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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Is there truly no love for Timex?

Because I have a young family and money is tight, I’ve had to sell off my more expensive watches and have decided that to satisfy my watch addiction for the next few years I’m going to rely on Timex watches. I’ve already got a few but I’m going to continue to build my collection.
I’ve really found some sharp looking pieces out there and wondered if no one on here has much love for Timex?
Surely in this forum folks could share some of their Timex watches? I know there used to be a dedicated…

Is there truly no love for Timex?

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Post your mods/builds/customs – anything and everything – here

Seiko forum has a mod thread for Seikos. We have threads for 8926’s, Timex, Tiger Concepts. I’m sure other fora have their own threads.

I want to see your mods, builds, one-offs, anything goes.

Built a treasured daily driver from eBay parts? Post it. Made an SKX into a Black Bay? Post it. Cerakoted your watch to your team colors? Post it. Custom dials? Post ’em. NTH/Smiths swaps? Post em. Swapped the dial of a 16800 out for for a custom homage dial? Well, maybe that’s not…

Post your mods/builds/customs – anything and everything – here

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