What time is it? Watches and horology

Oh dear, you appear to have acquired the wrong one.

This ^ X1000

^ who needs a house when you have loads of bad ass watches?

Get some more

I've got a preorder on a stowa... Then I'm done.

I like this.
http://fcw3.r.worldssl.net/thumbnails/images/products/product14068-0-8003_cropped.jpg.thumb_557x800_7e30aae767b14e12d7ec711b8a2c4695.jpg

I like that too. Maybe not the rasta strap, but that's easily changed.

Why is the three so large?

Why is it quartz?

I need* a 100% black watch in my life...

• Don't actually need...
  

Why is the three so large?

In case you're not being ironic, I would make a wild guess at branding adidas=3 stripes

Thunderball Bond watch found for £25 at car boot!

Cripes, the best I've got is a Dualit toaster for a fiver.

I'd like to buy my fiancée a new watch. I bought her a watch about a year ago but it's stopped working. It's a Sekonda, made in the USSR so an old one - a tiny 17mm-ish gold square watch with a mother-of-pearl face and ruby strap. When it's wound it just makes a horrible clonking noise and I don't think it's economical to repair it - the couple of watch shops I've been to have stated minimum £40 to service it, plus labour to fix the unknown issue.

Can anyone recommend a similar looking watch for about £100-£150? I can find literally nothing new but I'm very happy to go secondhand, preferably quartz but mechanical considered if it's something reliable.

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If anyone's interested, I went for a Timex Expedition T40091 for my "I'm definitely going to smash this against a rock at some point, but still quite handsome" hiking/scrambling/outdoorsing watch.

It was advertised as having a black face, water and shock resistance - it turned up and has a dark grey face and no markings pertaining to shock resistance - but for £25 (a tenth of the value of the watch that I was wearing) I'm not bothered. The strap is awful but I have acquired another offcut of leather to make a strap and a protective flip-up cap for it, now that I finally have some free time.

Seiko fans a quick question:
Looking at a SKX009 (pepsi dial diver watch)
Comes in 1 of 2 movements J or K
am i right in thinking J is in house and K is made outside of Japan?
Any reason to chose one over the other?

Ive found them on a website for similar money (J1 £134 with rubber strap, K2 £131 with a metal bracelet)

Japan, Korea...

There is a perception that the Japanese models are superior due to the single origin of manufacturing and assembly. K models are built with parts made in various SE Asian countries with assembly in a number of places, mostly Singapore.

I have always bought the J models when possible.

TS - I thought Singapore for the Ks...that's the info I've always seen. Hmm....

That was always my understanding, could be wrong of course...

Watch arrived...

Not sure i like it...

hmmmm... cheers for the doubt. Plus isnt as big as i thought it would be.

http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-divers-60/seiko-automatic-divers-200m-made-in-japan-skx009j1-skx009j-1452.html

Here you go Mr. Parryman. They package them up as measuring instruments with no value. Which is handy.

Plenty of other options of straps for it. Plenty of options of other watches too!

http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-divers-60/seiko-automatic-divers-200m-made-in-japan-skx009j1-skx009j-1452.html

Here you go Mr. Parryman. They package them up as measuring instruments with no value. Which is handy.

Plenty of other options of straps for it. Plenty of options of other watches too!

There is a perception that the Japanese models are superior due to the single origin of manufacturing and assembly. K models are built with parts made in various SE Asian countries with assembly in a number of places, mostly Singapore.

I have always bought the J models when possible.

However, from exploring the Seiko forums and other watch forums this seems to be largely urban myth as the watches are made with the same parts and by the same equipment regardless of location.

Thanks mista s that's the exact one I was looking at!
if I get stung for customs it'll be an extra 25£ or so.
reading up seems to be a bit hit or miss whether you get caught out.
may just get the K from amazon for £140

Ahh a fellow leftie!

the only sensible way

It's still the wrong one.

The ticking seconds hand would send shivers down my spine.

tempted...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OMEGA-SEAMASTER-PROFESSIONAL-300M-BLUE-DIAL-AND-BEZEL-WATCH-SMP-300-/140971685323?pt=UK_Jewelery_Watches_Watches_MensWatches_GL&hash=item20d29135cb