Poor man's watch thread

[New Shoes1]

Shogun!

 

[knittieguy]

Not normally a quartz fan, but I like this one (1947) from Dan Henry

 

[FatTuesday]

Page 777 - cool!

 

[Jazzmenco]

Okay I'll play....

 

[Keith Taylor]

I was lucky enough to have Alpina send me seven watches from their current range in late 2020. I don’t regularly wear watches as I work from home and rarely leave the house, even more so in these plague-ridden times, so six of them have spent the last few months looking out at me from their display case, wondering what they did wrong.

This one, though, is the exception. It’s a relatively slim automatic Startimer Pilot that I keep coming back to even though I know I should give one of the others a run out of the house. Looks great poking out from the sleeve of a sweater.

 

[Michigan Planner]

Hell yes...definitely the best Dead album. I did not know it came out only a week before Layla. On that note, I should be receiving my first Dave's Picks of the year soon, I think...

I didn’t know they came out so close to each other. I’ve been reading the Wikipedia entries for these albums each day and happened to notice how close they were. Looking it up now, there were some other awesome albums released that month too:

• George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass
• Badfinger’s No Dice
• Sly & The Family Stone’s Greatest Hits
• David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World
• Kraftwerk’s Kraftwerk
• The Kinks Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygorpund
• Nick Drake Bryter Layter
• Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman

I actually had thought that American Beauty came out a year or so earlier and there were probably a bunch more from November ‘70 that I didn’t come across…

Today I’ve got the Seiko solar SSC017 and some Matthew Sweet.

 

[monkey66]

 

[Michigan Planner]

^ Love the coin-edge bezel AND the trousers!

 

[monkey66]

^ Love the coin-edge bezel AND the trousers!

Thank you. Trousers are Walker Slater.

 

[FatTuesday]

Here's another Scuba Shogun on page 777.

The Shoguns are creeping out of PMW territory.

 

[NakedYoga]

Last outing before sending this old guy to Seiko USA in New Jersey for servicing. Anyone here have experience with them?

 

[Michigan Planner]

Last outing before sending this old guy to Seiko USA in New Jersey for servicing. Anyone here have experience with them?

I’ve heard horror stories BUT the last time I read up on them was quite a while ago and I think that New Jersey service center was relatively new at that time.

 

[NakedYoga]

I’ve heard horror stories BUT the last time I read up on them was quite a while ago and I think that New Jersey service center was relatively new at that time.

What kind of horror stories? Maybe I need to find somewhere else to service it. It's not a warranty repair, the watch is probably about 12 years old and has never been serviced. Might look for someone local or elsewhere if the place is really that bad.

 

[monkey66]

 

[Michigan Planner]

What kind of horror stories? Maybe I need to find somewhere else to service it. It's not a warranty repair, the watch is probably about 12 years old and has never been serviced. Might look for someone local or elsewhere if the place is really that bad.

The stuff I heard was primarily poor communications (you’d send the watch in, never hear from them whether it was received or if work was started), and very slow turnaround even for relatively small jobs leading to a lot of frustration. FWIW, these complaints seem to be common among many brand-operated watch service centers. It might be worthwhile doing a search over on WUS to see if anybody has some insight on recent experiences.

Not a PMW yesterday, but I do love this Omega: