Minster

Minster
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Watch setting question re date

I recently bought this old DJ from the early seventies. There is no quick set date option so if it is the 20th day of the month and the watch shows th...
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Watch spotting

How do people feel about commenting on peoples watches U notice in the wild? When I see someone wearing a beautiful watch I feel like reaching out and...
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Gmt function/subdial

Maybe it is only me who didn’t know this but if u have a chronograph with a dial like this, you can use the subdial as a gmt as it shows hours and min...
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Recent Comments

commented on New Navitimer GMT: did Breitling drop the ball? ·

IMO unless you really are someone who moves between multiple time zones frequently it really makes minimal difference if you get a caller or traveller gmt. If you are going on a holiday somewhere and staying for a week, just reset your watch and use the gmt hand to monitor home time. It only matters if you are changing time zones frequently (ie several time zones in 48hrs) as it makes it easier to adjust the local time due to the jumping hour. How many of us travel like that ? Not

Many I suspect

commented on Favorite watch podcasts?? ·

Significant watches podcast is fantastic if you like vintage watches. Eric wind, Charlie dunne, Gabriel benedor and tony traina…… you don’t get a better line up than that

commented on I need some strap advice ·

I think after market straps are fantastic however one note of caution from personal experience is you have to order them online and sometimes when they arrive, they don’t suit your watch as much as you like….. not that they are bad quality but perhaps the taper is to much, or the gap between the watch and the strap is to big, or you don’t love the colour….and you end up ordering another strap (so the $ add up) and discarding the one you just bought while the omega boutique will often have the strap u r interested in on site or if not, you can see photos of how the watch strap will look with your specific watch

commented on Vacheron Constantin AD ·

They are readily available…….. only problem is you need to have a huge pile of cash sitting around 😬

commented on How’s 36mm look on me? ·

I am not a ‘big watch guy’ by any stretch and happily will wear a 36mm watch but from my experience of trying on different Rolex watches, the 36mm explorer does wear small. I would go for a 36mm date just over a 41 very happily but I don’t know why, the explorer didn’t suit me. I think it relates to the shape of the lugs. Makes it look smaller. I’m not commenting on the size on your wrist in the photo, more an observation about the explorer vs date just in 36

commented on The struggle is real ·

Kurono Tokyo have some great 36

And even 34 mm watches

commented on Aliexpress 👍👎? ·

When a major brand makes a watch you are paying for more than the simple raw materials to make a watch and the labour to put it together

  1. It takes knowledge and experience to make a design which is attractive to the consumer

  2. It takes experience and past performance to have knowledgeable people on the pay roll who know how to take a watch from an idea to production

  3. It takes large amounts of investment and cost to employ the best and most experienced people to work on physically creating the watch to the highest standards

  4. There are many other issues that I’m sure other people can expand on

When you buy a watch that is a straight copy, then that manufacturer is essentially stealing the money, effort and the profit that the original inventor is entitled to for their initial intellectual property, knowledge, skill and heritage. If the copying manufacturer possessed these skills, then they would have been able to create their own watches rather than copying someone else’s creations.

Anyone can copy a painting by Pablo Picasso and say ‘look I only need to charge $20 because paper and paint are cheap’ yet the magic with a picassso is he came up with that

Painting and that is what you are paying for. His skill, intellectual property and ability, not the raw materials