/fa/ - Fashion

digital > analog-digital >>> analog

quartz > mechanical

inexpensive brands that you can wear daily without being robbed or will not lose much if robbed > expensive brands that attract people you dont want in your life

low water resistence to easily change battery > high water resistence that requires sending to company

titanium > all other metals > plastics

small > large

dress > field = flieger = pilot >>> diver

simple > complicated

>14118081

(((you)))

Underrated power couple. Johannes is a watch guy.

>>14118090
Olivia has quite a collection as well, ranging from Rolexes, to Piagets, to APs.

>>14118098
The Maxi-case Submariner is all about having the proper wrist size.

What do you lads think about straight-end links on a turtle. Something about it makes me feel it makes the lugs look too tiny

>>14118114
Squared lug centres are ugly and looks lazy, on any watch.

>>14118119
It only looks bad because >>14118114 is too poor to afford a strapcode bracelet with fitted end links. Those generic ones always look horrible.

>>14118114
>Shaving your fucking arm hair

It's been a while gents. Wristlet reporting in. Really enjoying wearing slimmer watches lately.

>>14118151
it's funny real cartier watches can't align the screws

>>14118144
Not really, it’s bad on any watch for me. Sure it’s design but to me I t’s like they couldn’t afford the extra tooling time to finish the end link area so they leave it squared off.

>>14118151
Unusual combo, but you have my respect

>>14118151
Nice Santos. How do you find the smart bracelet system?

>>14118156
How pedestrian of you.

>>14118151
respect for the santos

>>14118151
ZOOM. ENHANCE.

>>14118186
Fucking kek

>>14118165
Lmao stop talking like a wannabe rich faggot.

>>14118186
post titties

Why was this deleted?

Sir, this is a blue board.

>>14118156
I knew this before buying it. Doesn't bother me at all.

>>14118160
Thanks F91w is legit.

>>14118161
I actually special ordered a strap they didn't have in stock so I haven't really been able to use it yet. However I will likely just use the bracelet 99% of the time. The bracelet is really really well made and designed. The deployant is as nice as my AP Jumbo almost.

>>14118176
Thanks, I'm really loving it. Kind of wish I saved money and just got the all stainless. But it looked less interesting at the store.

Here it is next to my daily LHD. One of my faves.

>>14118151
Kek. How can you be wristlet when you’re so fucking fat you have mantits.

>>14118205
Put a shirt on fatty. Sell one of your watches, buy a gym membership and have a dietician plan your meals. Lose some weight, learn about calories in, calories out. Look up intermittent fasting.

>>14118186
>FILE DELETED
kek, what was anon doing on pic?

>>14118186
>>14118198
>>14118202
Yeah it's funny he didn't wear a shirt and posted that, but it's more funny how one autist goes crazy over a pair of man boobs.

>>14118220
>he
You mean you.

>>14118226
No, I don't

>>14118205
Got a wrist shot of the Santos?

How long does it take to get a link from Omega? Ordered one almost 2 weeks ago. Is this shit coming from Switzerland or what?

>>14118233
It’s a bespoke piece, custom made after receiving the order. Will take about 3-5 months. Nice watch.

>>14118229
Told you I'm a wristlet. This is the medium size.

>>14118235
Lmao no. It's mass produced in China

>>14118216
>this is the people I share this general with

I'm out. I don't want to be some sad naked mantits sitting on my bed trying to get validation from equally sad mantit anons.

>>14118239
You have to have mantits to be proficient in horology, might as well give up in your case when you can't grasp even the basics.

>>14118237
Suits you well. Cut down on sweets and sugary stuff, it’ll help you lose weight, seriously.
>>14118238
>Sarcasm
Not sure about the China part but parts do come with country of origin so he could check that.

My pay just got cut at work and I can't think abojt watches anymore. Truthfully they were paying me too much but still

>>14118244
Nobody really *needs* a watch. What do you do and what happened?

>>14118242
Glad I’m /thinspo/ as fuck though.

>>14118239
Slimy fat fucks. Gluttony and greed connected to watches

>>14118251
This video was the biggest cringe I have ever seen related to watches.

>>14118242
>I do drink too much but not whiskey
>I don't have a car (eurofag)
>I'm reasonably fit
>I don't have debt
>I haven't bought a Rolex, too expensive, I have a Speedmaster, I don't like Tudor
>I don't really like nato straps but I wear them sometimes, I'm guilty of this trope
>I don't like quartz

>>14118254
Truly cringeworthy and eye opening.

>>14118257
Almost failed it but the last one saves you.

>>14118258
>only a spineless asian woman could ever put up with pluta and have no standards

kek

>>14118101
The sub looks real good on him there

help..It looks like a Russian watch.

Where can I buy it?

