A thread for watch love - The Bear and Badger

Unlikely

Jesus shitting Christ I've just looked up how much these things cost.

Minkymu

It is lovely, im very jealous

Minkymu

Yeah £5k plus

Minkymu

I would literally wear that everyday. That would look class. I might be inclined to get it serviced just to be sure, but what a cracking piece. Best thing is as its on a leather strap you can swap the strap up for fresh looks. £200 on a nice navy blue alligator strap, something italian hand made.

cockbeard

If you decide to give it a service, I know no-one in your neck of the woods, but my friend Michael (there's a coincidence) is London is a watchmaker and actually works for Omega, happy to ask him if he can help

Minkymu

Actually Omega sell a wide range of replacement straps , including natos, on the Omega website. You could have classic original and a mix of looks for it.

Minkymu

cockbeard wrote:

If you decide to give it a service, I know no-one in your neck of the woods, but my friend Michael (there's a coincidence) is London is a watchmaker and actually works for Omega, happy to ask him if he can help

This is too good an offer to pass up unlikely

cockbeard

Hahahaha, from that photo alone, boy clearly knows his stuff

Mike wrote:

Beautiful.. Its an old 67? Rose plated movement. Hands are oxodised.. Moisture has come in.. May need lots of parts due to rust and sitting with moisture for long? It's come in through the crown so winding a d setting mechanism may need parts..wkrth repairing. Im not yet ba k to work. Im still repairing my boat and hope to set up a workshop..

Dinostar77

My new watch arrived today. Shouldnt have bought it. Just added to my credit card bill i have to pay off. I blame minkymu. Not myself for being weak willed or easily led. Minkymu. Its all your fault and this bloody thread.

Lol. Will post a pic of it later. Seiko 5 Sports Automatic 24 Jewels SRP605K2

cockbeard

hahahaha, Seiko 5, I'm already impressed, can't wait to see it. Definitely the kind of watch you buy if you're a leader not a follower

Minkymu

Dinostar77 wrote:

My new watch arrived today. Shouldnt have bought it. Just added to my credit card bill i have to pay off. I blame minkymu. Not myself for being weak willed or easily led. Minkymu. Its all your fault and this bloody thread.

Lol. Will post a pic of it later. Seiko 5 Sports Automatic 24 Jewels SRP605K2

Lol. I gladly take all blame.

Enjoy new watch day and the continuing joy wearing it gives you.

Unlikely

cockbeard wrote:

Hahahaha, from that photo alone, boy clearly knows his stuff

Mike wrote:

Beautiful.. Its an old 67? Rose plated movement. Hands are oxodised.. Moisture has come in.. May need lots of parts due to rust and sitting with moisture for long? It's come in through the crown so winding a d setting mechanism may need parts..wkrth repairing. Im not yet ba k to work. Im still repairing my boat and hope to set up a workshop..

Thanks Cocko. It seems to be working fine though - wound it up earlier, corrected the time and it's still ticking merrily away.

Dinostar77

Birdorf wrote:

Had a bit of a rush of blood yesterday and ended up with these. The red wine square is nicer than I expected.

That Red Wine Casio is abit nice. Lovely colour. Impressed.

cockbeard

hahaha, yeah reading it back it does read a bit like the mechanic sucking his teeth

Dinostar77

Unlikely wrote:

Minkymu wrote:

Please dig it out and take a picture unlikely.

Took me a while but I found it.

Thats lovely. Get a quote on how much its worth if you aint already. An item like that may need to be specifically called out on home content insurance.

Dinostar77

cockbeard

Nice

Minkymu

Nice Seiko. Good colour combo choice. Love the strap

b0r1s

Will people stop buying nice watches!!

Minkymu

And yours has the resin strap keepers. I had to take my original strap off my prospex tuna as it was a brushed metal keeper that scratched to fuck

Minkymu

https://youtu.be/1_CSPGlxM9U

Still my absolute fave watch

Roujin

That Omega is fucking nice Unlikely, your grandad knew what was up. Definiteky get it on the home contexts insurance asap and it might be worth taking it to someone who deals with old Omegas to get it serviced if it's been sat around for a while, just to get it cleaned and get the lubricant changed and anything else in order to keep it running smoothly.

Continuing from Dino's Seiko 5 up there, it's my bday coming up so I got myself a lil automatic for everyday wear, lil Seiko 5 from 1980 with that minimalist sunburst red dial. Stuck it on a plan black NATO strap and because I have tiny girl wrists it doesnt look out of place even though being old is a smaller case than you normally get today, that strap is only 18mm wide for instance!

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Minkymu

What a lovely dial. Nice bit of patina too. Seiko dials are fab.

My collection is lacking a nice sunburst dial

hylian_elf

Beautiful, Rouj!

cockbeard

That's lovely

Minkymu

Was looking for a nice slim dress watch a while back, but the German watch thing got in the way again.

Was really loving this:

JUNGHANS MEISTER HANDAUFZUG.

Apparently very reliable, lovely frosted blue dial and a mega edge to edge heavily domed crystal

Minkymu

New watches from tudor, rolex inbound from watch and wonders show

cockbeard

Aaah, so this will likely be the new explorer reveal??

Also that Junghams is really nice, like you said earlier about trying to speculate, buy what you like and if it goes up then great, if not at least you've got something you want to wear. I feel a bit of crossover with the kicks fred on that subject

Minkymu

The “new” explorer is just downsized to 36mm and comes in silver and 2 tone silver and gold and the explorer 2 gets an upgraded gmt movement, reprofiked case and lugs (hard pressed to tell) improved lume and matte black hands and a blasted case and strap.

davyK

Minkymu wrote:

Oh I say.

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