Ooh, the patina on the right one!

 

You're not the first person to point that out about this watch. However, it's just an optical illusion

 

Great point! Took me a while to figure out the connection (before reading your caption)

 

Black & White

 

Yummm ... Alpha!

That Smith with a full set of Arabic numeral markers!

Love full Arabic numeral markers! Love ol' Smiths watches! Love wearing a Smiths over here deep in the heart of Texas!

 

40s & 50s Universal


Black Dial Omegas


Chronometre twins in red gold

 

Wow nice gold spillman. Is that original lume in the hands? Always interesting to see how the lume ages between dial and hands, with UG they often do not match at all.

 

His and Hers. The Calibre 36 has been my daily for 20 years.

 

Sisters from another mister

 

Bakelite Sea Wolfs

 

May i present the diametric pair, a NOS LCD Quartz Speedy made for the office, put head against the rugged mechanical apocalyptic SM1000 prototype 5-XXX tool watch that has seen its share of action under great depths...

 

Baby Boomer vs Generation Z

 

Fun idea!

The original and the modern interpretation:


Triplets. Three generations of chronometres - manual wind, bumper, and auto:

 

Thanks and not sure about the lume- it looks original to me in hand but I haven't inspected it under the loupe. Agree that UG lumed hands/dials mostly shouldn't match I think as they were normally sourced from multiple different suppliers.

 

Silver dials with blue leaf hands..

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Resilient, no frills, proper divers. Op, you have a great collection, you are a man of taste. The Olympic Seiko along with the 6105 had me drooling.

 

Some more pairs, past and present.

Early Flagships


Black dial 50s Seamasters


White waffle dial 50s Seamasters


Black waffle dial 50s manual wind Omegas


Early rose gold accent Geneves


Connie arrowheads


No-date dogleg Connies

 

Distant cousins.