A thread for watch love - The Bear and Badger

Minkymu

Thats the Oris Altimeter. Its fucking huge. £3k

Minkymu

Just loaded your pics Elf. Some belters in there.

My fave out of that haul is the Tag Carrera, with the Orange bezel Omega Seamaster a close 2nd.

cockbeard

Intriguing, wasn't that watch, but yeah they need to massive to work, because you're basically carrying a barometer on your wrist. I remember looking a few years back and found nothing, so pretty cool that it does exist as a complication somewhere. His one alone has done over a 1000 jumps

Minkymu

Yeah oris do the dial in 2 different measurements too.

Minkymu

Oris. Now theres an underated watch brand.

Minkymu

I love this Longines Heritage Military.

Such attention to detail. Proper heated till blue hands. 38mm polished steel case. The tiny specs you see in the dial are hand applied, so each dial is unique. The black/brown dots are meant l to mimic the ageing process of the original watches dial.

£1,750

davyK

Oh I like that.

Minkymu

And then theres is this....... that dial!

davyK

I prefer the less busier dial. When I was younger I liked the super busy looking ones.

Have a fancy for a vintage seiko.

hylian_elf

That Longines is classy.

Minkymu

hylian_elf wrote:

That Longines is classy.

Yeah the Longines is defo my next watch grab. It is so well thought out and executed. I tried it on and the curved case back makes it sit perfectlly. The strap is actually green in person, like aged bronze, supple though. Lovely big crown and box crystal al too. I like the fact its bespoke, despite being very roduced in decent numbers(1940 plus)

I wish i had bought it, but funds prevented it.

Minkymu

davyK wrote:

I prefer the less busier dial. When I was younger I liked the super busy looking ones.

Have a fancy for a vintage seiko.

The new presage cocktail range and sharp edged range are magnificent. Seiko is currently smashing every one on dial design and execution atm.

The pressage dials are unreal for the money

Minkymu

I mean look at the dial on that. £400 that is. Incredible detail

Dinostar77

Some lovely watches on this thread. It has helped me in that im more sure than ever that i wont ever go above £200-£300 for a watch. It just isn't me. Watches that cost thousands are luxury items more than watches. I guess its the same with cars for me. Abit of a car nut, but when cars start going above the 100k mark i loose all interest. I think its the same with watches. Above a certain threshold and its just empty. Anyway thats just me.

b0r1s

Stop posting pics Minky! You’re making me want to waste money.

Minkymu

Honestly spend 30 mins on the presage cocktail range webpage and then see how hard it is ti avoid buying at least 2

Minkymu

b0r1s wrote:

Stop posting pics Minky! You’re making me want to waste money.

A watch is never a waste. They are too special

Minkymu

Dinostar77 wrote:

Some lovely watches on this thread. It has helped me in that im more sure than ever that i wont ever go above £200-£300 for a watch. It just isn't me. Watches that cost thousands are luxury items more than watches. I guess its the same with cars for me. Abit of a car nut, but when cars start going above the 100k mark i loose all interest. I think its the same with watches. Above a certain threshold and its just empty. Anyway thats just me.

Dino i swear i can get you some beautiful watches for that money. £300

cockbeard

There's a specific word for detail on the dial, I know it but I can't recall it. There's also a Finnish guy, so good at it he's got his own brand despite not being a movement guy

Edit: Kari Voutilainen bloody gorgeous https://www.voutilainen.ch/the-watches/#*

cockbeard

Also yes Dino, even at under 500 there is good stuff to be found. After all 1:1 Rolex replicas can be sold in this range, therefore a real firm can do the same. The watch I stopped wearing a little while ago was a German brand with no history, using Chinese movements which were perfect clones of Swiss movements

Minkymu

cockbeard wrote:

There's a specific word for detail on the dial, I know it but I can't recall it. There's also a Finnish guy, so good at it he's got his own brand despite not being a movement guy

Edit: Kari Voutilainen bloody gorgeous https://www.voutilainen.ch/the-watches/#*

Wow. Some proper jazzy dials in there.

Roujin

Love a good red dial, been cruising ebay for Seiko 5's again thanks to this thread, look at this beauty, love that sunburst dial.

Minkymu

Ooooft lovely. Red dials are in big time this year.

Minkymu

Regards the sub £500 watch purchase discussion there are some banging options to look at.

My CWC Mellor 72. First picture i posted.

The Seiko presage cocktail range. Some stunning dial colours and textures in that range.

The Gshock G Lide surf watches are cool.

Or theres this:

The Hamilton Khaki field hand wound mechanical. 3 dial colours including a sand one and a black one, but for me whites the pick of the lot

Minkymu

The G Lide smart surf watch. White one again for me. The teal one is the collectable one though as they have discontinued it. So thats the rare one

Minkymu

Another couple of presage cocktail watches. Again under £500. Insane detail for the cash. Well put together too.

They have brown, green, gold red and frost blue dial and textured varieties too. They even do a cream snd gold honeycomb dial with an semi exposed movement.

No one would think you paid under a grand either

Minkymu

Theres even one for Roujin.

Phwoar

Dinostar77

A few more i found interesting. Minkymu, no Tags or Bretlings posted? What do you think of those brands? Also by all means keep posting pics of £1000+ watches, its interesting to see them.

Minkymu

Ha ha i was going to post the Hamilton surfboard in a bit. Tbf Bulova do some good watches. The Bulova moonwatch quartz is a beauty, like the omega moonwatch it has legitimate space going heritage in the Apollo missions, but none of the kudos as it wasnt the first one in space.

£499

Minkymu

I like tags and brietlings, though the ranges within each brand are a bit samey for me.

Brietling are starting to take risks of late though with case materials. The lightweight bonded chopped pvd case on the Colt Skyracer was nice, also used on the avenger series.

Tbf if i was going Brietling i would go superocean 2 navy blue.

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