Wristwatches, watches and watch-like gadgets

[bellaozzydog]

I like G-shock if they did an analogue with a bezel that didn’t need a PhD in astrophysics to reset the hands to different time zones I’d never wear another watch

Unfortunately they are a faff and the face design ethos seems to be “make it pointlessly cluttered as fuck”

Analogue Nite (Hawk) is my daily beater, big, tells the time, glows like a Fukushima sushi platter, easily adjusted without taking it off the wrist and reading 80 pages of manual

 

[rubbershoes]

I've got a few of my late father's watches. Mainly Omega and Bulova, probably from the 1960s onwards.

Is there a reliable way to know if they are worth anything at all (probably not) and sell them.

I'm reluctant to put them on ebay without knowing if they should be selling for £1 or £100

 

[Griff]

Try looking at similar watches on Chrono24.

You can search on makes then select years to find similar then you should get an idea of value.

 

[nick]

look for a place called watchfinder to get an idea. They are on line, but also have physical stores.
I'm not sure, but strongly suspect they will offer you a low price for convenience of selling to them rather than doing it yourself

Value will also be impacted by if you have the box and paperwork to go with it

 

[hash tag]

I had forgotten Code 41 watches and I like skeleton watches.
I like this but the price Code41 X41 Edition 5 Aerocarbon Grey – X41-42-CAR-BG-RD – The Watch Pages

This would do Code41 ANOMALY T4 – ANT4-41,5-ANT-ANT-WH – The Watch Pages

 

[not-bono-ever]

The watch business has been booming fir a couple of years - prices for premium stuff have gone to the moon. Morgan Stanley issued a report the other day on just this theme - people have stopped buying and the stock levels are huge with leveraged opportunistic secondary market dealers waist deep in stuff they can only move at a loss .could be lots of dumping of stock later this year. I only like old mad stuff really so kinda not relevant to me. People buying chunky Rolex sports watches ( crude stuff imho) for the price of a new car look to be over. Go cheap and go fun when it comes to wrist wear

 

[hash tag]

^^spotted in Morpeth yesterday, a Tag Monaco from 1969. Asking price about about £29,000 ^^^

 

[Griff]

It would be a Heuer Monaco if it was from 1969.

 

[hash tag]

Forgive my abbreviation from Tag Heuer to just Tag, I was being lazy.

 

[Griff]

TAG Group bought Heuer in 1985.

 

[hash tag]

TAG Group bought Heuer in 1985.

The watch I saw was listed as a Tag Heuer. It looked rather tatty and not for me. A Monaco in Gulf colours, non metal strap would be nice though.

 

[Griff]

Not the sort of listing error you'd expect of somewhere selling a Heuer Monaco for almost £30k!

Saw some '60s Heuer chronographs at Retromobile in Paris at the start of 2020 and they looked drop dead gorgeous, can't imagine the cost of them.

Never really been a fan of the Monaco, a bit too McQueen wannabee for me.

 

[jannerboyuk]

Just ordered the iWatch SE2. Seems reasonable at £250

 

[rutabowa]

After a bit of a mixup I finally got my watch from india... appears to work fine

 

[nick]

Can anyone recommend / suggest a place that can replace the pin in a seamaster bracelet over the Christmas period, as a walk in, in London, or better still Brixton environs.?
So far tried a couple of places in Hatton Garden, but they don't have in stock and are closing soon for Christmas.

It's a bit of a beater - so don't want to really go main dealer

 

[Winot]

Can anyone recommend / suggest a place that can replace the pin in a seamaster bracelet over the Christmas period, as a walk in, in London, or better still Brixton environs.?
So far tried a couple of places in Hatton Garden, but they don't have in stock and are closing soon for Christmas.

It's a bit of a beater - so don't want to really go main dealer
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Have you tried the Tictoc Man in HG?

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[Spymaster]

Can anyone recommend / suggest a place that can replace the pin in a seamaster bracelet over the Christmas period, as a walk in, in London, or better still Brixton environs.?
So far tried a couple of places in Hatton Garden, but they don't have in stock and are closing soon for Christmas.

It's a bit of a beater - so don't want to really go main dealer
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Don’t know if he’ll get it done over the holidays but Yan The Watch Guy (courtesy of a poster here) has serviced my watches for 15 years. I’ll text you his number.

What I would say is that if a link breaks, it’s time to have the whole bracelet reconditioned.

 

[donkyboy]

A Swiss one I was given as a christmas present. I haven't worn it for 15 years mainly due to my mobile.

beautiful

 

[nick]

Don’t know if he’ll get it done over the holidays but Yan The Watch Guy (courtesy of a poster here) has serviced my watches for 15 years. I’ll text you his number.

What I would say is that if a link breaks, it’s time to have the whole bracelet reconditioned.

Ended up taking it to the people under the arches in London Bridge (all the recommendations up thread were shut for the holidays).
One of the guys (had a chat, he knew about watches) fixed a few links etc while I waited - all good
Over Christmas discovered that a part of one of the end links had popped out (right where the pin had fallen out in the photo above). Took it back straight away for them to fix as it had been fine before they had worked on it first time.
There stall was then staffed by the younger of the two staff - seemed like a trainee - knew nothing about anything, claimed that it had always been like that and that he would have to send it away to even be able to quote for the fix. I didn't feel comfortable with them having the thing out of my sight, so walked rather than enter into a pointless argument.

