me sitting here with five Casios, a Ball, a spring drive Seiko, a Bulova Precisionist, a Brew, and probably one or two I’m forgetting about: yepppppppppp
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BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
$19K in watches. Now I have a kid, and I am straight salary. In hindsight, I would be perfectly happy with the least expensive one. I’m a mechanical engineer, and they really interest me. But they were not smart purchases.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
My co-worker has something similar. I wonder when he will figure it out?
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Probably around the time they need to get serviced and it costs as much as a Seiko dive watch and takes like 6 weeks.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I never liked Breitling too much. If you want a good cheap mechanical watch, just go with Seiko, you get a good amount of quality for your money. Everything more expensive is an asset just like buying gold.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, let’s not add the Seikos to the list. I have plenty of those. SKX007, SRP775, and like 5 or 6 I’ve built with Seiko NH-35 movements. I have a watch with a Seagull ST19 movement. I have some vintage ones, like a Timex Viscount and an Elgin Sportsman. But all of those are $500 and under (mostly under 200) and I don’t look at them as dumb purchases.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
As a watch and mechanical enthusiast and fellow engineer myself, I read your comment and well you are certainty right, you gotta live a little haha
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You sure do! And I love them all. I love modding them, I love wearing them. Love learning about them. I’d say my Seagull chrono gets equal wrist time to the Breitling. I try to keep everything in rotation. Except the George Stockwell trench watch… I’m afraid it might be a touch radioactive due to the radium.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I nice steal-able asset you flaunt on your wrist, to boot!
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True, but they are all insured and you can always report the serial number to a database so it gets flagged if it pops up somewhere.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes what I meant by saying it’s an asset is that you should not wear it. The Seiko is already expensive enough to get stolen. Either way when you have watches in the price category shown above, you also have insurance for your watch. Especially when you wear it.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a rabbit hole I managed to avoid. I lived in Shanghai in the 00’s when you could still get nice counterfeit mechanical watches there. Then I got a nice Seiko mechanical watch but no matter what I did, I just didn’t love the auto-winding function. Then came the solar watches from Seiko and Citizen which were relatively cheap. Now I’m here with a smart watch and never looking back.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I admire the engineering of the solar, tool. It’s really cool that the Eco-Drives don’t even look like they have a panel. Are the dials like, micro perforated or something? I’ve never taken one apart. And the fact that you can store them for like, 6 months and they’ll still have a charge is very nice.