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Sailing40
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Sep 2, 2016
Hello everyone, this is my current watch collection...
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Sailing40Nice collection! What, no winders? Are they all quartz?
Sailing40
30
Sep 4, 2016
FearlessleaderWinders and mechanical autos are passe and belong to another generation.
Steve_W
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Sep 4, 2016
Sailing40Wow! That's quite a collection!
Ceige17
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Sep 11, 2016
Sailing40Wow! Absolutely beautiful! Just starting my collection and can not wait for it to look like that one day.
Chazman1946
21
Oct 14, 2016
Sailing40"Winders and mechanical autos are passe and belong to another generation."
Really? With cell phones and smart watches you could also say your entire collection of Quartz watches are passe also. Rolex went Quartz route, so did Omega, neither one of them are selling quartz models any more since they didn't sell well with the well heeled.
Sailing40
30
Oct 25, 2016
Chazman1946Chazman1946, I think we’re talking about ‘semantics’ not necessarily ‘mechanical’ vs ‘electricity’ that provides the power for the quartz crystal to maintain its ability to ‘tick’ to a constant frequency and controlled oscillation. Another item that I may not have been very clear about, and the driving force that took me away from owning or wanting any type of “Mechanical” watch that requires a wiggle of your wrist to keep it running, honestly, in today’s working world, nothing could be dumber than that. I thought that I was pretty clear about the amount of pressure I was entrusted with coupled with “TRAVEL” and I mean lots of it! My being in New York when the towers went down, my witnessing the carnage and feeling so damn helpless to do something, anything to aid the injured and aid the aiders! I have to be extremely cautious here because everything I was exposed to is/was eventually classified as ‘Secrete’! But this is exactly why the newly created “Department of Homeland Security” sought those government employees who possessed skills they needed, and who experienced what others watched on TV. Why am I explaining this again? Try working 70hr work weeks with ungodly travel assignments where we were allowed 1 week off each month and then boarded another plane to an unknown assignment, and I did this for just over 3 years. Although it did not have an ‘official’ name it was referred to as our “First Line of Defense” across the northern and southern boarders. Later we had a “Second Line of Defense” very similar to what we did here in the US but now introduced to any and all foreign allied nations. I, we did not have time to screw around with old-time windup watches, or one you had to wiggle around just to keep the damn watch working, and those friggen “time” zones, just another pain in the ass! And one wonders why those old ‘mechanical watches’ were considered outdated time pieces not much better than a sun dial when a Casio would do all that by placing it on a window sill of your hotel room when you first arrived, by morning you’d have the exact time, in the exact time zone, not concerned about batteries, windups or wiggle watches.
Sailing40
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Nov 3, 2016
Sailing40Anyone who has read the above message, I apologize for being so brash about events, I/we had no control over and I still have memories I'd prefer to edit out of my grey matter that can cause those feelings of helpless & hopelessness to return. Please forgive my getting too hostile, I need to chill out and think about the blessings I've had and not dwell on negative experiences.
Sailing40Just read (past tense) this. Simplistic response: NP
Many colleagues in three letter agencies and LE prefer the accuracy of Quartz. Fine by me. Many others prefer never facing a dead watch due to a dead battery in the field. Others... just want to know what they're getting and may have a preference of movement when voting on watches.
Oh, automatics do wind fully by just wearing them along with normal everyday activit. Nothing special needed.
Sailing40
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Jan 22, 2017
Chazman1946Chazman1946, I recently bought some 'Mechanical' watches and decided to share with you that too much about 'solar' power watches being better than the traditional mechanical ones was a mistake on my part. It's been a very long time since I've had one, and all the information you and I have discussed needed to be experienced for me to see how well a mechanical and automatic mechanical watches really are. The ones I bought were not 'high' end watches, they were about $125 to about $200 and so far I'm quite pleased about how nice they are and more accurate than I had anticipated. So, I have to apologize for being stubborn about my previous position standing on a misguided preference to 'solar' watches.
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