Watch Parade

[ewenmilligan]

Hi folks,

I had five minutes this morning to take some grab shots of some of my watches on the wrist - which are your favourites?

[ShadownINja]

Interesting range of watches for different occasions there! Should be in the wrist check 2009 thread...

[Birney29]

Can't really notice the watches properly when distracted by the fact the straps appear to be turning your arm into sausages.

[Vipers]

Time lapse photography, or bad time keepers?

[ewenmilligan]

Vipers said:

Time lapse photography, or bad time keepers?

Good point - never bothered to set the auto/manual watches - whoops!

[ewenmilligan]

Birney29 said:

Can't really notice the watches properly when distracted by the fact the straps appear to be turning your arm into sausages.

...the curse of having forearms like Popeye...lol....does make some of the 50mm watches look small though.....

[sneijder]

Nice heavy metal collection,

I demand you provide details of the following watch, for it has the potential to shuffle its way to the top of my 'to buy' list.



Have you dribbled on the Suunto with excitement ?

[B Oeuf]

That square thing......you didn't,er wear that in public did you?

[ewenmilligan]

sneijder said:

I demand you provide details of the following watch, for it has the potential to shuffle its way to the top of my 'to buy' list.

Not an expensive watch - it is a Police model PL11181J. The top arc shows the date and the bottom arc shows 24hr time. Both hands fly back at the end of the month/day as appropriate. RRP is about £120/130 but I picked it up at the local shopping centre watch outlet at £60. The large cream 45mm (ex Crown)dial caught my eye as I passed.

Here is another pic

[ewenmilligan]

B Oeuf said:

That square thing......you didn't,er wear that in public did you?

I'd like a couple of offences (occasions) to be taken into consideration. It is a serious and heavy chunk of steel and at 50mm without the crown and the two pushers not the most comfortable thing to wear. Should probably be classed as an offensive weapon given weight/shape.......or perhaps just offensive...lol.

[Birney29]

Maybe I am mental, but I like the square one!

On my tiny, girly wrists it would look a but silly though.

[andy tims]

B Oeuf said:

That square thing......you didn't,er wear that in public did you?

Harsh......but fair.

I prefer the Panerai, which I'd guess is probably worth 2 or 3 times the rest of them put together. If that makes me sound shallow, I don't care. It's genuinely the one I like most.

[ewenmilligan]

Birney29 said:

Maybe I am mental, but I like the square one!

On my tiny, girly wrists it would look a but silly though.

It would probably look better, as on my 9" wrists it just looks like a 'normal sized' watch. I bought the Invicta Gran Capitan on the basis that I saw a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger wearing one and it looked 'big' on him. Despite one colleague who commented that I appeared to be wearing the town-hall clock, it is not as big as I thought it was going to be.

[Birney29]

ewenmilligan said:

Despite one colleague who commented that I appeared to be wearing the town-hall clock, it is not as big as I thought it was going to be.

When some old guy hooks a cable up to it, claiming it will help him get a delorean up to 88 mph, you will indeed know it is too big

Edited by Birney29 on Wednesday 23 September 13:47

Edited by Birney29 on Wednesday 23 September 14:00

[B Oeuf]

ewenmilligan said:

B Oeuf said:

That square thing......you didn't,er wear that in public did you?

I'd like a couple of offences (occasions) to be taken into consideration. It is a serious and heavy chunk of steel and at 50mm without the crown and the two pushers not the most comfortable thing to wear. Should probably be classed as an offensive weapon given weight/shape.......or perhaps just offensive...lol.

I can imagine ripping yer strides apart looking for loose change too

[ewenmilligan]

andy tims said:

B Oeuf said:

That square thing......you didn't,er wear that in public did you?

Harsh......but fair.

I prefer the Panerai, which I'd guess is probably worth 2 or 3 times the rest of them put together. If that makes me sound shallow, I don't care. It's genuinely the one I like most.

..and probably the watch I would wear to meetings etc...but I've never really bonded with it. There are plenty of watches that I have let go, sold on that I shouldn't have (..where is my Wakmann Chrono) and the only two in the batch above that are definite keepers are the Oris TT1 as it was a present from 'her indoors'and she checks every now and again to make sure I haven't traded it, and the Citizen Aqualand which was purchased in Antigua in 1993 and is the 'oldest' watch there. It also has a depth scale in feet which makes it a bit out of date and pretty unattractive to the market (just like its owner) but it has only been a desk diver for many years.

[MarkoTVR]

Shiny Panerai. Yum.