Watches

Built this Yacht master inspired Seiko for the impending summer. Features Seiko NH34 GMT movement, Yacht master style case and bezel and a Seiko dial with Rolex style hands, currently on a Fullmosa strap. Overall build cost <$100 USD.

The Alba Y823-5000 is a neat little digital watch I picked up at a flea market in Osaka Japan for about $10. Beside the usually quartz watch offerings, this one had a button that will read the current time to you in Japanese with a button push.

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I celebrated one year at my new job by buying a watch from my wish list. This Nodus watch has great build quality, and I really like the design sense. I've always liked dials with bold arabic numerals, and I appreciate how they preserved symmetry by placing the day and date at 6 o clock. Build quality is excellent, with finely brushed surfaces, a fluid bracelet, smooth bezel action. The only thing I'd change is maybe having a count-up bezel instead of count-down, but that's not a big deal.

So I bought the Timex Easy Reader after some research and got it for really cheap, but I have never worn any watch so I don't know if it's too big?

I bought this solar-powered multiband Casio Lineage for $30 USD on Yahoo Auctions, cheap due to scratch on the mineral crystal and a stuck pusher.

Disassembly upon receipt revealed the waterproof seal had been compromised leading to a bit of rust on the inside. I tore down the case and removed the scratched glass. Soaked the case in WD-40 and thoroughly cleaned the pushers. Replaced the glass with a $15 USD sapphire crystal and reassembled with a tropic strap. Now works perfectly.

This is now a regular on the rotation. Such a beautiful watch for the price, offering world time, stopwatch and alarms. It contrasts well with my automatic divers and retro digitals. While I'd like to get another Lineage, perhaps in white, I think an Oceanus would make more sense, or better yet a Seiko Astron/Citizen Atessa.

Some pictures of Luis Felipe Derani’s Rolex Daytona.

Back in 2016 I was working for Extreme Speed Motorsport (ESM) and he let me try his watch after he won Daytona 24h 2016.

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture.

The Fifty Fathoms!

I don’t expect it to be as popular as the Moonswatch, but I think it looks great. Definitely didn’t see this one coming.

My dog isn’t impressed with my new watch…

New to me watch. Love it so far. Super easy to read and clean.

First post here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Astron in this community, or even on r/Watches. I know those ones might not be everyone’s favourite, but I find some of them truly beautiful. It's a dial to be savoured in three dimensions, where you can't help but appreciate the magnificent work done by Seiko on the aesthetics of these watches. Some may find their avant-gardiste side uninteresting but I find that to be at least intriguing. The fact that a brand as big as Seiko is still pushing interesting innovations in a relatively conservative sector is something I particularly like.

I have been trying to find Casio's Apple Watch Homage, the MTP-M305M or MTP-M305L-2AV. MSRP is $80, but its out of stock everywhere. Anyone know where I can find one in the US?

https://www.vaerwatches.com/products/c5-field-black-40mm-usa-solar

Thoughts on this watch? I’m looking for solar, simple, for a smaller wrist.

A bit big on my 5.5" wrist, but oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️. BB54 just doesn't hit right with me. Love the warmer tones of the BB58.

Recently picked this up. Really liking it so far.

Most use of my phone's clock app usage is setting 5/7/10/15 min timers for various things and setting alarms to varying times when I need to get going to catch a train or whatever.

I'm looking for a watch that has an easily accessible timer complication so that I don't need to get out my phone to do those things. An alarm complication (alert at absolute time rather than relative) would be nice too but is not required.

I am not looking for a chronograph or diver's watch. Chronographs go up, not down, and don't alarm me when the time is up. That's the most critical feature to me.
Something like a diver's watch could be workable (using a rotating bezel to set the timer/alarm would be great) if they alarmed me when the time was up but that's not how divers work to my knowledge.

I don't need a luxurious watch or anything, a basic one is fine. I actually don't want to spend too much. I'm not looking for "collector pieces", I actually want to wear and use this thing.

Most of what I found online were either chronographs, alarm watches that are not convenient to set (might as well get out my phone if I need to fiddle with it for a minute) or digital watches.

I did find two candidates however:

• Timex Explorer Easy Set Alarm. It was discontinued a decade ago and they don't appear to have been very high quality to begin with, so the remaining ones sadly don't have much life left in them I figure. Also practically unavailable.
• Seiko "dancing hands" watches. They're pretty old (1992) but appear to be rather high quality, so probably okay? I'd still prefer something a bit newer. Feature wise they fit the bill but the timer might be a little hard to set efficiently? Unsure how practical these would be for my use-case.

What do you think? Can you recommend a series or have pointers to look into?

This is was my grandmother's wristwatch she got for her 30th birthday. It was built in 1959, and only has hour and minute complications. The fact that we could build machines this small before computers were invented seriously impresses me.

This watch has basically ruined my collection; I no longer wear anything else - I just alternate between bracelet, rubber strap and various fabric straps.

Citizen Eco Drive Satellite Wave

I bought this more than 7 years ago before fossil(I think) bought the company. Now most of their watches looks like an AliExpress rebranded watch.