What time is it? Watches and horology

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These are Ed White / pre-Professional style Speedies with a ceramic bezel and sapphire crystal but the defining feature is that they started remaking 321 calibres to put in them. They scanned one of the original flown 321s, I think it might actually have been Ed White’s, to base it on, and they created a special department where each calibre gets built by one watchmaker from start to finish.

Not saying that’s a good or bad thing, just to explain the price.

A customer of mine recommended Nash goldsmith's in Cardiff for watch servicing. They have a guy in once a week or so that knows his stuff by the looks of it. He did a very good job on my KS 4502-7001 despite there being issues along the way with it (£90 for the service). This LM 5216-8030 is off to him next week. It's unusual in that the hand winding mechanism remains engaged when setting the date, causing drag on the crown and it has become hard to wind up. Hopefully a service will help loosen it. I'll miss it while it's gone, it's a pretty little thing.

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Sacrilege to this thread, but does anyone have the Garmin instinct solar 2? I am thinking about it to replace a G shock and I love the idea of built in torch.

I also have questions. Is this thread about the look of the watch or the internal engineering?

I sit on the philistines step wearing a rolex rip-off with a japanese movement put together by a guy in sheffield using an old british brand.. suits me fine

No it is a thing of genius. It’s just a bit “clinical” for me.
Like it’s trying too hard.
I would use that money towards a real one.

That and everything thing else, we have been known to argue about the boxes the watch came in .

Not a fan of AVI-8 bit this is a clever move...

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Funny coincidence - I've just been (very generously) given a gshock smart 5600 something as a surprise present for an achievement, it looks very cool but I can't stop looking at the Garmin instinct crossover solar, it looks like the watch Casio should have made.

So opinions on the two would be appreciated here too!

Is it though?
Also... DO IT

Love it!

Oh shit, I love that.

Big bite of seconde/seconde/ with the pixelated seconds hand.

Woah. Kit bashing yo!

Pretty sure they bought some followers. 😁

I couldn’t get over their use of a plane that wasn’t in service in 1942, let alone in use at Midway.

Good game though

Anyone know ballpark what I could get for my 2020 moonwatch? Light wear only, leather strap, giant box etc

Does it have a bracelet? I think around £3k if you’re patient.

Not an omega one. That’s not a lot, will hopefully keep it!

I have found myself looking at Omega Polaris Chrono's.
@ejay2.0 as our esteemed Omega expert, what is a fair price for one of these?(or anyone else, feel free to chime in)
Also, are they shite?
I could google, but thought I'd see what some cyclists have to say before I actually look for one.

Which one? There are 3 different that I know of, not counting the multifunction digital one.
A quartz with 3 subdials, a quartz with 3 subdials and digital windows and an automatic with 3 subdials. The latter are very rare and usually £6k ish. The others also don’t pop up as often but last one I ( nearly bought ) was a standard quartz, was a minter and was a grand.

Quartz, non digital, black dial.
Seen some battered ones on eBay for strong money and figured chancers.
Will keep an eye out but probably more than I should be spending these days.
If anyone wants to trade a two tone Longines Hyrdoconquest for one, let me know...

Have this Seiko 7A28 incoming, described as ‘working’ - fingers crossed, shame no original bracelet.

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Reverse panda is a cool variant 👍

Anyone after a mint 2016 Air King ?