Yokosuka Mike
Abstract Clarity
Screen shots! From a company or retail website?
I wanna see RFF member's watches. You know, pictures taken by RFF members of their own watches; with their own cameras.
Well, maybe I'm asking too much. Whatever.
All the best,
Mike
I wanna see RFF member's watches. You know, pictures taken by RFF members of their own watches; with their own cameras.
Well, maybe I'm asking too much. Whatever.
All the best,
Mike
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
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JeffS7444
Well-known
New photos of same ole watches.
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
For the Pacific region, I'm assuming it receives WWVH (Hawaii), though it's not shown.
Taipei-metro
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i don't know...now it's burn down by Fire ( R i P for the 106 people that died ( 8-16-23 11: 42am PST)
Japan has two towers, China has one in Henan Province, so they covered 0.8 Billion people,
if not covered, it run by solar power and work as a regular quartz ( +- 1 Sec/ month, a lot more accurate than $12,500 Rolex Sub In House 😁)
( my Walgreens 'Atomic Clock's been receiving signals from Colorado for over one decade...i'm in Los Angeles)
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JeffS7444
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My Casio does not sync to WWVH, and in fact, the owner's manual specifically mentions lack of coverage in Hawaii.
Out to Lunch
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I remember this watch; cool design but I found it a little too austere and modern for my taste. Cheers, OtL
Taipei-metro
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Beautiful watches here…
Does anyone actually own a Leica watch?🥹
Leica ZM 1, ZM 2 and Leica Watch Monochrom Edition | Zeitmesser from Wetzlar
Symbiosis of design and technology – made in Germany: the Leica Watch. Handcrafted in Wetzlar, precise and iconic: it’s about time for the Leica ZM 1, Leica ZM 2 and Leica ZM Monochrom Edition.leica-camera.com
Does anyone actually own a Leica watch?
in RfF land, you are,
1, Leica enthusiast/ nut,
2, not Fixed income senior, no wife, no kids, no house under mortgage payments
3 knows Zero about watches
4 lying that u order one
Zm1/ L1, US$10,000 Ten Thousands,
Zm2/ L2, US$14,000 ( w GMT) Fourteen Thousands
the narrative is, Leica hired an Engineer from 'A. Lange and Sohne' ( never heard of them? bcs their watch is US $50,000 and Up German Made...hey, look into Steinhart if you want German ), to design the movement,
and movements were made by Lehman Precision of Germany to fit into L1, L2
These stuffs are More expensive than New 'Speedy' ( Omrga ), and Rolex Sub GMT!!! 🤣🤣🤣 ('who cares about Money!' said our Kevin who sales LLL 35/2 for $499 i know he is Rich )
L1, 2, Beautiful watches? they're not ugly, and they, 'Complement' your M11 + 50 Noc
Some how these watches design reminded me of...
'Shinola Watches' of Detroit, USA
just my 2 Cents...All the Beat!
Taipei-metro
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Mondaine is trying to campaign to define 'Swiss Made' watches from 60% that was made in Switzerland to 50%, to be called Swiss Made
oh no you Cry...oh well
All the Beat!
Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
Everyone who loves mechanical watches should know of A. Lange & Söhne, especially their Datograph; it is like the Princess Grace of watches. You couldn't go a day on TimeZone in the early 2000's without seeing one.
The lovely feature to look at in the movement is the column wheel ("castle wheel") at the 5:30 position below. That used to be de rigueur on chronographs (such as on the caliber 321 Speedmaster), but these days have mostly given way to the cheap and vulgar cam mechanism.
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furcafe
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Pál_K
Cameras. I has it.
This photo represents a turning point.
By 1986 I had a job which provided me with enough money that I could buy discretionary things. I'd been using my Pentax SP500 and its sole 55/2 Super Takumar for 15 years and never felt a need or desire for getting another camera or lens; what I had gave me good results. I did buy an XA2 in 1981 as a backup camera for my time in Norway, but mostly I did not use it.
Then, in a mental flash, I realized I could buy another camera, another lens. Being that I read photo magazines often, it's odd this realization didn't come sooner. The thought of shutter priority and program mode appealed to me at that time. I thought it would be nice to have a zoom lens. A quick walk to Camera World (I lived in downtown Portland) and out I came with this AE-1 Program and a Tokina ATX 35-200 lens (seen on the left). This camera and that lens became my "workhorse" camera for the next four years (*) and I photographed a lot of Portland architecture with it, such as the Weatherly Building. Only recently have I added other FDn lenses.
