Poor man's watch thread

[Thin White Duke]

I’ve been banging on for ages about the perfect holiday watch. (Holiday = vacation for the colonials!)

As I often go scuba diving it has to be WR 200m at least, with dive bezel anda GMT function with a discreet 24 hour scale on the flange. A day function would be useful too as I often do forget what day it is when I’m travelling for fun.

Jomashop hooked me with this one. It’s not quite what my ideal would be. It allegedly had an RRP of around $350 but I have no idea if that’s legit or just the age-old strategy of pumping up the price then shaving it down so we suckers think we’re getting a bargain. Anyway it cost about $90 shipped.

I did take it diving and it showed no signs of a problem being used at depths of around 90 feet. The bezel doesn’t have a coin edge so doesn’t turn very easily on the surface with wet hands, although once in the water a few minutes it’s easily turned, maybe due to my fingers pruning!

The numbers on the bezel are engraved with little contrast so they aren’t easily legible under water. I think if I want to be bothered taking two watches on holiday I’ll keep this one for the beach and pool and use my Seiko Prospex PADI solar (featured on this thread some time ago) when actually diving.

One other minor issue is that the GMT hand isn’t sufficiently different from the minute hand when glancing at the time so sometimes I did a double take!

I wouldn’t have taken a chance on this for $350 but for $90 I didn’t mind the gamble. It looks fine and if I were to wear it in some unsavoury parts of the world and have it lost or stolen it wouldn’t break my heart.

 

[NakedYoga]

I’ve been banging on for ages about the perfect holiday watch. (Holiday = vacation for the colonials!)

As I often go scuba diving it has to be WR 200m at least, with dive bezel anda GMT function with a discreet 24 hour scale on the flange. A day function would be useful too as I often do forget what day it is when I’m travelling for fun.

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Jomashop hooked me with this one. It’s not quite what my ideal would be. It allegedly had an RRP of around $350 but I have no idea if that’s legit or just the age-old strategy of pumping up the price then shaving it down so we suckers think we’re getting a bargain. Anyway it cost about $90 shipped.

I did take it diving and it showed no signs of a problem being used at depths of around 90 feet. The bezel doesn’t have a coin edge so doesn’t turn very easily on the surface with wet hands, although once in the water a few minutes it’s easily turned, maybe due to my fingers pruning!

The numbers on the bezel are engraved with little contrast so they aren’t easily legible under water. I think if I want to be bothered taking two watches on holiday I’ll keep this one for the beach and pool and use my Seiko Prospex PADI solar (featured on this thread some time ago) when actually diving.

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One other minor issue is that the GMT hand isn’t sufficiently different from the minute hand when glancing at the time so sometimes I did a double take!

I wouldn’t have taken a chance on this for $350 but for $90 I didn’t mind the gamble. It looks fine and if I were to wear it in some unsavoury parts of the world and have it lost or stolen it wouldn’t break my heart.

Glad you found something close to what you've been searching for. What's the case diameter. Maybe it's the camera angle, but it looks the size of a dive computer on your wrist!

 

[Arthur_Dent]

Raketa Goroda, a Soviet era world timer on a leather NATO strap to piss off absolutely everyone in existence. It is the largest watch I own at 40mm and mainly wear it when the rest of my outfit is kind of muted.

 

[Michigan Planner]

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Raketa Goroda, a Soviet era world timer on a leather NATO strap to piss off absolutely everyone in existence. It is the largest watch I own at 40mm and mainly wear it when the rest of my outfit is kind of muted.

I love it!

I've been after a vintage world timer for a while and this is one of the nicer looking ones. It's just a shame I can't read Russian!

 

[Jazzmenco]

The helium escape valve comes in very handy...........

 

[Arthur_Dent]

I love it! I've been after a vintage world timer for a while and this is one of the nicer looking ones. It's just a shame I can't read Russian!

Thanks, I like it too and the navy dial is a lot more dynamic in real life. I noticed that the good ones have become scarcer and more expensive in the last couple of years, I picked this one up in I think 2017 for no more than 70 bucks. The only thing to worry about back then with a Goroda was to see if you didn't buy a frankenwatch, now you also have to be on the lookout for fakes! This is a great write-up if you are looking for one: https://vintagewatchinc.com/ussr/raketa/worldtimer-goroda/

 

[Keith Taylor]

Tonight I went to the launch of a new line of knitwear made from wool/cashmere sourced in Mongolia, a project started by my wife's friend at the start of the pandemic when Mongolia's exports ground to a halt and there was suddenly a local surfeit. Their signature is an orange stripe/splash across every piece, and by chance I was wearing both an orange scarf and my Alpina Seastrong with a new orange strap. And by the by my new Spier & Mackay field jacket courtesy of @wigglr, which I bloody love.

Slightly out of focus shots because... well, post event. They had beer.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Glad you found something close to what you've been searching for. What's the case diameter. Maybe it's the camera angle, but it looks the size of a dive computer on your wrist!

Haha probably a bit of both - about 43mm!

 

[Thin White Duke]

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Tonight I went to the launch of a new line of knitwear made from wool/cashmere sourced in Mongolia, a project started by my wife's friend at the start of the pandemic when Mongolia's exports ground to a halt and there was suddenly a local surfeit. Their signature is an orange stripe/splash across every piece, and by chance I was wearing both an orange scarf and my Alpina Seastrong with a new orange strap. And by the by my new Spier & Mackay field jacket courtesy of @wigglr, which I bloody love.

Slightly out of focus shots because... well, post event. They had beer.

If may have been you who posted this watch a while back which at the time I thought was pretty close to my grail holiday watch too.
I think I read somewhere about sourcing Mongolian cashmere. Good luck with that.

 

[ErikW]

SAGN009 - I believe this is from 1999. Retrograde day function. Date and independent GMT hand as well. Little busy, but I dug the unusual case shape (Japanese "AP Royal Oak"). I need to adjust the screws on the bezel at some point.

 

[Kappelan]

These watches I wear the most often recently.

 

[Jazzmenco]

Nethuns with meteorite dial.

 

[Jazzmenco]

 

[Kappelan]

Did a quick review/first impressions on this model from the Swedish microbrand Tuseno. Affordable chronograph with classic design.

 

[basu13]

These watches I wear the most often recently.

Sweet watches there. Is that a Black Bay 36 or 41?