Watchlords

I'm a fan of a decent quartz watch;

koimaster wrote:

foghorn wrote:
What's wrong with Fossils?

Well your wife must like them since she keeps you around.

Goddamn, what a ball buster!!

Forgot my mighty 32mm, 8 seconds a year.

I have held onto most of my quartz watches which are primarily complicated chronographs- ETA 251.xxx and 252.xxx are the most fun, but I have most of the ETA's worth a shit- no G-10's and like that (min cost for me to collect is $17.00), not that there's anything wrong with them. A couple favorites: A few classic CD's (my favorite is the Birds of Prey Warhawk Missile Mission Commander 100 XL I love that chick), Sector 300 M classic "No Limits" screw-down diver-chrono, old Rotary, Original Zodiac Oceanaire, (recently picked up at a pawn shop for $85 because the guy was sick of looking at it) an Invicter moon-phase, Hammy 3 hand / date whose name escapes me, original JDM Seiko LCD chrono/alarm, and a Pulsar LED.

A little tidbit to add to this thread of a couple weeks ago...

Every now and then I find that I set my mechanical watches to the wrong time. Sometimes I realize later in the day that I set the minute off by 5 minutes. Or worse, I set the whole watch off by 1 hour. When I pick up a mechanical that is not running I usually give it a bit of a wind (if it supports that) then set the time against my Accutron or quartz Aqua Terra (knowing that they are always within a couple of seconds). I usually take the time to sync the seconds hand if hacking is available. So I might have the second hand synced but either the minute hand or the hour hand is off by 1 index.

This is not all the time, but it happens to me once every few weeks. I guess I'm getting old? I don't have the attention for details? I don't know how I have started to make this mistake.

When I take a quartz out of the drawer it will have the right time. It might have the wrong date if last month was less than 31 days. But I don't care so much about the date anyway (I sightly prefer watches without date.)

This afternoon I am wearing an Omega quartz that is still within 1 second now 2-3 months since I last synced it to correct time. I like that reliability.

I'm not saying that I prefer quartz over mechanical (hand wind is actually my favorite type). But quartz has advantages.

SynMike wrote:A little tidbit to add to this thread of a couple weeks ago...

Every now and then I find that I set my mechanical watches to the wrong time. Sometimes I realize later in the day that I set the minute off by 5 minutes. Or worse, I set the whole watch off by 1 hour. When I pick up a mechanical that is not running I usually give it a bit of a wind (if it supports that) then set the time against my Accutron or quartz Aqua Terra (knowing that they are always within a couple of seconds). I usually take the time to sync the seconds hand if hacking is available. So I might have the second hand synced but either the minute hand or the hour hand is off by 1 index.

This is not all the time, but it happens to me once every few weeks. I guess I'm getting old? I don't have the attention for details? I don't know how I have started to make this mistake.

When I take a quartz out of the drawer it will have the right time. It might have the wrong date if last month was less than 31 days. But I don't care so much about the date anyway (I sightly prefer watches without date.)

This afternoon I am wearing an Omega quartz that is still within 1 second now 2-3 months since I last synced it to correct time. I like that reliability.

I'm not saying that I prefer quartz over mechanical (hand wind is actually my favorite type). But quartz has advantages.

I've done the "5 minute " thing too!!
I've also looked at a quartz watch and could swear that the seconds hand isn't moving when it is.

foghorn wrote:

SynMike wrote:A little tidbit to add to this thread of a couple weeks ago...

Every now and then I find that I set my mechanical watches to the wrong time. Sometimes I realize later in the day that I set the minute off by 5 minutes. Or worse, I set the whole watch off by 1 hour. When I pick up a mechanical that is not running I usually give it a bit of a wind (if it supports that) then set the time against my Accutron or quartz Aqua Terra (knowing that they are always within a couple of seconds). I usually take the time to sync the seconds hand if hacking is available. So I might have the second hand synced but either the minute hand or the hour hand is off by 1 index.

This is not all the time, but it happens to me once every few weeks. I guess I'm getting old? I don't have the attention for details? I don't know how I have started to make this mistake.

When I take a quartz out of the drawer it will have the right time. It might have the wrong date if last month was less than 31 days. But I don't care so much about the date anyway (I sightly prefer watches without date.)

