Pardon me, but do you have the time?

Ok, I'm all in now...that didn't take long. They sell these Zulu 4 packs for very cheap and I liked a few of the bands in 2 different sets. So I bought them both.

In this set I like the two bands on the left side.
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And in this set I like the black one, the green one and the gray one.
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So I bought 8 bands and I think 5 of them will look good with my green watch face. I'll have some fun playing around with them and if I wind up not liking them I'll just send them back.


scotchandcigar said:
Awesome, very cool watch! You're a watch guy now.
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Looks like it. And thanks again for steering me towards an automatic. I'm really getting a kick out of having such a technological feat on my wrist that involves zero electronics.

scotchandcigar said:
I have 3 watches with see-through backs:
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From top to bottom:
Hamilton pilot watch with silver dial and dark brown leather strap;
Tissot PRS 516 with black dial and brown rally strap;
Skytimer pilot watch with white dial and black strap.

The Hamilton was the priciest, followed by the Tissot and the Skytimer (dirt cheap).
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I like the different design of the rotor in the middle picture.
 
That Tissot in the middle has a steering wheel design in the movement, which goes with the rally strap.

It's fun - and inexpensive - to buy different bands for a different look. That vintage Seiko I have (with the blue dial) came with a cheesy 70s metal link band, but I replaced it with a navy leather one.
 
JHDK said:
Ok, I'm all in now...that didn't take long. They sell these Zulu 4 packs for very cheap and I liked a few of the bands in 2 different sets. So I bought them both.

In this set I like the two bands on the left side.
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And in this set I like the black one, the green one and the gray one.
81NY%2BLYnmjL._SL1500_.jpg


So I bought 8 bands and I think 5 of them will look good with my green watch face. I'll have some fun playing around with them and if I wind up not liking them I'll just send them back.




Looks like it. And thanks again for steering me towards an automatic. I'm really getting a kick out of having such a technological feat on my wrist that involves zero electronics.



I like the different design of the rotor in the middle picture.
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It's like a Swatch now.
 
Got my NATO straps! Now in the videos I watched the NATO style looked cool and useful in that they wont allow the watch to fall of your wrist if one spring bar breaks. But that is the case for any single band strap, it doesn't have to be a NATO. I didn't put that together from just watching the videos. What makes it a NATO is that it has an extra piece of strap that goes under the watch and connects to both sides of the main strap so there are two layers of strap between your wrist and watch. This is supposed to make it so the watch doesn't slide around on the strap, yet I find that is totally useless because my watch already doesn't slide around regardless of the extra piece. So I cut them all off and singed the cuts shut. I now have 8 single band straps instead of NATO ones and I like them better. They are much thinner than the strap that came with the watch yet feel every bit as strong. I played around with a bunch of them this weekend and I think I've settled on the brown one for now. Since they were cheap the clasps felt a little loose. To fix this I took the Seiko clasp from the original band that came with the watch and put it on my new strap. I am happy with how it all turned out!

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JHDK said:
Got my NATO straps! Now in the videos I watched the NATO style looked cool and useful in that they wont allow the watch to fall of your wrist if one spring bar breaks. But that is the case for any single band strap, it doesn't have to be a NATO. I didn't put that together from just watching the videos. What makes it a NATO is that it has an extra piece of strap that goes under the watch and connects to both sides of the main strap so there are two layers of strap between your wrist and watch. This is supposed to make it so the watch doesn't slide around on the strap, yet I find that is totally useless because my watch already doesn't slide around regardless of the extra piece. So I cut them all off and singed the cuts shut. I now have 8 single band straps instead of NATO ones and I like them better. They are much thinner than the strap that came with the watch yet feel every bit as strong. I played around with a bunch of them this weekend and I think I've settled on the brown one for now. Since they were cheap the clasps felt a little loose. To fix this I took the Seiko clasp from the original band that came with the watch and put it on my new strap. I am happy with how it all turned out!

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That looks really good, it's a nice combination.

HecticArt said:
You should weave another strap out of your arm hair. Or maybe a sweater.
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On the watch forums, I notice a lot of guys with hideous looking arms - like gorilla-hair and freckles - showing-off these super-expensive watches, and it makes me scratch my head.
 
