Oh dear I'm a geek
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I wear my rolex a lot, that was the point of getting it. But when I go to the gym I dont like having to chuck it in my bag incase it gets scratched or what not. So I bought myself some leather and made a little leather pouch for it to live in. I'm no seamstress but just felt the urge to share my geekry. Unfortunately no watch/bag interaction shot as its away getting cleaned
What Rolex is it again?
Why not wear it whilst in the gym? Are you doing full-contact fighting sports with weapons? I never worry too much about any of my watches that claim 'sport style' or have any level of waterproofing (if it can survive 50m in the water, it can cope with the sweat from my wrist). I don't like gyms, I find them boring, but I'd find my 'nice' watch safer on my wrist whilst working out than hidden in a sock or leather bag in a locker...
And Rolex use a very good alloy of stainless steel so sweat won't degrade it.
Ignore the above though if you're talking about a leather-strapped dress watch though
I can't remember which one you've got, and unless you've shown in the Wrist Check thread I probably don't know what it is anyway 
Why not wear it whilst in the gym? Are you doing full-contact fighting sports with weapons? I never worry too much about any of my watches that claim 'sport style' or have any level of waterproofing (if it can survive 50m in the water, it can cope with the sweat from my wrist). I don't like gyms, I find them boring, but I'd find my 'nice' watch safer on my wrist whilst working out than hidden in a sock or leather bag in a locker...
And Rolex use a very good alloy of stainless steel so sweat won't degrade it.
Ignore the above though if you're talking about a leather-strapped dress watch though
I can't remember which one you've got, and unless you've shown in the Wrist Check thread I probably don't know what it is anyway 
We're all geeky in here!!!
I'm the same. Just can't work out with a decent watch on in case I scrape it on something. I know what is likely to come off worse in a watch/barbell collision!!
I really like the idea. Leather is thick enough to protect far more than a sock would, too. Might ask the mother-in-law to knock something up...
I'm the same. Just can't work out with a decent watch on in case I scrape it on something. I know what is likely to come off worse in a watch/barbell collision!!
I really like the idea. Leather is thick enough to protect far more than a sock would, too. Might ask the mother-in-law to knock something up...
Matt -
we are 
Anyhow, have a look in here for tips about leather working etc - http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...
Spice_Weasel said:
We're all geeky in here!!
we are Anyhow, have a look in here for tips about leather working etc - http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...
ApexJimi said:
Matt -
we are
Anyhow, have a look in here for tips about leather working etc - http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...
The guy at the shop I bought the leather of was amazingly helpfull and had a very cool vambrace on, so I may look into moulding and tooling, as if I didnt have enough demands on my time, but heySpice_Weasel said:
We're all geeky in here!!
we are Anyhow, have a look in here for tips about leather working etc - http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forumdisplay.p...
This thread was bound to go off topic, so whilst it's still *on* topic, fair dos matt12023, MMA fighting surpasses my definition of 'gym' somewhat (can't you use weapons in MMA? Using a Rolex would have an ironic form of panache). Equally if you're any good at it, then I suppose people don't pilfer from the gym lockers 
ANYWAY is it just me and far too many drugs or is the photo of your Rolex a complete bad trip complete with flashbacks to playing Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum and crashing horribly after visiting the Attic?
Now, off topic galore. This is absolute art:
Now I know about Damascus steel because I remember going on a random learning ramble (as I do from time to time) about katana swords and their almost-mythical abilities in terms of strength, sharpness and flexibility that haven't been easily replicated with modern steelmaking and alloying materials science. From this I came across Damascus steel - and without any 'magick' required, an explanation for steels made in pre-technological times that were of incredibly high performance (cutting easily through inferior steels, etc.) simply by incredible workmanship, 'black arts' involving aligning crystal boundaries of more or less carbonaceous steels, and inclusion of potential ceramic crystal cutting edges, possibly not known *scientifically* by the artisans but by God they had Skill.
Now this voodoo is normally reserved for knife enthusiasts as it's hellishly expensive, high performance *with* aesthetic beauty. That hammer is quite simply ART as far as I'm concerned. However aren't watch enthusiasts also people who pay hellishly large sums for high performance timepieces with aesthetic beauty? (though performance is easily surpassed with modern technology, much as whilst I love that hammer, or a katana made from similar material, just as a temperature-compensated quartz watch will be more accurate than a Girard-Perregaux observatory chronometer, I'd not want to face a soldier armed with an SA-80 if all I had was the katana. Unless the bloke with the rifle had run out of rounds, of course, then it'd be game on
)
Ahem I'm wafffffling again. Whilst the physical properties of Damascus steel are entirely unnecessary for wristwatch cases and bracelets, it just *looks* utterly awesome. In some ways any form of mokume-gane patterned metal would look fantastic too.
Has anyone done this with watches? Or even better, a watch made out of magic steel that folds out like a JLC Reverso into a full-length katana that then can cut through any substance and defeat any enemy, even if the wearer knows about as much about fighting as I do.
As long as it didn't use an ETA movement it'd be great
ANYWAY is it just me and far too many drugs or is the photo of your Rolex a complete bad trip complete with flashbacks to playing Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum and crashing horribly after visiting the Attic?
Now, off topic galore. This is absolute art:
Now I know about Damascus steel because I remember going on a random learning ramble (as I do from time to time) about katana swords and their almost-mythical abilities in terms of strength, sharpness and flexibility that haven't been easily replicated with modern steelmaking and alloying materials science. From this I came across Damascus steel - and without any 'magick' required, an explanation for steels made in pre-technological times that were of incredibly high performance (cutting easily through inferior steels, etc.) simply by incredible workmanship, 'black arts' involving aligning crystal boundaries of more or less carbonaceous steels, and inclusion of potential ceramic crystal cutting edges, possibly not known *scientifically* by the artisans but by God they had Skill.
Now this voodoo is normally reserved for knife enthusiasts as it's hellishly expensive, high performance *with* aesthetic beauty. That hammer is quite simply ART as far as I'm concerned. However aren't watch enthusiasts also people who pay hellishly large sums for high performance timepieces with aesthetic beauty? (though performance is easily surpassed with modern technology, much as whilst I love that hammer, or a katana made from similar material, just as a temperature-compensated quartz watch will be more accurate than a Girard-Perregaux observatory chronometer, I'd not want to face a soldier armed with an SA-80 if all I had was the katana. Unless the bloke with the rifle had run out of rounds, of course, then it'd be game on
)Ahem I'm wafffffling again. Whilst the physical properties of Damascus steel are entirely unnecessary for wristwatch cases and bracelets, it just *looks* utterly awesome. In some ways any form of mokume-gane patterned metal would look fantastic too.
Has anyone done this with watches? Or even better, a watch made out of magic steel that folds out like a JLC Reverso into a full-length katana that then can cut through any substance and defeat any enemy, even if the wearer knows about as much about fighting as I do.
As long as it didn't use an ETA movement it'd be great
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