>>14118315
Vostok Slavic shitter

>>14118315
Vostok amphibia 110647 date version. Those faces are available here https://www.ebay.com/itm/calendar-3-oclock-647-BLACK-DIAL-HAND-PAINTED-3-KINDS-SUPERLUMIA-VOSTOK-AMPHIBIA/223370861040?hash=item3401f0d9f0:m:mRBe1sjA8402J3u6UAwtzlg&var=522153016811
Ask favninov on ebay to build you one, he might have olive-colored bezels as well.

>>14118353
Looks like the hands are these (the all silver version) https://www.ebay.com/itm/WATCHES-PARTS-customized-GREEN-superlumia-PADDLE-HANDS-for-24XX-Vostok-Amphibia/222575761208?hash=item33d28c9738:m:murrxvmLatXQn10iqbUfg2A:rk:1:pf:0
and the date wheel has been changed for a black one.

>>14118315
You don't buy Russian watches, you loot them from the irradiated corpses.

Does anyone here like clip watches?

What are some other watches like this? That style of numeral and the subdial? I very seldomly see it, only other watch I know of by name like it is the biatec corsair, but that is around 1.3k

>>14118374
No.
>>14118375
Arabic numerals with sub-seconds/small seconds.

>>14118375
tissot heritage petite seconde

>>14118375
>>14118388
Can be had for around half the price of what you mentioned.

When was the last time a stranger noticed your watch? What did they say?

>>14118398
he didn't mention a price point ..

>>14118425
>but that is around 1.3k

>>14118418
first watch I bought. A gold plated armani watch. $200. They said oooo nice watch anon what is it? Now that I wear a rolex nobody has ever commented on it. My 809 gets more comments lol

>>14118398
don't like the hands or numerals, that lug to lug also looks kind of eeeehhhh

>>14118384
nah it's more specific than that

>>14118427
and? he could have googled that for himself. whaooo 1.3k we are really breaking the bank here . it also looks twice as nice

>>14118430
here's one you can get at montblanc

>>14118430
that dial would look pristine if you put it overnight into glass with tablet of fizzle denture cleaner. The dark gunk from the crack will be gone which will make cracks almost invisible. Works for any vintage enamel or porcelain dials. search online for amazing before/after

>>14118430C
Cathedral hands and sub seconds seem to found a lot on WWI trench watches, maybe look for a modern repro?

>>14118375
Seen a lot of oris’s Sell for 900 or less.

>>14118434
What’s your point, big guy? Pointed out the price and you’re sperging out lmao. You type like you really have low iq. Proper punctuation, have you heard of it?
>>14118430
You’re going to have to look at vintage watches. That typeface for the numerals always reminds me of Patek & Zenith’s Pilots. Zenith started it with their 1909 I believe. Try antique or gothic numerals. The hands are called cathedral hands.

>>14118451
Also, what’s your budget? How much are you willing to spend before we look up watches for you. (I personally don’t like cathedral hands as they look phallic to me.)

>>14118081
No one cares about your opinions. Stop posting them

>>14118466
>posts his opinion

I ate out a girl's asshole today for the first time.
Discuss

What is the most durable quartz? Is it the marinemaster and g-shock movements?

Degenerate directly above this post, kindly ignore.

>>14118449
Big yikes for that strap.

does /fa/ like my shogun :3

>>14118492
Nice Subma-oh nice watch

>>14118476
was she hot?

>>14118492
Is that a shogun? The case looks differently shaped

>>14118497
wrong pic. thats actually hte Baby marinemaster

>>14118479
Marinemaster high torque quartz movements are really nice. Plenty of people on forums have reported theirs at +/- 5 seconds after 5 months.

>>14118495
Very hot. She was a Latina with a big ass

>>14118451
you just annoy me as you sound like one of those broke walmart people "whaoo 1.3k, where'd ya get that kinda muuuney?"

>>14118486
I agree.

>>14118525
Seek a therapist.

>>14118492
I like the seconds hands on the Sbdc029 version better, but still, nice watch.

>>14118536
whaooo ho ho, it costs what? one THOUSAND? big roller here. hey Amber, did you check out his watch? Some typea watch made in some fancy cuuuntry. Swahili made?

>>14118476
What watch are you going to buy to mark the occasion?

>>14118543
Grand Seiko

>>14118476
did she clean herself for it or was it spur of the moment? What did it taste like?

>>14118536
1300 wing wangs for a watch? Sha-ZAM. Well gall-lee wouldja look at that.

>>14118476
>>14118545
This guy sucks ass.

>>14118545
Noice. Which model?

>>14118541
>>14118552
Do you seriously think I’m impressed by some 1,3k no name shitter? You’re making a mountain out of some imaginary molehill you have in your head lmao. You are deranged

>>14118557
Something with a croc-grain calf but proper leather strap.

>>14118560
>>14118552
$1300 dollaars faw ayy watch? that there's expensive. Y'all mighty a-movin' up in thay ...err wawld hu

>>14118543
My next watch will be my first really nice luxury piece. Thinking of either an Explorer or a Submariner

>>14118547
She was fresh out of the shower. A clean ass tastes and smells better than a clean pussy.

