Leica L1 and L2 ...

[jkcampbell]

Hi,


Trouble is, it's an automatic watch and you have to wear them all the time or else they run down and stop and then starting them up again means fiddling with the winder and they break... Well, two or three of mine have over the years.


Regards, David

You have to wind it? That's outrageous! I once had a Leica camera and to take a picture you had to wind it too. Not just once but every time you took a photo. I heard rumors that there were some models called "double strokes" that you had to wind twice for every frame! Who would put up with such nonsense.

Sorry David, just poking fun. Seriously, if you're into high priced mechanical luxury watches you probably store them in a winder case that keeps them wound when you are not wearing it. At the very least winding and setting your watch when you switch out your Rolex for your Omega, is more than likely a dance than a chore.

I completely understand the head scratching over high priced watches. It's pretty hard to justify. I've had my Rolex for over 40 years and it's become a part of my everyday life and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Just like I wouldn't trade my Leica M10 for a more feature rich and less expensive camera. Sometimes we all just succumb to our addictions.

Only time will tell if a Leica will make it in the stratosphere of luxury watches.

Cheers, jc

 

[MCTuomey]

Nice looking watch - elegant, simple yet strong lines, understated. I like the Orient Star shared above too, softer lines, less assertive than the Leica.

I was told recently that it's a mark of status to forego carrying a mobile phone and simply wear a high-end wristwatch.

 

[sepiareverb]

I suppose bicycles should be next in the "cheap X is better than expensive Y" threads?

 

[ptpdprinter]

I was told recently that it's a mark of status to forego carrying a mobile phone and simply wear a high-end wristwatch.

People say the darnedest things. Fortunately, you can choose which ones to believe, which ones to disbelieve, and which ones simply to ignore.

 

[David Hughes]

Sorry David, just poking fun. Seriously, if you're into high priced mechanical luxury watches you probably store them in a winder case that keeps them wound when you are not wearing it. At the very least winding and setting your watch when you switch out your Rolex for your Omega, is more than likely a dance than a chore....



Cheers, jc

Interesting, thanks; I'd not heard of them but as I use a boring, ordinary watch or two these days I've not looked at solutions to the problem recently. That's "recently" relative to the 50 or 60 years since I started with a serious watch.


Regards, David

 

[Paul T.]

My Heuer Carrera cost the price of an M6 when I got it and is worth two or three of them now. And I use it every single day, unlike my Leica.

It's great they make the movement themselves. A company making something of quality and actually producing it somewhere other than a Chinese sweatshop is to be applauded, even if it's way out of my reach.

 

[Tompas]

A darling friend of my husband's is a retired rescue pilot. He does not own a wristwatch. But you are a pilot! He says there were no less than 5 timepieces in the machine. But away from that? My cellphone, he says. There are clocks everywhere. If there are no clocks and one does not have to have one's phone at hand, then there is no need for more than sunrise and sunset.

Yes, exactly, your friend is absolutely right. I stopped wearing a watch a very long time ago.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Nice looking watch - elegant, simple yet strong lines, understated. I like the Orient Star shared above too, softer lines, less assertive than the Leica.

I was told recently that it's a mark of status to forego carrying a mobile phone and simply wear a high-end wristwatch.

What about guys like me who don't own a smartphone but wear relatively cheap watches? I have a Seiko quartz chronograph my dad bought me as a high school graduation gift 24 years ago. It cost him $400 back then.

 

[David Hughes]

Another problem is that these watches (well, all of them) need servicing from time to time. Do it by the book and so on and the initial price doesn't really matter.

OTOH, few people bother to get things serviced by the book or, worst of all, think they can do it themselves...

Regards, David

 

[Roger Hicks]

Still wearing the Omega Seamaster 30 that my father bought me for my 18th birthday 50 years ago. He bought it in the PX in Bermuda: in those days, it was just $28. A strap costs more than that now!

Yes, it's had a few services and one new mainspring. Needs another service/ repair now: the winder is getting a bit stiff. I find it much easier to glance at my wrist than to carry a large, flat electronic device out of my pocket and pull it out if I want to know the time.

Cheers,

R.

 

[mcfingon]

You have a point about pulling electronic devices out of your pocket Roger. I did that on the train to Athens airport recently and someone noticed that and subsequently "liberated" it out of my pocket without me being aware of it. It was an iPhone that cost me $1200 to replace in Australia, so it would have been cheaper to wear an inexpensive wristwatch.

 

[grouchos_tash]

+1 on the Seiko 5, I've have a couple that I wore for years but now I wear a Fitbit Charge 2 and I'm surprised how much I've taken going from mechanical to digital 😉

If I was going to buy an 'expensive' watch I would go with a Nomos

 

[besk]

I don't have my watches serviced when they break. I just purchase a new one. Timex digital watches are about $15.00 US at "big box" stores. I do save from the trash my black Nylon band though.

 

[Keith]

The closest I am to owning a watch is the cool looking dial on my Epson RD1 ... that was supplied by Seiko I heard recently?

Hadn't realised that!

 

[NickTrop]

Still wearing the Omega Seamaster 30 that my father bought me for my 18th birthday 50 years ago. He bought it in the PX in Bermuda: in those days, it was just $28. A strap costs more than that now!

Yes, it's had a few services and one new mainspring. Needs another service/ repair now: the winder is getting a bit stiff. I find it much easier to glance at my wrist than to carry a large, flat electronic device out of my pocket and pull it out if I want to know the time.

Cheers,

R.

A classic! Nice, nice --especially a vintage one. THAT is the father-son tradition. Are fathers today going to pass down "cell phones" from generation to generation? I wanted to get my son who's turning 21 in a couple months a nice watch. He has zero interest. Doesn't even understand why people still wear them.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Still wearing the Omega Seamaster 30 that my father bought me for my 18th birthday 50 years ago. He bought it in the PX in Bermuda: in those days, it was just $28. A strap costs more than that now!

Yes, it's had a few services and one new mainspring. Needs another service/ repair now: the winder is getting a bit stiff. I find it much easier to glance at my wrist than to carry a large, flat electronic device out of my pocket and pull it out if I want to know the time.

Cheers,

R.

Nice. I have a Tag Heuer 2000, given to me as a 21st birthday present. 27 years later it's still going strong.

I may have to replace it in my next life.

 

[Lss]

Like the design, can't afford the watch.

 

[Roger Hicks]

. . . I wanted to get my son who's turning 21 in a couple months a nice watch. He has zero interest. Doesn't even understand why people still wear them.

Dear Nick,

Oh, dear. That's sad. Never mind. He's got a father who loves him enough to want to do it, anyway.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Nice. I have a Tag Heuer 2000, given to me as a 21st birthday present. 27 years later it's still going strong.

I may have to replace it in my next life.

It's a bugger getting it from one incarnation to the next, though.

Much easier for incarnate lamas. Incidentally, HH Dalai Lama repairs watches as a hobby. Or at least he used to repair them -- haven't talked to him in decades (I wrote a biography of him in the early 1980s).

Cheers,

R.

 

[raid]

Does it come along with a Leica M10+lens? Maybe this is the deal?
There used to be a Leica lens (was it the 800mm/6.3?) for over $ 30,000, but it came with a (new) VW Fox!