>>18708074 It's an embarrassing disgrace to everyone involved. What could have been a fun thing for kids to put on their backpack to match their labubus has been ruined by grown ass [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE SLUR HERE] who think it's cool to flip the same plastic toy back and forth between each other for thousands of dollars in their fake ebay scalper make believe economy.
>>18708090 >HAHA DURR DURR DURR U WANTED 1 AND DIDNT GIT IT!!1 This world will continue to decline into madness if this level of retardation isn't made punishable by public execution.
>>18708097 Honestly that level of watchmaking is just full of retards and wiggers. I have no desire to buy any kind of royal oak regardless of how much money I have. I'm one of those guys that's happy to have a couple steel rolexes and omegas and cartier and I'm planning on buying a yellow gold daydate when I retire and I'll be done. If I get rich enough to retire younger that just means I get my daydate sooner, MAYBE i'll also get a patek calatrava, but I'm not getting into all this hype wigger shit just because I can afford it.
You look at these clips of people buying and selling royal oaks and nautilus and aquanauts and shit and it's all morons that pay top dollar for super expensive watches and then they don't want to pay for the service from the manufacturer so they bring it to a fucking chop shop in the diamond district in NYC. It's the levels of stupidity eugenics was trying to prevent.
>>18708133 >You look at these clips of people buying and selling royal oaks and nautilus and aquanauts and shit and it's all morons that pay top dollar for super expensive watches and then they don't want to pay for the service from the manufacturer so they bring it to a fucking chop shop in the diamond district in NYC. It's the levels of stupidity eugenics was trying to prevent. um, bruh, Rolex owners are 10000x more guilty of this on 100x as many levels. alongside that, their whole bullshit waiting list game is the gayest shit ever and they're the uber giga kings of that niggery
>>18708138 No, WIGGERS are doing that. No self respecting upright citizen is paying over retail for a rolex. You put your name in at an AD and if it's taking too long you try another AD. Yeah, it's a gay way to do business, but going grey for hype shit means supporting anf participating in the hypebeast sneakerhead wiggetry in the watch space, and that's something you should never ever do.
>>18708159 Odd strap choice. The syringe hands are very Sinn and the hour markers don't really match with the rest of the watch. What's going on with Omega? Their design is really in the toilet lately.
>>18708162 It's depressing because I'm sure this is really horologically impressive but it looks like some retarded mall watch you would buy from a kiosk and then it stops working after a week and then you go back and the guy isn't there anymore.
>>18708212 I like the white dial speedmaster. The turquoise/black gradient dial on the aqua terra looks nice too, but I think it might be too thick to be considered "really good" looking imo
>>18708212 >What's the last really good looking watch Omega put out? The Seamaster 300-inspired dial variations on the original Bond Seamaster Pro. (Sometimes called the Peter Blake and the Electric Blue.) Those were legitimately good-looking divers.
>>18708263 Probably a Richard Mille RM011 Felipe Massa in Baby Blue. I know, you've probably already got a couple of RMs, but they're collectible, right?
>>18708160 No. For a lot of more popular rolex and patek and journe watches it means more expensive because people are trying to skip the waiting list or needing to buy less desirable watches before they'll be considered for the allocation they want.
>>18708313 I know the Louis Cartier is better than the Tank Solo, but I actually like the flatter , slab-sided profile of the Solo. It reminds me of the more industrial Normale crossed with a Louis Cartier. I just wish they came in full gold and with a hand-winding movement.
>>18708360 The Tank Solo has been discontinued for a couple years and never had a hand-winding movement. They were all quartz except for the grotesque XL which was automatic with a center seconds and date.
Honestly if your watch isn't >Rolex >Cartier >Patek >Vacheron >AP >Richard Mille >Journe >Lange >JLC >and MAYBE some very specific models from a few other brands Then I'm not interested in what you have to say about horology. Or anything else really.
