Reply With QuoteNo crown guards here either(but lots of dust at the lugs!):
Had a couple of incomers last week. Had promised to not add to the collection for a while and did well lasting until March :o)
Unfortunately, armed with a bonus burning a hole in my pocket these 2 beauties landed on the door step within 24 hours of each other and I realised there seems to be a pattern emerging.
With 2 Blackbays, a flighty and now this gorgeous SM300 I have more watches without crown guards than I do with.
So come on, lets see what else is out there without crown guards.
*Big up to our own Mr Walker for sorting me out.
No crown guards here either(but lots of dust at the lugs!):
Very nice!
The more I see the old SM300s the more I apprciate them!
Two crowns, still no guards.
I do like your SM300 :)
New style SM300
Some of my beauties that I will never part with, crown guards, what are them things.
Yep, I do like Oris, well some of em.
Don't like them - they spoil the symmetry of the case in my view.
Of course I own watches without crown guards (who needs crown guards on a non-dive watch anyway), but I do like them and I especially like these pointy thorns:
I like them, practical too especially dual function
Dont come crying like a girl when your crown gets knocked off :)
No-one, I guess
But a few watches with are always good for a little variety.
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No crown guards here
Is that not classed as a crownguard then?Originally Posted by AshUK
Prompted me to go & check my collection...out of forty, only two with crown guards.
Here's one of the withouts...
Don't have them, although sometimes think it'd be more robust if it did !
Personally I prefer crown guards.
Never thought about this before, but quite a few of mine have no crown guards, for example:
Vostok Amphibia in a 100 case (modded):
Vostok Amphibia 100SE by wotsch2, on Flickr
or a 90 case (also modded):
Vostok Amphibia 090 by wotsch2, on Flickr
then there's my better half's Junghans:
JunghansMaxBill01small by wotsch2, on Flickr
A Stowa MO:
Stowa02small by wotsch, on Flickr
and a Union:
Union_Flieger_04small by wotsch, on Flickr
-wotsch
Crown guards? I guess somebody needs 'em, or they wouldn't exist.
Me, not so much...
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That new version SM300 is really starting to get me scratching an itch!
Gorgeous!
Looks mostly un-gaurded..
None here either.
Not a subject I've ever really thought about, and I've always assumed that crown guards were there as an aesthetic adornment rather than as a functional attachment.
So:
1) Has anybody here ever knocked the crown off a watch?
2) For the watch repairers among us - how often do you have to repair watches where the crown has been knocked off (and where a crown guard might have prevented this from happening)?
That is an awesome watch - haven't seen one in ages
Don't have them, although sometimes think it'd be more robust if it did !
Personally I prefer crown guards.
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