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Skyline:
Citizen Railroad Watch. No complaints.
http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-BM8180-54A-Eco-Drive-Railroad-Stainless/dp/B0012IP0KO/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
AZ:
--- Quote from: Claritas on January 25, 2015, 08:26:28 PM ---Congrats Kunlun, and thanks for starting the thread.
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+1 to this.
I have a glitch for a COSC certified mechanical chronograph timepieces. Have a few of those but there is a problem, can't wear them much. They all get scratched easily and while being limited editions it would just be a shame to have them all scratched up.
This situation actually reminds me of a major problem with dedicated audio systems at home as I also have a pretty good sounding and fairly expensive dedicated stereo set-up that has not been touched even once in the last 5 years, at least! Before then it was moved around the house a couple of times but now I just get dizzy from even thinking about moving it again (was stupid enough to bring these monsters to the second floor 6 years ago :-).
On the other hand my wife wears RADO and that freaking thing is just indestructible, after so many years of constant wear this ceramic marvel looks ABSOLUTELY brand new. That watch looks so strikingly elegant with both casual and chic outfits I honestly think whoever made that design was a pure genius.
So at some point the itch took me again and I was looking for a new watch but this time all of the above thoughts were already deep in my mind. I started looking for a COSC certified ceramic masterpieces and finally was fortunate enough to find one. Limited edition of only 300 timepieces became available and I jumped on it immediately (this was quite a few years back but up until now I have not heard of any other certified chronograph to posses a ceramic casing and feel it was a pure luck for me being able to get one). I had to go through THREE pieces of this limited edition run all custom ordered from Switzerland to finally end up with one meeting my criteria of precision timekeeping (It stays within 1-2 seconds in a week when winded properly, which by the way is absolutely incredible for a mechanical self winding chronograph)!
This is a Salvatore Ferragamo F-80 limited edition mechanical COSC certified chronograph masterpiece with full titanium/ceramic casing and bracelet. They still produce similar looking watches but mechanism is now a quartz movement and it is being sold for waaay cheaper. I figured that first run was just to establish the name. Needless to say I absolutely adore this watch and wear it all the time, the titanium now shows some signs of wear but all the rest is absolutely perfect and mechanism is just as precise now as when I first tested it. All the other, truly unique and gorgeous looking ones are just collecting dust, probably waiting to be stolen ha ha :)p5
The point is this, it doesn't matter how unique and beautiful your watch is if you can't wear it freely, whenever and however you want and it doesn't matter how incredible your stereo system could sound if you are not able to listen to it freely at your preferred listening levels without constantly thinking about disturbing the others.
Happy listening and a great timepieces to all :)p5
Kunlun:
Wow, thanks for sharing guys, some of these watches are really beautiful and cool looking.
The Breguet Classique line is stunning. I'd like to see the Brequet collection in that Jerusalem museum. Back in the day, muslims and jews could be very close with a lot of love between people and families. I'll bet that's what happened there. I can only hope there's a return to those days soon. I've started to try to make a difference in the world by loving people hard right now, but under the advice of a lawyer, I've had to tone it down a bit and now I have a consent form people have to sign first... :-\
I love how the Maratac doesn't even bother with a brand name on the watchface. It's like some sort of platonic ideal of A Men's Watch.
Ceramics are so intriguing and so are limited editions! Thanks for sharing, AZ. Good point about wearability. When I upgrade to the Raymond Weil (which may be soon as I found it $870 off! Oh, what the hell, I'm going for it), I'm hoping a sapphire for the watchface window and a metal rim will be fairly durable.
More, please!
Claritas:
Simple Tank-style watches (Cartier, Hamilton, Baume and Mercier) are also elegantt but less masculine. So I tend to think they work better for people in more laid back professions such as print journalism, the arts, and liberal arts professors.
Y'all might enjoy this page of photos of almost every president's watch(s): http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/personal-timepieces-every-united-states-president-ever. FDR was the first to wear a wrist watch. Check out Warren Harding's distinctive Masonic pocket watch and the intimate rose gold Rolex that Marilyn Monroe gave Kennedy. Most of the them owned Vulcains at some point. My Timex is basically the same as George W. Bush's.
Kunlun:
--- Quote from: Claritas on January 27, 2015, 02:08:03 AM ---Simple Tank-style watches (Cartier, Hamilton, Baume and Mercier) are also elegantt but less masculine. So I tend to think they work better for people in more laid back professions such as print journalism, the arts, and liberal arts professors.
Y'all might enjoy this page of photos of almost every president's watch(s): http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/personal-timepieces-every-united-states-president-ever. FDR was the first to wear a wrist watch. Check out Warren Harding's distinctive Masonic pocket watch and the intimate rose gold Rolex that Marilyn Monroe gave Kennedy. Most of the them owned Vulcains at some point. My Timex is basically the same as George W. Bush's.
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I really appreciate you pointing out some different styles. I know nothing about the topic so everytime I look up something, it's like a child discovering what rain is like.
I can see what you mean about the cartier tank style being almost feminine. I almost kinda get the mental picture of a girl in a bikini when I look at this. Weird, right?
That page on the watches owned by different presidents is great.
But wow, vulcains!
Anax wears this one.
$28,000.
WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.
For the long-jump champion in your life.
For the breeding pair of pandas in your life.
For the Chinese placemat in your li--ow! Okay, I'll stop!
Also, no lie, the first google hit I got for vulcains was this:
This would make an amazing hipster girl watchface.
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