AdrianR

Adrian
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7.00” / 17.78 cm Wrist
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Recent posts

Unplanned Church G-Shock Meeting

We got a new young priest from the Philippines who wears a Baby-G because of his small wrists. (My hand engulfing his for scale.) I happened to be wea...
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Useful CasiOak mod

Got my first G-Shock from my dear wife at Christmas and as much as I have enjoyed wearing and using it, the functions of the four pushers are practica...
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Seiko quartz from the ‘90s

This pretty Seiko was manufactured in April 1996 and given to my buddy Mike by his wife in 1998. It has a 5P31 quartz movement and had a dead Varta 37...
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Recent Comments

commented on Pipe Dreams of the Perfect Watch ·

The fly in the ointment with your Bertucci is the polar white hour and minute hands. (The seconds hand is a good design.) They are just the wrong colour for the warmer white dial. Gold hands, yellow hands to match the hour markers or even orange hands would pull it all together better.

commented on Watches that just didn't work out for you? ·

Beautiful but too big, too heavy, too conspicuous and too easily damaged.

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commented on "Will Buying One of Your $10,000 Watches Make Me Happy?" ·

One thing that I remember from The Millionaire Next Door is that the most popular car among millionaires in the Chicago area at that time was the VW Jetta. We had one for six years and it had a really well-designed suspension that made it ride like a bigger car but they are so ubiquitous that nobody would suspect that you have money (which we don’t).

commented on I am eyeing for a G-Shock, any advice? ·

Absolutely. The small negative display on the CasiOak is hard to read in anything less than good light and taking a few seconds to start the app is faster than using the buttons. Also, I’m old school and wanted the analogue dial. If the functions of the GBD-200U are something you want, then it’s a tough choice.

commented on Before & after ·

Ooh, that’s a bummer. Odd stubby hands look like they’re from a smaller watch.

commented on I am eyeing for a G-Shock, any advice? ·

If you are considering the CasiOak, I recommend the Bluetooth version for ease of using the functions. The inset digital display is small and using the phone app is much easier than manipulating the buttons. I chose the Caution Yellow version as my wife’s Christmas present to me and then filled the pusher button functions with white paint for legibility. I am happy with it. This is how it looks on my 7” wrist:

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commented on ◇ BRANDS ◇ ·

Tissot deserves to be in the Enthusiast or Entry-level Luxury category, IMO, and TAG Heuer more properly belongs in Entry-level Luxury, but as always, I could be wrong.

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Merry Christmas to all!

I hope that you and your family are as happy with the day as I am. My first foray into the world of G-Shock with the GAB-2100CY-1A.
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NWA - G-Shock GAB2100CY-1A

My Christmas present from my wife arrived this morning and will go under the tree. The only mod I’ll probably do is to change the black hour index rin...
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Old solar watch

While waiting for a good sale on a G-Shock (probably) as my next tool watch, I dipped once again into my son’t collection of ignored watches and came...
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One time change too many

Recently I posted about giving away one of my two beaters to a fellow who had no watch (hard to imagine, I know). Then, while attempting to conduct th...
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Goodbye Fossil

This is the last shot of my Fossil beater before it went to a chap trying to get back into the workforce after beating a substance abuse challenge. It...
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Time to change tires

Took the winters off yesterday and checked the brake pad thickness. The beater Fossil that I wrecked the chronograph function on is perfect for that.
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Bay Days are on

The Hudson’s Bay Company is having their Bay Days sale. In my local store today they were advertising 35% off Seiko, Citizen, G-Shock and Timex. Bulov...
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