anyone know much about these? This is one of my favourite watches, inherited from my dad.

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It's been a bit of a process. I looked at the current GMT and I just couldn't bring myself to like the Jubilee bracelet, and also (for me) a GMT dial should be able to fade as it lives with you.

The polished oyster centre links put me off the earlier model, so I ended up looking at 16710's, and with that age of watch most have had a polish, which ended up with looking at the NOS 16710 at the Watch Centre on Bond Street.

They came down 5% to £14,300, but I couldn't square that with the watch. Also, they said that they'd pay me £11,000 to buy it back in a year, if the market continues as it is today.

The Submariner, with it's brushed finish, is the least fussy sports/professional watch in the current range, is I think a handsome watch and has undeniable provenance, and when I tried it on I liked it a lot. It's basically allowing me to scratch the Rolex itch, and is a much lower risk method of doing that than a 13 year old GMT. It was originally bought and registered from Rolex last month, so it has four years and eleven months of Rolex warranty, and the dealer I got it from said (if the market doesn't have any huge upsets such as Rolex ramping production) he'd buy it back from me in a year for what I paid him for it today.

If the market does have a huge correction I'll look at a 16710 again then, for now I am enjoying the Submariner.

No surprises here.

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Nice watch, quite restrained for a Chronoswiss, very Breguet-influenced. I like the engine turned dial.

Timex Expedition on camo NATO today.

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