Pocket watches
Discussion
OP, Is this you? 
I reckon a Hunter (which has a metal flip cover) would be a good bet, the cover would protect the glass (I would somehow manage to break it) and you can give it a bit of a flourish opening it when a pretty girl asks you the time.
I very much doubt you could get an auto, as they wouldn't move around as much in a pocket as on your wrist, so you'd be stuck with a choice between quartz or mechanical wind up.
Personally I'd go for a mechanical one every day as I like the idea of a bit of sprung engineering doing its own thing - that needs a bit of attention daily to keep it going (more opportunity to impress the ladies) rather than a small bit of printed circuit board telling the time with boring, regular accuracy. You've also got a good chance a watchmaker can fix a mechanical watch if it breaks, if the quartz watch goes (admitedly rarely), then that's usually the end of it.
If I was in the market for a pocket watch, then I'd probably be looking at something as old as possible, that's lived a bit and has a bit of history, so that would rule out most of the quartz watches too.
All of the above is In My Own Opinion of course, but good luck to you in your search!
I reckon a Hunter (which has a metal flip cover) would be a good bet, the cover would protect the glass (I would somehow manage to break it) and you can give it a bit of a flourish opening it when a pretty girl asks you the time.
I very much doubt you could get an auto, as they wouldn't move around as much in a pocket as on your wrist, so you'd be stuck with a choice between quartz or mechanical wind up.
Personally I'd go for a mechanical one every day as I like the idea of a bit of sprung engineering doing its own thing - that needs a bit of attention daily to keep it going (more opportunity to impress the ladies) rather than a small bit of printed circuit board telling the time with boring, regular accuracy. You've also got a good chance a watchmaker can fix a mechanical watch if it breaks, if the quartz watch goes (admitedly rarely), then that's usually the end of it.
If I was in the market for a pocket watch, then I'd probably be looking at something as old as possible, that's lived a bit and has a bit of history, so that would rule out most of the quartz watches too.
All of the above is In My Own Opinion of course, but good luck to you in your search!
Edited by prand on Tuesday 2nd November 17:47
Good starter article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_watch
prand said:
I reckon a Hunter (which has a metal flip cover) would be a good bet, the cover would protect the glass (I would somehow manage to break it) and you can give it a bit of a flourish opening it when a pretty girl asks you the time.
I very much doubt you could get an auto, as they wouldn't move around as much in a pocket as on your wrist, so you'd be stuck with a choice between quartz or mechanical wind up.
Personally I'd go for a mechanical one every day as I like the idea of a bit of sprung engineering doing its own thing - that needs a bit of attention daily to keep it going (more opportunity to impress the ladies) rather than a small bit of printed circuit board telling the time with boring, regular accuracy. You've also got a good chance a watchmaker can fix a mechanical watch if it breaks, if the quartz watch goes (admitedly rarely), then that's usually the end of it.
If I was in the market for a pocket watch, then I'd probably be looking at something as old as possible, that's lived a bit and has a bit of history, so that would rule out most of the quartz watches too.
All of the above is In My Own Opinion of course, but good luck to you in your search!
I bet your a real hit with the ladies I very much doubt you could get an auto, as they wouldn't move around as much in a pocket as on your wrist, so you'd be stuck with a choice between quartz or mechanical wind up.
Personally I'd go for a mechanical one every day as I like the idea of a bit of sprung engineering doing its own thing - that needs a bit of attention daily to keep it going (more opportunity to impress the ladies) rather than a small bit of printed circuit board telling the time with boring, regular accuracy. You've also got a good chance a watchmaker can fix a mechanical watch if it breaks, if the quartz watch goes (admitedly rarely), then that's usually the end of it.
If I was in the market for a pocket watch, then I'd probably be looking at something as old as possible, that's lived a bit and has a bit of history, so that would rule out most of the quartz watches too.
All of the above is In My Own Opinion of course, but good luck to you in your search!
Edited by Easty-5 on Tuesday 2nd November 19:03
No I am not Ian Duncan Smith or another similar Tory Boy. Although I do vote for them.
My take on this is that I'm a traditionalist that likes quality. I admire things like a Lock hat and hand made shoes (no I have neither) that seems to be almost lost forever. A gold engraved full hunter pocket watch with a bit of history says far more about a person than a hideous Rolex. Who cares about the ladies anyway? They'd cause me far more pain than any watch could.
I often find that I need to remove my wrist watch at work, in the gym, using my mac book pro etc as it gets in the way. If I had a pocket watch it would be much more to my liking. It will be a bugger to find one though. And that's if I can afford what I want.
My take on this is that I'm a traditionalist that likes quality. I admire things like a Lock hat and hand made shoes (no I have neither) that seems to be almost lost forever. A gold engraved full hunter pocket watch with a bit of history says far more about a person than a hideous Rolex. Who cares about the ladies anyway? They'd cause me far more pain than any watch could.
I often find that I need to remove my wrist watch at work, in the gym, using my mac book pro etc as it gets in the way. If I had a pocket watch it would be much more to my liking. It will be a bugger to find one though. And that's if I can afford what I want.
I have a nice silver 1910 key wind model which my wife bought for me from a local antique shop. The original owner had just gone into a home and wanted to realise some money so sold a number of quality silver items.
Inside the back cover are several small reference numbers scratched in the metal - Pawn shop refs where the watch had been pawned over the years. There was a small note with several dates where the owner had regulated the watch (in 1914!)
Quite sad really but it has some history.
Gold full hunter is the way to go - get a repeater if you can afford it.
Inside the back cover are several small reference numbers scratched in the metal - Pawn shop refs where the watch had been pawned over the years. There was a small note with several dates where the owner had regulated the watch (in 1914!)
Quite sad really but it has some history.
Gold full hunter is the way to go - get a repeater if you can afford it.
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