Reply With QuoteOops. For me these are some of the worst designs ever.Originally Posted by Spesh
It’s a platinum Cellini I don’t think they make them anymore but they don’t seem to be hard to find. Last time I looked you could still find a new one for about 8K the blue dial ones were about 6K
No doubt prices have gone up
Oops. For me these are some of the worst designs ever.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
I still wear a Hat, owning several.
So you can see dinosaurs still roam this place we call home.
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I can. Rank affectation.
Each to their own.
Only the NH35 or any cheap movement?
There's a lot of snobbery around about the NH3*.
Discounting any watch purely on the movement seems a very strange decision to me. Maybe if it was quartz rather than mechanical or a cheap movement in a high priced watch, but one cheap movement over another? Explain that to me?
I don't believe NH35 movement watches as a group will age badly, because I think most people won't have a clue (or care) what's inside them.
They'll never be expensive watches, so no-one who likes the styling of a watch will worry if it has budget movement A or B in 20 years time.
I suspect Seiko movements will be easler to find than others, so you'll find more NH35 movement watches around than other makes, simply because you can drop a new movement in for little money.
Are some of the designs questionable? Absolutely, but the movement doesn't determine that.
"This watch would be so much better if it didn't have an NH35 movement" is becoming the new "All Breitlings are too blingy"...
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
This thread made me wonder (job done). To what extent of watches ‘ageing’ is really due to the influence of the internet…..and of fans simply copying one another? The sudden outbreak of rubber straps is a clue. ( I was guilty). So maybe the internet ‘ages’ watches, through fashion. Then people get bored and see something as ‘old fashioned’.
We can’t escape the net.
Look at pics from 2015 , all with rubber straps, and they’ll look ‘old’. It happens. Presumably, metal bracelets will also feature . Think ‘Sopranos’ and bright check shirts.
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My thought on it is that it's not so much the market share contracting or disappearing, but the technology within that segment changing. As the smart watch elements become cheaper and smaller, I think it's feasible that they will gradually replace quartz, most likely from a manufacturer shift rather than a customer one, or at the very least come to occupy the lion's share of that segment. Might not happen, but I think it's a reasonable possibility.
I think quartz is here to stay, they’re just too convenient.
And what a great hat it is! Marvellous choice!
The Big pilot based on the B-Uhr which is an 80+ year old design.
So while its fine to dislike them, has the design aged badly or well if its still considered modern enough to be manufactured in 2021?
Personally, I cant think of many "modern" designs which aren't riding on the back of something else, apart from RM.
Hublot piggybacks the Genta AP design which is older than me. So the basic designs must be ageing alright even if the modern iterations are a bit marmite.
Its a good question and one I cant answer.
I find the B-Uhr design fine, and I understand that there was a reason to make them outsized at the time because they were worn over the jacket.
What I find hilarious is people these days wearing a 45mm+ B-Uhr remake under a shirt-sleeve.
Similar with Hublot: it is the combination of design knock-off and brash in-your-face size which makes me hate them. Nothing wrong with the brand, they have some original designs.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Magnificent! If only there were a "Pictures of hats worn well" thread...
Sleep water and waste excretion are the only things I can think of that are for everyone.
Thank You, it is a genuine “Tarp Hat” from the company of the same name. Made from discarded lorry tarpaulins in the Amazon. Local collect the weather worn tarps and make them into messenger bags, rucksacks, hats, caps and wallets etc. Buying from TarpHat they give a tiny bit back to the community from each sale. I drank bottled beers saving the caps and then drilled the sides of each cap, threaded with three strands of wax thread which then allowed me to finish the band with a platt at the back.
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This a Dundee Hat hailing from Australia, bought in Stow on the Wold New Years Eve 1999 made with Kangaroo skin, crocodile band with six crocodile teeth in the band. The hat is well weathered and worn, this photo was from when the whole of the UK was frozen solid. Can’t place that year!
2010-11
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Slightly off topic but, influenced by a post saying the future of mechanical watches is limited - can anyone shed any light on how the intake of apprentice/junior watchmakers into the industry is faring currently? I was under the impression it's a dying art.
Tarphat - never heard of before but now definitely on the list.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Except the Rhins of Galloway. It was 2010. Gallovidians have been dining out on that photo ever since.
The ones I have kept obviously…
Those sold will become highly collectible and values will go through the roof as a new generation fight to get hold of one
Thanks for that couldn’t decide if it was winter 2010 or early 2011
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