This afternoon I am wearing an Omega quartz that is still within 1 second now 2-3 months since I last synced it to correct time. I like that reliability.

I'm not saying that I prefer quartz over mechanical (hand wind is actually my favorite type). But quartz has advantages.

I've done the "5 minute " thing too!!
I've also looked at a quartz watch and could swear that the seconds hand isn't moving when it is.

I hate to admit to it, but I've done the 5 minutes off deal more than a few times. I figured it was due to my somewhat dissipated lifestyle and lack of brain cells.

Regarding Sole-lass Quarts, i Half a feww:





And a couple others, including another Citizen (a black Skyhawk with a dead capacitor) and a Seiko Sportura, with a dead battery.

conjurer wrote:

foghorn wrote:

SynMike wrote:A little tidbit to add to this thread of a couple weeks ago...

Every now and then I find that I set my mechanical watches to the wrong time. Sometimes I realize later in the day that I set the minute off by 5 minutes. Or worse, I set the whole watch off by 1 hour. When I pick up a mechanical that is not running I usually give it a bit of a wind (if it supports that) then set the time against my Accutron or quartz Aqua Terra (knowing that they are always within a couple of seconds). I usually take the time to sync the seconds hand if hacking is available. So I might have the second hand synced but either the minute hand or the hour hand is off by 1 index.

This is not all the time, but it happens to me once every few weeks. I guess I'm getting old? I don't have the attention for details? I don't know how I have started to make this mistake.

When I take a quartz out of the drawer it will have the right time. It might have the wrong date if last month was less than 31 days. But I don't care so much about the date anyway (I sightly prefer watches without date.)

This afternoon I am wearing an Omega quartz that is still within 1 second now 2-3 months since I last synced it to correct time. I like that reliability.

I'm not saying that I prefer quartz over mechanical (hand wind is actually my favorite type). But quartz has advantages.

I've done the "5 minute " thing too!!
I've also looked at a quartz watch and could swear that the seconds hand isn't moving when it is.

I hate to admit to it, but I've done the 5 minutes off deal more than a few times. I figured it was due to my somewhat dissipated lifestyle and lack of brain cells.

Regarding Sole-lass Quarts, i Half a feww:





And a couple others, including another Citizen (a black Skyhawk with a dead capacitor) and a Seiko Sportura, with a dead battery.

I am up to twelve . I like em a lot lately. Seems like so far this year they are all I am buying. I too have set my others off a few times and I try to keep them all running daily, which is a real pain. Yes I hand wind them all twice a day. Where as my quartz watches are grab and go.

Make that 15, my bad.

Nothing wrong with quartz. I've got a bunch.

Eye wod lyke them kwarts waRtChes morer if they George wendt ticktockticktockticktockticktock insted of TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK butt eye do'nt have a sole.

My favorite is quartz watches.The most owned is also quartz watches.

I do love Citizen watches.

Someone needs to buy this one.

I do love my quartz.

Current quartz owned...

Don't be jelly!

My most worn watch...



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I've been tracking down pre Seiko Pulsar quartz watches lately..

I never knew there was a time that Pulsar wasn't owned by Seiko.

I wear quartz 95% of the time now.

I have others but suffice to say I was mechanical for years but lately quartz works for me .

MAX wrote: ↑

April 24th 2018, 11:02am

Of the 19 watches I still have, 7 are quartz.

Accutron Eagle Pilot
Raymond Weil Tango
Citizen diver
Accutron Curacau
Concord Mariner
Deep Blue Sea Quest
Luminox Ultimate Field Commander

Now its 11 quartz out of 22 watches though. Still have all these ticking away and a few more G-Shock types. Since I just about only go to the gym and grocery shopping anymore I tend to mostly wear quartz.

Some lovely quartz watches there!
Has this forum ever had a 'like' button?

Gaz wrote: ↑

April 11th 2025, 9:11am

Has this forum ever had a 'like' button?

Not only no, but fuck no.
Lots of gay watch forums have that gay option-----we don't swing that way despite some of our gay WURW posts.

The cool thing our original leader did was to give members the capability of commenting on a thread or post, even if it triggers someone negativity.