TheRefinedSon

I got the disco 1911 during that sale. The second hand on the chrono function is just a hair to the right of 12 o clock. Other than that its been a great watch. Been wearing it nearly every day for 4 months.

Love the miyota movements in the invicta. With a day date feature. They're great. I got drunk and gave mine to the groom at a wedding and I missed the watch. Wore it every day. This was to be its replacement. Lol!

The 200M rating and classic diver style is what attracted me. I don't trust most of my watches enough to submerge them truth be told. I'll send it in for servicing and put a nato on it and call it good. Must be a dud. It happens.

I'll get it repaired and then throw the watchband in the trash and replace it with a rubber strap or nato. As I said, good looking watch and the lume is bright and readable, but that bracelet and bezel. Oh well, for the price I paid I figured I'd forego a rep and get a decent quality diver. Quality on this piece just isn't up to snuff.

Just picked up an Orient Mako after reading a lot about them. Figured I'd put it in rotation as a daily beater. Really disappointing. The watch arrived and its not working first off. It has no manual wind feature so I spun it around for a few minutes and set the time and it will run for a little while and stop so, power reserve nonexistent. I'll have to send it in for repair. The band is about the cheapest thing I've seen on a watch. I sized it and where the band meets the lugs is loose and rattles. Its light, low quality and generally cheap feeling and looking. The bezel is difficult to turn and very difficult to grip because of its smooth edges and polished coin edge. Its a good looking watch and I like its quick day set feature. The lume is good and very readable too. My Invicta Abyss Pro Diver was a better day date automatic watch by far. I don't know what all the hype about this watch is. It seems to make it into a lot of peoples top ten of affordable divers watches. Color me not impressed.

In the back of a Piper Navajo, headed back from a village in Arctic Alaska. Do I get bonus points for being the watch enthusiast with a rep nearest to the top of the earth?

Does it need to be a mechanical movement?

Utheman lol! My brother used his ipod nano with a watch strap aftermarket case. Wasn't a fan. Its a good idea that has yet to see its time (no pun intended). Samsung has a flexible screen technology that is pretty nifty. Maybe they should make a wristband that does all the neat things but simply replaces your watches wristband.

LOLZ at all the [censored]'s! The functionality is what I'm really interested in. I like the idea. Imagine if they could just integrate it into the crystal and have a decent watch underneath. It looks like a normal automatic but when you get a text message the crystal becomes a screen and displays the text or caller info. That would be cool. I have smaller wrists so I like to keep my watches at around 40mm, still if it did everything but the dishes and looked like a handsomely styled analog watch I'd wear a bigger piece.

Here is a pic from Cnet taken at CES.

Martian Passport Watch - Watches and wrist devices - CNET Reviews http://reviews.cnet.com/watches-and-wrist-devices/martian-passport-watch/4505-3512_7-35567075.html So this watch pairs with your smartphone, displays text messages, has a vibrating alert, answering calls ala [censored] Tracy by speaking into the watch. The idea has been around for as long as I can remember. Seems like its just now becoming a useful idea with the advent of the cell phone, text messaging and bluetooth technology. At $300 I'd consider putting one in rotation. What do you guys think? Would such a device have a place in your rotation or is it an abomination not fit for the wrist of a discerning watch enthusiast? Just noticed is censored the name "D*ck". Lol!

A seamaster is on my list of gen purchases when I can afford it. You sir have fine horological taste.

My Ebel 1911 Disco rep courtesy ToroBravo. Love this thing, have barely taken it off since I received it.

Love the Orient, I have a Mako. Halios Laguna is a great looking watch as is the EMII Diver. The Landeron is cool looking too, I think I like it the most out of all of your suggestions. B&R watches just aren't to my taste however. Thanks fella's, good suggestions!

