Digital watches, anyone?

Digital watches, anyone?

  • Yes! I have one of the early ones with red LEDs.

    Votes: 8 2.8%

  • Yes. It's cheaper and more accurate than a mechanical watch.

    Votes: 40 13.8%

  • Yes. And I placed my order for the M8, before it came out.

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • No. But I did buy an M8.

    Votes: 27 9.3%

  • No. I listen to it ticking quietly as I fall into an analogue sleep.

    Votes: 130 44.8%

  • No. And I'm using a typewriter to browse the web.

    Votes: 18 6.2%

  • I don't wear watches. I just ask other people.

    Votes: 53 18.3%

  • Don't know.

    Votes: 12 4.1%
  • Total voters
    290
Krosya said:
I loveeee watches. Almost as much as I love cameras. I really like all kinds of watches, but prefer mechanical- selfwinding/automatic ones. Over the years I tried several kinds, including Rolex and Omega and found most to be rather unreliable. I keep trying, maybe one day I'll come across a good swiss automatic watch that agrees with me. I did try some japanese , such as Seiko automatics - with similar results. So, for now, I keep coming back to my two favorites, - analogues but battery operated Casio Diver's and Citizen Diver's watches. Not that I dive a lot, but they seem to be able to last well for me. Somehow I am hard on watches, bang them on things, get them wet all the time, so waterproofing helps. I almost treated myself to my dream watch this Christmas - IWC Porsche Design Ocean series. I really like those for some reason, but.....didn't work out due to other expenses. One day....one day...
Meanwhile I keep trying other vintage automatic watches , see if I find one that will actually be able to survive me. 😉
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I own about six watches, some mechanical (Breitling, Seiko diver) and some quartz. Aside from my atomic digital, my most accurate watch is a Seiko quartz with analog face. My breitling, once serviced, is accurate to 3 minutes a month, which is what mechanical chromometers are certified for. An upper grade mechical watch is a work of art, so I disagree with another poster that they are for the elite only. I will bet that poster owns an expensive camera, like a Leica. You can take a picture with a Kodak brownie, so why then do people buy Leica or Zeiss cameras? Because they want the workmanship, the effort made.
 
cme4brain said:
An upper grade mechical watch is a work of art, so I disagree with another poster that they are for the elite only. I will bet that poster owns an expensive camera, like a Leica. You can take a picture with a Kodak brownie, so why then do people buy Leica or Zeiss cameras? Because they want the workmanship, the effort made.
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You happen to be INcorrect. I happen to not own any Leicas. My cameras are like "Timexes". A few Yashicas (GSN, Lynx 14, CC), a Zorki 4K, and my "most expensive" a Konica Auto S3. I don't agree that watches or cameras are "works of art". Moreso than cameras, I consider them ridiculous items of self-adornment and conspicuous consumption. A "Rolex" is a gawd piece of elitist consipicuous consumption not a "work of art". Furthermore, why can't my $1.00 Timex be a "work of art"?

My own personal philosophy is that elitist conspicuous consumption and expensive self-adornment is "disgusting" - as it applies to all consumer goods, when there are people, children, who will die of starvation in the world.

Buy a $10 mechanical Timex "work of art" and take that extra $1900 you would spend for a functionally "the same" item of self-adormnet and conspicuois consumption intended to "feed your ego" and instead, feed one of them.
 
Only analog, mechanical either automatic or hand wound.
Most preferred, a 1966 Baume & Mercier able to dive up to 120 m and a Vostok Komandirskye, both black face and 1970 Seiko Chrono.
For dayly use, either a Blue face Seiko, or an green faced Orient .

Ernesto
 
I removed my watch the day I retired. Now, the only time I wear one is when I'm traveling and need to make flights.

I don't have a dedicated clock at home. Umpteen other appliances insist on telling me the time.
 
