Two just arrived, the band is reeeeeally nice! The timepiece is also quite visually balanced and lovely imho. When using the bezel, it makes a light-n-cheap clicking when you rotate it, yet seems very durable and stiff-ish. Wears well enough and looks qui...
You are not the only one. Nice Timex. I bought mine cheap watches for rugged conditions, but soon ended up babying the watches. One i use in a harsh envoirment, and the challenge to keep it scratch and bump free is nervous breaking 😀. Albeit there are als...
Right? This is The Purists. Do I like this watch... I dunno... I do wish you congratulations on any watch you enjoy... I am wary of Hodinkee LE's... they are such opportunists... and wonder if anyone at Hodinkee really cares about or would ever wear a Tim...
Perhaps the answers are within all of us, yet for some on a more 'personal' level. Is it the engineering prowess of Swtach's robot-built System 51 movement or MB&F's mind-boggling handcrafted Thunderdome? While 'value' may be based on some form of tim...
No, I would not retract your Timex here--if it is, for you, a Purist watch, then it is, in some sense, a Purist watch, for we all are here to share our opinions. Enjoy.
Let's face it, the Timex has a seriously cheap low-end movement, the case is 'good', the strap is actually pretty great. Really nice imho. Hey, many of us have invested more into just a strap(!) than the price of this timepiece. I might movement swap it, ...
Your comment/reply is instructive, in that it at least shows us that Hodinkee (or others like) will try to make a lot out of this or that... while not considering whether the offering has real value to the collector. This is the lesson, 'morale' of your a...
There is a bit of good news. I had fun with the Timegrapher and it is now +5 sec/day. Yet soooo yes, for just a few Euros more they should have given a better movement.
hey Greg, generally, relative to this site... it's a collector primarily or exclusively interested in mechanical watches, preferably NOT copycat brands (Frederique Constant is a mechanical watch but... probably not a Purist watch. Any number of mechanical...
I'm a relatively new collector with resources that don't match my enthusiasm if you know what I mean. I look at and read about watches which are far beyond my means because I'm interested in the beauty, engineering, finish and frankly the sheer spectacle ...
Being low-end, she was about 40 seconds fast per day (and beat was off by 2ms). So decided to acquire an OTOOLWORLD Timegrapher After some 'playing around' with the movement, here are two of the cased results. ...