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If your watch won’t survive 10 years of toil in the trona mines, you’re wearing a fashion piece.

There, I said it…it’s time we face facts.

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If Your Watch Doesn’t Sync With Atomic Clocks. You’re Wearing A Fashion Piece

There, I said it. I'm sure it's been said many times before on this forum. But that's because it's so obviously true.

How can you live with the shame of wearing an expensive piece that tells worse time than a 100 dollar mass produc…

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The AP Swatch is a pocket watch?

So it’s a pocket watch and not a wrist watch?

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The modest treasure hunter

There's a sidewalk in my neighborhood where I've been very fortunate to find several small treasures.

I've always had a knack for finding random treasures in random places. When I was a kid I would pull the knob on the postage stamp mac…

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Sentimentality Vs Practicallity In Selling Your Watches

Obviously at the end of the day this is a personal decision. But I am curious for anyone else who experienced this/had thoughts on the balance between keeping a watch you dont wear for sentimental reasons versus selling it to solidify and upgrade the …

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How does one determine accuracy of a watch with no second hand?

This piece of mine only has a running chrono second hand (the thin white one) and an elapsed chrono minute hand (the black one with the orange B727-200 on the tip).

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YEMA Automatique

Found this one scrounging through a watch tray at one of our local consignment stores. Pretty watch, I don't know much about Yema, but that they are very good quality with a following particularly in France. The shop is asking $660, I'm not…

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C60 Trident Elite 1000 GMT (CW)

I have become smitten with the looks of this watch.

Anybody own one and would be willing to share experiences with it? How has it held up over the years? Does it wear large? Do you notice the 16mm of height?

Cheers,
Chris

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Help me find out the origins of this vintage watch

Hi,
this is the watch, I got it from a fleemarket in Germany. I had the acrylic glass and also the leather strap replaced, it was black originally.
I just want to know which brand it is and where it's originally from. Any clues welcome.

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