Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

Congrats. Make sure you have a pint of Brakspears to celebrate !

Henley is a lovely town

Nothing on Tudor .If panda chrono you’ll do well to get one . 5% in weirs seems to be their most on a lot of brands

I have the new pilots chronograph 41mm and it is a belter, the bracelet is one of the best I have tried. I have a Portuguese chrono also but it’s 12 years old at this stage but it’s a great watch, timeless .

Thought I was going to get a Sumo at a steal today but the tags were mixed up! It fitted me better than I thought the lug to lug size would suggest. I thought the bracelet would be better than the Samurai or Turtle but it's actually worse! The case is better finished though and it does have Sapphire. Sales assistant would go to €560 on it but not tempted at that price. Too many other options when I start getting to that money, though I'm still not sure where I want go next. I tried on a few King and Save the ocean Versions of the Samurai and Turtle some on offer at the €500 mark, I like everything about them bar the bloody cyclops it's like a big carbuncle on them to my eyes.

I'm always going be tempted by deals on Seiko divers but I should try an branch out. Current shortlist for not much more money would be a Steinhart Ocean one vintage or Titanium 500 or maybe the Ocean 2. Upping the budget would be a Stowa Marine or a Sinn 104 or 556. Not going to rush into anything though(Unless I see another Sumo for €380!)

Gotta say well impressed with the accuracy of this.. it's up there with anything I've had..not sure what it's spec is but I've worn it for about 3 weeks straight and it's bang on time.. compared to the last Seiko I had this seems like a different league.. spb149

if i was to be critical of the design id say the round dial markers are just a little to squashed up against the edge.. i dont mind the 12, 6, 9 but a few people think its odd looking.. the rest of the watch is very well done

I love a lot of the stuff AP put out but this collection of 50th anniversary Royal Oaks is just horrendous

Is that the swatch collab with AP?

And we were giving out the Omega moonwatch collabs were €250?

At least these are a proper novelty and all one of one pieces.What’s the chance of John Mayer being seen wearing one .

You’re wrong .They are a single piece in each size and colour .20 watches in total

AP should just change their name to Royal Oak. It's comical at this stage, almost everything they do is a variation on it.

I offloaded a Kilo of Silver today to a lad in Galway and the money from that is for once 😉 not being spun into a watch.

Instead,I'm replacing the projector in the Mancave with a new TV. Managed to get a decent deal from the Richersounds boys on a 70" Philips ambilight. As it's mainly for sports and games, I'm happy to go with LED rather than OLED and the ambilight makes for a nice bit of needlessly complicated tech 🤣

Did you make a profit on the silver? I keep looking at silver and gold but with the price over spot that dealers charge it appears you need a good % value increase before you would break even never mind profit .Obviously time of holding plays a large part but still there seems easier / quicker ways of making a profit.