What time is it? Watches and horology

How do you know someone's got a Swatchpain? You can hear it before they tell you.

Bit like a Finance Bro Crabon freehub. 😁

I like the blue and white.
I’d buy one .
But then I bought a moonswatch and then gave it to my daughter cos I knew I would never wear it.

I definitely feel more inclined to buy the new Swatch x Blancpain, felt way more fun than the MoonSwatch.

Really like this one;

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always makes me think of The Phantom Pain, what a game!!! too bad it was cut short
game talk --->

Did somebody say Nudibranch?

What. Makes ice watch look good.
Was hoping for monochrome fun colour but those are quite bad.

I'd still quite like a Moonswatch but those divers are absolute shockers, coming to a TK Maxx near you soon.

Let's hope they've sorted security & crowd management out this time!

I wonder what the ratio of doe-eyed buyers : people who know what a nudibranch is?

I've just had a jubilee bracelet fully refurbished, not received it yet but thought some might find it interesting. £320, Swiss Refurb on Insta. Feel free to let me know if I got mugged off 😅

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I like the Antarctic version.

£320 to get your vigour back.

Sounds like a steel...

Seiko 5 is sub-brand. Many models. Maybe they don't make the super cheap ones anymore?

Already there are listings for the Blancpain x Swatch watches, ranging from £650 upwards!

Even full sets are being listed on there too...

Not that surprising but a tear down of the Sistem51 movement shows just how cheap it is.

https://watchguy.co.uk/review-a-trip-inside-the-swatch-sistem51-eta-c10111/

The escapement wheel and fork is all plastic for example.

Yeah it’s very cheap. A lot of it is laser cut plastic. But then it’s also quite interesting for that reason - as it was designed to be the first mechanical movement to be entirely made by robot. No hand processes at all.

In a £100 watch it’s a nice curio. At £340 they can jog the fuck on.

Edit: that breakdown is amazing, haha.

In a £100 watch it’s a nice curio. At £340 they can jog the fuck on.

Exactly.

just took the plunge and got a casio duro.... for 45 chf i will be happy for sure!

Video here of the BP x Swatch

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-swatch-x-blancpain-scuba-fifty-fathoms

I remember that, I wonder if it’s any different 10 years later.

Quelle surprise, no closed captioning.

man this video was insufferable.

Try this from YT

https://youtu.be/EuARYvjwG88?si=xFer41hXT8IlEyjn

The watch looks so classy in to promo shot above and then boom this brings it back to earth. It's awful but will sell like mad and generate loads of hype.

It feels like someone employed a millennial who 3d printed some classic watches for giggles and marketing saw the results ..

Still no closed captions. They're auto-generated.