Watchlords

Hello. I signed up a while ago but just lurked ever since.
I'm half-irish, half- English, and because I didn't listen to my teachers at school I now find myself in the desert working on construction projects.
Watches: I'm mainly interested in what are usually classed as 'affordables'. My first ever watch was a hand-wind Timex, bought by my grandma when I was 11. I still have it. My latest purchase was a Zeno Bubbleback (32mm diameter), before that a Casio Gulfmaster, and before that I forget but I think it was a Seiko SARB.
I own about 15 watches (I can't be bothered to get off the chair and count them): several Seiko and Zeno, a Nomos, couple of Casio digitals, a Laco, Citizen, Chr Ward, Rado, Longines and Hamilton.

Current favourite is the Zeno Navy Diver, this one has a brushed case rather than the usual highly-polished one:

Welcome, goddamn it! A nice intro post, too.

Welcome from another half Irish half Englishman. Nice Zeno.

Thank you both!

Welcome to Watchlords. The joint's more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.

Look forward to seeing more of them watches.

Welcome to the asylum, sir...you will be assimilated..resistance is futile...

Welcome to the forum. Nice collection of watches and love the Zeno. I think we have one in the masthead which is my personal watch. at one timeI had the watch you are wearing in yellow. Eddie thought of me when he received it several years ago so he let me know about it. Gald he chose not to sell his forum to another company.

Welcome, mind your hat and coat - and - which half is which?

Thanks to everyone for the welcomes.
I'll put up pics of watches as soon as I figure out the right place to do so.

Falstaff wrote:Welcome, mind your hat and coat - and - which half is which?

Which half is which? I think the lower half is English - my legs move slowly but methodically and get me where I want to go in the end, and my top half is Irish - my brain tries to keep me on track most of the time, but is easily distracted by Guinness and ideas that seemed like a good idea at the time, but weren't really.

koimaster wrote:Welcome to the forum. Nice collection of watches and love the Zeno. I think we have one in the masthead which is my personal watch. at one timeI had the watch you are wearing in yellow. Eddie thought of me when he received it several years ago so he let me know about it. Gald he chose not to sell his forum to another company.

I had one of those too - but got it from James at Time-Design (he's on Eddie's forum quite a bit).
That's when I found out that I don't actually like sword hands and sold it on. Nice watch though.

I had several Zeno's a few years ago, down to two now, but planning to get one of their Chronographs at Christmas if I can persuade Mrs Santa to agree to it.

Best intro in a while and with a photo of an actual watch! Damned nice one, too.

That's a fine Zeno Mr. Pinky. Welcome aboard!

Sminkypinky wrote: (I can't be bothered to get off the chair and count them)

Something about this guy I like...............

Welcome, appreciate the intro.

Thanks again to everyone. I said I was mainly into 'affordable' watches, so here's a picture of what is currently my most expensive watch, a Longines Heritage Flagship LE:

Sminkypinky wrote:Thanks again to everyone. I said I was mainly into 'affordable' watches, so here's a picture of what is currently my most expensive watch, a Longines Heritage Flagship LE:

That's fucking class, that is.

Thanks, I think so too. Wish my photography skills were able to do it justice, but I just got my first DSLR so things should improve.

This is running way too smooth for an intro post. I'm kinda waiting for the other foot to drop....

Welcome!

bedlam wrote:This is running way too smooth for an intro post. I'm kinda waiting for the other foot to drop....

Indeed! Hopefully, there seems to be no reason to add an exclamation point to the end of this jamoke's name.

How hard is it to post a short, simple intro and some pics of your watches? For some reason a good one like this is rare here.

I they'd use my intro post guidelines there'd never be a problem.

Sminkypinky wrote:Hello. I signed up a while ago but just lurked ever since.

So you didn't want to hit the floor running with guns blazing? And you haven't pissed anyone off yet? huh. So that's how it's done...

Welcome!

nimbleboy wrote:

Sminkypinky wrote:Hello. I signed up a while ago but just lurked ever since.

And you haven't pissed anyone off yet?

Not yet!

Nice Longines. Classic, elegant. Well done.

Congrats, you've been here almost 3 weeks and haven't gone bat shit crazy!

Join-date December '15, there is not a lot of Irish (half) that can keep their mouth shut in such a long time. Some here wish that bobbee would

@Sminkypinky - sorry, I believe I missed Your intro. Welcome! And that Zeno is looking good. May I ask which desert You are located at?