I don't even own a watch, just got no time.

 

Me too! I use it to check my chronometers against lol

 

I do like a Seiko, nice for the money. I have a Seiko myself, not sure what the model is, was only a cheapy chronograph, but it gets good remarks. I'd have loads of nice watches if I could afford them.

 

I love my Ball Hydrocarbon chrono
I'd like a Breitling Super Avenger but I can't justify the cost more so now we have a baby.

 

Just a swatch for me. I can't justify an expensive wrist bauble.

 

Not bad if you are blind

 

I find TWSteel one of those "fashion" brands. They only use basic citizen movements and rebrand them and charge a lot on top.

 

My Seiko just arrived - first automatic watch (I have a few G Shocks):

 

Nice

 

I am a fan of vintage Casio G-Shocks.. Had lots, modded them with negative displays, dyed the colors etc.. These I own now.

G-Shock Stargate DW8300, 1995.




ProTrek PRT-40, back from the 1998



Modern G-Lide with TideGraph and Moonphases for spotting werewolves...



And my fave watch so far, obsession at first sight... Bell&Ross Phantom

 

Just these two Nixons for me.

 

my 'fun' watch

 

What time was it???

 

Ghey thread alert

 

I really like those vintage Casio watches, very nice

But why on earth do you wear those plastic bracelets on your wrists?

 

Presumably its the male equivalent of jewellery.

I can't imagine myself loaded up with such junk on the wrist

Including the timepiece paraphernalia

 

**** me, there's a couple of Yeti's on here wearing wrist watches.

Back, sack and crack anyone.

 

 

I have an omega sea master. I love it. Brietling be my next watch. Paying for a wedding at the minute or ad have one in a heartbeat.

 

Do you shave yet? ;-)

 

Watch is the male equivalent of jewellery, correct. Some men like wearing flash watches and blinding others with the reflection. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Some of us just find it useful knowing the time (and tides on one of my watches)!

 

Although time and tide wait for none, yet again it's good to know, I agree, Matt.

Years ago, sister in-law once had a phase when she was acting like the new age hippy with her musical, bearded husband. They wouldn't wear a watch, wouldn't believe in keeping the time boundaries. Nature was the clock for them for that 'anti tick-tock' period. Her husband has been a psychiatric nurse for a long time, and she herself is now a nurse. I bet there's no escaping the time now. A second could decide life and death.

However, time is such a binding thing! Without time boundaries, life would be quite peaceful, I imagine. Then again, if time didn't exist, how would we know when to get to work etc. Difficult one, that.

About tide, tides are important to value the calm after and before tide.

Therefore, both have their places, so has the watch tbh.

 

TBH on our five week trip to Europe, I hardly wore a watch at all - which was nice.

 

Same is with any other binding gadget, Matt. When on holiday and relaxing outing, we should leave all binding things behind e.g. mobile phones, laptops, watches etc. It makes sense to feel as relaxed as possible for the moments we are actually supposed to be relaxing.

 

The watches are fine, but what about those plastic bracelets morgentau is wearing? Are they some sort of gheyer signalling system to alert other gheyers about your passive/active preferences?

I've always assumed men who wear beaded necklaces are employing a similar gheyer preference alert system

 

Keep up, old bean. Those wristbands are campaigning wristbands. It's cool to wear them, and the more you wear them, the more it shows that you are a thoughtful person. You do get some non-campaigning ones in the town market stalls, but they are just to meet the vogue.

About beads around some males' necks, if an Indian yogi can dangle beads around his neck without being called ghey or anything, what can't other humans? So, don't be so judgemental.

 

At 47yrs old one would like to think i'm more of a man than you are sonny jim.

 

Weren't they made famous by that dedicated campaigner against drugs in sport, Lance Armstrong, with his LiveStrong plastic wristband

 

Not sure about that ^ dedicated campaigner, but they seemed to become fashionable since the G8 Summit and the first international "White Band Day" in 2005 for Make Poverty History campaign. Then all cause-focused organisations started to copy the idea one by one. Then rastafarians and ravers stole the idea as well to make them as multi-coloured. Those multi-coloured ones campaign for "dance like a loony, become poor and lose your head by wasting your money on taking drugs" instead. Anyway, now everybody (including profit making commercial companies) is making a wristband with their name on.