>>14118545
Not me. I don't wear animu Nip shit

>>14118560
>BETTIE JEAN, git a load of this feller, he spent Thirt-teen Hunnit dollars just so he can know what time it is.
>don’t you go gettin any ideas now.

>>14118567
haha FUCK someone post it

>>14118476
How much was her hourly?

>>14118580

>>14118580
>tastes better than a clean pussy
N-Nice anon! That's a great comparison! Because who wouldn't know what pussy tastes like, right? haha

>>14118427

>>14118582
why gollee gee wont y'all help y'all's mowmma out if y'all done got that there kaand av mowney? instead av a-buyin' these damn darn ol' expensive tahm readers why don't y'all help y'all's sistuurr crystal out. she's at thay ...err trailuurr park with billy

>>14118583

>>14118599
P R O P E R L E A T H E R

>>14118594
one whowwl thousand ayn' three hundreds? am ay a-hearin' that there right?

/wt/ has truly shit its bed

>>14118580

>>14118599
that right theres some proper leather. ripped right off momas sofaa

>>14118605
Lost

>>14118608
whel why don't y'all go on y'all's way then

>>14118609
Not sure which is more söy, the Explorer or the Speedy, at least there’s no #ExplorerSaturday

>>14118617
when ay were y'all's age ay done looked at the sun ta tell the damned tahm. we didn't nee naw fancy tahm showuurr

>>14118617
The speedy is possibly one of the most whored out lines in watchmaking history. Omega just keeps milking that Moooooon cow.

>>14118594
ay done heard frawum billy jeans daughters brotherts mowthers step son that there det were ayy whowwl one thousand dollaars. y'all be ayy fool wearin that there aroun here, nahwt give it!

Did you guys know there's a watch available for a fraction of the price that actually has practical use for 2019?
Wearing an old man dive watch isn't fashion, so don't go there. If you're buying a traditional watch, then the only true reasoning is a jewelry piece. A clunky piece of steel looks much worse than an apple watch, FACT.

Thinking about that 1963, sapphire with 38mm or 42mm curved not sapphire?

what da yall think of my new watch.
>quartz > mechanical

yaa arnt sereusly tellin me ya spent 1000 on a time shower? whatz wrong wit sumethin like this billy

>>14118647

Apart of telling the time, what are some of the practical uses you get out of an Apple Watch?

my old girl would love this!
-BUCK

>>14118666
well why don't ya buy your misses sumethin like this

>quartz master race

>>14118676
If your watch isn’t mechanical, and your 5 year service charges don’t cost as much as your watch, then you need to get out.
So what if it loses 15 seconds a day and is innacurate? You don’t buy a watch to tell the time, you buy it because it has a soul. And for the approval and admiration of your fellow man.

>>14118695
why are you even in a watch thread tho?

>>14118666
Receiving calls/texts when you can't or don't want to have your phone on you, Fitness tracking, every app you want to use available on your wrist, digital reminders/notifications. The list goes on. A traditional watch shows you the time, and maybe even the date.

>>14118704
Mechanical watches are alive. They have their own heartbeat. They let people know that you are on a level above them. You can take your “accuracy” argument and begone with it, while I drink from the bountiful fountain that is haute horology.

>>14118652
38mm with acrylic crystal, the sapphire crystal looks like shit.

>>14118695
lets be honest with ourselves, that is the exact reason we buy watches. we all have phones, so buying a quartz for accurate time is just autistic and you need to admit to yourself you are poor

>>14118712
no one around you gives a shit about your watch bro

>>14118706
>Fitness tracking

Completely inaccurate sensors with data that you cannot rely on for real fitness tracking.

If you're a normie who runs for 10 minutes then curls 5lbs a week at the gym, that Apple Watch isn't giving you any more benefit than a digital Casio.

>Receiving calls/texts when you can't or don't want to have your phone on you
>digital reminders/notifications

So you're saying that if I have in my pocket at all times and able to reach for it within seconds I have no need for an Apple Watch. Is that it?

/p/fag here, Toughts?

>>14118706
Not the guy you’re replying to but I understand the appeal. Fitness tracking, health, etc, etc... To me it would be convenient as a I’m going out for a run/walk watch or for the elderly people in your family because of it’s fall detection and ekg sensor. An Apple watch is basically just a technically advanced digital watch. I’d wear one before I’d wear a quartz or rubber digital watch. Even the guy in the OP pic has one despite having a nice watch collection filled with HH pieces. The thing with mechanical watches though is yes, you can simplify it to it being just an accessory at this point but still, you have a marvel of mechanical engineering sitting on your wrist. It’s a novelty and it’s also a status symbol.

>>14118609
Please delete this.

>>14118585
Free.99

Recommend me a "fun" watch for under 1000.

