WristScan 8-Feb “Funky” starts now. Let the “Funk” begin!
Friends, Let’s start our WristScan thread this week “Funky”. Now Funky Funk I of course associate with Music first of all, be it original Motown Funk, or smashing Northern Soul or more recent Funksters like Jamiroquai… But I digress. I want to see your Fu...
Great entry... may be a little funky for today standards... but a serious diving watch about 50 years ago. No need here to say I love Doxas... both ...
... vintage pieces or their new homages to their past. Hagwe! Abel
Great first entry this week!
there is a lot of love for funky Doxa's here in the forum!
Great start for this week en Theme dear friend CC! I like so much your definition of a "Funky Watch" : They are much fun and a little way of not...
... taking ourselves too seriously while making us feel our of the ordinary!! The GP Deep Diver is a great and beautiful example indeed! I feel we will see some realy interesting timepieces along this week end! Now searching my HD for some pictures of my ...
Something new and something old.
Let funk be with you all. Enjoy the funk Doxa and Accutron. ...
and another funky Doxy, really like the funky yellow
and the Accutron is equally cool. Thanks for playing Funkster Bill.
OK, two I would certainly love to get, Bill...
That Doxa is high on the list you know and this one I missed while waiting for the Searambler to become available. But those Accutrons are quite the thing 👌🏻
I’m going to join the game with this one...
Funky, I don’t know...At the least it’s colorful... ...
Sorry for the quality of the picture
I was 6 years old. I went on a cruise with my parents.....and spent my entire holiday money buying this watch for my grandfather. That was 1971. I still have the watch!!! It still works. ...
That's brilliant and funky!
Are there still cruises with watch shops available? I may change my mind and open up to the idea of a cruise
I will plead the 5th, for fear of incriminating my self.
But you do like your weird and funky case shapes.
Perfect description dear Bill
My thoughts exactly but another vintage Zenith is called Flying saucer and here together Cheers ...
How about an Accutron Spaceview?
Bulova introduced the Accutron tuning fork electronic watch in 1960 and it was extremely popular in many iterations throughout the sixties and into the early seventies. This technology (electronic tuning fork) was “cutting edge” and the story makes for gr...
Those JLC Polaris would be the centerpieces...
of any 70's watch collection. Good show. Nicolas!
Did you hear about the guy who bet $250 . . .
. . . that the Rams would score only 3 points in the Super Bowl? The odds were 400 - 1.
If you run into a guy with $100K stuffed in his pockets . . .
. . . you'll know how it got there!
Thanks, Abel! The weekend begins now . . .
. . . with an excursion to Santa Barbara a little later this afternoon for a few drinks at the piano bar. Here's hoping your weekend will be just as entertaining ;-) . . .
Looks like a wonderful week end for you my friend!! Mine will not be very exciting but certainly devoted to rest...
... and entertaining with my grand children. And making plans for my next holidays for second half of February!! Enjoy your week end so much my dear friend! Abel.
The ultimate Omega badboy! . . .
. . . gotta love 910s, especially when . . . . . . they're mostly intact and unpolished. Mine has all the paint on the pushers and crowns, and most of the cadmium yellow coating on the chrono hands. Art ...
I love the bold design reflecting the early 70s ...
an era of great change. From Concord to the oil crisis.
Oh yes...
Bullseye, Art! Omega ensured even the pilots could participate. Still one of my favorite vintage Omegas 👌🏻
While vintage Omega sports watches are going thru the roof, Flightmasters, . . .
. . . Mk IIs, and Ploprofs are still approachable. The time to find one is now, K, before collectors snap them all up . . .
"Funky" to me is the "Funky 70's"!
In fact it started mid- late 1960's with the flower power movement and then kept going all the way long into the 1970's. A theme I love! Big, bold, often untraditional case shapes, usually with more colourful dials than we normally see. Most of the times,...
Just think of the boutique managers left sobbing in a fetal positin after one of his visits...
And that's just when he's being extra nice.
:D nice try but that surely cannot be "all"
The Green Deep Diver aka Green Lantern...an absolute favourite and I'm happy to say only a few more days and I will be re-united with mine!
You’re on a roll, Blomman!
That’s many, many entries 😊 Glad I‘m not judging this week 😉
Hello dear friend CC!! After searching my watch box and my HD I found ...
... that these are the watches which follow your recipe of "Funky": When on my wrist they make me feel a bit out of the ordinary, they make me feel in a good mood way, and I have fun and I do not take myself too seriously. I love your definition!! Don´t y...
I knew you would have a full armada of the funkiest funky watches! Great line-up, Abel.
Have a good weekend as well. CC
Nice entries, my dear Abel.
Lots of funk there, an overload for sure. But that Jean D'Eve is hands down the funkiest watch I have seen on this thread.
Thanks a lot dear friend Zabreg! Yes, the Sectora is very very Funky indeed. I must confess...
... I had a lot of problems reading the time in this watch, which has a quartz movement by the way. The retrograde system didn´t work with accuracy enough. I bought many many years ago during a trip in the Caribbean. I had seen it in a magazine ad about t...
Thank you Captain! Not a perfect example but it works, and the dial is a beauty. I dream with finding an almost mint example!!..
... the dial is spectacultar and its history so interesting. Cheers! Abel
Agree with you dear Captain! Mine has a few flaws but not easy to find here in my local hunting grounds. Hope to find a near mint one...
