Buying one of these for everyday smashing round at work. I CANNOT be late to my meetings and I really don't want to smash any of my collectors. This ones got the feel... and the quartz accuracy... and if I smashed it... whoopiee...
Commence the bustering... but I still may buy one.... it looks classy. CUMMON BOYS!! YOU KNOW I SUPPORT THE OLD DOGS..... but I can't risk them everyday. Thinking about a nice display case for them at my office actually..
Okay I had a video of it in this post but it was cheezy and uninformative. You can get them online for about $118 shipped if you look around. It looks a good size and I think it would look good with a suit.
Specifications:
* Stainless steel case with a black leather bracelet with contrast stiching
* Fixed stainless steel bezel
* Brown dial with luminous silver-tone hands and Arabic numeral hour markers.
* Minute markers around the outer rim
* GMT scale
* Date display between the 4 and 5 o'clock positions
* Chronograph - three sub-dials displaying: 60 seconds, 60 minutes and 24 hours.
* Japanese quartz movement
* Scratch resistant mineral crystal
* Fluted steel crown
* Screw down case back
* Case diameter: 45 mm
* Case thickness: 12 mm
* Tang clasp
* Water resistant at 50 meters / 165 feet
* Bulova Adventurer Chronograph Mens Watch 96B137
My "work-day" daily wearer is either an old Russian Dive Automatic, or a $22 casio - either of which can be smashed or otherwise lost w/o much regret on my part- so you don't have to worry about getting flack from me on the choice above :) I wore an 80something year old Bulova on a walk to the mailbox at the bottom of the street a couple months ago, and typical Hawaii weather changed form sun to rain before I could get back....and it only took one drop to creep in around the stem...and in a months time...it needed a service.
I don't judge any one so wear away. I wear a different watch from my collection every day and my 214 RR Approved Accutron when I need accuracy in time keeping but it just feels big compared to my other watches. I have an old Horton's black dial 17 jewel incabloc that is not quite as big that I wear on occasion as well.
JP
In reply to I wear vintage every day, but by Elgin Doug
i actually don't keep any watch i don't wear..the only quartz watch i have is a hammy ventura reisusse..yes its nice to have one watch that you can just strap on and not worry about..but unless your working with tools water or anything that will put the watch in danger..i don't see any reason not to wear a vintage watch..why have them if your not going to use them..one of the draws for me to wear vintage watches except for the mechanics of them is the fact that they are an antique that you can use everyday and notice all the time...again why have it if you are just going to have sit in a drawer or on somekind of display..it seems silly to me
In reply to i actually don't keep any by Ellierose
You don't keep any watch you don't wear? Hrmm... yeah that won't work for me. I'm not wearing my nice 1920's ladies enamel's to work now am I? Nor am I going to haul around my 1/5000 Lone Eagle 1st runs tooling around town or what not.
I own probably 100 Bulova's and Accutrons... no way I'm wearing 90% of them. It might seem silly to you.... but I see them as pieces of mechanical art really. A tribute to a time where people built things to last... and with heart. Back before we were a throw away society. I like the attention to detail.... and I can use that theme in my workplace.
I'm absolutely thinking about getting a nice classy curio type glass case for my office at work to display my rarer watches...
Maybe a nice little card next to each one with year/name. BOOM!
Jerin,
Wear away, having a daily wearer, it's a personal choice. I just don't wear a quartz or any vint's that take a battery. Then Again, If my wind up gets smashed, I can fix it.
That's a good lookin watch , I love it but I'll stick to my Soviet Poljot Chrono's that are very similar in design but are still manual winder's that are deadly accurate.
My everyday watch is still a Hamilton "Sentinal C", ........I've replaced the crystal 4 times now.
That Bulova is very cool, enough to take me borderline but not quite enough to make me buy one.
Still very cool,
Regards Shawn
no not silly and i understand...i just feel that these watches along with say classic cars..they where meant to be used...i just don't see the point of having a beautiful watch that runs,for it to sit ,looking pretty somewhere....its kinda like when my grandmother bought a new sofa ,put plastic on it and put in the one room that no one sat in,for it just to look nice ...btw the if i had that lone eagle i would wear it since that is what it was made for..i don't understand how you can admire something without using it for what it intended for..again i understand having a beater for knockin around..i was looking into a modern bulova military style watch..but for the price i might as well just buy a real military watch..that and its quartz,i think i rather a seiko military 5 for the same prices(which the seiko 5 isn't even made in japan anymore)
i can see both sides of the fence. i work on a farm and try not to wear my vintage pieces while doing so. just broke a pre 1950s rose gold bulova splitting fire wood. not shock proof. like rev. rob said youll forget you have the smaller stuff on. i do have several daily wearers and try to remember not to wear my nicer pieces while doing manual labor. on the other hand i like to wear my vintage pieces at social events. i truly believe that just like a car vintage watches need to be cranked and driven from time to time. so depending on your circumstances, there is a time and place for both.