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[waltesefalcon]

You can still get them
Elliot brown do a series of GMT

HOLTON AUTO GMT: NIVO 101-A23 - Elliot Brown Watches

The Elliot Brown Holton Professional was developed with a specialist branch of the British military, survived the most extreme testing perfectly in tact and instantly won hearts and minds, more than any other watch in our history. This automatic GMT offering is the perfect travel companion.

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GMT watches are a little different. With a GMT each hour hand can be set independently of the other. In the old dual zone railway watches both hour hands were part of the same assembly, so they could not be independently set, they were always one hour apart. It's not nearly as useful as a modern GMT.

Fun fact on older GMTs, when they were first introduced, you couldn't set the main and GMT hour hands independently. The way you adjusted the time for the second zone was by a rotating bezel. Here's a not very good photo of my old Accutron Astronaut from the early 60s. In the picture you can see that the bezel has been set so thag the GMT hand is seven hours ahead of my time.

 

[bobhustead]

My Casio electric digital keeps perfect time and no such watch has ever resulted in murder by a robber or theft by a burglar.
Bob

 

[Basil]

My Casio electric digital keeps perfect time and no such watch has ever resulted in murder by a robber or theft by a burglar.
Bob

I have a couple of Casio G-Shocks which I like very much. One is the DW-9052GBX-1A9. It's my go-to watch when I want to have a watch but don't want to worry about getting it scratched up or getting it wet (shock resistant and 200m water resistance). It is purely a digital watch.
My other Casio is a Casio G-SHOCK GA-2000-series analog-digital watch. That watch, which I happen to be wearing this morning, was bought from a vendor in Japan as it's a special variant for the Japanese market.

Japan version:

 

[JPSmit]

My Casio electric digital keeps perfect time and no such watch has ever resulted in murder by a robber or theft by a burglar.
Bob

Recently read a story of a guy in Miami, goes drinking, meets a girl, passes out, wakes with wallet and cards gone as well as his $170,000 Bell & Ross watch. Can't even imagine the planet on which I am supposed to be sympathetic.

. First of all, apparently money can't by either brains or common sense and secondly, if you have $170,000 to strap to your wrist, you have too much money. (off my soapbox now)

A $170,000 watch vanished after a Miami date night — how to keep your luxury timepiece from being stolen

A luxury watch can attract attention long before it ever leaves your wrist. Here’s what owners can do to protect a valuable timepiece.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[GregW]

And then there was the train man in The Matrix.

 

[bobhustead]

I wore Timex Iron Man models for many years. For some reason, though, they started making the bezels, where the band pins snap in, in a way that let the pins crack the holes in half. My last two died that way, so I stopped buying them. I also note that I am a card carrying Luddite, so I hate having to push four buttons in different random orders to set or use various functions. I note with pride that I have here used the word "in" twice-in-a-row in a syntactically proper manner.
Bob

 

[Gliderman8]

I am currently wearing my 53 year old Seiko “Pogue” edition watch. It was made for the Skylab program. Colonel William Pogue wore it on a Skylab mission in 1973.
It’s self-winding. I had a stranger stop me about three years ago and offered to buy it when he noticed it.

 

[maynard]

 

[maynard]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2114993671456030853

 

[Hamish Racing]

Recently read a story of a guy in Miami, goes drinking, meets a girl, passes out, wakes with wallet and cards gone as well as his $170,000 Bell & Ross watch. Can't even imagine the planet on which I am supposed to be sympathetic.

. First of all, apparently money can't by either brains or common sense and secondly, if you have $170,000 to strap to your wrist, you have too much money. (off my soapbox now)

A $170,000 watch vanished after a Miami date night — how to keep your luxury timepiece from being stolen

A luxury watch can attract attention long before it ever leaves your wrist. Here’s what owners can do to protect a valuable timepiece.

finance.yahoo.com

So you are not bidding on this then ?

Richard Mille | Reference RM004-V3 CA | A limited edition NTPT Carbon

<p><strong>Dial:</strong> semi-skeletonized</p><p><strong>Calibre:</strong> cal. RM004 V3 manual winding, 37 jewels</p><p><strong>Movement number:</strong> 007</p><p><strong>Case: </strong>NTPT Carbon,<strong> </strong>sapphire crystal display case back secured by 8 screws</p><p><strong>Case...

www.sothebys.com

 

[maynard]

 

[waltesefalcon]

Recently read a story of a guy in Miami, goes drinking, meets a girl, passes out, wakes with wallet and cards gone as well as his $170,000 Bell & Ross watch. Can't even imagine the planet on which I am supposed to be sympathetic.

. First of all, apparently money can't by either brains or common sense and secondly, if you have $170,000 to strap to your wrist, you have too much money. (off my soapbox now)

A $170,000 watch vanished after a Miami date night — how to keep your luxury timepiece from being stolen

A luxury watch can attract attention long before it ever leaves your wrist. Here’s what owners can do to protect a valuable timepiece.

finance.yahoo.com

That's utter malarkey. Bell and Ross do not make watches in that market they are in the low end luxury market, 4 - 5 grand kinda watches.

As for everyone showing off what they wear, I'm toting a 150 ish year old watch today, an Illinois Model 1 made between late 1872 and early 1874. It's a Hoyt Grade (one of their lower to mid grade watches) and is key wind, key set, and in a 3 oz silver case.

 

[AngliaGT]

And then there was the train man in The Matrix.

While wearing those in public,when someone asks you "Do you have the time?",
look them in the eye & say "no".

 

[PAUL161]

I have an old Hamilton pocket watch that I've had for over 50 years. I looked at it yesterday and wound it up for the first time in years, and much to my surprize, it's keeping perfect time!

 

[Gliderman8]

I have an old Hamilton pocket watch that I've had for over 50 years. I looked at it yesterday and wound it up for the first time in years, and much to my surprize, it's keeping perfect time!

I live very close to the old Hamilton Watch factory. It is now converted into condos.

 

[AngliaGT]

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Is he out of the hospital yet?

 

[maynard]

 

[maynard]

My wife says this is why men should never be left unattended when shopping.