Our watch collections were not that similar, I have nothing in the style of G-Shocks and digitals.
Watch collecting is a funny thing. When I started out I had a collection that sounds very similar to yours. Lot's of g-shocks, other casio digitals, eco drives, quartz seikos etc. but over time I began to appreciate watches for more than just the time keeping aspect.
Mechanical watches are not overly accurate unless you start spending quite a lot of money a stock standard ETA 2824 movement will get you a positional variance of +/- 30 seconds. In other words if the watch is running 30 seconds fast or slow per day that is within manufacturing tolerances.
My grand seiko runs a spring drive which is a quartz mechanical hybrid. It's still classed as an automatic but that has a positional variance of +/- 1 second per day. ETA and seiko also make high accuracy quartz movements. The seiko 9F series of movements has a variance of +/- 10 seconds per year.
Citizen and seiko are serious watch making companies. Cheaper mass produced watches are their bread and butter but seiko has the grand seiko and credor lines which sell watches that cost up to 500k including minute repeaters and tourbillons. Citizen recently made a 90k tourbillon.
You might find that you begin to appreciate the actual aspects of how the watch was made as well or you might not.
One of the interesting things that seiko does with their higher end stuff is exercise the Japanese penchant for incorporating nature and art into the watch design.
It's hard to photograph it but the texture on the dial of my GS snowflake actually looks like snow drifts and is based on the snowdrifts around the town of Shiojiri where the Shinshu Watch Studio is located. Which is where the watch was made and part of the main plate of the movement has been shaped to resemble the outline of mount fuji.
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I like how one sole member completely trashed my damn thread.
Was that a serious thread? Did you really buy a pocket sundial?
The fact that no one uses a sundial to tell time and the nonsense about the pedal bike generating electricity to power a lightbulb led me to believe it was a parody thread.
Yes, I bought a pocket sundial. It's a compass with a sundial and it's made of pure brass. Quite the cool little device I thought and so I decided to share it. I also bought this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sundial-Co...517953?hash=item210d90db81:g:ZwoAAOSwKfVXEk2X
How on earth would you think it was a parody thread? Didn't the pictures look like they were my own?
I like vintage/antique type stuff. I have old brass binoculars, old folding opera binoculars, a brass spy glass, and several other things. I collect airline wings, bottle caps, matchbooks, and movie tickets. Practically every single movie I've been to I have its ticket for. Now a days though they've cheaped out and print them on crappy thin paper instead of the nice paper stock that didn't fade. I like brass especially. I have a brass old time scuba helmet on my desk and a small brass hammer with screw drivers in the Handel. I also have a ship's brass lantern key chain. Thinking about buying a brass sundial for the backyard. I wouldn't mind having a ship's brass compass.
So, you’re a hoarder then.
No. I don't collect everything and anything. Just stuff that has more value.
Seems like a lot of useless junk if you ask me. Movie ticket stubs? Airplane wings? At least it won’t take up much space I guess.
Sorry I trashed your thread.
Our watch collections were not that similar, I have nothing in the style of G-Shocks and digitals.
Here are two watches I have on me right now:
I also have a Submariner and a Patek Nautilus 5711 that I recently sent in for service and probably won't be getting back for many months. Some watches I've owned in the past: AP 15202OR, Rolex GMT Master BLNR "Batman", AP 15300. I was looking for the ceramic Daytona's but they're overpriced right now and a long waitlist at the dealer. I was also debating on the Platinum Daytona instead of the ceramic one but that is quite pricey. I would love to own a grand complication Patek in the future (5970) but for now, I am more into the sports watches.