Reply With QuoteMy Speedmaster ‘57 co-axial I got on my 60th birthday last year. I was born in 1957.
So I am wearing my Omega 2254 today which was my very first mechanical and automatic watch which my now wife brought me as an engagement present from the OB in Cannes in 2003
This is the watch that started my interest (or obsession if you listen to my wife!) in mechanical watches and their movements as well as making me forever live in watch poverty (too many watches, not enough money!)
I have learnt a lot since then, discovered Internet forums and met some great people
What started yours?
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My Speedmaster ‘57 co-axial I got on my 60th birthday last year. I was born in 1957.
This was mine. After i lost a Seiko diver.
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The path sometimes feels more like a dead end :)
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I still haven't bought my 'Grail' yet but- I saw a picture of a Breguet Classique and fell in love instantly. Totally against the current tide of tool watches Iknow and somewhat unrealistic when you consider its a PM with £1200.00 servicing costs and a servicing time of 6 months(?) off your wrist.... Sigh
In terms of mechanical watches, maybe a bit of a cliché but my Speedmaster Pro. I still have it and will never sell it. I've always been interested in watches since I was a kid and had a number of "cool" Casios including one that dialled phone numbers and one for joggers that had a little running man graphic.
It’s all Eddies fault!!!
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super watch my next one that im thingking of getting in a few munths as a day watchOriginally Posted by paw3001
So I am wearing my Omega 2254 today which was my very first mechanical and automatic watch which my now wife brought me as an engagement present from the OB in Cannes in 2003
This is the watch that started my interest (or obsession if you listen to my wife!) in mechanical watches and their movements as well as making me forever live in watch poverty (too many watches, not enough money!)
I have learnt a lot since then, discovered Internet forums and met some great people
What started yours?
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What started me down this path? This place....
and watchis like thatMy Speedmaster ‘57 co-axial I got on my 60th birthday last year. I was born in 1957.
This bought 12 years ago when I was in my twenties.
Loved the design and is the only watch I won’t part with it.
Ollech and Wajs mp2801
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
1998 IIRC
followed by this in 2002
Similar to you, Omega 2264.50
The first interesting watch I had was a Traser (still got it somewhere). My first "serious" watch was a 22545000 Seamaster which I got in 2008 & still have. In between I acquired a CWC G10 & an RN diver"s watch (CWC quartz).
When I bought the 2254 I very nearly bought a Speedmaster Professional instead - I scratched that itch this summer, so I have 5 pieces that I think are classics (well 4, jury's out on the Traser).
One day I'll have an IWC pilot's chronograph...
This one. My first expensive watch. Well it was expensive to me.
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But this one led to my seeking out a watch forum and joining TZ. Thay is when the madness really started
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A Stowa Flieger A-Dial I got as a 16th birthday present.
For me it was these two
The one on the left is my Dads 21st Birthday watch. Was a none runner for 20 year. Then my dad had it serviced/fixed. He gave it to me in the late 90s my first real watch. Still no little to nothing about it’s make.
On the right is my grandads war watch I played with this as a little kid loved it. Again a none runner for many years and was in a poor state until long after my grandads passing. Was fixed up my the forums own Animalone.
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This.
Shouldn't have sold it.
I think that this one really kickstarted things...
A Seiko kinetic Arctura. The capacitor went, I fancied a change and the journey began. The RLT29 set the tone thereafter and still have it.
(Stock image as didn't take pics of my watches then!).
From this (bought one here from SC for a iPad 1 and 600 quid if I remember right)
To this (with many inbetween)
In a nutshell? Yeah TZ-UK is bad for you :)
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Question is do you still have the smp?From this (bought one here from SC for a iPad 1 and 600 quid if I remember right)
To this (with many inbetween)
In a nutshell? Yeah TZ-UK is bad for you :)
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I’d had a tag back in the early nineties
How’s er it was the Breitling B1 that had me hooked
Still have it too in A1 condition
This one, listening to it ticking lying in bed on Christmas morning 1970 (well I ‘reacquired’ this particular one a couple of years ago for nostalgia).
Then randomly buying this one in Prague led me to TZ-UK, trying to find out what I had bought. Some members, now friends, were very helpful and that was the start of the road to ruin. I wonder if I might own more Helvetias than anyone else in the world now 🤣.
Nope! Just those 3
It's funny how you can end up obsessed with a particular brands, models and/or themes. I try to convince myself that it's perfectly rational behaviour.
I’m hoping that by staying in the forum, my level of irrational obsessive behaviour will just appear normal, to me least.
So far the signs are promising :).
As a child -
As a teen -
Then I landed here on tz
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