I already have a Speedmaster, a Hamilton Khaki and an Orient diver (which I will replace at some point but for now I like it). But I feel like spending some money and I don't know on what since I feel like I have the major styles covered.

>>14118784
The Tissot recommended above, a bit dressy and "vintage"

>>14118735
>if you're a normie who runs 10 minutes
No shit someone that doesn't actually workout will get nothing out of fitness tracking. Even those people can track their sleeping schedule.
>If I have my pocket no need for apple watch
If you go on a run, are at the gym, at a concert/event where you don't want to worry about your phone, then it makes perfect sense. Also, if you're at work or school and checking your phone reflects poorly. You can just quickly peak at your watch notification.

>>14118747
>status symbol
The only watch that normies will even look twice at is a rolex. In wealthy circles, expensive watches a lot of times don't leave a great impression anyway. It will often times, be viewed as ostentatious.

>>14118786
No, nothing that is made with plastic please. Something fun and different.

>>14118742
A bit overpriced imo, just like leica's cameras :^) That said it actually looks like a decent piece.

Janicucks deleted the /g/ thread again.

Well, I guess it's back to this shitshow of perpetual autism.

>>14118742
Front looks bland as shit, fuck Bauhaus.

Movement looks pretty interesting. Is that in-house?

>>14118815
Thread's no different in /g/ or in here

>>14118114
>unmaintained shaved arms

>>14118714
Wait, I can't find a 38 with the domed crystal

Where do I get one?

>>14118714
>Having Schezuan sause on your dial

Replaced the balance assembly, somehow I could get a NOS one, still in the 70's Citizen package. Runs pretty well now.

Also this is a pretty early day-date movement (watch is 1970 production), so it's single language only.

>>14118510
How does that compare to the g-shock movements though?

>>14118816
>Is that in-house?
Yes, they make a simpler movement and a GMT one.

>>14118867
Protip: you'll grow bored of that dial and case real quick.

>>14118856
Depends which gshock, but when I had my dw5000sl it was +15 seconds a month out of the box.

>>14118856
G-shocks are tough watches for sure, but they are not high end Quartz watches. It’s Casio, so cheap crystal oscillators, less than ideal pure quartz, etc.

>>14118784
please respond

>>14118786
I like the idea of something with a white dial but I don't like the old timey Tissot logo on this one

Thoughts on Doxa as a daily wearer?

>>14118837
I got mine from Watch Unique.
https://www.watchunique.com/seagull-1963-original/seagull-1963-display.html

>>14118893
The marinemaster is considered high end? Those are expensive and i think that they're ugly. I want a small, dress watch.

>>14118919
Lol then why did u ask about the gahock vs marine master if you didn’t want one? You want want something with a 9f movement.
Or the citizen chronomaster.

>>14118933
i wish all of the good quartz movements werent so much money

Finally managed to fill out and send all the customs forms. Fucking thieving government wanting to tax me on a more than thirty year old Seiko.

I noticed one or two people here ordered a 7A28 after I did, and already got it weeks ago. For me it's still at least a week before customs processes my shit and the postal service sends the package.

>>14118944
Just start putting a few dollars/loose change aside and you will have one in no time.
You can find some really good deals online as well.
Start scouring eBay.

>>14118900
Why not? People daily wear divers

>>14118964
I dont want to spend much on a watch because someone can steal it and then i lose $1,000-$2,000 and im a miser.

Thoughts?

how does /fa/ feel about Stowa?

>>14118983
Are you American?

>>14119011
I'll conside one if they reproduced the wartime manual-wind movements, instead of using off-the-shelf generic movements.
And with decent accuracy regulation; those wartime Fliegers were supremely accurate.

>>14119028
*gulp* yes...

>>14119011
Laco > Stowa

>>14119030
Thought so. Thank your grandfather for serving and giving you this clown world filled with trannies and niggers.

>>14118983
So get a cheap Quartz dress watch.
Who cares if you have to adjust it once every few months?

>>14119029
Pic related.

As it stands, they're barely above total shitter tier.
Same with Stowa.

>>14119011
They charge a premium for basic shit. Damasko and sinn are better small german watch companies.

>>14118915
How do I even tell if it's a real seagull or not?

>>14119011
Better than a Hamilton, Tissot, or Seiko of similar price in terms of movement finishing. They also have blued metal.

>>14119040
Only thing obsolete about that movement is the center-seconds construction (clearly an originally sub-seconds design modified for center seconds), and the lack of shock protection. Also I'm not sure if that hairspring stud-holder is movable or not.

Apart from that it looks like it would be a good movement even today, though definitely expensive.

>>14119055
You misunderstand, I'd MUCH prefer if Stowa started using that type of old pocket watch movement again; that's what the original Fliegers had.
Nowadays they use generic off-the-shelf automatic or handwinding ETAs.

Thoughts on Ginault?

>>14119055
Indeed, indeed. I concur, most indubitably.

>>14119070
Just a replica company. Shit.

