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| Tweet Topic Started: May 18 2007, 06:57 PM (1,069 Views) | |
| Frank_W | May 21 2007, 03:46 AM Post #76 |
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:lol: You do have a point.
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| katie | May 21 2007, 04:37 AM Post #77 |
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Well I googled TAG b/c hubby is looking for a watch. I like the Aquaracer very much. But there's one I think hubby will like: TAG Monaco V4 Concept Watch . He's been looking for a 'skeleton' watch for years now. I think I'll show this to him. |
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| Daniel\ | May 21 2007, 04:41 AM Post #78 |
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Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I became less interested in them after they replaced the hand wound movement in their green plastic field watch. Sigh. |
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| Frank_W | May 21 2007, 04:48 AM Post #79 |
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NICE!! I like that watch.
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| phykell | May 21 2007, 05:24 AM Post #80 |
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phykell cares not for the supposed prestige of any "name". Anyway, Casio's been making electronic watches since I was a nipper so I'm sure they must know what they're doing by now ![]() The other thing is that I'd hate to have something so expensive on my wrist that I was always worried about losing it, that and the fact that most of these big name watches weigh half a kilo. Why insist on having a huge lump of metal strapped to your wrist? No, the snobbery value of watches is a mystery to me, as is the idea of having an amazing "timepiece". IMO the radio time signal integrated circuit module effectively made the pursuit of accurate timepieces for personal use somewhat redundant. As for diving and other "sports" watches, I much prefer the more practical "military" watches. For example: http://www.mwcwatches.com/shop/product_inf...e7752d7e1466558 http://www.mwcwatches.com/shop/product_inf...&products_id=83 This Black Self Luminous Special Forces Divers watch consists of a combination of current European military specifications and the US specification referred to below it is water-resistant to 200m or 20atm. The Special Forces Divers Watch is very easy to read in all conditions and approximately 100 times bighter than a watch using conventional luminous paint. The hour positions, the bezel and the hour and minute hands each have a brightly glowing vial of Tritium gas in adition two orange light sources are at the 12.00 position. In accordance with US regulations and US specification MIL-W-46374F- even when taken together they contain less than the personal limit of 25 millicuries. (U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations 10 CFR 30.15.). The MWC Self Luminous series watches are incredibly bright at night, far too bright in fact for a soldier in the field to wear one without covering the face. This is because any image intensifier up to a mile away will spot it in seconds! It is so bright that some serving military have told us thay can read a map if its held close! If you would like to see a nightime shot of the face email dieter@mwcuhren.ch and he will send you one.
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| Frank_W | May 21 2007, 05:31 AM Post #81 |
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I like the one in the first link, Phykell.
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| Klaus | May 21 2007, 05:34 AM Post #82 |
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The other day I saw ads for leasing Rolex watches. Leasing a watch!!! How dumb must a person be to go in debt for a watch? |
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| Frank_W | May 21 2007, 05:36 AM Post #83 |
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Oh good grief....
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| John D'Oh | May 21 2007, 05:57 AM Post #84 |
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I agree, as it happens. I'm not really sponsored by Timex, but I do wear one. I don't need accuracy to the millisecond, I need it to the nearest minute or so, and any cheap-sh!t watch will give me that. As long as the thing doesn't rust and give me a nasty rash, and doesn't look completely awful, I'm happy. If I have a chunk of money to waste I'd rather spend it on something stupid like a nice computer than on something stupid like a swanky watch, but each to his own. |
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| phykell | May 21 2007, 06:07 AM Post #85 |
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I was trying to find another site which had some really nice military type diving watches but I can't find it now unfortunately. The military watches are very cool though, elegance and style through functionality and all that
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | May 21 2007, 06:12 AM Post #86 |
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I’m a scuba diver so I have a diver’s watch. It’s a black with gold trim Heuer that I paid about $350 for in 1988. Prices have really gone up since then. This same watch now costs about $1300. The watch has only “Heuer” printed on the dial face so sometime between 1988 and now, Heuer became Tag Heuer. It’s a Swiss company and there must have been a merger or something. Don’t buy a diver’s watch if you’re not a diver and don’t buy a chronological watch if you’re not a pilot. You’re paying for features that you don’t need. The more features that a watch has, the greater the complexity and the more things that can go wrong with it. Battery replacement is expensive and time consuming on a diver’s watch because the O-rings and seals have to be replaced. If you’re a poseur, that is a person who’s overly concerned with style and status, then yes, by all means, go ahead and get a Rolex or a Movado museum watch. |
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| Frank_W | May 21 2007, 06:24 AM Post #87 |
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Right on: Purchase a watch (or any other tool, really) for what you're doing. I kept breaking and scratching watches. I finally bought something that would stand up to the abuse, and also serve as a dive watch. I've also been looking at the Citizen Aqualand dive watches. Not real expensive, compared to Tag, Rolex, Breitling, etc., but it keeps track of depth and has a dive log. (Then again, I have a dive computer that does the same thing....) LOL |
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