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For those of you sporting watches with bracelets, what is your technique for cleaning the watchband?
What have you done with your vast collection of watch boxes?
Bright lume recommendation?
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Given military watches are so similar in appearance, it makes me wonder if mfrs are relying on some mil-spec to design the overall watch.
There are as many "Grail Watches" as there are people who pursue them. Each has their own. It's not the watch that makes it the Grail piece, but rather what the watch DOES to the wearer. Hopefully, it's something directed inward and positive.
As a builder of watches, may I pick your brain, as this may be an interesting project I would like to attempt: build my own super-lume watch.
Whatever you find for $400 will require servicing, and for a chronograph, service will run between $600-800 to get it running according to engineering spec (assuming no additional parts are needed or parts are attainable). I recommend increasing your budget to $1500, then shopping on Vintagewatchservices.eu. Stian offers numerous YouTube videos of his restoration work, which includes chronographs, so you can see for yourself the skill involved in servicing one. If you buy one of his watches, you can rest assured it was done properly and is legit through and through.
Look at you! You found your Grail watches! You put one on and it brings you joy. That's all there is to it.
The search for the Grail is not about seeking something outside you, but the search deeper within for one's True Self. A Grail watch adds to one's sense of wholeness. How this is done is up to the wearer.
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Time for some STRAP CHAT! Which watch strap is your favorite?
Which watch completes your look and brings you joy?
Which watch movement type is your go-to preference: quartz or mechanical?
Is it okay to love Timex watches?
Does your spouse support your watch habit?
How much is "too much?"
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