... Some day! I wish you'll find yours soon! Abel
Thank you Abel..
My search will continue even if I have to go into Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no Purist h...
That Sectora is as funky as it gets
Excellent choice for funk weekend dear Abel. Cheers D
Thank you so much desr D!! Agree with you that this sectora is...
... sooo Funky! Lol! I can’t believe I bought it myself on that occasion! Lol! Hagwe my dear friend! Abel
Seems like you were fantastically prepared, Abel!
Some superb pieces and some of them I believe I see for the first time 👌🏻
Thanks a lot dear KM! Well... When the Theme was announced I thought in these Funky watches in my collection! Guess I have shown them...
... Some time ago in different posts as they have been with me since long ago. Thank you for your kind comments! Hagwe! Abel
No flares!
Hi No flares for me - but cushion cases If it ain't got a matic it ain't funky! Cheers JML ...
Yuo, my friend. Cushion = Funky...
I'm a big fan of the Memomatic, don't understand why I still don't have one...hmm Thanks for the funky submission!
One would definitely compliment all your memovoxs!
Though based on your memovox collection , it could send you down another alarm rabbit hole Enjoy the hunt! Cheers JML
Great Funkies dear JML!! The 1970`s designs is a treasure trove for this type which today we consider "Funky". These you show are wonderful examples....
... including their awesome bracelets! Hagwe my friend! Abel
Now these are some fantastic entries, JML!
And the Matic slogan is great - do copyright it before a watch brand jumps on it 👍🏻😊
And here are some FUNKY watches to go with. . .
And me and my fiancé Michelle who will be wed a week from Saturday! ...
What a wonderful selection.
The Moser... there is just something so irreverent and funky about it. And, Congratulations in advance.
How about a Seiko “Pogue” Automatic Chronograph?
The Seiko 6139 reference automatic Chronographs are quite “funky” and represent the very late sixties and early to mid seventies quite well. They came with multiple dial colors (all had the “Pepsi” bezel) including black, silver and (most notably) golden....
70's funk...
the 1970's LIP watch designed by Roger Tallon together with the funkiest architects of the 1970's, Ant Farm. (Their most famous installation, Cadillac Ranch, is in the first photo. In the second photo is their House of the Century built in 1972) HAGWE! ...
Thought I had an old B.B. King vinyl disk somewhere...
...as he started the whole Funk stuff in 1965. But I couldn’t find it. But that’s no trouble at all as Funk survived until today. Looking back to the funky seventies I rediscovered a few alternatives... Okay, the two watches may not be very funky 😎 But he...
I'm too funky for my watch
I'm not sure if this is so funky but I post this pair anyway. ...
You have two Digitrends?
Fantastic shots and a great idea - wonder why I didn’t think of this 😉👌🏻
🤗thanks my friend , yes i first bought the black one and a few months later the other one was for sale in my country
So i thought it would make a nice couple 😁
So sick I posted in the wrong thread, got a huge cold but I'll join with some old shots, my Grandfather's, then my Dad's and my 1962 Seiko Diamatic :)
Can't get much groovier or funky disco disco. than this one hehe on a un-groovy sick day making me feel groovier. ...
I do have another playboy watch...
But as it’s quartz and from the 1980s it probably doesn’t qualify 😉👍🏻
Thanks a lot Cpt Scarlet!
Comes in a palladium plated case, too - so looks completely pristine more than 40 years later. It does have a scratch on the crystal as the only sign of a long life - I wish to look as good when that age 😂
It’s more than a watch, it’s a piece of social history...
I must tell you my recollection of The club one day
Finland can do truly funky!
Great shot 👌🏻 Now for the funkiest thing to come out of Finland google Finnish disco lessons 👍🏻
Oh, Behave!
A watch fit for Austin Danger Powers On his wrist … honestly ;-)! Patek and funky works. Best Moritz ...
Squared funky
Good morning gentlemen, long time lurker here posting a funky item from the seventies (1975 to be precise). Square, blue and yellow dial (the pic does not get the real hue). It usually grabs the attention for its look, but also deserves some serious consi...
Great entrance and a very warm welcome...
A real funky Seiko you got! Thanks for playing. CC
Warm welcome to the forums tick 28800
Great entry not only cool and funky watch but cool and funky shades as well. Cheers
Wow! That' s a great way of introducing yourself Tick28800!! Welcome aboard! Great shot of your Funky and very interesting Seiko chrono!
Very nice composition! I wish you will enjoy this place and that you will keep posting and playing in future editions of our weekly Wrist Scans !, Hagwe! Abel
Very late entry here due to babysitting duties.
No Funk for me in watches, at least nothing to compete with some stuff here. But here is one some of you will recognize. My Funky town: ...
OH the legendary shot of inclusiveness
The shot that started it all.... super funk disco fever H
Funkily late entry my friends
Orange funk... Speedy funk.... Hope you are all have a funky awesome weekend ...
Many thanks, CC
Great theme. Funk is one of my favorites. Listening to funk now, on this sunday evening. Enjoy your sunday 👍 ...
haha - 'Prince of Funk', or the watch collector formally known as Nomadgiles ;-) [nt]
thanks my friend - an accolade i will gladly take!
Thanks CC!
I saw the judge post & rushed it a bit - so many other funky distractions this weekend ;-) Best, Gi
Thank you Abel! You are, as ever, most kind.
It is certainly a subject & genre close to my being 😉 Have a great week ahead! All the best, Giles.