>>14119069
No, what's what I'm saying, it would be a good movement even today, it only needs one or two upgrades and it would be on par with all the currently produced kraut movements.

>>14119055
>>14119069
Most stowa watches are the 2824 or the 2804, but they do have an "in house" movement on a few of the options.

>>14118706
Nothing is less /fa/ than needing your social media on your wrist and in your pocket. Stay out of here, normie.

>>14119091
>but they do have an "in house" movement on a few of the options.
Link?

>i can only keep one
wat do

>>14119189
[x]15202ST or bust.

>>14119189
rep nautilus > rep ro

>>14119189

The Nautilus because that ref is a literal fucking marvel of human engineering.

>>14119032
Nomos>Laco

question, why would you buy a quartz watch when you have one in your pocket called a cellphone?

>>14119231
Why would I fuck your mom when better bitches literally beg for my dick?
Who the fuck knows, your mom is just close to me and easy to read.

>>14119231
Some people are perfectly fine with a Citizen or Timex as a fashion accessory. Some want something more durable (g shock, dive watch). The rest are either people with a different autism than mechanical watch lovers or clueless plebs.

>>14119231
>Why would someone want a wristwatch instead of a low battery life electronic pocket watch?
The world may never know.

>>14119229
>nomos

>>14119046
From what I can tell the watches with 2 lines of text on the bottom are the ones made by Seagull. They all use the ST19 movement though and are pretty much the same.

>people pay a premium to have the amount of jewels printed on the dial
Imagine being proud of having a 21 jewel chinese movement with a plastic spacer ring

Sinn shitter reporting in

What do you think of this old analog casio? I have a bunch of the digitals, but this one is growing on me.

>>14119327
I bought this one for $23, I like it a lot man, bitches on my shithole country think casio are super expensive watches and fuck every dude with a fake g-shock.

>>14119327
yours is nice btw could you give me the ref? have you ever try a salco?

>>14119317

>Not wanting to always be fully aware of how many jewels are in your watch

>>14119373
yeah I dig that one too man. I know they come cheap usually, got mine for like $15 at some weird antique craft show, but I still think there's something cool about them.
I'm a girl, and it's worth noting there's actually some weird obsession with casios in "lesbian fashion" for whatever reason.

wanted to wear a watch again so I did a decent amount of research and bought this guy, fkn love it. 10/10. Gf wets her panties everytime she sees it

>>14117419
As an owner of an Oris, I will say they generally are not very photogenic watches. The logo doesn't seem out of place at all irl

>>14119384
>wets her panties
Why does it make her piss herself?

All this talk about chink watches made me want to check out Beijing Watch Factory again. Why did their pieces jump 2x or more in price?

>>14119402
because it goes around her neck as a chokepiece

>>14118418
Never had a stranger notice, or even say anything about any of my watches. My co-workers have mentioned my Bulova Lunar Pilot (I'm in aviation). Another acquaintance asked If I was wearing a Hamilton (it was a cheepie Timex expedition with a quasi-flieger dial that I use as a beater).
Remember chilluns' never buy a watch to show off, buy it 'cause YOU like it.

>>14119189
upcoming divorce proceedings creating cash flow problems, anon?

>>14119188
Whelp, looks like I'm retarded. The chronographs have a "HANDWINDING made by STOWA" or "Handwinding made inhouse STOWA" but it's just a Valjoux 7753 where they took the rotor out and made it handwind.

>>14119189
If I could only wear one as a daily - the AP boutique edition.
However the one to keep as it will only increase in value - the Nautilus

>>14119320
sinn is fucking based

>>14118837
HKED's seagulls are real fucking good. Strongly, strongly suggest you grab one of his instead.

>>14118353
>>14118358
I admire your information and knowledge.

Thank you for your kind reply.

>>14119581
So, it's some guy on watchuseek? What makes his version better than the other one?

>>14119189
Id say keep the Patek.

>>14119621
Nicer subdials, gold glint chapter ring, stronger customer service, Hked has a great reputation

Forgot pic

>>14119645
Well, I've just found out that there is a website instead of just an email. Too bad he doesn't have the domed crystal version with blue hands right now.

>>14119383
>I'm a girl

Get the fuck out of here you stupid bitch

>>14119666
Yeah don't get the gold hands, they're pretty awful apparently.

>>14118205
Left handed Pelagos?

>>14118090
Pictures of bliss posted on the internet don't fool me lmao. Never seen a happy couple in real life.

Is this real?

>>14118233
I've got bad news

>>14119581
I don't think HKED makes the 38mm version does he?

>>14119974
>Omega
>haute horlogerie
>Origin: CN - China

>>14118959
heinous. what shit-hole do you live in?

>>14118114
>shaving your arms

>>14120333
Fucking Hungary of all places.
Pros:
>no immigrants, forced multiculturalism or rampant liberalism
Cons:
>everything else
>I'm making $7-800 USD a month and that's considered doing good
>27% VAT
>horrible state owned postal service

>>14120416
I work from home and make between 50k and 100k Euros per year (it varies).