>>18708434 >Rolex Check >Cartier Check >Patek Check >Vacheron Check >AP Nope. I don’t like the Royal Oak, but there are some nice historical pieces out there. Just none I ever wanted to spend money on. >Richard Mille God no. Way too expensive for a modified Baume and Mercier movement >Journe No. Impressive, but not particularly interesting to me. >Lange No, but I’m actively looking for a Cabaret >JLC Check
>>18708642 >What is this meme you're forcing supposed to mean? It's obvious. In his opinion, anyone wearing a dress watch instead of a 44mm dive watch or plastic G-Shock is...I don't know...too formal? I guess?
Of course, he's also posting "We have to go back" in any thread about women wearing short hair or a nose piercing because incels are nothing if not consistently bitter about everything at all times.
>>18708264 Anyone who doesn't have a couple of Richard Mille watches, well, I don't care what they have to say about horology. Or anything else for that matter.
>>18708590 This. I can more easily read the date than the time. And all the text in black? If I spend Hamilton money I want to clearly see the name. But I love the lugs and case. The dial looks like it gives a nice sunburst effect. Just wish it had different hands and indices. As long as you're happy that's all that counts.
>>18708648 Yuck. Smartwatches are already in the past. I'm not ever going to wear one. I think most watch enthusiasts don't even consider them in the same category.
>>18708587 If you got that on sale for about $350, great job. I'd almost buy it for that. No second hand though, which would take some getting used to.
>>18708730 I'm a 36mm man myself. But I guess you'd want your wiener to look smaller so maybe wear the largest of the three. Or maybe wear a shitter so you don't mog mandingo. Isn't the whole point to be some kind of subservient loser while your wife takes it from "better" men? Obviously you're totally full of shit. You have no wife.
>>18708061 Im done with watches. youtubed reviews of a watch i wanted. its 5 pages of fucking indian shorts with some jews mixed in. i just wanted to see different angles and if something was horribly wrong with it. I dont even want to wear it anymore.
>>18708665 there was a richfag tranny on /lit/ or /fa/ that used to post his silver eraser holder and stuff on edc threads, but never seen him on watch threads
>>18708765 >You're done with watches because there's not significant coverage of one you want? no im done with watches because ive seen the people who give a fuck about watches and want no part in it. >>18708763 casio gshock my current square gshocks strap broke from age. was trying to figure out if it was worth replacing the strap, buying the same watch,which i think is discontinued though stuff that looks just like it exists. or upgrading to one of the ones with solar mutiband6 bluetooth all that shit.
>>18708873 You should be able to find a replacement strap relatively easily unless your watch was a limited edition or has been discontinued for over a decade.
>>18708061 Been thinking of picking up the longines legend diver 39 in blue as my next watch. So far, pic rel is the only mechanical watch I've got. Thoughts?
>>18708957 It's way too much of a pain in the ass to use the timing bezel while wearing the watch and nobody EVER mentions this when reviewing the watch.
>>18709011 That's because 90% of diver owners never use the timing bezel. A long time ago a coworker of mine had an Invicta Submariner clone, I had on a chink Sub clone, and when I told him about how ceramic bezels were starting to become a thing, he didn't know what a bezel was and told me he just spun it around while on the toilet.
I am interested in a watch from a Japanese seller, they have a listing on Ebay and on Yahoo Japan Auctions.
It's listed as being $1k more expensive on Ebay. Is this a scam? Japanese sellers usually sell watches that are beat up, but they're pretty honest about it and I can't imagine a Japanese seller trying to scam me.
I've bought watches from Japanese sellers for a long time and they are easy to deal with, but in this instance, the discrepancy is so large that it seems off.
>>18709093 It's very common and those sellers usually have very high ratings so I'm pretty sure you do get the watch in the end, they're just middlemen that pocket 1k for dealing with foreigners and worldwide shipping. I'd try to deal with the original seller anyway, the price difference is way too high to the point of not being interesting anymore.
>>18709225 The proportionally-wider bracelet of the 114270 mogs them both. Rolex was right to bring back the 36mm, but they fucked up when they gave it a 19mm bracelet.
>>18709229 The thinner bracelet is the best part. It sucks for strap changes but it's kind of a crime to take a rolex off the bracelet anyway, and the smaller bracelet makes it so much lighter and the taper is really comfortable.
