Mix of both, wearing a 1941 manual wind Cyma at the moment, later today changing to a 1977 Seiko Digital. Hard to really call a digital watch vintage, but my Seiko's from the first 5 years of digital watches are among the only Quartz pieces I have any time for.

 

Incidentally, the reason I like vintage, anyone with money can buy a new watch, it takes no skill, no knowledge, and no taste, you just go into a jeweller and tell them how much you want to spend.

Vintage classics like pie-pan constellations, Cal 321 Speedmasters, 1680/5513/5512/1675 Rolex Oysters, first generation digitals, and oddities like Flightmasters, PloProfs, OysterQuartzes, etc takes effort, and shows far more character than just buying a TT Datejust and being done with it.

 

Well Rolex make something called the masterpiece collection specifically for people that lack taste but have credit Its kind of sad but I think AP is heading that way with the Royal Oak Offshore, when a watch has Shaq's numbers on the dial, or has a logo from the movie "Terminator 3" on the caseback and comes with a movie DVD, can it still be considered a piece of horological art? In 40 years will an Auctioneer be holding up a T3 ROO saying "And the original DVD is included, shall we start the bidding at 400,000?"

 

They named a $25k watch after a highway? I had to look that up just to check, it even has a terrible colour scheme to go with it, light blue, brown and beige...

But I think I can beat that... how about a $17,500 Panerai "Beverly Hills" limited edition, released to celebrate the place where you bought your watch. This is LIMITED to 300 pieces, so you're going to have to get in quick. Once they're gone, they may have to release a "Shady Las Vegas Pawn Shop" limited edition, to celebrate the store where most of these will eventually end up...

 

Citizen and Seiko have a very special place in watch collecting in my opinion, a Seiko auto diver whether a vintage 150M or a modern Monster is a cool piece, and while Rolex has made pointless Yacht-Master I and Yacht-Master II pieces supposedly for the sailing community as has Omega with their Regatta models, a Citizen timepiece is still a staple among competitive sailors.

Real sailors wear may wear Submariners, Seamaster Pros, and the like on the water but almost all will own a Citizen Eco-Drive and trust it as much if not more than its Swiss competitors.

 

Now you say that, but that owl is my sister's favorite watch, it had a full page feature in a recent issue of Watchtime magazine, and she has that page saved in her bedroom in case she marries a Moroccan prince. She also says the Leopard is the only pretty Rolex they make.

But then she has just painted her bedroom pink with pin stripes.

Ladies watches are another thing entirely because they can be completely stupid looking to the average bloke, and some girl will see it and yell "Squee!"

Men's Limited Editions are not meant to be cute, or fabulous, they're mean to be bad-ass, so when they miss the mark its another story altogether lol

 

I've never seen a "driver's watch" that wasn't terrible. Honestly, you wear that, you're only going to look like a colossal spanner, and even worse, when some attractive girl asks you about it, you have to tell her "the dial is angled so that I can read the time accurately without removing my hand from the steering wheel while driving my car". She will then make a mental note to avoid eye contact in the future.

 

Whoa... would you believe I just noticed the panda right now? That's the third time I've seen this photo. I must have it.

 

I appreciate his devotion and his desire to do something different in horology, there's no doubt its unique, I just think its too unique, and too out there to be worth doing. The absolute edge I think is Richard Mille, any further or more extreme than that and you're not passing the laugh test.