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Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)
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That's an insane price for a pogue, any pogue, unless it's the actual one worn in space, which IIRC went for around 8000 a few years ago.https://www.chrono24.com/seiko/mint-vintage-1973-seiko-pogue-pepsi-6139-6005-chronograph--100-original--id15416460.htm
I think I'll have to just quietly put the Pogue away for a few years, half afraid to wear it now.
Speaking of insane prices and dealers smoking the waccy baccy... Hodinkee may have finally jumped the shark even to their oh so aspirational man bag and man bun loyalists. They announced a travel clock with their branding.
Now a travel clock in the middle of a pandemic where nobody's travelling is one thing, but we'll let that tone deaf idiocy lay for the moment. Never mind it's another thing to go missing/get nicked if you're actually travelling. Worse it looks like something from Argos for 29.99. A cut price Braun design. Apparently it houses a movement they got from a batch that was never put into clocks back in the day. Turns out said movement is entry level junk, hence no pics of the movement on their site. Oh and you need a key to wind it, but that's a hipster "feature". The dial was lovingly designed by some typographer you've never heard of and the case is covered in hand finished leather(badly as even on their site the pics show sloppiness). A limited run of 100.
Now this is hodinkee so price? 1000 quid would have you sniff, 2000? Nope, not even close. 5900 of your Freedom Bucks. Six grand. Yeah... Oh and it sold out. They found 100 utter morons with six grand burning a hole in their pocket. That 100 such morons exist with that kinda disposable should illustrate to anyone wondering if the world is a fair place.
Still the comment's section went nuts so they closed it down. They've been roasted on social media for it, though again scarily the number of their fanboys that try to justify it is high.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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That's an insane price for a pogue, any pogue, unless it's the actual one worn in space, which IIRC went for around 8000 a few years ago.
Speaking of insane prices and dealers smoking the waccy baccy... Hodinkee may have finally jumped the shark even to their oh so aspirational man bag and man bun loyalists. They announced a travel clock with their branding.
Now a travel clock in the middle of a pandemic where nobody's travelling is one thing, but we'll let that tone deaf idiocy lay for the moment. Never mind it's another thing to go missing/get nicked if you're actually travelling. Worse it looks like something from Argos for 29.99. A cut price Braun design. Apparently it houses a movement they got from a batch that was never put into clocks back in the day. Turns out said movement is entry level junk, hence no pics of the movement on their site. Oh and you need a key to wind it, but that's a hipster "feature". The dial was lovingly designed by some typographer you've never heard of and the case is covered in hand finished leather(badly as even on their site the pics show sloppiness). A limited run of 100.
Now this is hodinkee so price? 1000 quid would have you sniff, 2000? Nope, not even close. 5900 of your Freedom Bucks. Six grand. Yeah... Oh and it sold out. They found 100 utter morons with six grand burning a hole in their pocket. That 100 such morons exist with that kinda disposable should illustrate to anyone wondering if the world is a fair place.
Still the comment's section went nuts so they closed it down. They've been roasted on social media for it, though again scarily the number of their fanboys that try to justify it is high.
What may be funnier is that there is chance they will trade for above RRP on second hand market......would not surprise me.0 -
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Cyclingtourist wrote: »I used to be into antiques and the Victorians had watch stands for their pocket watches. They were made of different materials notably wood or pottery. I think a simple wristwatch stand to display ones watch by your bedside could be made in China covered in fake leather and would sell retailing for €10-20.
Maybe they've already done it?
like this?
https://thewatchstand.com/
there are cheap versions obviously
id need my rug rats to get a little bigger before id try something like that, i use a breitling travel case with the foam insert and zip, safe 0 -
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I made a stand like that for a pilots watch years ago. Out of wood like a section of aerofoil aircraft wing. I gave it to someone, again years ago. I'll try and dig pics up. Might do another actually.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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like this?
https://thewatchstand.com/
there are cheap versions obviously
id need my rug rats to get a little bigger before id try something like that, i use a breitling travel case with the foam insert and zip, safe
No that's not the kind of thing you'd slip into an overnight bag. Something like a solo watch case with a rigid flip cover that would serve as the base when it converts to a bedside watch holder for your night at a Premier Inn.0 -
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Bentley has some good ones. A dashboard clock is €160k optional extra
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20151110-bentley-bentaygas-234000-option
Doug demuro's channel is amazing for stuff like that.
And now for the weekend score… - I think a watch review channel could use that format too 0 -
If anyone is in contact with FG outside the realm of boards?
He may well have more than a passing interest in a thread over on the helpdesk at the mo
https://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/1141611410 -
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If anyone is in contact with FG outside the realm of boards?
He may well have more than a passing interest in a thread over on the helpdesk at the mo
https://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/114161141
Was wondering where he had gotten to, hopefully he’ll be back to us when his time is served0
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