>>18708678 Are these any good? I recently gained a newfound respect for bulova after learning about the whole tuning fork thing. Don't think I'd pay 6k for the new accutron 314, but those precisionist movements are super cool and I think it'd be neat to have. I kinda fear that it'll end up like the citizen eco drive I bought on a whim and just feel so cheap that I never wear it.
>>18709250 I don't think anything in the current bulova lineup has anything to do with the tuning fork though? Most of them ARE mall watches the likes of citizen.
>>18709255 NGL, the classic 34mm AK ref 5500 with the pencil hands is a great watch. I wish Rolex still made something that essential. I know the 34mm OP is still a thing, but the lumed hands and lumed batons just make the dial look so much more cluttered than they used to be.
>>18709260 >It's basically an Explorer, with bad design decisions added to it. It's actually closer to a Milgauss, because they decided to give it that Faraday cage thing and make it super thick. The dial is supposed to be a callback to instruments in land speed record cars, but no one associates Rolex with the Bonneville salt flats. It's basically a mish-mash.
I understand why Rolex doesn't want to discontinue it. Air-King is one of the oldest names in Rolex's catalog but why not make it a proper pilot's watch? Oh, can't do that, because Rolex market's the GMT-Master as the pilot's watch.
>>18709258 >>18709263 >>18709268 They can't actually make a real old-school Air-King anymore because everything that makes it what it is would be accused of "cheapening the brand" and all the numb-nuts who think of their watches as investments would start screaming.
>>18708873 >ive seen the people who give a fuck about watches and want no part in it.
That's still a bullshit answer. Bullshit reasoning. You're looking in the wrong places. Even if some lame watch is only covered by ethnicities you don't care for...
You know what? We don't need you in this hobby after all. Fuck yourself, you ignorant bigot.
>>18709075 Paying a fuckload for a sterile dial seems to defeat the purpose of getting a fancy brand. And Dennisons were cool because that's the only text they had and it was down in the bottom right corner.
>>18709215 I'd never spend $6,000 on a quartz watch, and it's not because I'm poor. I see the "cope" of the Grand Seiko owner here. Apparently it has affected his finances so much that he obsessively seeks validation for making such a blunder even years after the fact.
>I've sunk $6k into this watch. Now what? I guess it's my entire life and I'll post closeups of it and talk about my coming video review every single day on 4chan
>>18709270 Haha, I'm sure it's not meant to be a Lige considering the guy's character. That would be hilarious though. Like if they had a deleted scene of this cold-blooded Russian kingpin scrolling on Aliexpress for a $30 watch.
>>18709300 Is there some kind of super high end Russian watch brand for mega richfags or do they just wear Pateks and shit like other European richfags?
>>18709309 Chrono24. It felt a bit sketchy dropping that much money on a watch I'd never seen or tried on, but having tried on the current breguet 5157 and 7147s I felt confident enough that I knew what I was getting. The seller had good reviews and it was listed as like new/unworn, that plus the escrow service gave me some peace of mind.
>>18709318 Thanks. It really is pretty mint, the strap had no wear at all before I put it on, and the case has just one tiny scratch that you'd never see unless you were really looking for it. At first I was reluctant to believe the listing that it was truly "like new/unworn" but it is. >any close up pics? Give me a little while and I'll try to take some good ones. For now here's a wrist shot. This definitely fits my little 6.5" wrists better than the current breguet models.
>>18709349 >yes sir, certainly. if you could please submit proof of purchase. links to 4chan posts? the gayest board on the site even? yes, we accept those as proof. we’ll deposit the $12,000 USD in your bank account in the next 5-10 business days.
>>18709306 holy shit dude that's a beauty >>18709314 cope watch >>18709343 oh, that's a good price tho? >>18709344 I wouldn't feel totally relaxed wearing something on the pricier side during vacation. I think ultimate summer watch has to be below $1k so I don't care about it >>18709241 unironically this might be the best choice. I don't see any cons
>>18709392 >Looks like /wt/ is leaning towards dress watches these days The industry as a whole is. that doesn’t mean they’re going to stop selling 42mm divers to fat American cubicle drones, but the move towards smaller and thinner watches, combined with the last vestiges of pandemic-era wearing training pants full-time are gone. People are out and they want to dress well. A luxury dive watch may look fine in the sort of casual situations where you’re still wearing a shirt with a collar, but a dress watch looks better.