Great looking watch. Reasonable price for a genuine watch. Looks like a valjoux 7750? The people that actually use the features on their watches, AKA actual pilots, divers and race team crew members make a up a small portion of the buyers of the watches no doubt. Its just something to play with idly and admire for the rest of us

A quick search of ebay and the like yields prices well north of that figure. Maybe wishful thinking on the sellers part?

Ooooh, nice. On a Nato strap to dress it down a bit. Do they make reps of this bad boy?

If you want a gun and you have the money, you can get a gun. I don't care where in the world you are or what the laws are. Mentally unstable people with guns are the least of problems surrounding violence committed with guns. We don't need to "fix" anyone, society has created an environment in which people have increasingly become more willing to take another human life in anger or for gain. What happened in this country (and others) that even with ever increasing gun restriction measures people are killing each other in higher numbers? It wasn't like this in the 50's, what's changed? It isn't the ease of access to weapons capable of ending a human life. Its the ease of conscience in taking a human life. The truth is its easier and more pleasant to believe that you can pass a law and fix a problem, easier than it is to accept the fact that in order for peoples behavior to change that person must choose to change. Anyone that has seen a problem in themselves will attest to the fact that changing your own behavior is a very difficult thing indeed. Changing someone else's behavior is nigh impossible and anyone that believes that they can make someone else change is a fool.

I don't see the point in limiting magazine capacity. Mass shootings always bring about the argument of "Who needs magazines of such a high capacity?" but lets be honest the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to firearms. Legislation will only stop the legal sale of such items and there is enough of it out there that it won't have any effect on future mass shooters. If there is a demand for such items, that demand will be met on the black market as it is in all countries, laws be damned. We need to focus on the people that commit the crimes and the factors that contributed to their decisions leading up to and culminating in the crime. People really are the issue and the quality of the people in this world is markedly and measurably declining.

Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive. Places and times with the strongest gun control laws have often been places and times with high murder rates. Washington, D.C., is a classic example, but just one among many. When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. For the country as a whole, hand gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down. The few counter-examples offered by gun control zealots do not stand up under scrutiny. Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates. But, if you look back through history, you will find that Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries — and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun control laws than the United States. Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time. More guns, less crime In the middle of the 20th century, you could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked. New York, which at that time had enforced the stringent Sullivan Law restricting gun ownership since 1911, still had several times the gun murder rate of London, as well as several times the London murder rate with other weapons. Neither guns nor gun control was the reason for the difference in murder rates. People were the difference. Yet many of the most zealous advocates of gun control laws, on both sides of the Atlantic, have also been advocates of leniency toward criminals. In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons in Britain are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms. In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s — after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions — there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies. Gun control zealots' choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States. You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland. Guns are not the problem. People are the problem — including people who are determined to push gun control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts. There is innocent ignorance and there is invincible, dogmatic and self-righteous ignorance. Every tragic mass shooting seems to bring out examples of both among gun control advocates. - Thomas Sowell Columnist and Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

I have a list, well not exactly written down or anything. I wanted an automatic chrono, check. Hand wound, check. Something with a gen 2824, so on and so forth. Well, high on that list is a watch with an inner rotating bezel. I love this feature for some reason, probably because I like playing with my watches while wearing them. Engaging the chrono, adjusting a bezel that has moved, using the hacking feature to get the time as exact as possible constantly. We all do those things no doubt. I'm looking for a watch that has an inner rotating bezel, doesn't have to be a rep. Any fans of this feature out there that have suggestions? Pics would be great as well. Cheers!

My ETA has the date wheel. I'm looking for an overlay that replicates the rolex font.

Might be interested, is the date wheel a rolex rep overlay? Any idea on the movement holder diameter? This is for a seadweller case.

Does anyone know if the TC movement holder for the 2824 will work?

Any idea's where I can find this? I believe I'm going to use my Hamilton 2824 on my SD build, I'll need to shorten the feet on the watch face. I still need to source a date wheel overlay and a movement holder ring (thin) as well as the clamps to secure it in place. Any idea's where I can source these parts?