What time is it? Watches and horology

It’s lovely, you don’t really notice the green till it’s in full sun.

From Japan from buyee - think it was £240 ish

£240? Second hand I assume, that's a good £60 off what I've been looking at.

It was classed as used but it looks pretty much as new to me without a mark in it.
It was even sized to my wrist!

I don’t remember who was 37mm spirit curious but they have them in longines on regent st. He said ADs aren’t really getting deliveries of them as most of them are going direct to longines for ecomm direct sales and retail sales.

Height is good. Lug to lug is good. If there was tax free shopping I’d buy one immediately, but you can get them cheaper from grey sellers in the U.S….

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Wears quite big for a 37

Have you tried it on? Or are you saying in the pic? If so, bear in mind I have a tiny tiny wrist. But yeah, it wore the same size as a BB58 which is 39mm. Which I also really liked. There’s one left at T3 but it’ll inevitably be gone by tomorrow 🥲

Nah was saying from that pic but forgot about you svelte wrists 😅

Me and @D-Dog thanks.

Looks good in silver (renders look "champagne"), the cut-outs in the minute track make more sense.

But why is it the only 37mm without a colour-coded date wheel? Or why isn't there a dateless Ti 37mm, like there is in 40mm and 42mm? etc etc

But as far as Explorer-type watches go, I'm more keen on this now:

To continue the sub-39mm white face watch theme...

I got tired of the original bracelet on my Smith's Everest. Something about the chunk of the links was bothering me and I could never quite get it to fit just right.

Swapped to a Jubilee style and it is much, much better.

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Nice. Love a good jubilee bracelet

First trip to a pub since covid started er is that really 2 years and 8 months
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time for scampi and chips

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Also have a solar Seiko as everyday watch/beater.
Its good for the money. Not sure why I got the black after the silver ones.

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Trying to capture the green colour outside

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Thanks! You did well there, I see what you mean about the condition.

Be nice if it had a coloured second hand like other versions. Love the chunky numerals.

Had a gander on Buyee: are their fees included in the price you see, or on top?

it took a few weeks and lost out on a couple but I was in no rush.

I agree the green is nice - poor man's explorer

I think there is a small fee to pay but not 100% less than £10. I bought a Grand Seiko as well a couple of months ago. I've had to pay import duty and handling fees both time

Thanks

Thanks

Lovely

SKX day today, this morning required a divers watch, so much rain on the dog walk. Glorious sunshine now

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New SLGH019 (FAO @Soul ). Titanium evolution 9 case, hibeat, dark blue “Mt Iwate” texture dial. Boutique exclusive I think. Can see this being very popular.

Nice to see one of these with a less heavily textured dial. Works I think.

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FFS. They need to stop bringing out nice things.

I'm on pause for the next few months though. We had some house plans that are a being totally fucked by the tories so overpaying mortgage rather than having fun.

So this been on test over the weekend and has performed impeccably.
However it hasn’t gelled with me after wearing for that time so before it goes off to eBay does anyone want for £350? Box , spare links and I’ll throw in an isofrane style blue rubber strap.

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Jul-Sept 2023 build...

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Ooh, I wanted those new field type watch.

I’m duly impressed with it.

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