Pelican Parts
Parts Catalog Accessories Catalog How To Articles Tech Forums
Call Pelican Parts at 888-280-7799
Shopping Cart Cart | Project List | Order Status | Help



Go Back   Pelican Parts Forums > Miscellaneous and Off Topic Forums > Off Topic Discussions


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread
Author
Thread Post New Thread    Reply
Licensed User
 
Shuie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
Posts: 6,506
I love that Mark XV. You should be able to find those on timezone all day for well under retail. Great watch. Great watch company also.

Old 01-04-2005, 07:17 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #41 (permalink)
Registered Loser
 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Worcester, MA
Posts: 2,392
I'm a big fan of simplicity. I prefer my watch to compliment my wrist without drawing attention to itself. So Rolex watches often seem like too much for me. Instead, I fell in love with an older design by Gucci. I liked it so much I bought two - one with the gold face for dressing up and another with a more casual, red and green face (it looks a lot better than it sounds).
__________________
Owner of a wrecked 944

Last edited by Wrecked944; 01-05-2005 at 01:43 PM..
Old 01-05-2005, 07:06 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #42 (permalink)
Registered
 
kach22i's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 53,989
Garage
My latest watch the Hamilton Ventura, in the so-called "men in black" version.

Purchased here: http://www.campusjewelers.com/stock2.html

It replaced a dual dial Skagen similar to this (lost it with my wedding ring).

__________________
1977 911S Targa 2.7L (CIS) Silver/Black
2012 Infiniti G37X Coupe (AWD) 3.7L Black on Black
1989 modified Scat II HP Hovercraft
George, Architect
Old 01-05-2005, 09:01 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #43 (permalink)
Registered
 
s928s's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: north wales Pa.
Posts: 485
I like the variety, i have a small but growing collection. Rolex Daytona stailess, TAG 6000, porsche design crono, Movado Esperanza in gold, and a Mont Blanc small star vintage-brown leather band. Out of all of them I love the the Rolex the best. I have a hard time with selection's due to the size of the face and i have a small wrist. The porsche chrono is a little large for me. I always have to look at the "mid size" faces...limits the selection !!

I would think if you are starting out in the 1000-500 range and looking for a good buy,durable, and appealing watch. Go with the Tag's...good but for the money, timeless " manly" design..Just my $.02
__________________
autowerks9
PCA SINCE 1991, REISENTOTER
1982 EURO 928S 320HP MEDIORMETALIC/BURG.
1987 944S- GT3 BODY CONVErSION RED/BLACK( sold )
2003 MERCEDES E500 Sport "Einfarbig"
Old 01-05-2005, 09:05 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #44 (permalink)
Registered
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 4,362
another Citizen fan here. It was an anniversary gift from my wife so naturally it holds sentimental value. However, it is really nice and works great. It's an eco-drive diver. Very durable. Somewhere around $450 I'm told.
Old 01-05-2005, 11:24 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #45 (permalink)
Team California
 
speeder's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: los angeles, CA.
Posts: 41,284
Garage
Quick question: Are Porsche watches any good, or just style excercises? TIA.
__________________
Denis

I'll bet that Bolton is wishing that he was a gay MAGA clown pathological liar right about now.
Old 01-05-2005, 11:51 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #46 (permalink)
 
Registered
 
GFORCED's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Newport Beach
Posts: 280
Quote:
Originally posted by speeder
Quick question: Are Porsche watches any good, or just style excercises? TIA.
They're supposed to have a good movement and the new ones are titanium. Not many people would be very impressed with them though...

After owning many Rolexs, I switched to Cartier. Just bought a new Rolex though, as their new Special Edition line is amazing...
__________________
2002 Porsche 911 turbo X50
2002 S500 Mercedes Benz "pimped out"
2007 Mercedes CLS 550
Old 01-05-2005, 01:11 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #47 (permalink)
The Cuddly One
 
Isabo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
Posts: 1,515
Quote:
Originally posted by speeder
Quick question: Are Porsche watches any good, or just style excercises? TIA.
A little bit of both. As far as I know:
The first manufacturer was Orfina: ok without being great.
Then there was IWC probably the second best watch maker in the world.
Now I think it's Ebel. I think Porsche or the Porsche family may have bought them. Usually well thought of.
*In an earlier post I suggested a Locman, that was before I saw the prices of some of the new models and in particular US prices. Locman is an alternative to a Swatch for me - cheap, cheerful, no pretensions: but there are Locman clones around now

Edit for error: eterna not ebel -Isa
__________________
-Isa
911E 3.0 (Tristezza, the Rattus Maximus) and Jimmy the Mini lll
Dum vivimus, vivamus!
Man braucht nicht reparieren was funktioniert!

Last edited by Isabo; 01-05-2005 at 11:58 PM..
Old 01-05-2005, 01:21 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #48 (permalink)
Registered
 
adomakin's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Essex UK
Posts: 2,194
Garage
tag carrera is spot on. the monza is nice too. I did want a monaco but they are REAL big. the carrera/monza is a much nicer size


Andy
__________________
Andy

1980 SC soon to be big hp 3.3t powered 73RSR Replica (well, I'm keeping the engine but everything else is going )
Old 01-05-2005, 01:40 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #49 (permalink)
Registered
 
smoak's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 483
Garage


Rolex Special Edition Daytona 2004 model

This watch is expensive as all get out, but for a take no prisoners, money no object, watch enthusiast, its a must have. It is pretty damn impressive if you ask me!
__________________
**********************
Bill Smoak

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul!
Old 01-05-2005, 03:24 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #50 (permalink)
Bill is Dead.
 
cashflyer's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Alaska.
Posts: 9,633
Quote:
Originally posted by jbripps
I have a Cartier Tank watch, no picture sorry, but I've been very tempted to get one of those Stauer watches advertised in many mags. The says something like, $159 on your wrist, and $679 in your pocket. Most of their watches are VERY handsome and look to be good quality. Anyone here have one?
Regards,
Regarding both Stauer and Steinhausen watches, which are both being advertised in magazines, flying papers, etc...