I could easily live in Hungary and still rake in Western European money.
I'd be living like a king, wouldn't I?

>>14120423
What do you do?

>>14120439
Text editing/copywriting.
Everything comes in and goes out via email.

>>14120423
Why on earth would you live here?
Also maybe you make 50-100k euroshekels there, but here the prices for commodities are still the same or more (see 27% VAT), and you have to pay Hungarian income tax, gas prices and utility costs.

Only advantage I can think of is a basic TAG-Heuer and a diesel VW Passat can already get you some prime gold-digger ass. All I got is a Suzuki and a Baby Tuna.

>>14120443
What about the price of property?

Like, say, a large estate with a big house by a lake with some mountains in the background and tons of privacy?

>>14120446
Schweiz or Norge would be nice.

>>14120449
Isn't property there super expensive?

>>14120446
Well /wt/, I have a Powermatic 80 on my bench right now, with butterfly clasp problems (whole piece of shit is so loose it opens on its own), so I guess I'll try to have a look at the escape wheel, so we can settle this debate once and for all.

Only problem is the automatic bride completely obscures it and I can't get a good look through the display caseback, but I think I'm seeing flat white plastic (desu could be my imagination).

I'll try to shine a light in there through the caseback. I won't open it though, opening a customers watch when you don't have to and fuck around with the movement is a super shitty move, and a huge breach of trust.

>>14120446
Honestly don't know, but it's a crowded country, so probably way more than say the huge uninhabited wilderness in the Rockies or something.

>>14120467
>Rockies
I'm not fucking around with that Yellowstone megavolcano.

And there it is. A nice white escape wheel and pallet fork.

Tossit NPC's eternally BTFO.

>sapphire crystal manage to accrue scratches

tossit

>>14120451
Correct but hey you won’t be renting and you have a property in der SCHWEIZ/NORGE.

>>14120481
Kek. I concede. I guess they use metal escapements in their pricier offerings.

>>14119645
I'll look up closer comparisons, cause I really like the kanji on the original.

Timegrapher signal. It's somewhat consistent, but the rate could have been set up closer to zero. Also there's noise, and there's a small 15 beat long wave in the signal that's caused by the escape wheel being shitty plastic.

Also ignore amplitude, it's definitely incorrect, I had the lift angle set to a 2824, which look like is different for this movement. Above 330° it would definitely start knocking.

>>14120488
Heh, didn't even think about it. Must be around a diamond. Those fuckers almost don't even have to make contact with a sapphire crystal to scratch it up. Still I'll warn the owner about it.

>>14120503
Or they're scummy fuck, and use metal escapements where it's visible, and plastic where it isn't. I could barely make that photo. Also as an independent I'm never going to service one in the next fifteen years, and the slaves at the Tissot service centers will keep their mouths shut.

Also it makes sense that this is a 23 jewel movement, while the base ETA is 25. The missing two jewels would be in a traditional pallet fork.

Also this looks like a traditional metal hairspring.

Anything else you guys want me to look for? Though like I said I won't open up the watch.

>>14118784

Look at Armida, Helson, Baltic and Meraud. There are many smaller companies making nice things. Timefactors has interesting things. Some great vintage stuff can be had in that price range as well.

>>14120522
Your posts made me read up on P80s. Looks like there’s a cheap version and there’s one that’s COSC. The latter having what I assume, a metal escapement because it’s being advertised as having 25 jewels. The COSC version also shows it has a sillicon balance spring. Makes sense with the COSC version selling for more than the regular P80.

>>14120539
Cheaper Powermatic 80

>>14120545
>>14120539
>>14120522
>>14120512
>>14120509
>>14120503
>>14120481
>>14120467
>>>/g/

>>14120550
>>>/lgbt/

Is it a sign that I'm getting old that I've started to really like the Santos? The 35mm version in two tone has to be my next buy when I can justify it I think, has been top of my list for a while now.

>>14120555
The Santos is a beautiful piece. I don’t like two tones though.

>>14120559
Will have to try them both on in person to decide, I'm generally not a fan either but I think the one time they work is when they're on a small watch because it doesn't look too gaudy. Could be that it still looks tacky though.

Also I sometimes post this picture from last year. Turns out this >>14120467 is the exact same watch. Last year it was a detached date window border, now it's a wobbly as fuck butterfly clasp.

>>14120563
Was that frame fucking GLUED on?

>>14118959
did you tip off wt about that NOS 7a28

>>14120563
Looks like the owner treats his watches terribly/with no care especially with those scratches

>>14120555
>>14120559
>>14120562
It's a shame they don't do this one in a slightly smaller case size because it would be an interesting mid-range Nautilus/Royal Oak alternative. As it is it's too big imo

>>14120562
As you should with any purchase tbqh. Two-tone has a cheap connotation nowadays.

