Watches

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.

My strap checklist...

1. infinitely adjustable
2. keyboard friendly hardware
3. quick change
4. fray free
5. durable/long lasting

Usual NATO strap hardware ends up under wrist, no good for an all day keyboard warrior.

Zulu hardware can be moved away from under wrist, but it's a hit or miss on sizing between holes. Annnd sooner or later, said holes fray.

Closest that meet above is Vario Cordura strap, rivets prevent fraying, Zulu Style is keyboard friendly. Those same rivets though are thick enough that one needs to undo springbar to change straps.

Another is RSM Herringbone Twill. all but fraying bit. As it's has adjustment holes that aren't reinforced.

Yet another is Marine National/French Navy style elastic straps like WatchSteward, covers all but the last bit. It unfortunately stretches to a noodly mess after a year of use? Granted said straps gets seawater donked around twice a week. Reserving this on Garmin Instinct Solar.

After using springmade for ~3 weeks, I can now check all my nitpicky requirements. From reviews on it's website there was feedback it heavier watches might cause slippage after a while. I can see smooth seatbelt style band eventually doing that. Ridges on the Ribbed and classic should(?) mitigate that.

Hopefully, this helps someone in same predicament?

I love reading Perezcope articles; the detail is fascinating to me.

Sharing here in case folks here haven’t come across him yet.