Hi, Im Björn from Sweden...
I live mainly for the beauty in life... Which naturally include great looking wristwatches and my delicious power catamaran...
And Vantage Technology Magazine is mainly my "tech blog" site...
And I mainly use a Skagen Titanium with 38x8mm case...
And when I work with my boat - the amazing Casio W-800HG-9AVDF that even show the year without any extra button pushes, plus are 100 meter water resistant and have 10 years battery!
And the box show some more of my old collection...
And 2023-01-30 did I buy a Invicta ProDiver Chronograph 24003 which are 100m water resist and have a 45,6x13,3mm classic case with a Seiko Hattori SII caliber VD53C14 Japan made high quality quartz movement, wavy black watch dial and elegant partly hollow hands with gold accents, crystal by flame fusion synthetic sapphire, golden left turnable time ring, safe screwed back plate and a 22mm wide partly 18K gold plated wrist band, with removable solid stainless steel links and an extra safe lock... For just 58 euro, to use in my boat and another one to give to my best friends 65 years birthday!
And since 2023-02-22 a golden Fossil 100m diver chronograph FB-01 FS5836 with impressive classic style and balance, almost black dial with nice hands and delicate golden details, golden 42mm wide case with a Japanese movement, golden and black left turnable time ring, safe screwed back plate and golden 22mm wide bracelet with 5 rows of links and fine lock - but it has a mineral crystal, for only 94 euro!
And exactly how I collect...
My first exclusive watch was a Citizen DigiAna, that I bought over 40 years ago at half the normal price in Las Palmas Gran Canaria...
And at the beginning 1982 to 84 did I buy some amazing Grails, the two finest dreams from Casio's first Oceanus serie and then could no other watch compare (!) so for the following 30 years, did my minimal collection grow very slowly... Because I only bought two dress watches and a lady watch...
Then did I find my Grail titanium from Skagen, bough a really fine Seiko titanium 100m chronograph to have as reserve, got a very fine Rado copy as a present, bought an Armani ceramic from England (that also was a copy, so I got my money back) as an alternative to the Seiko and finally did I discover 4 truly amazing ultra cheap skeletons from China (for 7 to 19 euro) plus a magnificent classic automatic mechanic chronograph (only 15 euro) just to use as home decoration...
And when I sudddenly found a new CriCat (my now delicious power catamaran) did I also buy a digital Casio 100m beater, for the very tough renovation time... So there have been several very different reasons, behind my collection...
Which became totally 26 wrist watches, including three more on order 2023-02-24 so I will get them soon... But I change only between 6 of them, but only 4 of them use to have fresh batteries... Plus 5 dress watches I only use at very special events... Then are 3 reserves or spare watches I will use after the first one die, 7 are exclusively very interesting home decorations (mainly sexy skeletons) which I practically never wear 4 are retired digital Casios and 1 delicious broken Orient Chandor lady watch I let girls wear, when I take photos of them...
And then have I just now the lovely Rado DiaStar Integral Mini for ladies, that cost over 2000 euro new and I am selling in mint condition for only 870 euro...
But I think 99% of all models (in the market) are very boring and there are also many details I don't like and very little I really like... I like for example almost only black or sunny dials, with some gold details...
And that's why I only have seen 60 different watches I really like (!!) anywhere and anytime... Naturally including many models, that unfortunately are too expensive... Only 15 "amazing" class A watches and I own 5 of them... And 45 "delicious" class B watches and 10 of them are mine... So I actually own 25% of the finest watches I ever seen!
Then have I also seen 46 "interesting" class C watches and 5 are mine... So great watches are simply very very rare, in my highly personal view!
And I would actually LOVE a very slim (5 to max 7mm) digital watch, made I would actually LOVE a very slim (5 to max 8mm) digital watch, made of solid black titanium OR ceramic, with a black display that show golden numbers & letters... Almost like the most elegant RADO watches... Or a golden display with black number & letters... With a 36mm wide and 40mm high case, with an elegant soft bevelled edge (as my Casio W800 or Casio Royale) and a 28mm wide 30mm high scratch resistant crystal... That first show - the name of day - at top and then - year, month & date - as the second line and then with clearly bigger numbers - HOUR, MINUTE & SECOND - as third line and finally - the Function (as DL for dual time, AL for alarm C for temperature and so on, plus) Hour, minute & second or the temperature - as the last line... And it may also be partly analog, with elegant hour minute second hands over a black dial with physical gold dots for each five minutes and golden numbers & letters for year, month, date, day and the other info... So I get max info, without extra key pressings... And it should naturally be 100m water resist and have minimum 6 to 10 years battery OR solar on the 22x3mm titanium OR ceramic solid link band... And the band should also have a new type of lock, that not make it thicker... So it would be both smarter and more elegant than any other digital or digi-ana watch... And naturally be mass produced for 88 to max 222 euro!
*** And most are very nice here... But I must stop spending a lot of time here, because I have six vital projects I have to focus on...
And I must first find a new smart PHP & MySQL programmer (who first can help for a relatively low payment) to restart a magnificent contact site, with the clearly finest system (as a purrfect clockwork) that did lock up 12 years ago (!!) when the web hotel did change the PHP and MySql version!