>>14120568
Yes, I think so.

>>14120565
In most watches they are.

>>14120586
thanks for the tip hungry anon

>>14120595
NOS anon and Hungary watchsmith anon are different people, retard-anon.

>>14120600
the reply chain suggests otherwise.

This thing is a beast!

>>14120600
I am Hungarian battery nigger anon.

Also I'm waiting for my Bishop to go through customs.

And while I was looking around for more 7a28's or Giugiaro watches a few weeks back I did tip off /wt/ once or twice.

>>14118198
>>14118205
>>14118237

That santos tho. I saw one posted a few threads ago and was pretty soon hooked. That's actually the first luxury watch that i really want. I love cartier for ditching the fucking date in the medium model.
Don't know why i liked that model so much, maybe i'm developing boomer taste, getting close to 30. Already put a two tone jubilee on my diver and still am in love with it.

It does not look oversized on you, looks normal, endlinks are even smaller than your arm, which is good. Oh well, i'm cheap, so i'll research for a while and maybe get a quartz santos from an older generation, no way in hell am i paying luxury brand prices for servicing the movement when i just care for the design of the watch and not at all for the movement.
And if i get really annoyed i'll just get a good fake to cure the itch.

>>14120613
any particular reason you wanted that one? it's odd looking

>>14120615
It was the OP pic a few threads back, was it that? The Santos design can be considered timeless. Older models wouldn't look dated at all, especially with a fresh buff, brush, and polish.

>>14120624
>santos
>not looking dated
ha ha wut

>>14120586
>In most watches they are.
They're press-fit, not glued.

>>14120629
As in an older model wouldn't look dated to a newer Santos as the design is barely changed.

>>14120555
Wait, are you me?
How old are you anon? I wrote this >>14120615 and then saw your post.

I wonder about this too, i'm 29 and always thought that two tone watches look terrible. But all of a sudden i see a santos as a thread start pic and it got me really curious. But only the two tone, the SS do nothing for me.
I already liked the dial of the tank watch and got myself a cheap homage that cured the itch and i like it a lot.
Now i'm unironically thinking to get a two tone ss bracelet for my tank shitter, just for fun. It will look gaudy and trashy as hell tho, the gold would not fit the pic related at all, but i still want to do it.

>>14120620
Giugiaro-design Seikos are generally pretty unusual, and I like the look.

Also I kinda wanted to work on a 7A28 before.

>>14120613
I bought the nos 7a28 7000 it arrived running, perfectly. I wonder what chain of events lead up to that. If it's running perfectly after 30+ years that suggests to me that it's been serviced but i'm no watch nigger

>>14120624
>It was the OP pic a few threads back, was it that?

Yeah, that was that thread. Fully agreed, the design looks just great, they did well, not changing it radically.
And they did even better not placing the date window like that. The people responsible for this thing deserve a proper beating.

>>14118784
>>14118895
Mido Baroncelli?

>>14120649
The 7A28 has like fifteen or so jewels, and all-metal construction, despite being quartz. It may have never been serviced and still run perfectly.

>>14120662
>the trouble with big hands on chronos is that they obscure the subdials
>But we can do better, Lets make the back ends of the hands obscure the dials too

>>14120670
I've seen video of a vintage 7a28 where the hands were all stiff and didn't reset properly. "needs lube" the guy said. The battery must have been changed at some point though. Perhaps multiple times.
>>14120677
didn't mean to quote anyone here

>Muh plastic parts

>>14120689
LOL

Tossit amirite?

>>14120689
>>14120690
I don't get it, the 754x series is all-metal apart from the circuit board, and the day-date driving wheel.

>>14120693
TOSSIT BROTHER

>>14120701
What's the joke here? tissot used a seiko quartz movement and replaced the metal with plastic?

>>14120689
>>14120690
>>14120693

Well, i hate it no matter the brand. It's never OK to do that.
I personally do not care for tissot because not a single one of their designes was interesting for me. The question is, why would you care so much and defend a brand that just wants to sell something that was produced as cheap as possible for as much as possible to you?
Defending any brand is silly, seiko also does a lot of dumb shit, like doscontinuing nice looking and well selling models.

Why is my Visodate keeping better time than my Oris? REEEEEEEE

>>14120709
Fuck Tissot for all I care, Seiko weebs trash other brands when their almighty banzai Seiko mass produces shit like this. It's just hypocrisy on their side.

>>14120705
No, apparently tissot used some plastic parts in their movement and you could see it in some skeletonized version. But then, big plot twist, it was not the plastic part and people made a mistake. And then some tissot fangirls started to redicule the tissot haters and back and now we have this retarded console war (watch edition) for several threads. It's really dumb, but hey, a bit of drama is awlays fun to watch.

TOSSIT RIGHT GUYS? PLASTIC PARTS!

>>14120719
>But then, big plot twist, it was not the plastic part and people made a mistake.

