WRUW Today?

Posts

213

Likes

1,389

OHS

·Nov 25, 2018

Picked this Buren Grand Prix out of a box of old watches at a fair this morning....very pretty little thing!

 

Posts

3,817

Likes

16,153

Fritz

·Nov 25, 2018

12.68z with the six notches in the back of the case and a truly shite redial...

I'll have to get this dial redone properly one day.

 

Posts

17,419

Likes

164,518

Alpha

·Nov 25, 2018·Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector

Off the sales and back on the wrist 😀

 

Posts

2,710

Likes

17,410

jaguar11

·Nov 25, 2018

This one today...

 

Posts

172

Likes

501

Skrv

·Nov 25, 2018

Rolex day today

 

Posts

6,511

Likes

50,329

noelekal

·Nov 25, 2018·Home For Wayward Watches

Went to church today with the wrist garbed in chicken skin ... er, exotic gallo.

After lunch.

 

Posts

1,802

Likes

10,155

ras47

·Nov 25, 2018

Mad Dog

A railroad grade Elgin Veritas 376 [circa 1915] for Church today...

View attachment 662738

View attachment 662736

View attachment 662737

I love the old pocket watches! They harken back to a more elegant time. Gentlemen wore hats, suits with vests, and consulted their pocket watches to see when the trolly was expected. We still wrote letters and penmanship was important. I think I was born 100 years too late.

 

Posts

2,845

Likes

9,196

BenBagbag

·Nov 25, 2018

 

Posts

1,317

Likes

9,080

voere

·Nov 25, 2018

Oldmega

 

Posts

6,511

Likes

50,329

noelekal

·Nov 25, 2018·Home For Wayward Watches

I'm with you ras. I'm too out-of-style for today's world.

 

Posts

942

Likes

15,374

Mmike1357

·Nov 25, 2018

Speedy today, switched to the Seiko to do leaves...

 

Posts

1,117

Likes

9,226

strick9

·Nov 25, 2018

haqq777

Cheers

we were happier then

 

Posts

2,276

Likes

17,977

Paedipod

·Nov 25, 2018

racing around getting Christmas organized.

 

Posts

264

Likes

418

Timmert

·Nov 25, 2018

My trusty workhorse, Navitimer 01

 

Posts

1,117

Likes

9,226

strick9

·Nov 25, 2018

my Speedmaster un-professional backward panda

 

Posts

2,153

Likes

24,733

Baz9614

·Nov 25, 2018

ag986

One of my Favs! 👍

 

Posts

1,059

Likes

2,428

Bushido

·Nov 25, 2018

Panerai knows how to do a blue sunburst dial!

 

Posts

11,332

Likes

1,860

SohAIS

·Nov 25, 2018

 

Posts

3,817

Likes

16,153

Fritz

·Nov 25, 2018

ras47

I love the old pocket watches! They harken back to a more elegant time. Gentlemen wore hats, suits with vests, and consulted their pocket watches to see when the trolly was expected. We still wrote letters and penmanship was important. I think I was born 100 years too late.

A friend of mine is into the history of fashion, he says that the vest as an item of men's fashionable clothing was kept alive by the need for a pocket for the watch and was killed off by the wrist watch. He's a weird dude who still wears a vest (and a pre WWI Waltham Vanguard) but I found that tidbit interesting anyway.

In honour of that morsel of useless intel I'll post a gratuitous porn shot of one of my Illinois RR watches.... just to get @Mad Dog 's goat!
(actually I'm jealous as hell of that Veritas he posted. friggin Elgin POS... so I feel the need to get back!)

When I got this serviced recently the watchmaker hauled me into the back of the shop to show me the thing running on his machine.... he just couldn't get over how flat the line was and how accurate the watch.

 

Posts

1,441

Likes

11,971

chronoboy64

·Nov 25, 2018

Happy Sunday with my Minerva CH 19-9 from ca.
1938