I've never personally seen an authentic with a blue dial, but I don't see why not.
However, a great many replicas were made with a blue dial and could be had for a mere $150-200.
I've never personally seen an authentic with a blue dial, but I don't see why not.
However, a great many replicas were made with a blue dial and could be had for a mere $150-200.
I used to think a sapphire back was wow, but some of the things manufacturers like Vacheron are putting out are just insane.
Granted, those are often one-of-a-kind art pieces that you just happen to be able to wear on your watch.
I still think a tourbillon in general has a great 'wow' factor.
Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
oh sorry, they're called dials
Considered the same thing, really. It's just semantics.
Though, and someone could correct me here, the face implies everything you can see, including the hands and whatnot. But obviously I understood what you meant.
Yeah. My jaw has dropped several times when encountering tourbillion watches, both cheap and expensive. In my honest opinion, they stand out much more on a persons wrist than most other watches. To me, you just can't compare.
Same material != same watch, though hopefully we all understand that.
If you open up a watch, it's a lot about the machining quality of the pieces as well as the quality of the material itself. The fact that a mechanical watch can be relatively accurate with no external energy source for so long is an amazing feat of engineering, and that comes from extensive machining standards.
Many of the pieces in a good watch are machined by hand (or at least polished, etc.) insuring accuracy. A gear that is simply stamped and used in a movement will have faults that lead to inaccuracy in the movement and a shorter lifetime in the worst cases.
Even a watch with no complications can still take a significant amount of resources to build. A watch with a lot of complications like some of your higher-end pieces take months of craftsmanship.
/pedantic
yllus
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Er, let me contribute to this thread one more time. Being from a long line of Omega wearers in my family, let me recommend the Omega Speedmaster 3573.50.00. It's a gorgeous watch made famous for being "flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions".
I just hope you're wearing 10-15k suits with this watch. It's absurdly tacky when I have a guy come up to me and brag about his 1k watch when he's wearing a 250 suit. ... what's the point?
Personally, I don't have nearly the money to spend on such an accessory, but if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.
Personally, I don't have nearly the money to spend on such an accessory, but if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.
Born2bwire
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There's also the mechanical achievement. Quartz are more accurate but are easier to make. I enjoy mechanical watches for the complexity and precision that is required to go into them. I have a skeleton watch so that I can sit and watch it work. Tourbillon watches pretty much all show the mechanism to prove that you have a Tourbillon. While the Tourbillon does not necessarily mean that it will be more accurate (especially in the three-dimensional world of a wristwatch) it does mean that you have a far more complex watch than most mechanicals.
I would love to get a Tourbillon. I would like to get a skeleton one but none of the ones I have seen look good to me. The Tourbillon's seem to exist in a very high classicification where the customer is looking for a very fancy watch, so the few skeletons I have seen are very ornate. I just want one that is simple and gives a good view of the mechanism.
This is my day to day casual watch. It's nothing extravagant, but it looks great with anything. It gets a fair bit of attention, too.
And for an automatic, it's damn cheap. I can scratch it all to hell without feeling too bad.
Here's an extremely cheap skeleton.
Too tacky for me, but it might appeal to some.
Born2bwire
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The Armitron's movement is the watch that I have now from Seagull.
http://www.usseagull.com/m182sk.htm
I thought a massive $350 Casio was a little superfluous, but I do like having information on-hand. My watches take a beating in the field. I just replaced my Casio with this Timex Military model. The fucking thing is distractingly loud. I can even hear it while I drive.
I think my favorite was a tritium military watch [edit: Stocker & Yale] I was issued. I broke it and mailed it to the company whose name was on the back of the watch with an explanation. I got a new watch in the mail a month later in the desert.
I think my favorite was a tritium military watch [edit: Stocker & Yale] I was issued. I broke it and mailed it to the company whose name was on the back of the watch with an explanation. I got a new watch in the mail a month later in the desert.
This is my favorite tourbillon that I have seen to date.
http://www.gemnation.com/watch...llenary-No-5-1553.html
Not overkill ornate but still a skeleton.
http://www.gemnation.com/watch...llenary-No-5-1553.html
Not overkill ornate but still a skeleton.
sdifox
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I guess PI am seconing Patek Phillipe.
http://www.patek.com/html/en/homepage.html?flash=no&
I am partial to Rado Ceramica
http://www.patek.com/html/en/homepage.html?flash=no&
I am partial to Rado Ceramica
Rubycon
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suits are not as impressive as watches. how many people can tell the quality of a suit without walking up and looking at the tag, feeling the material?
a knockoff watch is more deceiving than a suit.
choose from the list will be rolex hands down, present day omega and tag can't hold a candle to them and only choose breitlings if you must have a quartz.
pretentious snobs will be rocking minimal of IWC in casual and gold Patek in Formal. Rolex is for middle managements.
pretentious snobs will be rocking minimal of IWC in casual and gold Patek in Formal. Rolex is for middle managements.
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