And I mean wrist watches, not like voyeurism or anything. If you like to watch, take it to the NSFW forum.
So then, wrist watches! I've recently started collecting them, specifically mechanical ones, and I want to see what kinds of watches people here are wearing. I do own a smart watch but I've kinda grown to hate it, and I also just like the sort of mechanical engineering that goes into fully analog watches. They also have a timeless quality that will make them last forever, as opposed to the disposable tech of smart watches. No one is going to be excited to inherit their granddad's gen 1 apple watch, that thing will be useless.
So then, on to the two watches I recently picked up. First is the Invicta Pro Diver.
People hate on Invicta as a company because they either make huge gaudy wrist watches, or they make homage pieces that are blatant copies of other watches. This is the latter, being an homage to the Rolex Submariner, the watch Sean Connery wore as James Bond. I think it's a beautiful piece, it has a reliable automatic movement from Seiko powering it, and by not being a Rolex you immediately knock a few zeroes off the price. I love this thing.
On to a slightly more vintage look, we have the 1963 Sea-gull pilots chronograph, made for the "people's liberation army" of China.
Interesting history behind this watch, the communist Chinese regime under Mao began a project to allow them to manufacture snazzy chronographs that they could issue to their pilots and high ranking military officers. The problem was China at the time had no ability to make such a complicated watch movement, and so they ended up purchasing a movement and all of the machinery needed to produce it from Switzerland. So this piece is powered by a Swiss designed movement that was wholly manufactured in China.
So then, wrist watches! I've recently started collecting them, specifically mechanical ones, and I want to see what kinds of watches people here are wearing. I do own a smart watch but I've kinda grown to hate it, and I also just like the sort of mechanical engineering that goes into fully analog watches. They also have a timeless quality that will make them last forever, as opposed to the disposable tech of smart watches. No one is going to be excited to inherit their granddad's gen 1 apple watch, that thing will be useless.
So then, on to the two watches I recently picked up. First is the Invicta Pro Diver.
People hate on Invicta as a company because they either make huge gaudy wrist watches, or they make homage pieces that are blatant copies of other watches. This is the latter, being an homage to the Rolex Submariner, the watch Sean Connery wore as James Bond. I think it's a beautiful piece, it has a reliable automatic movement from Seiko powering it, and by not being a Rolex you immediately knock a few zeroes off the price. I love this thing.
On to a slightly more vintage look, we have the 1963 Sea-gull pilots chronograph, made for the "people's liberation army" of China.
Interesting history behind this watch, the communist Chinese regime under Mao began a project to allow them to manufacture snazzy chronographs that they could issue to their pilots and high ranking military officers. The problem was China at the time had no ability to make such a complicated watch movement, and so they ended up purchasing a movement and all of the machinery needed to produce it from Switzerland. So this piece is powered by a Swiss designed movement that was wholly manufactured in China.
