gopherblue
Straight Flush
By popular demand (ok, an offhand remark by @Perthmike), this is where we talk about our timepieces. Feel free to post pr0n of those you own or those that are grail watches.
I’ll start...
I have always, always, always had a thing for watches. From an early age, I was fascinated by complex mechanical devices. And wristwatches were, to me, the ultimate expression of craftsmanship and precision in a complex (and tiny) mechanical device.
I began wearing a watch in grade school, a Timex I bought with paper route money. I progressed to the inevitable Casio digital watch—the watch of 80s nerds everywhere—before I found a cool Armitron calendar watch which I wore throughout college.
But it wasn’t until I graduated law school that I acquired my first “real” watch, an Omega Seamaster Professional Chronometer. And it’s been all downhill (for my wallet) since then. I always loved diver watches, and it was just by chance when I was drooling over a Tag Hauer that I spotted the Seamaster. It was a timeless classic—stunning to me and the perfect distillation of the “tool” watch. Elegant and simple, sporty and dressy.
Little did I know but less than a year later the same watch would become the “James Bond” watch, and the price would skyrocket as a result of demand. But I scraped together my graduation gift money and bought it, for a price that is so low compared to current pricing that I’m almost embarrassed. I still have it and wear it regularly, even though I now have added other watches to my collection. Nothing else is quite the same, and I always come back to it.
I’ll start...
I have always, always, always had a thing for watches. From an early age, I was fascinated by complex mechanical devices. And wristwatches were, to me, the ultimate expression of craftsmanship and precision in a complex (and tiny) mechanical device.
I began wearing a watch in grade school, a Timex I bought with paper route money. I progressed to the inevitable Casio digital watch—the watch of 80s nerds everywhere—before I found a cool Armitron calendar watch which I wore throughout college.
But it wasn’t until I graduated law school that I acquired my first “real” watch, an Omega Seamaster Professional Chronometer. And it’s been all downhill (for my wallet) since then. I always loved diver watches, and it was just by chance when I was drooling over a Tag Hauer that I spotted the Seamaster. It was a timeless classic—stunning to me and the perfect distillation of the “tool” watch. Elegant and simple, sporty and dressy.
Little did I know but less than a year later the same watch would become the “James Bond” watch, and the price would skyrocket as a result of demand. But I scraped together my graduation gift money and bought it, for a price that is so low compared to current pricing that I’m almost embarrassed. I still have it and wear it regularly, even though I now have added other watches to my collection. Nothing else is quite the same, and I always come back to it.
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