>>18709449 Not for a few more years, I think. People are still buying them. From what I can tell, they’ve taken the place of the luxury diver in a lot of people’s rotations. i.e. in those polo-and-jeans situations, where you used to wear a Sub, now you’re wearing an Octo Finissimo.
>>18709447 >People are out and they want to dress well. A luxury dive watch may look fine in the sort of casual situations where you’re still wearing a shirt with a collar, but a dress watch looks better. I think this is key. It took a while to get people to trust that you can actually wear a small gold watch with something other than a suit and tie and it won’t look silly.
>>18709447 >>18709449 With regards to integrated sports watches, I think those are starting to come down in size too. Part of the reason the Royal Oak and Nautilus originally fell out of favor in the 70s was that they were too fucking big. They had to introduce smaller ones.
The classic sports watches of the 80s and 90s, like the Santos de Cartier, the Chopard St. Moritz, the Vacheron Phidias, the Ebel Classic Wave, etc. were all comparatively small. You see that happening now. Bulgari released a 37mm version of their Octo Finissimo, and that's a design that's explicitly meant to wear like a cuff.
>New Farer GMTs dropped >"Wow, looks pretty g-" >They didn't fill in the dark bezel side of the 6 with white, it's like half the six was cut off and fell of the bezel All that work and attention to detail just to skip something so simple.
>>18709664 it's fucking trash guilloche with a GMT bezel really? and the hands look like some plastic toy with all the coating as usual with farer microshit were a mistake
>>18709638 ok it's the opposite then it looks larger than it actually is, great fit anyway, I never looked at these time only Breguers but I should, it looks great as it is
>>18709800 Like 40 grand. Only in platinum and like 20 examples per year. The ones who are seething are the ones who bought a steel quartz watch with a plain white painted dial and pad printed indices but still paid like 5 grand.
Guys I want a blue Tudor Pelagos but the blue one only comes in the large size. Which is okay but then it has 5 (five) lines of text on the bottom of the dial, which looks stupid. I can't get over it. Anyone else know this pain?
It's finally dawned on me, at 31, that walking around wearing a dress watch makes you look like a tool.
I have a Patek Calatrava that I was given as a gift about 10 yrs ago, was worth 5k then. AI says it's worth around 10k now. Thinking of selling it and getting a Casio gold. I already wear a gold/vermilion Victorian signet ring on my pinky (also a gift), plus my gold wedding band. Wearing a vintage dress watch on top of that makes me feel ridiculous. I don't think most people can pick out a Calatrava, but it's clear from the gold and the shiny face that it's an expensive dress watch.
Why would you ever wear this outside of a wedding? It's just trying to larp as a WASP preppie
>>18709846 Imagine not wanting to walk around with $50,000 of jewelry and a velvet smoking jacket on speaking in a transatlantic accent and stunting on whores
>>18709856 Formex dropped the new watch >another 40mm integrated sports watch >toolless microadjestment can be used without removing the watch >manufacturer microrotor caliber, the watch is under 7mm thick >a really ugly dial and hands in really ugly colors >It's eight thousand fucking dollars
>>18709858 I like that it has no date. From now on I'm never buying a watch with a date. On half my watches I can't even see the date without my reading glasses. And thank goodness the one watch that has day and date, the day is in another language so I don't have to bother setting it.
>>18709875 The movement looks excellent. I unironically love everything about the watch except the dial and that it's integrated. Also that it's 40mm diameter, but this company literally refuses to make a smaller watch so that's to be expected.
Formex is an engineering nerd's brand. Their new watch looks gay because instead of embracing the fact that they are a wetback concrete company they are trying to make some kind of postmodern faggot sports watch with so much rounding and they don't know how. What they should have done is put out something like a Seiko Monster, unapologetically brutalist and aggressive.
