And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Love a Seiko Automatic. Self-winding, accurate, built sturdy and beautiful. Bought my first car with it, after a decade of use, the guy took the watch & $60 for the car. Japanese watch for a German car - bad deal, should have kept the watch!
The first one is over $60k which is well beyond my budget. I wear a 55 year old Rado Balboa I bought off eBay for $250 that works perfectly and has a fancy faceted sapphire crystal. Al_in_Ottawa
I keep my old "moon watch" thanks. weird as when I bought it is was 1200 new in the box. now they are over 7 grand ? and service was a couple of hundred bucks a pop. now it a grand. still, it is a neat watch and I owned it for years now. the metal band is the weak point on it. tends to "pop" open when they get older. going with a Nato band next time.
Totally impracticable to wear on a regular basis. Flashing such a gaudy piece on special occasions merely reinforces how pitifully insecure the man is about his image. Personally, I think this kind of overdone watch is both gaudy and trashy!
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ReplyDeleteLove a Seiko Automatic. Self-winding, accurate, built sturdy and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBought my first car with it, after a decade of use, the guy took the watch & $60 for the car. Japanese watch for a German car - bad deal, should have kept the watch!
The first one is over $60k which is well beyond my budget. I wear a 55 year old Rado Balboa I bought off eBay for $250 that works perfectly and has a fancy faceted sapphire crystal.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Interesting, I got a Rado on the wrist right now!
DeleteI'll stick with my Timex, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful Lange & Sohne; one like it recently fetched 6 figures in a Sotheby's auction.
ReplyDeleteI keep my old "moon watch" thanks. weird as when I bought it is was 1200 new in the box. now they are over 7 grand ? and service was a couple of hundred bucks a pop. now it a grand. still, it is a neat watch and I owned it for years now.
ReplyDeletethe metal band is the weak point on it. tends to "pop" open when they get older.
going with a Nato band next time.
Totally impracticable to wear on a regular basis. Flashing such a gaudy piece on special occasions merely reinforces how pitifully insecure the man is about his image. Personally, I think this kind of overdone watch is both gaudy and trashy!
ReplyDeleteI like the features multiple dials bring, but that Bell and Ross is very classic simplicity with nice visible workings.
ReplyDeleteShow of hands-
ReplyDeleteHas anybody here actually used the tachymeter function?