Here you go and this is not my arm hair.

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I've had this thing for about a month and a half now and I love it. I wear it all the time and only take it off to go to bed and shower. Yet I guess I'm hard on it because I counted and I already have 6 scratches in the crystal. Now none of them are all that visible. I need to angle it in the right light to even see them but they are there. 2 are on the edge by the 11 o'clock hour, 3 are on the edge between the 1 and 2 o'clock hour and then there is a long one that stretches the radius to 3 o'clock. Thankfully that long one is barely visible even when I am trying to see it.

I'm not particularity careful with the watch but I'm also not needlessly hard on it. I wear it a bit loose so maybe that has something to do with it. I like to wear it so it's loose enough to slide around a bit but not so loose that it can slide to the underside of my wrist. It's probably because I haven't worn a watch in years so I'm not mindful enough about banging it into things.

On the plus side, these scratches are not driving my OCD crazy. Unlike with my electronics, I guess I kinda expected it to get scratched and (despite this post) I'm not obsessing over it nearly as much as I would be with my phone or Nintendo Switch.

And that's my Seiko update. :cool:
 
JHDK said:
I've had this thing for about a month and a half now and I love it. I wear it all the time and only take it off to go to bed and shower. Yet I guess I'm hard on it because I counted and I already have 6 scratches in the crystal. Now none of them are all that visible. I need to angle it in the right light to even see them but they are there. 2 are on the edge by the 11 o'clock hour, 3 are on the edge between the 1 and 2 o'clock hour and then there is a long one that stretches the radius to 3 o'clock. Thankfully that long one is barely visible even when I am trying to see it.

I'm not particularity careful with the watch but I'm also not needlessly hard on it. I wear it a bit loose so maybe that has something to do with it. I like to wear it so it's loose enough to slide around a bit but not so loose that it can slide to the underside of my wrist. It's probably because I haven't worn a watch in years so I'm not mindful enough about banging it into things.

On the plus side, these scratches are not driving my OCD crazy. Unlike with my electronics, I guess I kinda expected it to get scratched and (despite this post) I'm not obsessing over it nearly as much as I would be with my phone or Nintendo Switch.

And that's my Seiko update. :cool:
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The nicer watches have sapphire crystals, so they don't scratch.
 
scotchandcigar said:
The nicer watches have sapphire crystals, so they don't scratch.
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Yea, I read about that. Since this is a cheap one it's not sapphire but some Seiko proprietary blend. I read A TON of reviews and none of the mentioned it being easily scratched. They said it wasn't as good as sapphire but good enough.
 
It's all about how much you're interested in spending on a watch.
I don't remember how much this one cost you, but you trade off all kinds of things on less expensive watches.
They sort of become disposable.

I had a $150 watch that I had for at least 15 or 16 years. I had still been taking them to the jewelers to get the batteries replaced. They tried changing the battery on this one, and it didn't start ticking again. I was pretty bummed, because I really liked the watch. I was lamenting that it was dead, and he basically asked me how old it was, how much I spent on it, and if it owed me anything after all of those years. (He wasn't being a snob about it. We know each other reasonable well, and used to go drinking with mutual friends back in the day.)

I found it easier to let go of some watches after that. I also bought a kit to change my own batteries and adjust straps. Most of my watches aren't expensive enough to pay someone else to work on.
 
Many years after starting this thread, I'm still not wearing a watch.
Although now I am wearing a Fitbit that someone gifted me for Christmas. It doesn't tell time though...
 
The price is insane but it's a neat idea. Don't know if watch aficionados will dig it though. People seem to like automatic for many reasons, one of which, like with me, is that it's a cool escape from all the electronic tech we use everyday. That can certainly never be said about this watch.
 
JHDK said:
The price is insane but it's a neat idea. Don't know if watch aficionados will dig it though. People seem to like automatic for many reasons, one of which, like with me, is that it's a cool escape from all the electronic tech we use everyday. That can certainly never be said about this watch.
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To me, the idea of using advanced technology, in order to assist an unnecessary old technology, is ludicrous.
 
It is kind of cool though.
To me, it might as well just be battery powered.
It's kind of gimmicky as it's intended to be made.
 
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