How many watches do you own ?

Wren said:
I would never spend a huge amount on a watch but do like to have the straps matching my outfits, I have 5, white for summer, black, brown, yellow and gold

How about you ?
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i have no watches. between the clock in the house and my cell phone, i don't need a watch.
 
i wore a fitbit for a couple years but the face got smashed. i ordered an apple watch today; black friday special.
 

I used to work with a woman who was always bragging about how much she spent on various items, including a Rolex watch, her face was a picture when I turned up to work one day wearing mine !

“I didn’t know you owned a Rolex”, she said, “I have a few but don’t feel the need to announce it”, I replied, (keeping quiet about the fact they had cost £5.00 each at a Turkish market) :LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
Old Salt said:
Now that one looks more like it! But there are cheaper ones that look just as good. I hate all those extra little dials within the dial! If you are interested in watchmakers look up the brand name "Hanhart." If they still exist. I was an apprentice there in the fifties!
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WOW!
What a story and such fine craftsmanship. I never knew Hanhart existed.
Love their start. It looks like the late 1800's. The 1902 move to Germany was a great move.
Beautiful watches and timepieces.
It looks like their start was in the area of stopwatches and time instruments for racing purposes, or it morphed into that area.
The museum looks very cool.
Funny, the one I really like the most is the Tabletop-Set 1. Just looking at it tells a story of not only the time pieces but combines with the stopwatch shows where their passion lies.

Found one vintage very interesting - 1950's Cold War Era Hanhart USSR Russian Spy Microphone Watch. Thats part of history.

Thanks You!
Of course I signed up for their newsletter. Now my hunt is on for the Tabletop -set 1!
Oh, right, I did say I was cutting back buying watches! Well, maybe after this one!
You must have loved working there, I know I would have!

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I have two inexpensive battery wrist watches.
If the battery goes in one I still have one that works.
When out shopping and doing errands I like to check the time.
 
I own three watches. One belonged to my birthmother and I kept it for that reason even though it had stopped working. I think that was a Bulova. I two I bought two watches decades ago. One you could rotate the band so one side was gold tone, the other silver. The other one had rhinestones. I haven't worn either of them in decades because watches won't run on me. Both stopped running shortly after I got them. I even went to the watch repair and had new batteries put in them. thinking that was the problem. I have a niece who has the same issue.
 
For my 65th birthday, my wife bought me a special watch made by Birks Jewelers for the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa. It has a one ounce silver Maple Leaf coin as the face. A limited edition of only 500 pieces. Mine is serial number 485, which was my badge number when I was an Auxiliary Constable with Metropolitan Toronto Police in the 1980's. I reserve that one for special occasions. My other watch is a $50 Timex .

link to the RCM silver Maple Leaf coin watch.

royal canadian mint silver maple leaf coin watch photo - Bing


JimB.
 
IF I have any, I have no clue where they are. Never was one to wear a watch... If I had one on, I was at work on the Ambulance. For many years It stayed in my locker at work.
 
Well, well, you'd never believe it, but rooting around my junk cupboard yesterday I found an old watch, and when I wound it the thing started ticking away, it'll be brilliant when I get a little hand put on it. 😊
 
I wear a Timex- purchase price of $8.47. But I do keep a much more expensive watch in reserve- a $12 Timex. I do have my dad's pocket watch, an engraved gift from my mom. I wind it up on my dad's birthday.
I am a clock nut. I have three pendulum clocks, plus 4 other clocks. And they all have to say the same exact correct time. Getting them to do that takes all day. That's why I hate the DST nonsense.
With all those clocks, I'm always late.
One weird thing.........
As a nurse I had to have a wrist watch with a second hand, and an electronic date. I could only find one Seiko watch with all I wanted. At Xmas, both my brothers showed up wearing with the same odd watch.
 
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I have always carried a pocket watch. I don't like the feel of something hanging on my wrist. But, since I now carry a phone all the time they are redundant. I still have a couple.

