Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)
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Have seen it in a few jewelers. It actually looks better in the flesh I think. The Sumo is right at the size limit of what I can get away with though.
Did see the new Seiko srpk17 yesterday really like it and was very tempted. It's not quite as legible as I'd like though, hands could be a little thicker with more lume.
I'd be 99% certain they're will be a Pogue version of it next year. Even as a 3 hander with the gold dial and Pepsi bezel I'd buy it. An auto chrono seems unlikely because of price but maybe they'll use a solar movement or an auto with GMT subdial would still look the part.
I looked at the 3 new Save the Ocean Prospex too. Really liked the dial on them but not the blue hour hand with it. Prefer last years Manta Ray, think I'm going to pick up the Dark Samurai version though I'm still tempted to blow the budget and get the SPB297J1 65 Glacier Dial. It's a lot of the reason I held of buying the Seiko 5 yesterday.
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Before he was married and I came along, in 1954 my dad walked into Tiffany in New York where he was living and working at the time(New York, not Tiffany) and bought this:
14Kt Gold "knotted lugs" Longines made in 1950.
Movement imported, cased(by US company Apex) and timed in America by Longines Wittnauer in New York. Back then there were humongous tariffs on imported goods, particularly precious metals, so Longines imported "raw" movements and dials, cased them up locally, made them look more "American made" to avoid the tariffs(like this one they often don't have "Swiss" on the dial). Longines who had always been one of the most popular Swiss brands in the US and the Americas in general got even more traction and were shipping nearly 200,000 movements per year into the states after 1945.
Clearly a good plan so Jaeger LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin approached Longines to get in on the gig and VC and JLC watches went through the same process at the Longines Wittnauer factory. They also came up with the US only LeCoultre brand.
Weirdo lugs were a thing for the 1950's in the US. Knotted lug designs were as 50's as big finned cars and others took up the design after Longines, so you can find them on Benrus, Bulova, Gruen, JLC/LeCoultre(identical cases to the Longines examples, which makes sense as they were put together in the same factory)
Did The Da get a Tiffany dialled example? Feck no. Let me down there, the fecker. 😁 I did ask him why once and interestingly his take was Tiffany was more a "feminine" brand and shop, so why would a man have that on the dial? He did have the receipt, but that got lost years ago. When I was a kid, though he used a chap on Dame St in Dublin to service his other watches, he used to wrap this watch in paper in a large matchbox and send it in the post with a covering letter and loads of stamps to Longines in Switzerland to get a service.😮 A few weeks later it would come back in the same post with a receipt for work done, usually with catalogues, sadly also long gone. He'd then send them a bank draft for the cost. Different more innocent times. 🙂
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does anyone have any thoughts on this watch? I've been able to source this new for just over the 800. Will be my first "expensive" watch so to speak and will wear it regularly but not all the time. Had been looking at Tissots also but this one stood out to me.
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