Reply With Quote"Colourway" = +20% on the price
Stabbing's too good for 'em!
I know this isn’t the point of the thread but the term colourway makes me want to stab someone.
"Colourway" = +20% on the price
Stabbing's too good for 'em!
Agreed, it makes me cringe like when classic car dealers describe a green car with beige interior as 'green over tan' - pretentious as hellOriginally Posted by wileeeeeey
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But do you have that form factor in that colourway?
You like Casios, maybe you could get into modding.
e.g. https://www.skxmod.com/
Digits on a banking page are more boring
Thanks, yes I was into modding for a while many years back. Mainly SKXs with parts (dials/hands/crystals) from Dagaz. Eventually I managed to attain enough kit and sufficient incompetence to repair a few 70s watches too, as well as wrecking a few more.
The less said of my hydro-modding efforts, the better.
I think I haven't left much on the table as far as messing around with watches goes. Quartz, mechanical, ana-digi, digital, spring drive, solar, modern, vintage, rare, common, military, civilian, kinetic, cheap, not cheap. Round and round and round it goes. Probably why I like the DW5600 at the moment. It's unpretentious and unchanged, like the last 40 years never happened.
To be clear, I still like the forum. As even this ancient thread shows, the subject of watches is really only the tenter hook upon which we hang our colourful yarns, weaving a patchwork of community conversation. It'll be a shame if (when...) this goes too. If the forum really is shut to new entrants, I suppose that clock is ticking too.
Last edited by Tokyo Tokei; 5th May 2024 at 16:15.
Apologies - did not realised you had already been right down that rabbit hole. Respect that you dared to mess with a spring drive!
This thread is a bit pessimistic. Here are some thoughts from me:
1. If watches bore you, well maybe you have reached the end of the road with them? Interests come and go in our lives, it isn't something to mourn - find a new hobby and embrace it.
2. Personally, i find new watches utterly dull. Rolex, Patek, blah blah... mostly bought by boring people to make a quick profit, many i find ugly and ostentatious. I have found a love for neo-vintage pieces. There is a whole host of interesting Breguet, Blancpain, Ebel history that people are just stumbling upon now. Not saying this will interest you, but this is what interests me and when this current obsession ends, maybe that'll be it for me, or maybe it'll be a segue into a new watch obsessions, who knows.
3. I am relatively young (34) and although this hobby is a bit bizarre to my comtemporaries, the covid driven boom in watch prices has generated interest in watches for younger people, and not all of them just obsess about the latest daytona. I have many friends interested in unique pieces - check out watch brothers London - Ben Dunne is a buddy of mine, younger than me and the next generation of watch collectors and academics.
Lastly, the forum may be closed to new members, but there are plenty of forums that aren't. Just because TZ might be on the slide doesn't mean every watch forum is, and if we want to fight to keep this forum going for the next generation, maybe we need to raise the topic with Eddie and see what we can do to encourage new membership.
I can relate with the OP’s sentiment.
I’m also a bit bored.
I’ve got a few nice pieces, entry level offerings from mid tier Swiss brands like omega, IWC. A couple of higher end models from entry level Swiss like Longines and TAG. I don’t feel compelled to go higher up the luxury ladder and spend more money, yet I find the lower end stuff unexciting.
I’m a bit done with Seiko prospex, I wish there was something a bit higher end that wasn’t 44mm+. G-shocks are all the same, I’ve tried countless microbrands, none of them stick. I’ve worked out Damasko and Sinn aren’t for me. I’m over the retro look so Doxa and other cushion cases are out.
I don’t have a diver so I tried on a planet ocean and a Breitling superocean heritage, they both left me a bit cold.
I don’t know, it feels like I’m moping around looking for excitement
Oh, how your remarks resonates for me.
My only saving grace is this beauty that keeps my interest alive, recent incoming.
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I'm not bored. Prices are dropping and that is a good thing. It means I can gradually afford more and more watches that I previously wanted but was priced out of. Nothing amazing like Rolex/PP/whatever -- just vintage Seikos!
It also seems to me that this is an opportunity to re-find that fascination with 'cheap' and simple watches. Certainly, Time Factors and burgeoning new Chinese brands are leading the way with this.
Yerwo?
Wo I mean is: 'tis a time to be doing Outsidey Things rather than insidey watchthings*
*Tho' I may not necessarily be practicing what I'm preaching....
Ahhhhhhhhhh.......... thank you.Wo I mean is: 'tis a time to be doing Outsidey Things rather than insidey watchthings*
*Tho' I may not necessarily be practicing what I'm preaching....
Yes, it brought me great pleasure to see honey bees, yes, actual honey bees, busily collecting nectar from some blue weeds in my front garden. I haven't seen honey bees for several years.
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