Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

[SlimKlim]

NGL i kinda forgot about this thread, not even sure when the last time I posted anything here. I've gotten real fuckin deep in this hobby real quick, if it wasn't obvious I'm pretty much completely over cars and this is the shit that gets me going now. I'm sure no one here wants a diary of every watch I've revolved through in the past couple of years, but here are my favorite, hol-up-lemme smell-my-own-fart, significant pieces.

'93 Datejust 16234 Silver Dial w/Tritium lume & "stick indicies - I bought this after the BMW went away. Listed as a silver dial but has been sunburnt to a champagne color that shifts from a light honey to the color of a cigrit smoker's ceiling. It has the 3135 movement that still goes into Submariners today and is virtually bombproof. The sound & snicky feel of winding it up is sensual & tantalizing.

It's got an 18k white gold bezel for flexin' on bitches with black polished gold hands & markers. It came on the original ridiculously comfy hollow-link jubilee braclet but can also steal yo grandma on a strap.






Tudor Black Bay 36 Blue dial - bought this early in 2019 I think, already worn it in pretty good as I wore it most of the time last summer. Nothing that special about it, just a new watch off the shelf with a million others like it, but I wore it when I got married last winter and will never let it go. Super comfy watch, 36 is the perfect size for me, enough water resistance to go swimming, looks good with everything, ridiculously easy to read because like 40% of the dial is lume.



Schaffen S65 - This is from a microbrand in Singapore in that is an homage to Gerald Genta designed watches without being a downright ripoff of one. It's closest to an IWC ingenieur but has some hints of Nautilus and Royal Oak in there too. These aren't terrible expensive, $5-650 or so, but each watch they sell is made to order and there is no preset rotor design for the movement, even if you don't want to overly personalize it with your initials or whatever, someone contacts you to chat about what you want it to look like. I opted to just do a skeletonized rotor logo with their brand logo in the center, and they let me have #92 from the initial numbered production run of 100 because someone had previously canceled that order.

The bracelet is a bit shit, which at this price point is fine, but the execution of the case and proportions of the thing are bang on to create that ultra premium Genta feel in your brain when you look at it, 39mm x 10.5mm high with integrated lugs. Move your arm fast and you almost feel like you're rocking a $60k Patek.







Ginault Ocean Rover -

For whatever dumbfuck reason I love Rolex so much but I also hate them for their shitty sales techniques and abusive annual price hikes. Thanks Patrick Bateman.

Also for a bunch of really boring and contrived reasons I don't like the way the new Submariners wear, and the old submariners are missing too many modern features to stomach spending $7k. Enter the Ginault. Pure Made in AmericaChina Goodness, and it's definitely not the side project of a known counterfeiter who may or may not supply machining services to US Miltary Aircraft manufacturers. Stop asking.

Anyway, send a man named "John" like $1200 and wait 4-6 months and just when you're absolutely sure you've been scammed and all those positive reviews you read were just an elaborate scam, you'll receive a built-to-spec dive watch built off a nano-meter perfect copy of a Rolex 16610 submariner case, enamel dial, maxi hour markers, a fuckin TITE machined-end-link bracelet with an on-the-fly adjustable clasp and a unidirectional bezel with a snicky clicky that could arouse a nun.

You can choose any combination of lume color, bezel color, date or no-date, crystal type and date-wheel color. This was the first of this exact configuration that was ever ordered, and I think 2 or 3 people put orders in after they saw mine bc im a trendsetter. (Yeah we have a facebook group, we're hot ur not.)