re: TGIF Watch thread

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Any thoughts on the new Rolex Land Dweller?

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I don't love the dial. I'll do like another poster and mention the Oyster Quartz, which I really like the aesthetic of, but have some real hate for dead stop second hands. That (perhaps short sightedly) for me has been the deal breaker. I've come close several times, but never pulled the trigger on an Oyster Quartz.

I much prefer the regular style DJ dial witout the fluted motif and particularly without the arabics at 6 and 9, and don't love the hand set. I prefer the bracelet of the Land Dweller to the Oyster Quartz, but like them both. For what it is worth, I think the watch looks great on the wrist in the wrist shots I've seen on the interwebs. I instinctively put myself on the list for a 36 mm steel version, but have waffled since telling my AD that.

Here's what I have on for today and what I've been wearing since I got it last month 126710BLRO (lives up to the hyper for me).

No change here this week.

The Coldplay Canoodling CEO was apparently wearing a Richard Mille RM-69 to the concert.

Which has to be one of the most perfectly fitting watch pairings I’ve ever seen.

Chefs kiss

I went into a Rolex AD yesterday for the first time, and was shocked at how much better that experience was than the stuff I’ve read online. The SA was friendly, answered my dumb questions, and gave what felt like honest answers about wait times without pressuring me to buy other stuff to expedite my process.

Got on the list for a new DJ oyster 41 mint green, like the one shown below.

I don’t think I’ll ever go back to gray market if this ends up being as smooth of a process as I’m hoping.

Love that SPB155 "Baby Alpinist". Great watch. Blue dial on the Oris Big Crown is also quite nice.

Waited 8 months for this one 59/333.

Got to pick the s/n though.

bumping this thread rather than start a new one.

can you describe in a few photos how you got into watches?

for me, my babysitter gave me an orange manual wind saxony when i was like 7 AND I FELL IN LOVE IMMEDIATELY. i still have the damn thing. just found a band that works so i can actually wear it and it loses 30 minutes a day. one day i'll have it serviced properly for nostalgia purposes.



then my brother saved up for a year and bought a $75 LED bulova which i thought was the coolest thing i had ever seen..LEDs were still very much a novelty back then.



then for my birthday one year all i wanted was a stopwatch more than anything in the world.. I WAS OBSESSED.and my dad got me this!! i do not know where it came from, only that both he and my grandmother made me treat this like it was the king's jewelry. i still have it. at the time i had no idea who breitling was.



then i fell in love with the casios in high school. i would get home from school every single day and stare at that ad until i had every word memorized.

it played the russian and japanese national anthems! :bow: cool as shite.



then when i graduated high school my parents got me a proper seiko which i've lost but when i go back to La i'm going to dig through all our old stuff in hopes its there somewhere. loved that watch.

i had an opportunity to buy a close-out Seiko tv watch at JcPenney for $45 and i didnt pull the trigger. that was the one that got away. my white whale



finally i got hooked on swatches and bought about a dozen throughout the 1980s (hey, even a broke-arse like me could afford $35 once or twice a year)



had the red one and the yellow one (still have the yellow one)


from then on it was pretty much whatever caught my fancy.

It’s Friday!

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This kind of reminds me of a watch I had back in the day. For the life of me I cannot remember the brand, but I'm pretty sure I bought it from the Watch Station - I think it was called that, it was the Sunglass Hut of watch stores, if that makes sense.

I lost the watch in a fistfight outside of a Blockbuster Video, and I've wanted to replace it.

But I can't think of the brand name. Anyone have any ideas of watches that were sold in the late 90's/Early 2000s at the Watch Station that were similar to the one pictured above?

1665 (I'm thinking that's an acrylic crystal)? Lovely. The big lume plots without the WG surrounds are excellent.

Oyster Perp Date today - lesser known and slightly smaller (34 mm) sibling to the DateJust.