If Bond is supposed to be stylish then why does he wear a Rolex?
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If Bond is supposed to be stylish then why does he wear a Rolex?
retconned
he looks so young there
That’s because he was Bond for a 15 year timespan.
i forget that sometimes.
he's still nu-bond to me
what brand of watch should I go for that's tasteful and in the 1-2k range?
Just buy a smartwatch. Anybody who rocks anything over 500 on their wrist is moronic unless you want to flex on the pots and even then we’ll laugh at you
>flex on the pots
the frick is this moronspeak?
if you need to ask what's tasteful then you do not have taste and should not buy a watch
Ok let me put it another way
How is Longines for those who know their watches? I quite like the look of a lot of them but wondered how they are perceived and how well they hold value
>how well they hold value
What is with this fricking merchant mentality? What are you going to do - be careful all the time that you don't scratch it or wear it too often so you could sell it on ebay later? Jesus fricking Christ.
no but it's a measure of quality I suppose, and it's nice to know that if your gambling debt goes to high you can sell your watch to pay it off
>wondered how they are perceived and how well they hold value
Number 1, nobody is ever going to give a shit about your watch. You will get more comments, especially from women, with a 20 dollar gumball swatch than you will with a fricking Patek Philippe turd.
Number 2, it'll generally hold a proportion of its value, but you'll likely have to wait a while to sell it.
Longines are nice, and only collectible watches hold their value.
Just buy a nice Seiko and see if your itch for watches continues after that.
There's a watch general on Cinemaphile
Anything Japanese. Citizen chronomasters are the best you can get in the 2k range, but if you're not crazy you can get a Seiko with far more utility for under 100.
All mountain israelite brands are soulless garbage for morons and everyone will laugh at you if you wear one. The swiss banned the Japs from all their competitions after they got completely destroyed at their own game.
got a seiko already, damn good watch although the glass isn't sapphire crystal and already got a bit scratched
Still it wasn't too expensive, I use it as a day to day watch
Generally speaking, replacing the glass with sapphire is trivial and fairly inexpensive. Doubt it'd cost more than 70 bucks.
I got pic related for 290 used, sapphire glass. Seiko offers lots of sapphire glass watches for pretty cheap. Going to throw a thick bracelet on this and it’ll last forever. I agree mineral crystal just doesn’t do it
is this your watch? https://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SNE549-Prospex-Silver-Tone-Stainless/dp/B08FCS9NJ6/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=seiko+prospex+solar+diver&qid=1656630414&sr=8-17
No sir, it’s a mode SNE585 IIRC. It’s 38mm
I've been seeing that watch around alot lately, it's based. Perfect size, good specs, solar is better than automatic at that price point. I'd probably throw it on rubber.
I have one of these on the way since they were on sale recently on leaf amazon, never had a good solar beater before.
Note that there's glass crystal protectors availabe for this model in particular. I was wondering when the phone peripheral industry was going to adapt glass screen protectors for watches with crystals that aren't sapphire or acrylic. Regular watch crystal glass is fricking ass: Scratchable unlike sapphire and unpolishable like plastic. Worst option.
Dumb weeb
>mountain israelites
your sword wouldn't happen to have been folded 1000 times would it?
Kek, pocket knife gay here. Japanese steel really is good stuff.
Higher end seiko (like presage or alpinist for example) if you want great quality watch, or some longines/tissot/certina if you want good quality watch but swiss made.
Get a high end Seiko or Hamilton pilot watch.
casio duro and seiko sur309
>1-2k range?
lol
Real watches cost $10k+
Longines, Seiko, I think there are some Breitlings at that price, Hamilton.
Real flex in that price range is buying a quartz.
Original grain Taylor koa
As far as I know Rolex at that time wasn't the luxury brand it is today. They were just solid wrist-watched that any middle-class guy can afford.
yeah, that's pretty spot on
but pre the 'quartz crisis' watches weren't seen as luxury items, and it was only after the japanese brought out quartz movements that were much more accurate than anything mechanical and nearly destroyed the swiss industry, that those old firms either died, were bought out, or rebranded as luxury items
around the connery era, that would simply have been seen as something a military man would have worn, the nato likely a nod to his rank in the navy
Yeah, similar to Ray-Ban initially producing sunglasses for pilots during WWII.
oh, that's new to me -- cheers
(not really into Cinemaphileshion, but aviators are good practical shades imco)
There’s a good reason Aviators, Wayfarers and Clubmasters have remained the definitive sunglasses styles for so long. They look great and fit almost any face shape.
I think Tom Cruise and Don Johnson were the best deal Ray Ban ever had
No question. imo a pair of classic Wayfarers are still the best looking sunglasses made.
They are definitely the most flexible
Cope poorgay
>tfw casio
Which model is that? And what color is the illumination?
B640WB-1BEF, and the illumination is yellow/orange
i have a timex
What about Doxa?
Like 99% of "swiss" below rolex, made in china.
I remember a dive watch forum tried to track down their factory in swiss about a decade ago.
It was a post box at an office complex.
Their OEM chink supplier was dumb enough to have doxa watches in their examples pages lmao.
