What time is it? Watches and horology

Solar powered (and bluetooth enabled) GA-2100 incoming:

Bit late, but cheers for posting this.

I'm a bit on the fence about the loss/change of the day of the week dial. Similarly with having three primary colours on the dial.

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Although the ring preconceptions inc
X salary are still very much around going right back to the OP. This isn't my fiance wants a ring but I'd rather buy her a watch or even a not keen on rings would prefer a watch but not sure what kind of watch, you know what i like or just surprise me situation. The lack of desire for a ring and preference of a nice watch has been clearly expressed right down to the style of watch. Surely thats the hard work done? The only real problem now should be falling in love with a watch that isn't available then feeling like having to compromise. There is a budget and style of watch as a starting point so a shortlist of 3-6 watches might be a good place to start. That is the one area this forum actually could be helpful. The mission then is to check availability and find as many watches on the shortlist under one roof which is another area members may be able to advise on. Most of brands on a list should be available in London boutiques so doing the rounds shouldn't be that bad as long as you've had a ring/email around to check they have the watches in store and book appointments if necessary and if any of the stores sell jewellery as well don't mention the the W word until after you've got the watches out of the way otherwise rings will start appearing in front of you before you know it. Have an early night wake up fresh eat your Weetabix and spend the day watch shopping. Take plenty of pictures even more if your not able to have them all laid out side by side at once in front of you. Think about it
Pick a favourite and go and buy it then if you fold under the pressure from others go and get a token ring and as no desire for an expensive ring in a specific style has been expressed picking up something understated should be relatively straightforward and not too expensive.

The goth version doesn’t have the colours I think. Though you can guarantee they’ll do dozens of different colourways over the next few years, worth waiting if none of the launch collection are doing it for you.

Sunny Seiko Sunday

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I think most of the unsolicited advice was based on personal experiences and coming from a well meaning place. Speaking for my myself I've come across people saying they don't want a ring several times including when I was engaged to somebody many years ago but more often than not it has ended up being a bone of contention at a later date for various reasons.

Wrong of people to assume you guys haven't got this stuff nailed, but I think people were just urging caution in a well meaning way.

On the subject of rings, some friends of ours are moving to Malaysia for work for a couple of years. They're an unmarried couple with two kids. They've been together for 15 years. Part of the conditions of the (amazing) job offer they received was that they had to get married and had to wear rings while in Malaysia. Probably one of the weirdest employment contract conditions I've ever seen!

Looks great 👌

The double months salary thing was invented as an advertising campaign for De Beers

Oh yeah i agree every one is speaking from experience and trying to be helpful. I have previously suggested covering both bases just with the watch bias because people can change their minds particularly when friends and family will 100% be questioning the idea of watch first ring second. I mentioned my wife wanted a ring and only when watch shopping for me a couple of months before our wedding decided a she wanted a watch as well. I'd already gone over budget on the ring and this last minute request put me under a bit of pressure. My best man was in the running for a hyper chrome, hydro conquest or RW tango initially but ended up with a cheap moody looking emporio armani in the end because my wife had inadvertently just cleaned out his gift budget. I expect the OP will end up with both in the end either by specific request or just to make life easier and settle the friends and family down an approach i recommen i was just trying to re rail the thread back to watch chat as the OP will have plenty of friends and family to drive him mad with every other detail of the wedding. We've all been there and know how stressful the process is and are just trying to help based on our own mistakes and experiences.

Big incel energy in here today about engagement rings

The double months salary thing was invented as an advertising campaign for De Beers

Once spent 2 months salary on a Tiffany ring. When the relationship ended (before the wedding) I managed to get £800 for the value of the diamond and platinum. And that was mates rates. The markup for brands is insane. On that level at least, a well chosen watch makes much more sense!

Engagement rings put food on my plate. Thanks DeBeers, god bless your marketing department.

It’s a totally ridiculous concept in this day and age. Spending so much money on a shiny pebble on what is ostensibly a “this is mine don’t touch sign”but it’s so culturally engrained it’s not going anywhere for a while.

I do love it though, I get to meet lots of happy in love couples and make them something that they will treasure for life. I’m a cheesy romantic at heart.

You do get the occasional guy who’s like. “So I’ve got to buy a ring what’s the cheapest I can get away with?” and sometimes a total bridezilla who’s like. “Well I want a bigger one!” Mostly though guys are really happy to part with the cash and enjoy the process as we’re bespoke.

Moar timepieces pls.

It’s not pretty soz

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Is this Mumsnet now?😁

My ring experience is not good - she was offered a choice between an engagement ring or a car - she opts for the ring. Little did I know at the time. She got a car a while later! We went for a wedding ring - she said it would be cheap - a gold band. Ambushed again! A gold band inset with diamonds!

Be warned - wives are costly!!! 😂😂😂

#lfgsspitchforks coming for u in 3 2 1

I picked this up for my dad to tide him over whilst i try to find him a tonneau replacement. I did a bit of research first but it's pretty darn good for the £-200 i paid . I think it would still be decent for £300 looking at it close up

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Not wearing my engagement watch and also triggering ChainBreaker

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Is this Mumsnet now?

Dadsnet, now full of cagers and home owners.

triggering ChainBreaker

It's a lovely watch. Won't lie. Not sure I'd marry you for it. Though are a good man too

I remember an old episode of The Apprentice where the task was to get stuff off a shoppig list for as cheap as possible. One item was a diamond so they went to Hatton Garden and bought just a single diamond for about £150. Until that point I thought each one would be thousands minimum.

My gold ring

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I bought my own ‘engagement watch’ but then the engagement ring I gave my wife was free so 🤷🏼‍♂️

I definitely just used the engagement as an excuse to buy an Explorer anyway.

I like this in the tonneau shape. Enamel dial. Sarx051

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That has been the front runner since the search began but so for have only been able to find stock of the brown dialed version. Ideally he'd like to try it on before buying and it seems there was never a uk release for this model