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Decided to go Rolex again today ….


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Mapex Always said:
Decided to go Rolex again today ….


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Timeless

Rolex is a brand I don't have in my collection. Never got around to it I guess. Perhaps an air king or a milligauss.
I did have a nice Tudor but for some reason I sold it. Only watch I've collected that I sold.
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My wife has one though . . .
 
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^^^Two beauties above.

Sinn today. Older picture but its what is on.
This thread is making me go through my watches to fast. I usually wear them for a week or two at a time :)

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Great watch! I've got a beat to hell 856utc on bracelet thats been my daily driver for years. Glad to see another Sinn collector on here.
 
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Since we're doing photos, here's what I have out on the road right now.

My Tudor prince date-day I picked up in Japan for next to nothing before they really took off. The Tudor 5 link bracelet, smooth bezel and oyster case combo is one of my favorites.

And my Sinn 556a, which is my insanely overqualified tour beater. You could throw the thing at the wall and it'll still run.
 
Wow some nice watches on here! I can say the second hand and vintage watch market, like anything else these days, has gone through the roof…My Rolex Daytona is worth almost 4x what I paid for it in 2013…CRAZY!
 

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Wow some nice watches on here! I can say the second hand and vintage watch market, like anything else these days, has gone through the roof…My Rolex Daytona is worth almost 4x what I paid for it in 2013…CRAZY!
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Gorgeous watch!

Oh to go back to 2013 when you could walk into an AD and buy a steel sports model for retail, in stock. Sigh.
 
Today I went with one of the big three - Patik Philippe, Girard-Perregaux, Vacheron Constantin - They may be expensive but worth every penny! As top quality as you can get with the best complications.

Girard-Perregaux is one of the oldest watch companies dated in history , 231 years old , origins back to 1791 ,, Napoleon Bonaparte use to wear one while riding his horse in war.

This one has one of the most accurate “second” hand complications in Time Piece history. A full rotation every second. Gorgeous watch!

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I'm way into the "domestic production" Soviet watches. I find the weird marriage of art deco and 70s/80s angular design language really charming. And the total practicality of them, too: since many were issued as tools rather than sold as consumer products, there's just a whole different aesthetic to the build quality that I love, even in the formal/dress watches.

As a side benefit, thanks to the western perception that anything manufactured behind the iron curtain was either a terrifying doomsday weapon or Soviet commie junk... they're wildly undervalued. They sell for a 1/10 or less of an equivalent Swiss watch, even if the Soviet one has an objectively better movement.

Of course there's junk, but the good stuff is great.

I've got... a lot.

My personal favorites are 80s Raketas (fun angular design), Poljot automatics and alarm models (classic "watch watches"), and probably my absolute favorite- the Luch Ultra Slim. The Ultra Slims came in all sorts of nice dial designs, are one of the thinnest/lightest mechanical watches ever built (comfy for drumming), have a super accurate movement, and you can get a really nice one for less than an Acrolite.

And as a side note, I'm also a rail thin tall and skinny guy, and really don't like the look or feel of huge watches on my frame. They're cool, just not for me: as long as it's big enough to read the time, I'm good. The Soviet stuff all leans way small by modern standards.
 
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I'm way into the "domestic production" Soviet watches. I find the weird marriage of art deco and 70s/80s angular design language really charming. And the total practicality of them, too: since many were issued as tools rather than sold as consumer products, there's just a whole different aesthetic to the build quality that I love, even in the formal/dress watches.

As a side benefit, thanks to the western perception that anything manufactured behind the iron curtain was either a terrifying doomsday weapon or Soviet commie junk... they're wildly undervalued. They sell for a 1/10 or less of an equivalent Swiss watch, even if the Soviet one has an objectively better movement.

Of course there's junk, but the good stuff is great.

I've got... a lot.

My personal favorites are 80s Raketas (fun angular design), Poljot automatics and alarm models (classic "watch watches"), and probably my absolute favorite- the Luch Ultra Slim. The Ultra Slims came in all sorts of nice dial designs, are one of the thinnest/lightest mechanical watches ever built (comfy for drumming), have a super accurate movement, and you can get a really nice one for less than an Acrolite.
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I have had a few Russian military watches over the years. I see a fair few Luch one hand watches that are hand-wound. Soviet era watches are quite fascinating. I remember trading one Canadian made hockey sticks for four Soviet made hockey sticks with Soviet players and knew why the Red Army used Koho and Titan LOL manufacturing was a very interesting thing in the Iron Curtain era.
 
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