Horological Meandering

Or, to cannibalise Emma Lazarus’ poem on the Statue of Liberty for the benefit of our Stateside friends: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled watches yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming watchbox”. OK, so here’s the deal. ...  

The white gold Rolex Daytona. I bought this watch before I found PuristS and it was an impulse purchase while on vacation in the Bahamas. Don't ask me why I don't like the watch because I don't want to offend any of the Rolex fans here Sold this watch yea...  

However, in the spirit of posting a new picture of a watch that I haven't shown in a while (Although, it was out of the watchbox this week, and on my wrist!), here's one of my Archer. Enjoy! Daos PS - Pplater, I've never seen that Stowa before! It's almos...  

My Ball watch whose dial is not so easy to read because of its size and configuration: However it does keep good time. This message has been edited by VPREGULATOR on 2009-08-29 00:21:34...  

None of them is perfect but there is definitely something special/interesting in each and every one of them. Regards Ling

You know those live seafood tanks in restaurants? I always imagine the inhabitants screaming “choose him, choose him!” as the hand reaches in, net at the ready. That is what my collection of shrugged off horology is like. They all know that wh...  

There's only one that I sort of wish I didn't get. I still wear it and it's an OK watch, but far from being my favourite. This is not my pic (never bothered to photograph it). Pic borrowed from the net...  

When I started collecting I bought ladies' watches because I couldn't imagine wearing something as large as (shock!) 34mm. I say I am going to get around to selling three of these (and some other junkier stuff I don't have photographed), but the selling p...  

It has to be this Dievas Vintage 3646. It just doesn't sit as well as I thought. Perhaps my wrist was looking for its more famous twin sister. Sold this almost as soon as I got it....  

. . . my first watch, a gold-capped Dulux that was my X-mas gift in '68 . . . . . . and, thanks to your reminder, will be on my wrist for most of this week . . . cordially, Art...  

All I have is this old attempt at photoshopping away the rotor of a mid-70s Buchere with A. Schild Auto Never wore it, but I think it was free I don't have any pics, but I also have some watches I bought/acquired dead and have so never worn A...