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

[Nateylight]

This is way cooler than any Apple Watch


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[V1GiLaNtE]

Yo watch MMers. Looking for a more "prestige" daily driver. Nothing crazy high dollar, but nicer than my Citizen Military watch which I've been rocking.

Watches I've enjoyed aesthetically:
- CWC British Reissues
- Seiko USA Aplinist reissue (I missed the boat on this one. Beautiful)
- Rolex Submariner
- Vintage "Skin Divers"

Thoughts?

[Gordonovski]

- Seiko USA Aplinist reissue (I missed the boat on this one. Beautiful)

You just missed the boat on this one. I sold an extra blue Alpinist about a month and a half ago.


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[WRXtranceformed]

Yo watch MMers. Looking for a more "prestige" daily driver. Nothing crazy high dollar, but nicer than my Citizen Military watch which I've been rocking.

Watches I've enjoyed aesthetically:
- CWC British Reissues
- Seiko USA Aplinist reissue (I missed the boat on this one. Beautiful)
- Rolex Submariner
- Vintage "Skin Divers"

Thoughts?

Lots of great options, totally depends on your price point.  Should join our WatchMM Slack chat, most of us are on there and can guide you in the right direction

[Gordonovski]

Seconded joining our Slack; send me your email and I'll get you added.

Definitely can make some good recommendations but budget is a big consideration. There are a lot of differences between $100, $500, $1000, and 10,000 watches, which you all listed there.

[Apoc]

It makes me sad we're actively pushing people off this thread.

Yes, change is hard and MM forum is a dead man walking. Still sucks.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Seconded joining our Slack; send me your email and I'll get you added.

Definitely can make some good recommendations but budget is a big consideration. There are a lot of differences between $100, $500, $1000, and 10,000 watches, which you all listed there.

Say $500 and below

[Gordonovski]

Seconded joining our Slack; send me your email and I'll get you added.

Definitely can make some good recommendations but budget is a big consideration. There are a lot of differences between $100, $500, $1000, and 10,000 watches, which you all listed there.

Say $500 and below

Smiths Everest 36: https://www.timefactors.com/prs25black.htm


Any offering from Traska (though you might have to wait): https://www.traskawatch.com/

Baltic: https://baltic-watches.com/en/

Monta: https://montawatch.com/

Dan Henry: https://danhenrywatches.com/

These are all "microbrands" that are worth checking out and a lot are in that price range. If you find an automatic Seiko, Orient, or Hamilton within that price range that you like it will most likely be worth the money.

Just be careful to distinguish the difference between Instagram ad watches and reputable microbrands. A microbrand can give you higher quality with some great, inspired but distinct designs with reliable movements.

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It makes me sad we're actively pushing people off this thread.

Yes, change is hard and MM forum is a dead man walking. Still sucks.

Instantaneous and non-instantaneous communication platforms can coexist.

[JustinG]

We were just talking about a sub 500 diver earlier today.

https://www.jomashop.com/hamilton-watch-h82335131.html

They have some good color variants.

Or you can go cheaper and snag a new seiko turtle or samurai for sub $500. Pick them up used for sub $350.

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[Apoc]

Instantaneous and non-instantaneous communication platforms can coexist.

Lee recommended joining the chat to get feedback.

To OP: I have a few watches under $500 that I'd be interested in selling. This is a great looking watch, but it turns out I was right in that I'm not crazy about divers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pBxoYHOxW/

I like Hamiltons but I have this weird mental block because I can't stand Lewis Hamilton and I don't want his last name on my wrist. I know there is no relation.

[V1GiLaNtE]

We were just talking about a sub 500 diver earlier today.

https://www.jomashop.com/hamilton-watch-h82335131.html

They have some good color variants.

Or you can go cheaper and snag a new seiko turtle or samurai for sub $500. Pick them up used for sub $350.

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Oh, the Red, white, blue of the Seiko. Love it.

[WRXtranceformed]

Instantaneous and non-instantaneous communication platforms can coexist.

Lee recommended joining the chat to get feedback.

To OP: I have a few watches under $500 that I'd be interested in selling. This is a great looking watch, but it turns out I was right in that I'm not crazy about divers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pBxoYHOxW/

I like Hamiltons but I have this weird mental block because I can't stand Lewis Hamilton and I don't want his last name on my wrist. I know there is no relation.