>>18709887 But what % of people that wear dive watches actually dive? 1% at most? In the next 50 years, they'll start selling space watches. It's just as pretentious as wearing a dress watch to the pub
>>18709890 They didn't have a choice because that's all that was on offer, ie it was not a pretense by definition. Similar to how 19th century gunslingers would wear charcoal suits and cravats, and yeoman farmers all wore white button-downs. You do that now and you're going in some TikTok cringe compilation.
>>18709902 Am I taking crazy pills or did everyone think the Royal Oak was a horrifically ugly piece of shit until fairly recent and then all of a sudden everyone is sucking it off calling it one of the greatest watches ever made? Is this Mandela Effect stuff because I distinctly remember it.
>>18709909 it was very much considered a hideous watch for a long time. gaudy / nu-money losers from the free money era of the stock market turned it into a meme, which led to rappers coveting them.
>>18709902 I'm embarrassed for you. You're using someone else's embarrassing pic, which is itself embarrassing. Like, you don't want to be that guy, my brother in Christ.
Btw,I like bb58 and not Rolex explorer. Rolex logo is shitty, even the simple and boring Tudor shield is better (tudor rose was a lot better),I orefer aluminium bezel,no crownguards...
Hi all, I was gifted a rolex submariner from my father a week before I graduated with my engineering degree. He previously wore it for a few years then stopped after a while. I eventually said to him I want to wear it just for the day of graduation because it symbolized how far I've come but how far I still stand to go. He did not go to college and grew his business from nothing, he was previously a poor farmer.
When he gave it to me he told me to get it fitted for the day and to keep it. I told him I only plan to wear it for very special events. He said no, wear it whenever, even at work. It says you don't need the job and you're there to succeed.
Since then, I have gone on to wear it when I'm not dressed in my college outfits (sweats) and I absolutely love it.
Now I have worn it in a professional setting during my research and gotten asked if it was real. I am about to go into my first job in an engineering leadership development program where I work at an engineers level but also shadow directors and program managers to learn how to lead.
Should I wear the watch at work? I am driven to succeed but I don't want any bad perceptions holding me back.
>>18709924 Engineers are the most likely people to notice your watch at all in the real world. They will ask about it, you can tell them your dad got it for you, it's a nice story. Half of them will also have nerd watches of some kind like a Navitimer, Milgauss, Omemega, even less expensive but also nerdy watches like Strelas and Seikos.
>>18709924 >160g >case so big it covers the entire wrist didn't read but regardless of what your question was, the bigger question is: how can people stand to actually wear this shit? it's the equivalent of driving a hummer
>>18709924 I’m a manager myself, of software developers.
You could wear it, but depending on your circumstances, it could work against you. Simon Sinek‘s ‘Leaders eat last’ philosophy is very much a real thing. You want your team to perceive you as putting them first and if they see you flaunting wealth, it might be difficult for you to establish the trust that you need to succeed.
However, if you find yourself creating a highly successful team, and reward them accordingly, they might not care at all.
>>18709924 It depends on the job and who you're working with. A submariner is utilitarian enough to fly under the radar in most circumstances, especially if you're not working closely with other people but if you happen to be in some kind of really competitive cutthroat workspace where you're competing with others maybe it's inviting trouble.
You have to consider who you're talking to and what capacity you're speaking to them in. If you're talking to the C suite guys wearing a complicated patek may look to them like you've been around the block a few times and you've landed successful projects and you know what you're talking about, but if you're a sales guy talking to a customer they may see you as a conman running a scam. When you're running for office and begging for donations you wear the casio, when you make it to office and you're working with other leaders you wear the daydate. If you're dealing with a bunch of middle aged guys that have had long careers in engineering they might think your rolex is cool, if you're working with a bunch of young interns you're going to let go in a few months they might think you're a douche. You have to take ques cues and read the room.
Random fact I read about today: Apparently 21% of American adults are functionally illiterate. 54% read at a 6th grade level or below. And over the last decade, math and reading scores are down across 80% of school districts in the country.
>>18709956 Dumb stuff about what it means to be human, or something stupid. I wouldn’t worry about it.
>>18709909 IDK out of the three i've always preffered the Royal Oak. I must admit the Credor looks pretty good from this angle, like a really expensive bracelet with a watch attached, but done well. It looks small though, what's the diameter?