Anyone that buys doxa because muh swiss dive watch heritage is getting extra scammed by the standards of a scammy industry in the first place ("luxury" deprecated time telling instruments).
I used to make fun of doxa because of the chink connection, until I found out that pretty much every "swiss made" watch under rolex, including omega and most of the swatch group btw, has most of or at least a substantial amount of it having been made in china via various bs loopholes the mountainisraelite use.
People rage against rolex for various legit reasons but at least they're actually what they say they are.
Sounds a lot like the designer sunglasses industry.
>Sounds a lot like the designer sunglasses industry.
What industry? It's all just one brand, luxottica, and its various puppets all made for nothing in china and marked up 3000%.
Sure there's a few scattered independents but they're so niche and obscure that obtaining them is hard unless you know.
I think MauiJim isn't owned by the luxottica octopus.
Not sure where they're made. Maybe the US?
Yup. I believe Maui Jim’s are made in Japan. I own a pair of their aviator style sunglasses and really like them.
There's a whole slew of jap frames that are legit. Problem's getting a hold of them.
A brand that's still US made, and probably makes most of its money supplying hollywood etc., for film use because they haven't changed their catalog in over 50 years is Shuron.
Can't really call them retro since they just never stopped making the same shit from ww2 onward.
Who makes the best Wayfarer clone in your opinion?
In the end does it matter? The material is the material; and although I guess there is some variance in the quality of assembly, glasses are simple objects so even shit ass Chinese QA can do its job.
You are right. A robot spitting out parts to be assembled and packaged by some coolie is going to be fine.
What I take issue with is the price.
You're generally going to get ripped off one way or another as you do with all things fashion, but I prefer to mitigate just how much I'm ripped off.
Something made by [not chinese meat robot] for a decent wage in a non-shit country by a brand that's not owned by that conglomerate? Vs the aforementioned robo/chinese crap spat out in the millions.
If the price is relatively close between the two I feel less ripped off in the former instance because they're making less money off me in the end. It's a thing about margins.
That's just my thinking though.
>tfw I have a weeb watch based on a video game.
It looks neat and I've actually gotten a lot of compliments on it. Only somewhat cringy bit is the band which is a black faux-leather.
Do you guys really keep track of these brands
Is this an Cinemaphile or richgay thing
That pic is clearly from Cinemaphile. Look how homosexual it is.
You essentially only need to keep track of the groupings. There's Japanese shit, which is for everyone from weebs and terrorists to people looking for high quality value, there's Rolex, which is for rich idiots and poor people larping as rich people, there's swiss homosexualry, which is for incredibly poor people who can't afford rolexes, and then there's fashion watches, which are for normalgays and other assorted morons.
Looks like somebody has just discovered that there's a whole subculture around watches
Perfect picture and I say that as a fricking Fossil owner
No Jager Lecoutre?
Looks like you're jelly of my bvlgari
Did anyone else think James Bond was ok as a kid then hit their late 20s and wishes they were Bond irl? Or am I just a sperg.
Ps daltonchads sound off
Youre a sperg, but then again all of us on here are on some level.
Strangely, I watched A LOT of Bond as a kid because TNT (iirc) would regularly do Bond marathons, but I never idolized him or pretended to be him.
I bet if Id seen the old Connery-Bond movies for the first time in my late teens I wouldve been walking around faking a scottish accent and hitting up goodwill for rayon shirts.
>not wearing a Timex
It sure is nice being able to see what time it is even in the dark
Most watches have lume, my man.
I think he meant indiglo. Shit is so cash, not gonna lie. I use old t49627 at work and it hold great.
I think timex can be nice alternative for gshocks.
Personally I prefer the basic Casio EL, but then the only Timex I've got has inverted indiglo so maybe I'm biased.
I wish casio made a gshock square without the bulky "tacticool" case. Radio is great, just a shame the thing gets caught on everything.
wtf is that a nato band??
the repair guy at the watch store near here told me Bond made those boom in popularity
thats exactly why we are reinventing him
>2022
>wearing a watch
Just look at your phone for the time bro lol
>t. handlets
the best move: wear no watch at all.
no one will know i'm a poorgay. they just think i don't like wearing shit on my wrist. i can just look at my cellphone for the time.
I have skinny wrists so watches never look good on me.
That's because modern watches are all made for fatties. Get something old in the 34-37mm range, they generally have sensible lug to lug distances. The modern market is all 42mm dinner plates that look like shit.
Wristlet spotted
Get one with an Oyster band and have a watch repairman shorten it.
It’s not so much the band but the size itself like
said. 42mm watches look comically big on me.
I find watches too cluttered these days. I just want a basic 12 hour (ideally roman numerals but whatever) face without a bunch of mini-faces for months/days or an alamanc with different time zones and whatever else. What would be a good brand/model for me?
Timex.
Timex easy reader for you, gramps.
Or styling you want is perhaps a field watch. Usually white hands and indicies on black dial for maximum legibility. Or have a look at the flieger styling. Max visibility by design. If you generally like pic related then there's examples available at every price point.
This
Is a great field watch.
