What's your polar opposite GADA watch?
I think everyone has one watch they believe can do anything and everything with; something that's equal parts capable and versatile.
But do any of you have a watch that's the the opposite of a GADA? Like a timepiece that you wouldn't wear with anything and/or you don't wear outside the house?
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Cameron
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Not really....
But i do have a couple of candidates, i do wear them out and about, but only very very occasionally though.
Oh good question! I do tend to wear everything, but i have a special occasions watch that only comes out every now and then. Kind of looks like this one….
#longines #pilotwatch
Not really....
But i do have a couple of candidates, i do wear them out and about, but only very very occasionally though.
That Rolex reminds me of my grandpa's Speedking 4220, which I think is older by the first Submariners by a couple months. I think it's so cool but I'm scared to death of breaking it, because servicing it will be a nightmare considering Rolex doesn't make legacy parts for it
Oh good question! I do tend to wear everything, but i have a special occasions watch that only comes out every now and then. Kind of looks like this one….
#longines #pilotwatch
I dig it; it's very Breguet-esque. I'm assuming its a vintage/neo-vintage model?
I guess a watch like that would be a jacob and co
That Rolex reminds me of my grandpa's Speedking 4220, which I think is older by the first Submariners by a couple months. I think it's so cool but I'm scared to death of breaking it, because servicing it will be a nightmare considering Rolex doesn't make legacy parts for it
Absolutely, yet still gotta wear it somehow, i mean watches are for wearing, not to be locked up in a safe rotting through the age of time.
I think a 70's manual wind, two hand, no markers dress watch with zero water resistance is about as far as my collection gets from a GADA watch.
In my case, that'd be most of my collection. Most of it is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Some of them, in addition to never having been water-resistant, have no shock protection of any kind, so the balance staff is - obviously - particularly vulnerable to shocks. I have worn them to work, but not when I knew they'd be particularly exposed to shocks or humidity.
I'd say this one is the most fragile:
It's a 1947 Tissot Antimagnetique. The case is in 14K gold, which is a versatile alloy, however, being gold, it does scratch easily. Snap-on case back, the crown isn't even dustproof. The movement inside is a Tissot cal.27, no shock protection.
I'm not keen on wearing it where I know it can suffer any damage. When I bought it, the movement was in rough shape - as can happen with Tissot cal.27, especially if the previous owners in its 75 years of existence didn't bother to get it serviced. If my watchmaker friend wasn't bald, bet it'd have given him some grey hair when he serviced it.
This thing.
It’s one button touch away from breaking, and the movement is so perilous I should write a risk assessment before I put in on my wrist.
Don‘t buy one… forget you ever saw it.