Every cloud etc.

• One of the other people I had contacted reopened after new year.
• Who knew (everyone except me) that there is a full on horologist in Norwood, with a clock museum on site.?
• Have now booked in the Seamaster for a proper service and sort out.

Harris Horology
Museum

 

[rutabowa]

my 1st HMT Janata watch needs a service, it stopped for good and a tap only gets it working for 10 seconds or so. but my daily watch is now this HMT Pilot, and I think I like the look of it even better:


Spymaster do you reckon it's the kind of job this yan guy would do? they're cheap watches with simple citizen movements, very serviceable apparently but not high end.

 

[Spymaster]

my 1st HMT Janata watch needs a service, it stopped for good and a tap only gets it working for 10 seconds or so. but my daily watch is now this HMT Pilot, and I think I like the look of it even better:
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Spymaster do you reckon it's the kind of job this yan guy would do? they're cheap watches with simple citizen movements, very serviceable apparently but not high end.

Sorry, I missed this.

Yes. Definitely worth giving him a call. I'll pm you his number.

 

[not-bono-ever]

He’s had one of mine for months actually.I told him no rush. I will drop him a note

 

[Brainaddict]

The timing features I use most on my phone are regular alarms and countdown timers (for cooking mostly). But weirdly it's hard to find watches that would replicate what the phone does. I'm willing to stick with phone for alarms (as it's difficult to find a watch that can do six alarms at once, sometimes on different days of the week) but I'd quite like to find a watch to help with cooking, usually just 15 or 20 minute countdowns. But I don't really like digital watches much, so I'd like an analog face. The obvious seems to be the Casio Edifices which have both analog and digital, but they are very chunky watches. Does anyone know of analogs that have a countdown timer? It should be fairly easy to design into a chronograph or something but I'm mystified to find that it is entirely stopwatches that dominate, even though I imagine most non-sporty people rarely use a stopwatch.

 

[Chilli.s]

countdown timers

Dingy sailors have watches with quite complex countdown timers, probably look a bit sporty though

 

[Brainaddict]

They're mostly digital by the looks of it. It's very weird to me that the watch world decided everyone wanted stopwatches and nobody wanted countdown timers.

 

[Brainaddict]

I found a smaller digital analog crossover that will do countdowns:

Citizen Eco-drive U200 Gents Citizen Eco-drive U200 AnalogDigital Multifunction Watch - 100m for sale online | eBay​

It woudn't be to everyone's taste but I quite like it and will try to obtain one cheaply. And its battery had better be better than my current Citizen one, which I shall sell if I get this.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Sold a couple of old watches during the recent vintage price blip so back down to a couple or three. The 70s watch man Yan has still to send me back my Omega as he has forgotten to do it. I am wearing this endearingly crude Ruhla from the 80’s. Even says made in the GDR in the dial. Retro

 

[Chilli.s]

not-bono-ever wow... thats fantastically retro, love it

 

[gentlegreen]

My previous order for a replacement Timex Expedition Camper back in August got lost in transit to a seriously dodgy "Post Office" in a convenience store, and when I went to re-order they'd sneakily put the price up by £5 to £29.99 so I put up without being able to easily time my coffee brewing
But I just relented at £27.99...

It seems I bought the previous one in 2009 for £15 so the price has increased significantly ... let's hope this one lasts at least 11 years ...

In the meantime I mislaid the old one with its "Nato" fabric strap.
Luckily this one came with a very nice, semi-elasticated velcro strap - though on my only-moderately manly wrist, I've had to set it to the absolute limit - and it remains to be seen what it's like when I do some serious exercise.

I'll see how long the electroluminescent display works on this one - which makes me realise I really need to open the other one up to marvel at the electronics

I ordered and returned a cheaper "easy-view" watch because it was far too shiny and "Werthers Originals" - the display on this one is pretty well as easy to read as well as the watch being tolerant of getting rained-on. One day I may learn if it will tolerate regular ocean swimming ...

The whole wearing a watch thing was far more relevant when I was working, but I missed it when the clocks changed - and for brewing coffee ... in a few years' time when I'm properly "retired", I suppose I may (hopefully) need it for social events



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For a horrible 48 hours I thought I'd lost it and it was made all the more horrible by the price doubling again to £60 !
For some reason just the white version. The black one is still £30.
Bonkers...

EDIT:- apparently I was looking at a somehow posher version .,.

 

[gentlegreen]

After being sufficiently foolish to remove my watch to wash my gardening hands, and fearing I might have left it outdoors, it makes me wonder whether one would risk swimming wearing it...perhaps vaseline or sunblock would help..
Perhaps I would not feel the need for any devices....

EDIT:-

Just looked at the one I had before this one - I prefer the dial on that ...
I would like a similar watch with no silly date disc that I can't read without a microscope and only complicates the mechanism ..

I see the new one claims 100 metres rather than 50 ...