Horological Meandering

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I wear them all. Maybe these with a hair more frequency than others The current favorites ...and the Beater This message has been edited by LouS on 2011-08-13 11:01:05

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I don't wear my vintage watches enough, but I do love them... 

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You have a very enviable zenith colelction, congrats also on the chronomat from the 40's, the gallet and the universals. Love them all.

best regards

georges

When it comes to reliability, accuracy, and comfort, I find Rolex to be an extremely versatile companion.  The Milgauss in particular I find very comfortable and flexible as to occasion.  I suspect that if I had an Explorer or a Daytona I would feel much the same.  Nice question; all the best.

. . . I try to give them all roughly equal wrist time, except this one . . .

. . . which gets an outing once (or, at the most, twice) a year.

One of the most beautiful ever, I think... what a great case!!

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This one is gets the most wrist time since I got it a month ago...

I have a business with a partner and thus most days no formal dress requirements.  I found this one works with a polo shirt and shorts quite well   I usually do switch watches when I get home (or finish working from home), and this one has got a lot of wrist rides, too:



It's a big chunky diver (and yes, I know, derivative design, etc etc) but wears really nicely and is my only three hand - no date watch!

the other one isn;t bad either

J

 

 At the ocean, on the bike, at work, to wake up every morning. In two words: "Best Companion".

In the evening, I try to give wrist time to my second best daily beater because this one has charm.

 

 

If it had an alarm, I would have to wear both in each wrist every day (which I sometimes do anyway..Am I the only one doing it?)

Regards,

Yves

This message has been edited by Yves007 on 2011-08-13 20:14:51

I like special timepieces. The ones I wear are usually coming from service/ restoration during some months in a row or a year depending of which watch it is, then I switch. I usually used to wear an aquastar benthos 500 from 1969, a huge and very robust diver waterproff to 500meters and powered by the as 1901

then I decided to wear my speed 125 after it came back from service recently .

I am not someone who is changing of watches very much.  

...Benthos 500. Definitely one of the more out-there and interesting dive watches.

My fav one...



Fx

I just can't show you my ankles.  

A

 

Did I miss something, here???

Or were you just hiding it for the right occasion?



Best,

Nicolas.

I have had it for a cpuple of years. I love it to bits in 18K RG, but I fear I made a bad decision; the hands, dial and alarm disk don't look quite right. And I haven't been able to open the case to check all the movement details.

I have been hoping for another original one to pop up to make me feel better, but no luck.

Perhaps I should just post what I have on the watch and the JLC aficionados can tell me what to do?

But otherwise it's a perfectly addorable little thing.

:-(

A

 

We'll see if anybody here has a solution for your watch.

Damn nice little thing, by the way!

Best,

Nicolas.

9 times out of 10, this is my daily wearer.  I change to go out for a client lunch or dinner into something a little different, but most times you will find this on my wrist with one strap or another depending how sunny it is

I tend to wear this on a day to day basis. Primarily because I don't mind too much if it takes the scratches and bumps as I load children in
and out of the car.

I do wear my other vintage watches, but with so many of them parts can be rare and scarce, if I scratch the crystal on my 68 Polaris I could spend several years
looking for another.

Small children in my daily life too, also is a reason to wear something you don't mind scratching... this contributed greatly to my choice of modern Daytona...

and you can always send it back to the Roelx Spa when you feel like it.

...but these two are worn far more than the others:

in a kind of laid-back, sub-atomic kind of way,

but the second one from "AP" ... ?

Are you sure that both of these are real ?

I am neither an expert in Breitlings nor with AP s.

Just being a curious fellow,

amerix This message has been edited by amerix on 2011-08-16 09:34:57

...the Breitling's a Navitimer Datora Montbrillant that's about nine years old now. They still make this model along with other Navitimer models.

but in reality - flabbergasted - after me staring at such things as the deWitt X-Concept Watch and other "concepts", which have plunged me down into the dark and deeper realms of despair and despondence.

And then wondering about this particular AP which seemed SO untypical of the later or other models that I know.

Please forgive me, and not knowing you - I really thought that it could be a fake!

But now I am wiser and hope that you continue to enjoy this, the real and genuine article!

With remorse,

;;-)

amerix
This message has been edited by amerix on 2011-08-16 12:09:56

...since the first generation Millenary was a bit of a flop when it was introduced and is still considered somewhat of a misfit in the AP family.

I don't own, or plan to have, anything special or very expensive.

On my day-to-day activities the one that I wear most is the Speedmaster:



This one is the sapphire sandwich version. Not fancy but somehow reliable.
Normally I rotate this one with another Speedmaster, also Moon but vintage.

My few others, I wear during very special occasions or weekends.

After one gets robbed, like I was last year, this changes our view of watches.

Cheers