Achtung! Who else here has a watch fetish?

Flamencology said:
I dig it.

Bronze diving watches can look cool as fuck.

The bad ones, though, have that steampunk aesthetic, which I really really really hate.

I’ve actually been eyeing this one:

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A couple of years later, I got a Tudor Black Bay.

Went with a little gold instead of a ton of brass.

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The TS watches were sold in Japan for about $275 to $300 depending on the exchange rate. They sell for more in the reseller market.


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A little while back I took my watch out of the winder and the entire face had rotated about 170 degrees. Yesterday I took it to the watch repair shop and was told that it is broken. My guess is that a 14 year old boy was involved in that. Now I’m waiting for an estimate on repairs. It’s just a Bulova, so I might end up telling them to trash it. I probably won’t end up with another watch because I don’t wear one enough to justify the expense unless I just find something cool on eBay.
 
I've not had a Christopher Ward watch. I liked the one they came out with that chimed, but the more I thought about it, the more I figured it was pretty much useless as a complication and would probably just end up annoying me when I forgot to turn it off at night.

That's just my thoughts, though. They're supposed to be good watches.
 
shoeless said:
Nice watch. Interesting that the numbers vs bars is the complete opposite of my daily wearer. That is, yours has 12, 3, 6 and 9, while mine has everything else. Go figure. :shrug:

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Yeah. All Ball watches use tritium in tubes vs luminova for their illumination, so there's only so much they can do with the numerals on the face. I like the Citizen! A whole lot going on there. Actually, the more I look at that, the more I like it! Nice.
 
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Very nice!

I like Ball's more understated designs, such as yours. Some of their designs are pretty far out there, and a lot of them, well....I honestly don't have the wrist to wear them.

And yeah.....Tritium is very cool. Takes a little getting used to. Ball sometimes gets it right, and sometimes they don't, but it's a cool medium to work in. Overall, I'm a big fan. I have 4 of them, but one needs to go in for service. I'll try to get a group shot.
 
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