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What is your fav new release of 2022?

Let‘s hear it from the community!    The GS evolution 9 series 5 day spring drive is that watch for me. Any of the Birch variants actually. 
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Vintage watch shopping in New York City

Hi crunchers, I'm planning a family trip to NYC in March, and wondering if locals or NYC travellers have any recommendations for places to go to shop...
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What is the one watch in your collection that is the most “you” and why?

Hey Crunchers, if you were to name one watch in your current collection that is the most ”you”, what would that be? Try and post pictures if you can a...
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Recent Comments

commented on A legendary quartet ·

Love it

commented on This years most worn watch ·
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The SD white birch is the most worn this year. My only NWA this year. 

commented on What is your fav new release of 2022? ·

Nice! Mine is quite scuffed up for a less than one year old watch. Probably cuz it’s my most worn this year. 

commented on Serica vs. Halios vs. Lorier ·

Can’t go wrong really. Serica is its own watch more so than the others tho. 

commented on What's your unpopular opinion about luxury watches? ·

It irks me when I hear watches being referred to as “pieces”. I don’t know why. I am sorry, many does it, nothing against y’all and its all love here. Just an unpopular opinion…

commented on Zenith Chronomaster Sport or Tudor black bay Chrono? ·

Tudor for me. It’s a great deal even at full retail. They have a silicon version of the Breitling B01 movement, and B01 watches are asking something like 30% more than the Tudor (fact check pls) Iirc. 
 

The bracelet is a bit of a let down on the Zenith. It’s got a cool movement though but 10th of a sec chrono is also one of the least useful complications out there imo. 

commented on a post ·

Owner here. Bought mine in February this year after trying it on at a local AD. I has been wanting a Spring Drive watch forever, but there are 3 things that had held me back: the PR indicator on the dial, the thicker cases that they generally come in, and the better dials usually come in titanium cases. With the SD white birch, they literally read my mind and fixed all of my complaints at least on paper. I still wanted to try one on to confirm it is as good in person as it seems on paper though and after seeing it in person, it confirmed my suspicion that it’s a beautiful, wearable, quintessentially GS watch. 
 

The only caution I would throw out there is that this is NOT a dress watch. If that’s what you are looking for, then I would make sure you try it on first or look elsewhere. Even though the dial is “fancy” the evolution 9 case and bracelet clearly have a sporty leaning. people don’t like the broader lugs at 21mm, but it does make the watch sit incredibly stable on wrist. So i would describe it as an “elevated“ sporty watch.

Feel free to ping me if you have other questions. 

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