Under those lovely dials - which are admittedly very nice copies of famous watches of the past - lie very inexpensive Chinese movements that have proven unreliable for long-term wearing.

I believe that in the near future the Chinese will be able to compete on the world stage in the making of fine movements, but that's not the case today.

What these timepieces are, are masterpieces of marketing and deception, and along with their brethren - those watches for which expensive 'retail' pricing is claimed while offering discounts of 80-90% - should be considered for what they really are: inexpensive toys that may last a year or two before finding their way to the back of your sock drawer.

Worse, since these are all imported from Chinese factories with the seller being little more than promoter and distributor, there will be no parts stocked here. Instead, the entire movement will need to be replaced.
__________________
-.-. .- ... .... ..-. .-.. -.-- . .-.
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.
Old 04-10-2006, 02:13 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #51 (permalink)
Registered
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 1,392
Surprised more people aren't wearing the obvious- Tag Carrera!

Mine is the newer version of this one- still all stainless, but they classed-up the face a bit on the newer one by getting rid of the numbers and going with hashes, plus a few other details.

I'm pleased with it so far.


Old 04-10-2006, 02:30 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #52 (permalink)
Registered
 
FrayAdjacent911's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 2,271
Send a message via AIM to FrayAdjacent911


My Victorinox V-7.

(there is something special about the time/date in that pic)
__________________
Matt J.

69 911T Targa - "Stinky"
2001 Boxster "Stahlgewehr"
Old 04-10-2006, 02:33 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #53 (permalink)
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,957
Rolex Daytona in 18k. Fell in love with it a long time ago and everytime I wear it the feeling gets stronger...



That said, the Tag Monaco is really nice as well...
__________________
2021 Subaru Legacy, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB
Old 04-10-2006, 02:46 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #54 (permalink)
Registered
 
epbrown's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,686
Quote:
Originally posted by FrayAdjacent911 My Victorinox V-7.

(there is something special about the time/date in that pic)
Sure, it's 1:02:03 on 04/05/06
__________________
"Motorcycles... the cigarettes of transportation." Seth Myers

Last edited by epbrown; 04-10-2006 at 04:19 PM..
Old 04-10-2006, 03:37 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #55 (permalink)
I'm a Country Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 13,440
Just about TAG Heuer. Steve McQueen never wore a TAG Heuer Monaco. The name and mark of "Heuer", a fine old Swiss house, was aquired by TAG, a design house, in the early 80s. Heuer were one of the very many Swiss manufactures that met their demise in teh Japanese quartz watch invasion of the early and mid 70s.

Generally regarded as mall horology, TAG Heuer in recent years hav followed the market and the resurgance of the mechanical watch by using unfinished ETA movements in re issue retro wathes.

Whereas you can vist the manfuctures of JLC, IWC, Lange, Rolex and many others and observe these firms making watches, the source of TAG watches is unclear.
__________________
Stuart

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Old 04-10-2006, 03:39 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #56 (permalink)
Registered
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: worcester
Posts: 51
i think you can add patek to the list of true watchmakers. i think a eta 7750 chronograph movement in a well made case is a good value. ie oris.
Old 04-10-2006, 04:47 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #57 (permalink)
I'm a Country Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 13,440
Quote:
Originally posted by pizzy
i think you can add patek to the list of true watchmakers. i think a eta 7750 chronograph movement in a well made case is a good value. ie oris.
Indeed, and many others. Seiko, who as well as being the largest manufacturer, actually produce everything in their watches in house, right down to the luminova on the hands. And they make some very fine mechancial movements in the Grand Seiko.

Rolex "handmake" 800,000 watches a year, each "taking a year". Go figure. Bu then again A. Lange and Sohne arent a volume house, so a worthy point.

I have an Oris with an ETA 2824 ebauche and its a lot of watch for the money. Oris are what TAG should be, sans 20 years of consumer brand building. The Valjous 7750 is certainly the most ubiquitous chrono movement, but its aroiund in verious states of finish- the 7750 in an IWC is diiferent to the one in a Sinn, for example.

Cheers
__________________
Stuart

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Old 04-10-2006, 05:21 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #58 (permalink)
 
Registered
 
Flatbutt1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: NWNJ
Posts: 6,202
huh...3 pages and no one said Baywatch.
__________________
big blue tricycle

stare down the darkness and watch it fade
Old 04-10-2006, 06:31 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #59 (permalink)
Registered
 
epbrown's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,686
Quote:
Originally posted by pizzy
i think you can add patek to the list of true watchmakers. i think a eta 7750 chronograph movement in a well made case is a good value. ie oris.
I like some of the Oris watches as well. My daily watch is a Wenger Swiss Military (which everyone seems to mistake for a TAG). I bought the Meistersinger I posted about a while back (which Cegerer mentioned previously) and I'm loving that thing - yopu can disparage it as a timepiece, but as a thing of beauty, it's unimpeachable.

My next watch will likely be a Panerai Luminor (most likely a Marina), which will be it for a while as far as watches go.

__________________
"Motorcycles... the cigarettes of transportation." Seth Myers
Old 04-10-2006, 06:58 PM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #60 (permalink)
Reply


 


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 10:29 AM.


 
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0
Copyright 2025 Pelican Parts, LLC - Posts may be archived for display on the Pelican Parts Website -    DMCA Registered Agent Contact Page
 

DTO Garage Plus vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.