My wife had a bunch of watches; Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Betty Boop, you name it. I gave them to my daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
 
1-inherited Rolex
A collection of analog Citizen E870 eco-drive, perpetual solar, day-date-month-yr,
A collection of analog Citizen E811/E820 eco-drive, perpetual solar, chronographs.
Few Citizen eco-drive, plain analog.
A Seiko analog autowind-battery.
A Bullwinkle Moose jewelled automatic (60 years old and the most expensive).
A battery analog.
Maybe a digital somewhere.

I went solar because jewelers/sales people kept destroying the seals and eventually destroyed the watch.
The Citizen's also have hard crystal; durable and comfortable bracelet bands.
 
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Sliverfox said:
Son is collecting watches,, says they are a good investment.
I dug out a pile of old used watches.
Sigh,,, no gold mines there,, I think one watch may have been worth $10! ?

And it would have to be 'restored ' to be worth more.
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At one time they were an 'ok' investment.
They have gone down alot lately and only the very high end watches have real resale value. Very high end like 20, 30, 50,100K
 
jimintoronto said:
For my 65th birthday, my wife bought me a special watch made by Birks Jewelers for the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa. It has a one ounce silver Maple Leaf coin as the face. A limited edition of only 500 pieces. Mine is serial number 485, which was my badge number when I was an Auxiliary Constable with Metropolitan Toronto Police in the 1980's. I reserve that one for special occasions. My other watch is a $50 Timex .

link to the RCM silver Maple Leaf coin watch.

royal canadian mint silver maple leaf coin watch photo - Bing


JimB.
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Very Cool.
 
jujube said:
I have three and they're all broken and can't be fixed. I'm hanging onto them, though, because they're 14k gold and one of these days I'm going to take them to one of those places that buy scrap gold.
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The case may be "gold filled " not 14 Karat. Gold filled is very thin layer of gold. Obviously the interior of your watch won't be gold. Once the "guts are removed " the gold content may be as little as 2 or 3 grams in weight. Today November the 24th, the US price per gram of 14 karat gold is $26.82. If you do sell, be sure to have the buyer weigh the articles you are selling so you know the gram weight. JimB.
 
Own... probably 3 in my jewelry boxes. Wear... none. I've never been a watch-wearer, and with all the digital clocks absolutely *everywhere,* I've never missed not wearing one. ⌚
 
jimintoronto said:
The case may be "gold filled " not 14 Karat. Gold filled is very thin layer of gold. Obviously the interior of your watch won't be gold. Once the "guts are removed " the gold content may be as little as 2 or 3 grams in weight. Today November the 24th, the US price per gram of 14 karat gold is $26.82. If you do sell, be sure to have the buyer weigh the articles you are selling so you know the gram weight. JimB.
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Nope, when I say 14k gold, I mean 14k gold. I know the difference between gold and gold-filled. The case AND the back of all three are 14k gold. I also know about selling gold, but thank you for your concern.
 
For those that don’t wear a watch or just carry a phone, how do you check the time when out with others or in a theatre, etc?
 
Sippican said:
WOW!
What a story and such fine craftsmanship. I never knew Hanhart existed.
Love their start. It looks like the late 1800's. The 1902 move to Germany was a great move.
Beautiful watches and timepieces.
It looks like their start was in the area of stopwatches and time instruments for racing purposes, or it morphed into that area.
The museum looks very cool.
Funny, the one I really like the most is the Tabletop-Set 1. Just looking at it tells a story of not only the time pieces but combines with the stopwatch shows where their passion lies.

Found one vintage very interesting - 1950's Cold War Era Hanhart USSR Russian Spy Microphone Watch. Thats part of history.

Thanks You!
Of course I signed up for their newsletter. Now my hunt is on for the Tabletop -set 1!
Oh, right, I did say I was cutting back buying watches! Well, maybe after this one!
You must have loved working there, I know I would have!

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I have to explain a statement I made earlier on, as to how 2 minutes fast or slow on a watch were accepted as normal. They weren't sold that way. If the master watchmaker determined that they were not within that range they were sent back to assembly. Those within the 2 minute limit were sent to be fine tuned. They all left the factory perfectly tuned, but in those days, watches did not stay accurate all that long!
 

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