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I think I got it some time in 1996 ....so its getting quite old now.

EDIT: I just checked. It is from 1993 Osna :usa7uh:

I have owned Swatches since they first were on the market (1983? :t-hands: )

My first Swatch was the well known "Jellyfish" model.

Of course it got wrecked :D (I was an active kid) .....I saw one was sold at auction a few years ago for $10,000 US -- crazy!


It's in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. :)
 
It's nice to know that there are others out there with an appreciation for a good watch. All of your various watches are great looking. I hope you all enjoy them very much.

Here's a picture I just took of mine using my phone's camera, because it's 2AM and my good camera is downstairs. It's a Tissot I was given as a gift back in 2001 from my grandparents, and I've worn it every dance since, expect when I was getting the battery replaced. I owned Swiss Army watches before this one, and this just blows it away. It's the perfect watch for the (now) 21 year old... it's casual enough to wear every day, but if I have to wear a suit and it peeks out, it looks very classy.

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ZicZachZo said:
Andy Rooney has quite an interesting outlook on watches.
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Andy Rooney has a bitchy, cantankerous outlook on watches, and anything else you can think of come think. The guy doesn't even try anymore - Every single time, "People are into stuff because they're retarded. Not me. I'm in to being a cheap-ass old man with the personality of a cardboard box."

I'd love to someday see Andy Rooney give a critique of himself:
"There's lots of pundits on TV. You see them every evening, dispensing their well learned opinions about how the world should run, or what's going on in a foreign country you've never heard of. Some of them give advice, and others just whine and moan as though somebody cared. Take Andy Rooney, for instance, an cantankerous old fossil who uses his weekly segement on 60 minutes for the purpose of bitching as loud as possible about trivial nonsense..."
 
Oh sure Rooney is an old fart, but that's his appeal. He's the grouchy old muppet sitting in the balcony. He does strike a good point though. Anymore, watches aren't really watches. They are bling, jewelery, status symbols. Not exactly their original intended purpose I think we can both agree. His objective is to show us that we take things and glorify them beyond belief. Something like a watch that's only purpose is to keep time. Suddenly it's bejeweled in crystals and sapphires. Customized gold this, platinum that. A bunch of crap if you ask me. But then I never really liked watches to begin with...

I would have thought you to be anti-consumerism Osna... Am I wrong?

:t-cheers:
 
ZicZachZo said:
Oh sure Rooney is an old fart, but that's his appeal. He's the grouchy old muppet sitting in the balcony. He does strike a good point though. Anymore, watches aren't really watches. They are bling, jewelery, status symbols. Not exactly their original intended purpose I think we can both agree. His objective is to show us that we take things and glorify them beyond belief. Something like a watch that's only purpose is to keep time. Suddenly it's bejeweled in crystals and sapphires. Customized gold this, platinum that. A bunch of crap if you ask me. But then I never really liked watches to begin with...

I would have thought you to be anti-consumerism Osna... Am I wrong?

:t-cheers:
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LOL ...anti-consumerism ;) ....is there really any such thing
I agree with you (and Rooney) Zach, a lot of watches today are just bling status symbols.
 
After my Omega being stolen (I was robbed in Milano few years ago), I swore never to buy an expensive watch again (same case with expensive pieces of jewellery!).

So, now my wrist is proudly carrying this Casio Titanium Lineage item: :D







Niether my wrist nor I have any complaints agint this watch, and are quite satisfied with the choice. :D :D :D
 
TycoonGTR said:
Nice and simple, loving it Eni! :usa7uh:

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:usa7uh:

Yeah, now I just reply: "It's just a Casio" - to people stop bothering me. I was really annoyed when everybody wanted to see & touch my Seamaster. I felt like a whore. :D

The Milano episode was quite scary - they took my watch, my necklace, my wallet, even my belt - despite being nothing special!!! Having a knife on my throat I would give away even my pants. :cool:

I was shocked by the attitude of the local police in Milano. It took me several hours to get a translator - since nobody at the police station was able to speak neither English nor German! And the policemen and detective were more or less uninterested in my case. I gave a statement, and they promised they would contact me. Of course they didn't. :t-crazy2:

The good point: my lady never liked the Omega ("It is too big for your wrist." :eusa_doh: ). My "new" watch (the Casio) got her approval. :D

But she gave me a good weapon: everytime she desires something expensive, I reply: "Honey, it's too big for you (... and your wallet)." :D
 
Yeah, i know that stuff about thieves in Milan, it was recently on our local TV...:t-crazy2:

Oh and for what concernes Italians and languages they speak, man i work for them almost 10 years and i've never met such clueless people about speaking foreign languages...:t-banghea

:t-cheers:
 
TycoonGTR said:
Oh and for what concernes Italians and languages they speak, man i work for them almost 10 years and i've never met such clueless people about speaking foreign languages...:t-banghea

:t-cheers:
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It's obviously a time for you to meet the French. :D :D :D

OK; back on topic ...
 
ZicZachZo said:
I would have thought you to be anti-consumerism Osna... Am I wrong?

:t-cheers:
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Boy are you wrong. Not only am I a consumer whore, but my career is devoted to turning others into consumer whores. I can blather on at length about such eye-glazing nonsese as "targeted impressions," "product messaging" and "super aspirationals." I want to make your life better by selling you on fictional ideas that hopefully change your opinion and push your twoards a purchase decision.

I see the world through a materialistic prisim and secretly believe that capital wealth is the answer any problem we individuals face in the Western world. On the other hand, I'm an obsessive brand examiner who believes that commoditization is a democratizing virtue, and that ideas of prestige are simply marketing constructs designed to fleece the middle class of their discretionary income. Social class, more than ever, is just a figment of our imagination.

The problem I have with Rooney is that, more often than not, the old coot doesn't understand a single thing about the objects of his derision. Wristwatches and pocket watches have been functional jewelry for well over one hundred years. He not pragmatic or enlightened - he's just narrow-minded and ignorant - which I suppose plays well to his audience, most of which are probably halfway senile.

But I can't completely agree with you about watches being all about bling. Watches were like the cell phones of their day. There were many mainstream, common gutter brands, and then there were high priced, exclusive brands. They were functional status symbols and a legitimate way for a man to sport jewelry.

Things have changed since the Swiss Watch shakedown of the late 70s. So I have to concede that the jewelry element and slight-of-hand marketing of wristwatches has balooned since the 80s and has really taken off over the past 5 years thanks to the economic expansion (and really crass taste) in Asia. The biggest difference between today's modern watch business and that of the mid 20th century is that engieering advancements are no longer being made to satisfy pratical needs, they're bing made to provide bragging rights. And with the Swiss Watch industry growing at a healthy rate of about 5% per annum, you can bet that the craftsmanship of unique movments and the overall jewelry-quotient will continue in its current direction. For the aformentioned reasons, I'm far more interested in vintage watches from the 60s and early 70s than I am modern watches.

There's still plenty of wonderful brands out there churning out quality product for discriminating tastes (although I sometimes have my reservations about the criteria that sometimes pass as haute horology). Brands like Lange & Sohne or microbrew craftsman like Philippe Dufour churn out watches that are are works of extreme craftsmanship, arguably transcending their role as mere jewelry.

And I now realize that I've been typing away for far too long. What a ridiculous post.
 

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