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Freya Darkmoon New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 38 Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #30 - Nov 22^nd, 2010 at 7:55pm i still wear wristwatches. your story was sad skippy. my dad owns a bunch of swiss watches and loves watches too. quartz watches changed everything.. it must have been very bad for the people who were so passionate about making mechanical watches and seeing their trade vanish.
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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #31 - Nov 22^nd, 2010 at 8:07pm

skippy. wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2010 at 4:02pm:

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Thanks Skippy.
Did you ever work on a dual crystal temperature compensated watch?

No, I'm not sure I've even heard of one until you just wrote it, but I haven't worked on a watch for about 28 years, though I have played with a few old clocks that my wife got off her grandma, one of those is still keeping good time,but clocks were always much easier to work on compered to watches.

That is a sad story but surely service is required on quartz watches too? -
especially when they can cost over $5,000.

As for me - I use the internet to check the time.
I use this site:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java

to adjust my watch.
It appears to have quite a good system in that it allows for your time delay.
It gives the accuracy to normally better than 1 second.

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Reply #32 - Nov 22^nd, 2010 at 10:12pm

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God knows what the Rolex on the front page would cost?
- and that is a quartz version.

There's one made in 1980 for sale on the net - with an 18k gold bezel - for around $4,500.

Rolex make a series of dive watches with a true water proof depth of over 3,000 metres. Of course nobody has ever worn one that deep.

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Jaykaye_09 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 583 Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #33 - Nov 23^rd, 2010 at 1:16am I have two watches: The first is a Raymond Weil Tango (I bought into the quality of a Swiss watch without knowing much else about them) The second is a Casio G-Shock, old school looking gun I barely wear any of them (though I really should), and pretty much know nothing about how they work.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 103090 Melbourne Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #34 - Nov 23^rd, 2010 at 7:50am Nice watches. There are so many good looking watches for under $200. Here is one. You wonder whether the expensive ones are worth the extra money?
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Miss Anne Dryst Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2296 Sydney Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #35 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 6:59am The best wrist watch is the one that someone else pays for.
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #36 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 11:42am abu_rashid wrote on Nov 21^st, 2010 at 1:34am: Are there still some neo-Luddites out there who don't realise mobile phones have clocks in them nowadays? But abu, the thread is about wristwatches... Besides, there are times and places where you can't really carry a mobile phone with you...
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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #37 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 11:45am

skippy. wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2010 at 2:26pm:

I just noticed this thread, I am a watchmaker by trade, but haven't worked as one since i finished my apprenticeship 28 years ago, thanks to the cheap watches available nowadays watchmaking is about as useful trade as candle stick making.
I dont even know if they still run a course nowadays, but even in the class I was in we only had 18 people from all over NSW so I doubt too many more trained after me.
All of that said, I never worked on a rolex but omega made some quality watches,as for the run of the mill affordable watches on the market now, Seiko still make a couple of mechanical watches, I have one that I bought about three years ago and it was only a few hundred bucks,but it gains about a minute a month and as its a 100 metre (which only means you can go ten metres under water btw) watch I wouldn't bother trying to get it fixed, once they are opened the seal can not be guaranteed to work as well.
If you want the "best" I'd be looking at Swiss made, but thats just my opinion,as bobby has said most quartz watches keep better time anyway. I remember when Casio watches first became popular in Aus, that was the beginning of the end for watchmaking, all they needed was a new battery and the customer was on their way.

Well it seems they do still run courses skippy.....one place at least does..(not sure if it involves more than just changing batteries though..)

http://www.nswgrouptraining.com.au/p209_Watchmaker.html

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Miss Anne Dryst Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2296 Sydney Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #38 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:13pm Whatever happened to the fob watch?
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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #39 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:24pm

How about....

Piaget’s Emperador Temple or Cartier’s phoenix-shaped wristwatch. Other pieces stand by their technical merits, such as Frank Muller’s Aeternitas Mega 4, with 36 complications and Louis Moinet’s new piece, Meteoris, set of 4 , which is made from four meteorites from space and comes with a planetarium of the solar system.

Personally, I'm a fan of the humble Zodiac watch.

Cool

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mellie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8142 Sydney Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #40 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:26pm Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:13pm: Whatever happened to the fob watch? It was politically incorrect and offended boat people... those... "Fresh Off the Boat".. ...However, i'm sure Skippy would have loved it.
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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #41 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:29pm

mellie wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:26pm:

Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:13pm:

Whatever happened to the fob watch?

It was politically incorrect and offended boat people...
those...

"Fresh Off the Boat"..

Wink

...However, i'm sure Skippy would have loved it.

oooooohhhhhh funny girl
is humour allowed here?

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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #42 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:31pm

Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:29pm:

mellie wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:26pm:

Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:13pm:

Whatever happened to the fob watch?

It was politically incorrect and offended boat people...
those...

"Fresh Off the Boat"..

Wink

...However, i'm sure Skippy would have loved it.

oooooohhhhhh funny girl
is humour allowed here?

I like to think it is.

Cool

Allowed I mean...depends on the mods mood.

Grin

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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy? Reply #43 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 1:10pm Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 12:13pm: Whatever happened to the fob watch? Men stopped wearing three piece suits, no 'fob' pocket, no way to wear a fob watch... Although I have a 'sort of' fob watch..has a belt pouch and a clip..
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Re: What is the best wrist watch to buy?
Reply #44 - Nov 25^th, 2010 at 1:45pm

Miss Anne Dryst wrote on Nov 25^th, 2010 at 6:59am:

The best wrist watch is the one that someone else pays for.

Not always - a girlfriend of mine - a long time ago - bought me a watch that
I didn't like.
It had thick gold plating on it which soon started to wear thin under the bracelet
& started to look tatty where it wore through in other places.
Even thick gold plating soon wears through.

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