How often do you see ANY nice watch in the wild?

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This cracks me up, but you need the very next thing that happens in the scene with the big dude‘s reaction
 
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In the wild on tv. Spanish Grand Prix. Can’t make them out but they’re probably nice watches.
 
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This cracks me up, but you need the very next thing that happens in the scene with the big dude‘s reaction
Definitely one of the best scenes in a movie that couldn’t be made today without hurting people’s feelings. Especially with Mr. Winky
 
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Reverse sighting (I was spotted).

The last two times I wore this watch, a stranger commented on it. First time on an airplane. Today, someone in an elevator complemented it. They recognized it was an Omega, but said they’d never seen one quite like it.



And that’s what it’s all about!
 
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Thought I saw a Blancpain while waiting for my order at a lunch counter, but probably not. Can’t make out what it is.
 
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Sat next to a guy at the Georgia-Arkansas football game last Saturday. He was wearing a nice Cartier tank. I complemented him on it, and while it wouldn't be my choice for a game-day watch (I was wearing my Seiko Monster), it was nice to see in a sea of Apple watches.

 
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Swim dads at swim meet. (Swim moms all wearing Apple Watches 🤷)

My Squale


Seiko


Citizen


Moonswatch (no Blancpain x Swatch for swim meet?At least the right color)
 
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That Seiko 62MAS tribute is an awesome watch… as is your Squale!
 
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Two of us did an exhibit of railroad standard watches and station clocks on the 19th and 20th of September, at a train show. We had hundreds of people at our booth. By estimate, I’d say about 60% were wearing Apple Watches, or other makes of the same variety. Both genders. Maybe 20% were not wearing watches, at all. I don’t have stats on 30% of them, but there were two young men (maybe in their 20s), but they were both wearing Rolex watches that have been acquired since the spring of this year. That is, spring in Western Canada.
 
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After re-connecting through a remarkable bit of serendipity, I had coffee with an old friend I first met at campus radio back in the late 1980s. I hadn’t seen him in perhaps 20 years and today’s meeting was a real treat. The biggest surprise? He was wearing a 2254.50! I mentioned I have the exact watch; he didn’t realize how much their popularity has increased of late. While not necessarily a WIS, he immediately spied the Speedy I was wearing. Needless to say, we enjoyed a fine afternoon of catching up.
 
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Honorable mention. This guy in this hat at the Singapore Grand Prix.
 
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Attended my first F1 race. I saw more nice watches than I can remember. Off the top of my head:

Innumerable Rolexes of almost every model;
Many Seamasters (at least 2 SMP NTTD);
A white dial (Daniel Craig) Speedy;
What appeared to be a Richard Mille (or maybe a Hublot);
A Brew Metric;
Seikos that I couldn’t begin to ID;
…and so many others I lost track.

Just in the immediate vicinity of my seat in the stands was this Daytona:

And a couple sitting together, with one wearing a Yacht-Master
And the other wearing a Carrera
 
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If there are lots of watches at an F1 race, then there are lots of watches at airports before and after an F1 race.


With honorable mention to an iWatch in a g-shock-like shroud/strap.

 
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My Seamaster got spotted yeasterday. A colleague asked me what I was wearing, and showed me his 60`s Certina on a single pass nato. A really nice beater and he liked that it was self winding "just set it and forget". I think thats a real vintage watch guy.
 
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Saw this guy in front of me with a pretty bllingy Rolex?
Is iit real do you think?