My dad had one of them! (actually I think he still does)I feel like a bumper. But @Mike Rotch wished me to post my latest acquisition. I wouldn`t call it an investment. It`s the well known CASIO F-91W and I did purchase it for nerdy reasons only.
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The watch has the most basic functions of a digital timekeeper. Plus light.
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Oh boy, I had one of those as a kid in the early 90sI feel like a bumper. But @Mike Rotch wished me to post my latest acquisition. I wouldn`t call it an investment. It`s the well known CASIO F-91W and I did purchase it for nerdy reasons only.
The watch has the most basic functions of a digital timekeeper. Plus light.
Lesson learnt: Don't buy watches from fashion companies. Cheapo stuff that commands a high price purely due to the company's name. Blargh.
I once had to take an old watch of my grandfathers (can't remember name) to a local jewelry store to fix an issue with the hour hand (every time I would take it off at the airport to go through security it would act up and then a few hours later it would fix itself) and it too would fog. Now if it were for the same reason I'm not sure but after he opened it up I never had a problem...Yeah most of the fashion brand watches use really poor quality movements which aren't even the standard of basic well known watch brands... yeah they look nice but they have all sorts of problems and certainly don't command the frankly insane prices for some of them.
I also recently bought a G-Shock, the GA-100 series. Excellent Japan made movement and Casio know a thing or to about watch making
Only annoying thing is the fogging issue which seems to be affecting all G Shock's over the past few years. Because they are cased in humid Thailand when you wear one inside a hot building then go out into freezing temperatures the whole face fog's up on the inside.
I ran into some Marathon reviews while looking into Luminox watches. I may still get a Luminox down the line, because I just like their design. I was tad concerned with their less than perfect reviews, but it'd be my casual watch anyway. I also see what you are saying in regards to what military actually wear. My "rugged" watch is a G-Shock Mudman, and G-Shock seem to be what lot of them prefer.
It's only been in my possession for the last two years. It was my brother's watch my mom and dad brought back from Georgia after his funeral.
Dang, I am sorry to hear about your brother man. I thought this was the Seiko watch you posted on here before.It's only been in my possession for the last two years. It was my brother's watch my mom and dad brought back from Georgia after his funeral.
Does it make me a heartless bastard that it holds no sentimental value for me at all?
While wearing his watch, I've taken quite a liking to the metal bracelet with blue face his had but the new one would add a chronograph, too. Something like these. Now to find a decent one at an acceptable price point...
In regards to the sentimental value, you can't hang onto everything someone own, so no, I don't think that's weird at all. I have two brothers. If I lost one of them, I think I'd tend to be attached more to old photos, or items from our childhood more than any items we currently own today.
Are they pretty much sealed?