Literally less that three hours ago: >>14120481

>>14120718
That's a nice jeweled geartrain though.

>>14120722
What? Again that's an all metal Seiko 754x, apart from the day-date driving wheel and the circuit board. Am I doing a whoosh, or are you autistic?

>>14120719
Some guy claims the Powermatic 80 by Tissot has a plastic escapement, which is correct but there's also a Powermatic 80 with a metal escapement, it's used on the COSC version of the Powermatic 80. So both claims are correct.

>>14120539
>>14120545

The only Tossit I would consider owning is one with the COSC Powermatic 80

>>14120718
I own a seiko and still agree, being a fanboy of any brand and starting flame wars about is is super cringy. Just shows how these people have nothing going on in their lives so they just follow their tribalistic instincts and form some retarded little group just for the sake of belonging.
>>14120726
Well that is deffenetily plastic.
Strange, i could swear it was some sceletonized model and apparently the plastic parts could be seen from the dial. Never seen this pic you linked.
Also i think that i already saw the tissot discussion like one month ago, but i couldn't get fucked to read it all, it's just all so silly.
For me it's a general rule of thumb to stay away form the mountain jews and their trickery. The whole watch industry is full of bullshit and i don't feel like i want to become a movement expert just to buy the right version of some ETA dogshit, just to not get fucked over.

>>14120689
>>14120690
>glass fibre epoxy
>"plastic"
sure 'non

>>14120740
Here's the open heart Powermatic 80 >>14120503, metal escapement. Read this: >>14120732

>>14120722
>>14120718
>>14120704
>>14120693
>>14120690
>>14120689
WAIT WAIT WAIT
Are you seriously comparing plastic parts in an automatic movement to "plastic" parts in a quartz?

Do you not know what a circuit board is?

>>14120744
I'd be surprised if such a small part had any kind of fiber reinforcement in it

>>14120732
>So both claims are correct.
The claim that Tissot had plastic movement parts is correct.
The claim that Tissot does NOT have plastic movement parts is incorrrect.

>>14120732

Thanks for the insight. Well then this whole discussion is just pointless.
>>14120746
Oh yeah, that was the picture i saw in some older threads, thx.

New thread:

>>14120755
>>14120755
>>14120755

>>14120751
I'm talking about the circuit boards in those quartzes.

>>14120748

>>14120759
Again, quartz.
The hands on a quartz generally do not have to deal with anything close to the torque of a mechanical movement.

While ETA is pretty much the best in the world when comes to mass-produced quartz movements, with many ridiculously over-jeweled, gold-plated, all metal, high-accuracy calibers, many Tossits will be instead equipped with this piece of shit.

>>14120761
And? Tissot is using a plastic fork and escape wheel, the rest of the gear train is metal while also giving you eighty, 80 hours of power reserve. Again, it's pointless because who cares about Tissot having plastic parts when Seiko does too? It's hypocrisy.

>>14120771
> it's pointless because who cares about Tissot having plastic parts when Seiko does too?
Seiko does it in quartz watches.
Which is a retarded comparison.

>>14120776
I thought quartz were superior?

>>14120780
Practically?
Yes, in every single way.

Practicality is not why people buy mechanical watches; they buy them for their mechanical niftiness.

>>14120759
See this >>14120701 and this >>14120759 you autistic dumbfuck.

Here's that exact part. It's intentionally made from plastic so it can flex instead of permanently bending or breaking if the owner wants to change date near midnight or some other dumb shit.

But you're probably just being a buttmad troll pretending to be retarded.

>>14120776
The logic is Tissot is Tossit brand for using a plastic part in one of their movements using the same logic Seiko is the same for using plastic in their movements.

>>14120786
And? Tissot used their developed plastic escapement for their self-lubricating properties. Cool, watch brands using technology for advancement.

>>14120701
>>14120786
Is the 754x series the ancestor to the 7c46?

>But you're probably just being a buttmad troll pretending to be retarded.
He's the raving GS hater who keeps getting demolished in every single argument.

>>14120788
>The logic is Tissot is Tossit brand for using a plastic part in one of their movements using the same logic Seiko is the same for using plastic in their movements.
Not when Tissot uses the plastic parts in mechanical movements, and Seiko uses them in quartz movements.

>>14118375
Just look up for "WW1 trench watches" dtyle.
I don't know which ones are good or bad, do your own research.

>>14120792
It's suddenly acceptable to have plastic parts because it's quartz? Great logic there.

>>14120756
Fuck off
Proper new thread this way:

>>14120803
>>14120803
>>14120803

>>14120795
>It's suddenly acceptable to have plastic parts because it's quartz?
Yes.
Because people often buy mechanical watches for entirely different reasons than quartz watches.
And quartz movements are completely different from mechanical movements.

>>14120789
I'm not sure if it's a direct update or not, but I think both are Suwa movements, so they're definitely related.

>>14120509
>kanji
it's mandarin you dumb fuck