Watch advice

[shaithis]

I am a fan of accurist but only because I've had the same watch for 16 years and apart from batteries, 2 strap links and a replaced button and glass (due to a very messy night 10 years ago ), it's still as good as the day I got it.

[kalniel]

Harsh I was kinda expecting something like that though Swatch or Casio G-Shock ??

G-shock watches look terrible IMHO.. and I'm a bit put off Casio for some reason..

I am a fan of accurist but only because I've had the same watch for 16 years and apart from batteries, 2 strap links and a replaced button and glass (due to a very messy night 10 years ago ), it's still as good as the day I got it.

I'm not sure I want to know about that messy night!

Cheers for the suggestions so far.. tempted by something like this at the moment:



Noddy instructions on the front aside, looks okay to me.

[bsodmike]

It's rather ironic that some of us end up servicing our mechanical oysters for a tidy sum of £255 (as of May 2008) to about 700quid+ (Plat. DDs) ~ Patek, you're looking at circa £1000 upwards, easily, for a service.

These services are recommended every five years, with at least a water-resistance test each year.

The throw away/buy new approach makes more sense if you ask me, but who said "sense" had anything to do with it, right

[kalniel]

Hehe true. As a concession to you mike, I am also briefly considering this one:


It's the only mechanical movement watch I could afford really at £58 or so. Still rather ugly though.

[bsodmike]

Still rather ugly though.

Quite; it seems to be a poor attempt at copying the look of a Breguet or to be more precise, seems to draw from a few concepts. Ideally it should look like this:



...and that would a tourbillon in the centre, not your run-of-the mill spring balance Tourbillons are quite stunning; I believe the balance itself undergoes a rotation of 2π per minute, to help ward off the effects of gravity.



Click the image below for an animation:

[kalniel]

Well next time you accidentally buy two of the same you can send one my way Mike

Went for the Timex pictured - looks and feels fine. Annoyance is that the alarm is 12 hour rather than 24 hour, so you either activate/deactivate each day (simple), or listen to it going off in the evening as well. I've never seen such a crude alarm timing before either - you set it by moving triangles on the face for the hour/minute, but you can see little metal filaments coming off the triangles and the hour/minute hands have metal tips - when it gets to the right time it brushes against the filaments, completes the circuit and the alarm goes off!

Hopefully something so simple won't go pop quite as quickly!