I have a small inexpensive collection. My favorite watch is a Quiksilver analog watch with a red face, blue ratchet bezel and a stainless steel strap.
I have also have a Fossil Indiglo analog watch with a blue face, silver ratchet bezel and stainless steel strap.
I have a Guess watch with a bluish/green face gold and silver ratchet bezel and a leather strap.
My dream watch would be a Doxa Submariner with the Orange face. My uncle has the original 1970’s version and I have always admired it. It’s hard to justify dropping $800US+ on a watch, but I will do it someday!
I’m a big fan of “clunky” looking divers watches. Especially with stainless steal cases and straps.
Clocks here, not watches. I’m in school to repair them, and am almost through. Since I am a little older, I decided to avoid watches, as my eyesight is going wonky already.
I like early american, weight driven grandfathers and ogees.
Boy if I ever win the Lotto, the watch store and I are going to be very good friends.
I actually owned an origional DOXA Sub 300 (look at the picture on the right, my watch is the one on the top) Alas, it was stolen a few years ago when my house was broken into. :mad:
Right now my everyday watch is the best watch I have ever worn, and as I get older it gets better and better. I have a Volvo edition Navy SEALS watch . Why is this the greatest watch ever? Look at this picture I can read it without without glasses no matter how dark it is. This watch rocks.
I went and got me a TAG Heuer Formula 1 for a dress watch last year.
Hey, finally one of my several hobbies shows up on the Dope!
Both my son and I are “horologists”, but with completely different collections. His runs to “close to” high end watches (Sinn, Rolex, Omega…with simplicity in disign and function as the emphasis.
My collection has several foci; unusual watches comprise the most varied portion with examples including UV measuring watches, voice recorders, multisensors, etc, etc. A second portion is comprised of Soviet and Russian watches, which are interesting on a number of levels.
The third area consists of a variety of Seiko, Citizen, and Casio watches, with an emphasis on divers and chronographs. I have and appreciate full mechanicals, automatics, quartz and solar powered.
All in all, I have about 60 watches…good that my wife doesn’t read the Dope…
As far as maintenance goes, I do batteries, adjustments for timing accuracy, refinishing cases and bracelets (along with bracelet adjustments and replacements), so I am not really a horologist. But I do spend a lot of time on watch sites when not on SDMB.
My everyday watch is a Rolex GMT Master II with the Jubilee band.
I went to the jeweler today to pick up my Submariner. It’s been just over eight weeks since I took it in for an overhaul. It looked beautiful. Except. I wrote down on the work order that the dial and hands needed to be replaced, since they are no longer luminous. Yep. Right there on the paperwork. They’d overlooked it. So now they have to send it to Rolex, because Rolex insist upon exchanging dials. They control their inventory like anal retentive accountants keep their numbers. They said I could have my watch today, and I could send it in to Rolex. Uh-uh. Rolex only changes parts as part of an overhaul. I’m not paying for an overhaul twice! Oh, well. It’ll sort itself out in the end.
Dad had a 1974 Seiko Bell-Matic with a beautiful blue face. I had that overhauled at Seiko when I was still in L.A. I also bought two identical ones (Ionly wanted one, but I won the bidding on both) and had them overhaled as well. Dad’s is put away in its box. I keep the other two on the watch winder so I can wear them when I want.
I also have dad’s stainless steel Vulcain Cricket and his gold-tone Zodiac. Both are on Speidel Twist-O-Flex bracelets. I guess those were the bracelets to have when dad got them in the '50s and '60s.
I have my first watch, a Timex with date that I got when I was ten. I bought a Seiko Sports 100 Chronograph in 1986. I never wear that one anymore, but I used it at my desk when I wanted accuracy (before I got the PowerBook with its accurate clock).
Mom bought me a Fossil watch 10 or 12 years ago. It has an art-deco DC-3-type plane on it. Pretty cool. I have too many other watches though, to wear it. I should probably put a new battery in it just on GP.
There’s a stem-wind G.I.-issue Stocker & Yale watch. Pretty cheap, in an olive-drab nylon case. I like the nuclear trefoil on the dial, and the ‘dispose of rad. waste’ warning on the back.
Russian pocketwatch, Lorus Quartz LCD that needs a battery, and I think that’s it. Now I need to pick up an Omega Speedmaster.
Technically a “horologist” is someone who specifically makes or repairs clocks and watches, or studies them professionally. Watch and clock collectors are not generally considered actual “horologists”.
I’ve got well over 100 watches. I like mid priced automatics, chronometers and divers esp. the upper level Seiko’s and Citizens from $ 300-$1000 and offbeat brands and styles like some of the Spoon retro digitals.