It was to show that he's a maverick who doesn't care about the rules. Same reason he asks for his martini shaken. However boomera didn't get it and instead copied him
Because he was an orphan, publicly schooled (which means private) and it was meant to portray him as an outsider, not really wealthy or belonging to this priveleged establishment because it wasn't considered a truly high end watch
Or it was because Rolex paid Albert R. Broccoli lots of money
>All of those Heineken product placements with Craig's Bond
Fricking DISGUSTING
Holy shit do people really pay thousands of dollars for a fricking watch?
It never looks good and in fairly certain everyone except othervwatch tuckers think its lame
Are they also a compass or something? Like what does it do besides tell time?
What's the difference between Orient and Seiko? I'm tempted to buy the orient maestro as my first watch, after watching some YouTube videos about it. Is this a good choice for my first watch?
There used to be 3 big watch producers in japan: seiko, citizen and orient. Eventually orient was half bought by a company in the seiko "family" of companies (ie. no legal connection cept the leaders were all members of the founding Hattori family). Seiko Epson wasn't even the "seiko" that had anything to so with watches lol
Anyway this persisted for a while until they fully bought the orient fully in the last decade or so.
They have their own unique movements going back a long while and the style is distinct from Seiko's.
So now it's Seiko, Citizen and Orient which is owned by Seiko but not really - no actually it is because Jap companies are a rabbitwarren of unspoken connections and ownership.
I preferred their styling when they hadn't been completely bought by Seiko Epson.
More fashion forward than Seiko, which is a bad thing because they embraced the frick out of that 43mm++ dinnerplate trend pushed by chinks, arabs and russians.
Thank frick that things are reversing.
Watches are good. Their movements used to be more accurate OOTB than the comparable Seiko offerings. Don't know how things stand today, though there's a lot of grumbling about shitty seiko accuracy today. I haven't heard the same about orient so perhaps things haven't changed in this respect.
Wasn't expecting to be graced with so much knowledge about the watch Industrie on Cinemaphile. Thank you anon.
a lot of dudes sitting in their basements with little else of beauty in their lives that a shiny chunk of exquisite engineering slapped round their wrists
Not the dude youre responding too, but I also appreciate the knowledge drop.
Only watches Ive ever owned are Casio.
Idk anon my gf loves looking at watches w me and even bought me one of my favorite ones (hint it’s a solar seiko which btfos all my autos)
Why don't you have a Rolex like me? Not sophisticated enough?
bought a Fauxlex in Korea about 20 years ago, from a guy I passed in the street who opened up his jacket and said "You want to buy watch?", looks just like this, I gave him 20 or 25 US dollars, still wear it sometimes and it still runs (as long as I remember to wind it every morning) in fact it has a habit of gaining a few minutes every day
Why have watches become so big, I don't know much about watches but having seen a lot of vintage watches from the 1920 and 30s and a little after that, they were all way smaller and much more elegant, nowadays all you can get are chunky ass watches that frankly look ridiculous even on people with huge wrists. Just over the top.
LARP as greasy mob wops
The thing that pisses me off the most is divers. Having a bezel for timing shit is super handy, but finding a diver under 40mm is like pulling teeth. Nobody fricking makes them anymore.
Mine is 40 years old, because that's the last time anyone with a brain designed a fricking watch.
Pic related is a diver I love, it’s a bit wider than you mentioned at around 42mm but it’s also the only diver I’ve found for a good price that isn’t thick and bulky af. Just a comfy 10.5ish mm. Of course if you wanna spend more and get the actual Tudor Black bay that would be even more based. I got this guy in bronze but wanna get a steel one too
Chyna. And Sylvester Stallone.
Also Russia, but mostly chinese money.
Things swelled up because asians wanted larger totems to show off in compensation of their lot in life being chinese.
The greedy swiss were more than happy to oblige. Also Russians, tasteless creatures who also were status starved.
Russians ran out of cash first, that was the first blow to the dinnerplate era.
Concurrently Stallone bought back on a trip to italy watches from a forgotten brand calle Panerai. He made them insanely popular overnight. The saga of panerai, it's peaks and then plummet is another story I cbf typing out.
These are large, 44mm, dive watches. They were INSANELY popular 15 years ago.
Anyway, the second blow to the large watch era was when the chinese govt. basically put a stop to corruption in the form of luxury gift giving aka bribes by swiss watch.
Right after this event the swiss realized that they'd have to start backtracking, a little, on the hideous proportions favored by the chinks and russians. And guess what? The watches released closer to the older proportions were insanely popular with euros and americans ie. everyone cept the asians who need big watches on their wristlets as a cope.
Things are reverting somewhat now.
It won't go back to how it used to be, ie. the standard mens watch size of 36mm is seen as "too small" today, but at least 44mm crap is no longer the norm.
What I currently own minus one, rate me 🙂
I’ll post some old ones I’ve owned too why not
Bretty gud and I love that Hamilton especially, the all-silver with a bracelet is killer.
Pic related, absolute best value I’ve found. Used seiko, solar, sapphire glass, usually found on in Reddit watchexchange for less than 150