25th June 2016, 12:19
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 Well, my Kinetic is a very light watch, as its body and strap are made of titanium. Sometimes I don't even feel it on my wrist, especially after having worn the Eco-Drive, which is pretty heavy. I had no complaints about its performance for so many years, though its charge-holding capacity did reduce over the years. In the beginning it would hold a full charge for at least 20 days, but for the last few years it wouldn't hold it for more than a few hours, so I would have to wear it continuously if I didn't want to keep resetting the date and time. If you want to wear it as your primary watch its a good, no-nonsense timepiece. My model has just a date window on an otherwise clean face. I don't have any pics to show here since its with the repairers at the moment. I had veered towards both these watches along with the general awareness of batteries polluting the earth and feel good that I haven't had to replace any cells since the time I bought them. Here are two more watches I have. One gifted to me about 3-4 years ago, never worn, and the other bequeathed by my grandad. This must be over 50 years old and still works fine. The strap is a cheap one, to replace the leather one that had become brittle and tore. You can guess which is which. | |
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26th June 2016, 22:59
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27th June 2016, 14:30
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| re: Which watch do you own? Thought i'd also post a Pic of all the 3 watches that i now own. No big shot watches compared to what some of you have. But just the transformation of how first i started with a Fastrack few years ago, moved on to a Timex and now to a Fossil... |
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28th June 2016, 09:23
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| Distinguished - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Beans Town
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For anyone who loves watches and more specifically mechanical watches, here is one that in my eyes is the best watch to ever be made from A.Lange & Sohne, its totally in-house made but the movements have input from JLC & IWC for certain parts as they are sister brands. The TerraLuna with separate dials for hours, minutes and seconds in the front, also a perpetual calendar featuring a large date window at 12, a day and month window at 4 & 8 positions. The rear contains an orbital moon-phase mechanism powered by the movement barrel showing the earth and the stars seen around it in exact position with the moon disc rotating around the earth and eclipsing when aligned with the sun (acting as the balance wheel in this case). The movement features a 14 day power reserve and a power reserve indicator can be seen on the watch face below denoting the exact number of days left before needing another wind. All this is encased in a pure rose-gold case, the pin-buckle, the hands and date window are rose-gold as well. A marvel of engineering, a true testament of human ability. Smart-watches have nothing on this. This watch blows away every Rolex (the so called most recognised watch brand on earth) to ashes. Last edited by dark.knight : 28th June 2016 at 09:29. | |
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9th August 2016, 10:40
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| Senior - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Bengaluru
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| re: Which watch do you own? Folks needs some inputs from you all. I have planned to gift a watch to my co brother. Budget is in the range of 5-7k. Can you please provide me any suggestions? I stay in Bangalore and would want to buy it from a store and not online. It would be helpful if you can suggest some good store to buy as well.  |
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9th August 2016, 20:58
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At the given budget I'd say you will have a choice of designer brands if you search the Helios website. If you want to go desi then the usual answer will be Titan. All of them should last 4-5 years without much problem I'd suppose, though I'd suggest to purchase from Helios as the last resort.. they really are terrible in knowledge, marketing and keep scuffed timepieces. TATA may have been around in the timekeeping business for long but I wouldn't touch them with a 100 feet pole (Helios belongs to them as well). Ethos is one more alternative but they're higher end so not sure if they'll keep ones under 10k mark. Go through both of these retailers websites based on budget and decide accordingly. At that budget 100% reliability cannot be expected from most brands. Brands like Citizen or Seiko will cost 3-4k more than the budget but will be far more reliable. Last edited by dark.knight : 9th August 2016 at 21:05. | |
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9th August 2016, 22:05
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22nd August 2016, 15:25
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a. Automatics of good repute such as Seiko, Omega, etc would be out of budget - so stick to quartz. b. Getting most for the buck - So go for MFD with chronograph / tachymeter rather than the bare basic ones with just the function of showing Hour, Minutes and Seconds. c. MFD Quartz watches from brands such as Tissot, Citizen, Ulysse Nardin, Emporio Armani etc would fall out of budget. Rolex, Rado, Cartier etc., are out of question. - So stick to budget brands such as Timex, Titan, Casio, Fossil, Omega, etc. d. Other brands such as Police, Helios etc., are managed by Titan and Ors for service support and can be better choice. (Tommy Hilfiger, FCUK etc are sub brands of Helios and managed by Titan for service support in India) e. Consider increasing the budget slightly by say 1k-2k and products from brands like, swatch, Diesel, Tag Heuer, et-al, should fall within range. So all in all, explore possibilities to strike a deal for a MFD watch model from brands like Police, Diesel, Swatch, Omega, Timex, Tag Heuer, Giordano, Tommy Hilfigher and Casio that suits your preferences and tastes. There is nothing wrong in buying products online. However products on sale from third party vendors especially where big ticket products like Emporio Armani, Giordano, Tissot etc (that are generally 20k plus) are offered at substantially cheaper prices (say 3k to 5k) and with sellers warranty alone. They could be in all possibility counterfeit products, stolen or refurbished. Last edited by King_pin09 : 22nd August 2016 at 15:26. | |
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22nd August 2016, 15:42
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| Team-BHP Support   | re: Which watch do you own? My latest "watch". JUXT Pro from Titan. Although this was a gift from wife and I was initially sceptical about the need for any sort of smartness in a watch- upon further usage I do love the fact that it is a watch that has inbuilt smartness, rather than a smart device in the shape of a wearable watch. Below are all the different dials offered by Titan in one watch, ranging from elegant to funky, boring to sporty and analog to digital.   Last edited by CrAzY dRiVeR : 22nd August 2016 at 15:45. |
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22nd August 2016, 17:42
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22nd August 2016, 18:03
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22nd August 2016, 18:06
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22nd August 2016, 20:21
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| re: Which watch do you own?  the omega sea master gmt in white ... its aged well ! |
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23rd August 2016, 09:02
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Secondly, how did Ulysse Nardin fall in the class of Armani, Citizen and Tissot? The latter 3 can be very much had for about 12-15k or lesser (quartz models) whereas Ulysse Nardin is part of Historic Maisons, a world's top tier classification of about 25 brands, they are ridiculously overpriced as well even amongst the competition and I don't think they make quartz anymore. While I agree that Omega & TAG are hyped and do not deserve a slot anywhere in the Haute Horlogerie classification, they still punch well above the prestige and pricing class you've slotted them in. | |
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23rd August 2016, 11:41
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So to update last week I had went for some shopping near jayanagar and visited citizen and titan showrooms. I did like one model in citizen which is around 7k but planned to check few more before buying. http://www.citizenwatches.co.in/Watc...&product_id=75 The one I liked is the same as the watch in the link above but had date display as well. Seems that it was a new model released this month. Checked Titan showroom which was right next door and liked this watch.  and bought it as a gift to myself. I am still searching one for my co brother .  | |||||
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