What time is it? Watches and horology

They are very shiny. Not sure I agree with the cheap bit though. My one gets positive comments about quality when people try it on.

The clasp in particular feels cheaply done. Quite agricultural.

Nice. Milguass needs photos.

I'm amazed you bought a Seiko.

99% sure it's going back. I was intrigued. Maybe this one will be different? Nope.

No point I would have thought if you had a BB58 already.

Felt the extra £200 they wanted for the bracelet version was a bit of a piss take TBH. The rubber strap version is nice and just about consummate with the money they want for it, I think the weight is fine.

Same as always...

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I'm surprised there isn't an automated AI driven tech solution for this.

Because it’s not a solution.

In theory, it allow people to format the caption properly without spending hours.

In practise; they can’t be arsed and decide to exclude specific people.

No point I would have thought if you had a BB58 already.

I was thinking that, Seiko are excellent but they’re no Tudor.

G Shock GravityMaster HondaJet just dropped.
£900

Is the YT Auto Caption not working on it? A lot of that is real-time automated by YT these days.

Try and watch an auto-captioned YouTube content without sound and see how you get on with it.

It’s mentally exhausting and no substitute to actual closed captioning, especially if you don’t want YouTube to accidentally implied you’ve said a racial slur which happen soften.

Try and watch an auto-captioned YouTube content without sound and see how you get on with it.

Ah yes. That is not what I expected. I can see the issues.

Fair points Ed. Thanks for the enlightenment.

That lorier is in the right direction. Couldn't live with the typography on the dial though.

First time I’ve worn this in at least a month:

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Try and watch an auto-captioned YouTube

That was quite an eye opener, the way it stutters gave me flashbacks to ceefax subtitles in the 80s, exhausting is right.
This bloke was talking about his ‘Seikos’.

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Bracelet clasps are a major major Seiko weak point on anything below GS level. Just like the Turtle, I don't think that case style ever really looks right on a bracelet anyway, but IMO they're really starting to push their luck at the price points these new 6R divers are reaching. You can kind of accept it at £300, not so much >£1k.

Out of interest, what is the go-to small diver at around £1k? Seems like a tough price point where punters expectations will be high a but a manufacturer will have very little room for margin or compromise.

I'd go Squale because scoble has one for the perception of heritage.

Well I made it to July without a purchase but the magpie within got the better of me. At least it wasn’t too expensive.

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A bit above 1k but Oris divers 65 36mm?

Define "small"? I tend towards Squale or Seiko for affordable divers, they have the heritage and they're always super solid and reliable proper divers watches, but they're not usually smaller than 42mm. This new 62MAS-referencing 6R model is interesting because it's the first mechanical one they've done at 40mm (excluding the way more expensive SLA017 & variant, and the way cheaper SKX013) for … I dunno how long. But it's a few hundred quid more than last year's equivalent models and I don't think they do enough to justify the price hike.

Squale 20 Atmos is 40mm (I prefer the 50 Atmos design but that's 42mm): https://www.gnomonwatches.com/collections/squale/products/20-atmos-militaire-ceramic-1545-sel-bracelet (lots of variants of that design)

Longines do a Hydroconquest at 39mm: https://www.longines.com/en-gb/watch-hydroconquest-l3-741-4-56-6

The 40mm Oris Divers Sixty-Five is nice but more like £1500. They also do a 36mm version but that's really quite small for a divers watch. Actually there's some 40mm ones on rubber here sub-£1200, not bad: https://www.thewatchsource.co.uk/Oris/01+733+7707+4055-07+4+20+18.html

The mid range price point is so weird. You definitely get diminishing returns compared to just buying, say, a Seiko Turtle, and the good finishing doesn't really kick in until you break £2k and start getting into Tudor and Breitling.

Edit: in b4 someone suggests Steinhart

Fit. Seiko at the peak of their design powers atmo.

The typography nerd in me loves that they used Univers for the "GRAND QUARTZ" text.

Yema Superman is 39mm too

Was thinking around 38-41mm, so yeah. Anything smaller...is x-small :)

Holy comment resurrection, Batman.

Was your grandad's watch the same as mine?

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My G Shock strap has arrived but I'm fighting to get the spring bars in. Did you find it a struggle?