Post pics of your watches Part II
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My dear wife asked me what my dream watch would be, I said if I won the lotto I'd go for an IWC Big Pilot 43mm.
She said well we're not going to win the lotto so why don't we sit down, do some sums, and see if we can make it happen.
Lo and behold, it's happened.
IWC Big Pilot 43mm in blue.
CPL 593H
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Bloody fantastic sunny weather earlier. The 1971 offspring of Jaeger-LeCoultre , Girard Perregaux and... Motorola.
The dial being a representation of their "silicon chip" that performed the calculations to to render one tick per second from 32khz, the quartz frequency that they innovated as the best compromise between accuracy and power consumption and the standard for the industry right down to today. This dial is rare as feck. In the ten years since I found one in the wild only a dozen have shown up, six of this blue style and six of the two colour red gold style. Including Girard Perregaux's museum example.
We're saturated in IT and IC's and chips these days, but back in 1972 the very early quartz watches were one of the first everyday objects that ordinary people encountered which contained that future. Though they weren't cheap. Nearly double the price of Omega Speedies for example.
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@furiousox Congratulations on the purchase. Fabulous watch but I am biased! Love the way you can see the mechanism through the back of the case.
We were down the country this weekend so I broke out the big'un myself and I really should make an effort to wear it more. Should have given the glass a wipe also but it is what it is.
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When Tag do "understated", they do it well. A very nice watch Mik.
I'm a passenger today as the Mrs' does at least the drive down to CUH. I will most likely do the drive back in the interest of fairness and all that jazz 😉
On the wrist, my trusty Seamaster GMT.
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This today. In case it rains. 😁
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Been looking at G-Shocks but couldn't decide so in the meantime I went with an AE-1000W that I found on Amazon in military green. Thought it was a but different but you can get same watch in other colours for less.
Lots of features and it does all the usual Casio stuff well. Comfortable when on but strap is a little stiff and plasticy but that's to be expected at this end.
Enjoying it at the moment and may stick with it over the smart watch for a while. I just can't make my mind up about smart watches so will be interesting to see how I like a tech break.
So this will be a daily hack for a while and should clarify if I would like to step up to an all swinging G-Shock, return to smart watch big brother or wear my Seikos as daily watches.
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