Single Brand collections

[battered]

benjijames28 said:

I buy a watch I like and I wear it. My income doesn't permit multiple luxury watches.

Probably not luxury watches, but if you can buy a round of drinks you can collect HMT mechanical watches, complete with dials in Hindi or Urdu if such is your thing. I currently have 2, I think the more expensive one was £5, delivered, with a new strap. I like them both and especially enjoy the fact that nobody else will be wearing one or probably even knows what they are. I think I need a Janata white face, Hindi numerals.

Incidentally, does anyone know when Lidl are next doing the tea selection boxes that make such great watch cases?

[ed335d]

andy_s said:

Not a watch brand specifically but I've 12 watches with the Lemania 5100 movement or variant thereof, although distressingly don't have them all in a single picture

How about individual pictures?!

[720Sand1299]

Dabbled with a few other brands but always come back to these, bit of a cliche but I guess I know what I like these days.

[traffman]

Crap quality photo,



Ive had a couple of Gmt's , various sub's before settling on these.

[andy_s]

ed335d said:

How about individual pictures?!

Sorry about the bandwidth, and the photography skills....!

[ed335d]

Great collection Andy.

While the SAAF is always going to be the outstanding piece for me, I also find the Tissot rather appealing

[AlexC1981]

benjijames28 said:

I buy a watch I like and I wear it. My income doesn't permit multiple luxury watches.

Me neither I had a thing going for Vostok's a few years back. I think I spent about £200 total building this little collection.




The above is on a sharkmesh bracelet now.






This is the first watch I bought for myself and got me into the hobby. From there I bought a few Seiko 5 watches before moving on to vintage watches and some other Soviet types + more Vostok's. A few weird electro-mechanical movements and Accutron's came in. I actually only own one luxury watch, well maybe three if I include a couple of the vintage watches, but aren't really worth much.

[AlexC1981]

A few Seiko 5 watches I bought early days. They were about £50 each. You get great value for money with a Seiko 5 as long as you ditch the bracelet they come with.

[andy tims]

The current Seiko's









The current Sinn's

[battered]

AlexC1981 said:

A few Seiko 5 watches I bought early days. They were about £50 each. You get great value for money with a Seiko 5 as long as you ditch the bracelet they come with.

I can't see the pics but the Seiko 5s are great watches, I have one that has become the daily wear watch, I have nicer ones (an Alpinist is my absolute favourite) but as I am not allowed to wear a watch in the factory and I have to leave the thing in a pocket or a desk drawer then £50 a go is enough. It has a nylon strap which I like. However I bought one for my dad, it came with a stainless bracelet and that is a rather cheap affair. At £50 for a working watch with a SS bracelet I don't think that I can complain (!), but as you say it's not up to the quality of the rest of the watch.

[al1991]

AlexC1981 said:

Hi, do you have a model ref. number for this one please?

[Paul Drawmer]

I've just spent a frustrating few minutes trying to photograph a box of watches!
Not happy with the result, so here's what I have so far..

box0417 by Paul Drawmer, on Flickr

Top row L to R
C5 auto, and C3 quartz chrono. These are a couple of the original launch models for the brand. The early C5 autos had gold plated ETA movements, progessively getting plainer as each version was introduced.
CW's first Diver the C6 quartz. and the last of that case diver is the black C600 auto.
Then there's two versions of the latest cased C60 diver. The white bezel is a one off prototype. The ceramic bezel looks like porcelain.
Bottom row L to R
CW's modified Unitas movement to provide a hand wound mono pusher Chronograph. It's tall and heavy but bloody clever.
CW introduced their own in house movement with the C9 5 Day. 3 hander, COSC auto with 5 day reserve.
The in house movement is also in the small seconds - this one is hand wound.
The C9 chrono is CW's most derivative design. However, I wanted a 7750 and this was the best they did!
The black faced small seconds is a real Forum LE. It is a handwound Unitas and is a real special, not a variation of any other model.
The C65 classic is the last model to be supplied with the Chr Ward logo. They put together 175 with the blue face and orange second hand.

[DJMC]