Clocks on cocks (Part 1)

Jim · 27 September 2019 09:49

I haven’t suddenly felt the need to go on holiday, so no, probably not.

htm_1968 · 27 September 2019 09:58

You’re probably well advised to check the cantilever is still attached to your Io just in case.

hoopsontoast · 27 September 2019 10:37

Shit, I’ve a 330i and a Rolex, I must be boring as!

bmtell · 27 September 2019 10:54

Ignore him. He has been told what to like.

You also have a very nice IWC as well don’t you? Nice them.

johnny_s · 27 September 2019 11:18

Question :- I have a solar powered watch, to set the time I pull the crown and stem fully out and it disconnects power from the battery to the watch movement thus allowing the time to be set without advancing the second hand, basically the watch mechanism stops working.
If I pull the stem fully out to disengage the mechanism and therefore negate battery usage, will the watch solar circuit still charge the battery even though the battery is disconnected from the movement.
I can’t find the answer to this using the usual search methods, anyone know ?

crimsondonkey · 27 September 2019 12:05

You’re not boring Rob, its just your tastes that are a bit vanilla

hoopsontoast · 27 September 2019 19:12

I do like vanilla ice cream…

htm_1968 · 27 September 2019 19:20

@Mrs_Maureen_OPinion is this of interest to you?

Up for auction not far from my place on Wednesday. Details here

EDIT: There is also this chunk of Seiko:

Definitely not my thing

Kevin · 27 September 2019 19:56

I don’t get the big chunky dive watch thing at all - are they for hitting people with? Or door stops?
I doubt half the people who own them do anything more adventurous than not take them off in the shower.

Cambs13 · 27 September 2019 20:08

I guess, but how many folk with pilot watches do anything more than getting in the back of an Airbus to go on holiday?

Tons_of_fun · 27 September 2019 20:13

If you’re a ham handed oaf like me, they are indisputably more robust.

Mrs_Maureen_OPinion · 27 September 2019 23:32

Thanks for the heads-up Olan. I’ve spunked all the significant chunks of cash I’m going to for a while though

They’re just an aesthetic choice, nothing more. I used to dislike them, but I guess age and dawning senility has changed that. The Oris I’m wearing as I type is peak OTT diver - 46mm diameter, heavy AF, and built like a battleship. Ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal, ludicrous depth rating etc. I’ve never even been snorkelling, and if I did, the watch would be locked away in the hotel safe. It’s a toy, a statement, a treat from me to me after a lifetime of ALWAYS buying the cheapest tool to do a job (shit cars, crap shoes, bollocks clothing, poverty spec computers… I still use a 'phone from 1995 FFS!).

Back in 2003 I did this with hifi, and while that mostly ended very badly indeed, I’m glad I did it. Same with stupid great big expensive watches. I’ll never get the chance to do this again and I’m enjoying the fuck out of it. I don’t have much time for the dreary, so-safe, grey-on-grey, me-too, conformist choices a lot of people on here make, but so what? If they make you all happy that’s fab, and absolutely ALL that matters. Opinions are wind and piss, signifying nothing. Enjoy stuff, be happy.