Simples
If I like it enough to want it and most of all can afford it.
I'm just back from an impulse purchase, I was just browsing for other gmt with that "interesting new movement from myota" when I came across Borealis and their new gmt. Not for me.
However... something popped out from their website that had it all, except the gmt.
Size, under 40,
colour, blue
dial texture, not sunburst
Case design, sort of bb58
Date, at 6
Awsome lume
Affordable price
It felt as if all my dreams came true in one and bang!
Am I too easy?
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BUBI
@porque.racing
Simples
If I like it enough to want it and most of all can afford it.
My own list of encouraging features, a couple of which are mutually exclusive:
36mm
No date
Blue dial, not sunburst
Steel bracelet
Handwound
Solar
Two hander
1. A non-specific itch for something new (when I’m bored)
2. A fizzing sensation that refuses to leave me alone (when I find the latest watch I ‘need’)
3. Mild disappointment and ultimately regret (once it arrives)
Never mind all the yadda-yadda: PICS man!
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I have successfully avoided impulse purchases for the last couple of years. The main curative procedure has been looking at the 20+ impulse-buys sat in watch boxes that never get worn and which will be nearly impossible to sell...
It's like being forced to live with all your crusty old w@nk rags and used johnnies...
It' funny, I lived a real seiko moment with this Borealis because all the official pics were crap and did the watch no justice, so I looked for reviews and videos but of this specific model found less than a handful...
More than having scratched an itch I felt as if I had found the love of my life.
I still want the smiths gmt none the less. And badly!
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BUBI
@porque.racing
Anger:-)
I picked up a CWC Mellor 72 and then later a CWC G10 Fatboy. The trigger was this website and a certain gent who kept posting photos of CWCs. Having spare cash certainly helps!
Vintage, a bit obscure, a bit tired, but mostly not expensive. This just arrived which ticks those boxes :)
I'd rather not disclose on the public side of the forum.
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
Let's see this collection of sad, dejected and unloved timepieces and we can be the judge of their desirability (or lack of). It may even spawn a new thread. Not 'Watches I will never sell' but more like 'Watches that would never sell'
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
The most thinly veiled excuse of a reason.
Bang! And the cash is gone.
Looks nice! Just saw that Borealis is doing their 9075 GMT, but no idea when that ships. Sword hands, but it's 41.5mm. Nice enough though, and looks like the price isn't bad at all. Bigger than I'd like, however, I'm pretty focused on wearing stuff 40mm and under.
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Work colleagues upsetting me.
Whisky.
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No particular preferences, but I tend to sway more to military or dive watches :
Wishing all a happy bank holiday. :)
Last edited by senraw; 30th April 2023 at 14:33.
Oops, double post. :(
I just bought this from an Indian seller from eBay.
It's probably going to be a horrible frankenwatch, but it was £25 and took my fancy.
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
The voices inside my head...
;-)
Too much red wine.