What time is it? Watches and horology

On a yacht in Cannes during the festival?

A guy I work with wears a vintage gold sub on a daily basis. When I asked him about it he said 'i appreciate the semiotics of gold watches are quite complex'. He is awesome.

Ha, love it. Gold divers watches are especially complex.

I’d love one of these but can’t justify getting one:

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Quite like this gothdiver.

But not the (frankly ridiculous) £5400 price

Altho I suppose my actual guilty pleasure would be the OG version - the 1655

That's £18 a m of depth. Proper shit value.

Have you seen the size of these IRL? Just absurd.

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Has anyone swapped the ugly stock bracelet on a modern speedy pro for the 1171-1?

Jeebus, that is one chunky watch.

fantastic response

Surely the fact that you'd love one is justification in itself?

The good news is there's just enough "wrong" with it (chunky handset, flat sapphire, cyclops) that the head can overrule the heart.

I nearly picked one up about 2 years ago for a little over £5k but didn't have time to think about it properly (I'd walked past it in the shop window and gone in - the shop was literally closing as i was trying it on and it seemed too good a deal so I bottled it - disappeared by the time i got back the next day). The missed opportunity cost makes it even harder to countenance paying today's prices for it so I'd only ever pay RRP . Which means I'll never own it. So i've made my peace :)

I bet you’d be able to get one from a dealer eventually if you put your name down. The demand on those can’t be anywhere near the GMT or sub.

over 5k for a seiko?

I’m a big Seiko fan, obviously, but those Prospex LX watches are total folly. They make no sense, least of all at the prices they are demanding.

This G Shock is £6500...

That doesn't make it ok.

The case is made from recrystallised titanium, the sparkling appearance of which resembles the crystal formation of the temper line on the blade of Japanese swords. An Arc Ion Plating (AIP®)*1 treatment is then applied in the Koki-murasaki (deep purple) that is traditionally associated with nobility in Japan. The bezel is made from COBARIAN®*2 and bevelled in a manner inspired by the blade tip of a Japanese sword. The watch incorporates design elements inspired by Japanese swords — from the yasuri-me (rasp marks) on the nakago (tang) to the crystal formation of the hamon (temper line) and the kissaki (blade tip). The centre band of the MRG-G2000GA is finished in a pattern modelled after the pattern employed in the renowned Gassan tradition of swordsmiths. The pattern is applied by hand to each link by Sadanobu Gassan, who is in line to succeed the 800-year-old Gassan tradition

Makes a bit more sense why it costs so much rather than a bog standard extra-fat Seiko prospex

For £6.5k I'd want a few more pixels

They also do the GMT LX versions:

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Imagine what level of baller you need to be to have a £6.5k Casio

Or Prospex for that matter

Doesn't feel much different to the people on here with £200 coffee scales tbh

Drugs > watches

Drugs > most things