I've gone back to analog

I've gone back to analog

I picked up an early digital watch, but I didn't like the quality of the time I got from it. After using it for a while, I felt that analog time was so much nicer than digital time. So, I went back to analog. Over the years, digital has evolved, and the watches have become feature rich, what with stop watch function alongside reading normal time, and chronography added. I've gone through the various digital evolutionary cycles, always returning to analog time telling.

At this point I own a couple of really fine analog watches and do not have a digital in the drawer.

For some reason, I can definitely see the difference between digital time and analog time. Analog rules and will always be better than digital. It's a soul thing. Digital may be more technically precise, but it still is battery dependent, if not solar powered. It just doesn't have the innate soul feeling of a good analog device. analog wins another revert. (No, not pervert..... revert!!)
 
The Anti-Rolex

The Anti-Rolex

Not stylish, but the best value is no doubt the under-$10 black plastic Casio.
After a few years the band will break, but then they're still handy in your pocket,
tool bag or taped to the wall or dashboard.
And when the battery eventually dies in 10 years or so, just buy another! 😉

Chris
 
my fathers 1941 Omega Chronometer, War Department issue to R.A.F aircrew.
recently serviced still keeps excellent time and looks like new.
I hate digital watches and clocks, quartz is fine as long as it has an analogue face.
 
1952 Omega Bumper-wind Seamaster in Stainless Steel.

And a few hundred very inexpensive but wonderful watches from eBay, most dating from the 1930's to 1950's, American, winding or automatic, a few select German and Swiss, automatic, modern. No batteries.

As the German officer said to the prisoner who would only say "tick, tick, tick." "We haff ways to make you tock."
 
This is a funny thread!
I thought I was ADD with my fascination forwatches then trains then fountain pens then firearms and now leica's, but when I started working in Cameratechs I realised that there is a whole universe of other weirdos out there too -and most of them are a whole lot more 'out there' then I am, so it makes me feel a lot better.
I have a few watches, a Casio with multiple timers which I use to develop film with and I have a Suunto Observer for well I just have one at this stage, because I over took that with a Marathon GSAR, and since then a Pilot Marathon is comming my way also, these are like Leica MPs -tool watches not jewel watches, pure function and military only. Very hard to get.
 
irq506 said:
This is a funny thread!
I thought I was ADD with my fascination forwatches then trains then fountain pens then firearms and now leica's, but when I started working in Cameratechs I realised that there is a whole universe of other weirdos out there too -and most of them are a whole lot more 'out there' then I am, so it makes me feel a lot better.
I have a few watches, a Casio with multiple timers which I use to develop film with and I have a Suunto Observer for well I just have one at this stage, because I over took that with a Marathon GSAR, and since then a Pilot Marathon is comming my way also, these are like Leica MPs -tool watches not jewel watches, pure function and military only. Very hard to get.
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Every watch nut I know is also into pens - except me. Never found a use for fountain pens. But yes on the rest. Trains - the real steam types - but that ties in with my photography. Not a model train guy, really. Don't mind taking photos of them.
 
Occasionally I check out the Orients

Occasionally I check out the Orients

the idea of a low cost power reserve manual is appealing.

ErnestoJL said:
Only analog, mechanical either automatic or hand wound.
Most preferred, a 1966 Baume & Mercier able to dive up to 120 m and a Vostok Komandirskye, both black face and 1970 Seiko Chrono.
For dayly use, either a Blue face Seiko, or an green faced Orient .

Ernesto
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Oh no, not toy trains, real ones. I like being on them. Steam or diesel electric etc. Ive traveled quite a bit on trains around the world, just so that I could go on the train... If airships were still around Im sure Id be all over that too.
I stopped smoking five months ago after 19 years and though Id never collected lighters, I might one day have if I continued smoking.
I think we just get off on metal....
 
My wrist watch is a more manual tool than my m6. But I could not find a right answer in this poll. btw. while sleeping my watch has to be in another room or i can not sleep.
 
I wish I still had one of the old LED watches. My father had an electronics business and I was one of the first in my school to get one of these. But now days, a battery-powered analog is the only way I travel. It's just quickker to tell time with! And they just look cooler too. 😎
 
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