Reply With QuoteAm I the only person to have such a watch?
What is your gee-whizz watch. By this I mean, irregardless of price, the one whose function or form just makes you smile.
Mine is my Precista PRS-17-C. Just to see all 7 hands in action makes me grin every time.
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Am I the only person to have such a watch?
For me, the Submariner date. So good in so many ways.
But recently, I have to say it, it has got to be my late 70's Timex manual wind with chequered flag and orange hour markers. Just love it. Oh and the barmy date window
This one
The closer I look - the more I like it
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Two, for different reasons.
My EZM1 for the understated functiona elegance. It looks right to me, just simply right.
Putting my DeLuca to my ear and hearing the El Primero scuttling away is also fantastic.
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Mines my daily timex indiglo , been with me everywhere , gets beaten from pillar to post but still I find myself looking at it most days with a little smile .
Never seen another one the same so it's more rare than any Patek :)
Is "irregardless" a word in the U.K.?
To answer the question, my EZM1 is "just right". I don't wear it, but the design is a joy.
Probably not I'm afraid but it works for me.Originally Posted by JP Chestnut
I asked only to see if the usage over here is derived from usage over there.
The Nixie glow and knowing that 180V is needed to drive the vacuum tubes makes it an easy one for me...
...not that I'm ever likely to say 'gee-whizz' but I understand that it is an American synonym for 'that is rather affecting'.
Love this...
Me too!
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This.
I have never looked at a watch and said gee-whizz.
On second thoughts, I can't recall ever having said gee-whizz or its more correct form gee-whiz.
For me the gee whizz comes from complications. This is my watch with the most
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It's not a word anywhere.
Very taken with this too
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Those last two Zeniths are very close to being my holy grail, I'll take both thank you!
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Love the PRS17.
Another vote for the EZM1
and another German Ti..
"Gee whizz" wtf
To be honest I have a few I believe?
The one that stands out to me because it was outrageous when it came out and the fact you needed your passport or driving licenses to buy it was the original blue face, analogue Breitling Emergency!! I know plenty would hate it but it genuinly makes me smile purely because of how ludicrous it is珞珞 (I do have one now though so I am biased!!)
The next one for me would probably be an Omega SMP with the blue wavy dial!! Ive had a few but don't have one at the mo but it was my very first decent watch bought by my wife when my son was born!! I remember laying it on the bedside table and just staring at it!! It just made me happy and smile!! I did however take it back as I found out the wife used a credit card to pay for it so it went back
I'll have another no doubt as Ive had many since and it still impresses me now even though I have more expensive watches I just love the wavy dial?!?
Chris
Strangely the PRS17C is one watch I just haven't warmed to, sufficiently that mine will be going on SC when I get around to it, and I am an uber-hoarder. Each to his own.What is your gee-whizz watch. By this I mean, irregardless of price, the one whose function or form just makes you smile.
Mine is my Precista PRS-17-C. Just to see all 7 hands in action makes me grin every time.
The one I will nominate for this thread is my Aquastar Regate. Mine is in nearly NOS condition, very 1970s chrono styling but with that cool blue-transitioning-to-red arc of dots.
I assumed this guy was american and was about to forgive him until I saw his location was Oxfordshire. "Dude" needs to "hang out" on Timezone US with that language.
Yes...
I do like your 17C though.
I'd buy one if Eddie ever reissued them.
M
Yes, but it would be Timezone US circa 1955, where some were also heard to exclaim, "Jumping jehosaphat!" ;-)
If I'm not mistaken, Neil Kinnock drives a Gee-Whizz. I'm sure that wasn't the expression on my lips the first time I saw him drive it, though.
I thought I'd stumbled into a Jeeves & Wooster play!
My old 1953 Blancpain Fifty Fathoms - simply because its contains a shed lot of Radium and would cause Heath and Safety to have a minor fit.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Does it have on the back "DANGER. IF FOUND RETURN TO NEAREST MILITARY FACILITY”?
More like Ritchie from Happy Days..."Gee-whizz Joanie, that sure is swell."
For me, it would be my Accurist with the Miyota CP00/Citizen C300 movement. The hand retraction feature has always impressed me, and spreading the three alarms a couple of minutes apart actually gives me a fighting chance to wake me up in the morning. Would appreciate a 24-hour chronograph and possibly another countdown timer, but it's still a very well specified movement considering it's from the early 1990s. Very accurate, too, no more than +5 s per month.
Alas not, but I will not be wearing it into any airports.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Joanie actually died a few days ago.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gee-whizz
Get in touch if you do decide to sell,
n2.
I love my MM300 - the shape of the hands and size of the plots make me smile, especially when I've just come in from the sun and they're glowing :)
Bobby-Dazzler!
Gee Whizz any relation to Billy Whizz
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