What time is it? Watches and horology

Galvin watches, entry level watches with insane guilloche

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I like that a lot.

I wish I'd bid on this now:

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That ain’t guilloché my guy

Cheers. I like that Seiko. Grid patterns are fun. Sega Master System box vibes.

What? Why?

How bout guilloche-style?

(anyway, it's a lovely looking watch... Small though at 39mm)

No? Could you expand a bit more, please?

Nice price with sapphire too.

Guilloché-style, sure. Real guilloché is done by hand and requires very specialist machinery and skills, and is therefore very expensive. There are so few suppliers that can do it, even a lot of high end brands are starting to use CNC or stamping to replicate it.

That’s a stamped pattern. Which is fine. But it’s not guilloché. The colour’s nice, I wouldn’t have put lume on it though.

https://watchesbysjx.com/2023/08/guilloche-class-brittany-nicole-cox.html

Looks like that's a term that has a more specific meaning in the horologery world than it has on a dictionary

an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands

Update: not really that limited though

I’d assumed that anyone taking a guilloche class would be deep down the rabbit hole of watches, but that was a flawed assumption.

Guilloche is an expansive art that touches many aspects of craft beyond watchmaking, and the other students were interested in craft techniques in general, and had experience in woodworking, jewellery making, photography, and other artistic skills

Interesting read, thanks

The English term is “engine-turning”. The watch world tends to use “guilloché” because it’s European/Swiss centric nowadays.

Of course I am reminded of the scene in Bond with the fake Egg. 🤣

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Lovely looking watch.

These are really interesting but I feel like the hands and dial clash with what seems a quite hefty tool style case (and bracelet option) ?

Happy Saturday! Hope you're making the most of it 🙂

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I tried one of these on today. The 42mm in blue. I am in love. Will be very keen to try the 39mm on before I do anything tooo rash

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Does anyone have any recommendations of aftermarket leather straps please? I've two watches which need new straps and the utterly endless choice is doing my nut

That does look really big on your wrist, might be the picture though.

Hirsch do good quality straps

That's lush

New to me Smiths Everest automatic from c1962 on my wrist tonight. It’s keeping excellent time and is the model I’ve been after for ages. They’re getting quite rare now, but I think they’re lovely.

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Hnnnng this is such a banger