Oh snap you gonna sell Perfect Soxa?  That is a cool ass mod I designed, for anyone considering it

Edit: And yeah besides the fact forums are dying, a lot of us are on Slack for work anyway and it's easier to stay connected to everyone rather than refreshing a forum page that I need an app to really view properly anyway

[SlimKlim]

Yo watch MMers. Looking for a more "prestige" daily driver. Nothing crazy high dollar, but nicer than my Citizen Military watch which I've been rocking.

Watches I've enjoyed aesthetically:
- CWC British Reissues
- Seiko USA Aplinist reissue (I missed the boat on this one. Beautiful)
- Rolex Submariner
- Vintage "Skin Divers"

Thoughts?

The most financially responsible thing you could do is to buy the Submariner you like online for $7-9k, don't join the slack chat and forget you have friends dumb enough to call spending money a hobby. Wear the watch until you retire, sell it for $40k and idk, coke and hookers or something.

[Gordonovski]

Yo watch MMers. Looking for a more "prestige" daily driver. Nothing crazy high dollar, but nicer than my Citizen Military watch which I've been rocking.

Watches I've enjoyed aesthetically:
- CWC British Reissues
- Seiko USA Aplinist reissue (I missed the boat on this one. Beautiful)
- Rolex Submariner
- Vintage "Skin Divers"

Thoughts?

The most financially responsible thing you could do is to buy the Submariner you like online for $7-9k, don't join the slack chat and forget you have friends dumb enough to call spending money a hobby. Wear the watch until you retire, sell it for $40k and idk, coke and hookers or something.

Actually Joey's right, don't talk to us.

[Apoc]

Instantaneous and non-instantaneous communication platforms can coexist.

Lee recommended joining the chat to get feedback.

To OP: I have a few watches under $500 that I'd be interested in selling. This is a great looking watch, but it turns out I was right in that I'm not crazy about divers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pBxoYHOxW/

I like Hamiltons but I have this weird mental block because I can't stand Lewis Hamilton and I don't want his last name on my wrist. I know there is no relation.

Oh snap you gonna sell Perfect Soxa?  That is a cool ass mod I designed, for anyone considering it

Edit: And yeah besides the fact forums are dying, a lot of us are on Slack for work anyway and it's easier to stay connected to everyone rather than refreshing a forum page that I need an app to really view properly anyway

God damnit my post got ate. I'm such a boomer.

Anyway, it's not for sale but I'd sell it. Divers aren't right for me in the long run and I've got a lot of money tied up in watches for someone who hasn't worked in 7 months or gotten paid in 2020.

[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.)

[WRXtranceformed]

Joey went from Zero to Hero in his collecting game with the quickness!! It's been fun to watch (no pun intended) and he has great taste

[Gordonovski]

If we're gonna do a few smell-your-own-farts-stunt-on-hoes posts, here ya go.

First "luxury" purchase, Longines Legend Diver. Was obsessed with this watch for a long time and still love the design, but 42mm is a bit big so this one doesn't get worn much these days. Would hurt to sell, so it sits in the box most the time. Luxurious cat fur background too.



Followed Joey's trend of getting the it's totally not a fake Rolex Ginault in a different color scheme for most of the same reasons he listed.



Next came the American reissue Seiko Alpinist that Cabel mentioned, a few of these have been through my doors but I have a blue and green one that probably won't go anywhere unless the blue price skyrockets.



Farer Cobb chrono was basically a one night stand. If I'm going to get a chronograph, it needs to be a Speedy. She was pretty for a while but eventually had to kick her out of bed.



Slowly the ever more quickly got into smaller watches, and this Tudor Prince Date came along from a guy on instagram (Nashville_Time) for a great price. It's basically a Tudor branded Datejust with an ETA that punches way above its class in all aspects. These are becoming more hard to come buy, so get in now if you're interested.





Then got another Tudor that made the GF not happy for a while but she came around to loving it too. The Black Bay 58 is one of the best deals on the market right now and the availability tells you that much. I've looked a lot, but it's hard to find bad press about it. Randomly wandered into a dealer and they had this in the safe in the back. Got very lucky.





Bonus lume pic to get yer rocks off.

[Apoc]

Eight of the 10 I have by frequency of wear over the last three months. The bottom right two never get worn - they're sentimental. My kid has another four I've gifted him. 

I'm too lazy to write more words. 

[WRXtranceformed]

I do like that you have two of my former watches though