It was around this same time that I wanted a nice watch. I knew quartz watches were highly accurate, so this blue dial Seiko with its stainless bracelet appealed to me; the fine detail on the surface of the dial is elegant.
Within a few days of getting that watch, I was walking quickly through a doorway at work, not noticing that a co-worker was sitting out of sight on one side of the doorway, talking on the phone, and the phone cord was stretched just below knee-height across the doorway. I tripped and stumbled about 10 feet before catching myself on a metal cabinet - damaging a link in the bracelet of the new watch. I continued to wear that watch until about 1998, when I became interested in mechanical watches. In the last few years I've been wearing it again. I put this new bracelet on it, but I've kept the damaged one simply because it has been with me for so long.
(*) Thanks to Jason Schneider's Camera Collecting, vol.3, my next trip to Camera World was for a new F3/T; my first Nikon.
By 1986 I had a job which provided me with enough money that I could buy discretionary things. I'd been using my Pentax SP500 and its sole 55/2 Super Takumar for 15 years and never felt a need or desire for getting another camera or lens; what I had gave me good results. I did buy an XA2 in 1981 as a backup camera for my time in Norway, but mostly I did not use it.
Then, in a mental flash, I realized I could buy another camera, another lens. Being that I read photo magazines often, it's odd this realization didn't come sooner. The thought of shutter priority and program mode appealed to me at that time. I thought it would be nice to have a zoom lens. A quick walk to Camera World (I lived in downtown Portland) and out I came with this AE-1 Program and a Tokina ATX 35-200 lens (seen on the left). This camera and that lens became my "workhorse" camera for the next four years (*) and I photographed a lot of Portland architecture with it, such as the Weatherly Building. Only recently have I added other FDn lenses.
It was around this same time that I wanted a nice watch. I knew quartz watches were highly accurate, so this blue dial Seiko with its stainless bracelet appealed to me; the fine detail on the surface of the dial is elegant.
Within a few days of getting that watch, I was walking quickly through a doorway at work, not noticing that a co-worker was sitting out of sight on one side of the doorway, talking on the phone, and the phone cord was stretched just below knee-height across the doorway. I tripped and stumbled about 10 feet before catching myself on a metal cabinet - damaging a link in the bracelet of the new watch. I continued to wear that watch until about 1998, when I became interested in mechanical watches. In the last few years I've been wearing it again. I put this new bracelet on it, but I've kept the damaged one simply because it has been with me for so long.
(*) Thanks to Jason Schneider's Camera Collecting, vol.3, my next trip to Camera World was for a new F3/T; my first Nikon.
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robert blu
quiet photographer
I feel a little out of the chorus here, but for me a watch is only a tool tho know which time it is!Since I retired and specially after covid I m not traveling much I do not need to know it very oft. In any case my iphone can tell me when I need it!
And to be very practical my most used is this Modaine simpli because it is light enough and I can understand the time even without glasses. To be fair now I m a satisfied user of multi focal glasses so this is no more a requirement 🙂
But I still prefer it!
JeffS7444
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I am drawn to the allure of the carefully-manufactured brand image, and product presentation, but I also know that no matter what I buy, sooner or later I'll see these things as just that - things. And it seems to me that folks who seek out products with a certain "soulfulness" often wind up buying a lot of stuff, because it seems that soulfulness diminishes over time and must be periodically replenished.
Seeking out products which are better aligned to my priorities helps, but sometimes, the best purchase is no purchase at all.
Taipei-metro
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just to be clear, Mr Lackey, the OP asked the question, Not me...
This is Dave's First post...It's Just For Fun, Camera or Watches! See, no Camera And Watches 🤩😆
BTW, when i talk about Moon-Swatch, you quoting a Counterfeit Chinese Moon-Swatch p#154...So the heat in Hawaii is still 110 degree?
Taipei-metro
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Nice,
this is a Railroad watch, homaging the Big clock in the Swiss Train station...
the Best part is, it's not Leica L2 $14,000 but 1/100th of $....and Swiss Made...Super!
Thank you for posting!
JeffS7444
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I don't think that's a counterfeit, I think the creator of the video meant that it's a Swatch "copy" of an Omega. And it appears that battery replacement is done in the usual way: By opening the case.
Never heard of temperatures in Honolulu near 110F/43C. 86F/30C would be more typical for a warm day. Not there right now, I prefer travel during winter or spring.
Taipei-metro
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the battery replacement done in 'usual' way means it's an Chinese Counterfeit ( better built than the original MoonSwatch, that's right!)...
...i don't want to put too much time on the plastic Moon-Swach, waste of my time
Thank you for the reply, best buy is No buy
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