The Unofficial Traska Watches Thread

Post pictures of your Traska watches! This thread is well overdue.

I now have two of these beauties and I’ll provide a mini-review of them. The one I’m missing is the Freediver, so I’ll leave that one up to others. I think Traska makes the ultimate affordable watch simply because they hit that sweet spot of $500usd (give or take) while doing a much better job of packing in more value for that amount. You get everything you’d expect at this pricepoint like sapphire crystals, excellent…

The Unofficial Traska Watches Thread

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One Watch Challenge 2025

I will be attempting to wear one watch for the whole year of 2025. Why? Because the perfect watch doesn’t exist.

A few rules for myself:

The same watch must be worn for the entire year

Strap changes are allowed

If using a quartz watch and a battery change is required, one other watch may be worn until the battery is replaced on the original watch

The challenge starts January 1st 2025 and ends December 31st 2025

I believe this will be the watch I choose:

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One Watch Challenge 2025

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F71 True Confessions

The place where you come clean about a watch fact about yourself that may shock and outrage the masses. I’ll begin.


— I guess display casebacks don’t mean a thing to me
; I don’t spend a moment looking at the casebacks of any of my watches — even the ones with nice, decorated rotors like my Citizen Signature Grand Classic.

— I’m pretty sure I don’t like NATOs. I have a distressed leather Zulu strap that I kind of like. But nylon-ish NATOs? I keep trying and keep not…

F71 True Confessions

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The new new official NTH thread.

Greetings, members of Watchuseek forums and all those who lurk but don’t join (yes, we know you’re out there, skulking in the shadows)!

As the last official NTH thread has now exceeded 15,000 posts, I figure it’s time to start a new official thread, if only to make discussion of what we’re doing seem less intimidating to forum newcomers, with a thread that isn’t 750+ pages already.

If you need to know me as the owner of the brand, I’m Chris, though many call me “Doc”, because of my user…

The new new official NTH thread.

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