Watches

[HeadphoneAddict]

23 hours ago, Dreadhead said:

Enjoy Larry. I didn't know you were looking at the spring drive diver.

Yeah, I was considering the Ti Spring Drive Diver, but instead I fell in love with the SBGX115 9F61 HAQ diver because of the gorgeous white dial, and then added this Omega Titanium PO 9300 chronograph.  The GS white dial is every bit as nice as those on my Polar Explorer II watches.  Just amazing build quality.

This Ti chronograph a fairly large watch, but it fits my body type well (see photo taken from farther away rather than 12 inches from the camera).  I'm down from 245 to 212 pounds, but I'm still not a tiny guy.  I switched it out to the bracelet minus two links, and while the bracelet doesn't squeeze the sides of my wrist like the ISOFRANE, the watch feels heavier.  I think that I'm going to order the Omega blue rubber white stich strap with Ti folding clasp.  

This is the watch that will likely prompt me to sell my 2 year old Seamaster Pro ceramic bezel diving chronograph sooner than later.

 

Edited March 24, 2016 by HeadphoneAddict
FIXED PIC #3 FOR WRONG WATCH !!

[grawk]

that's one of the better looking modern omegas

[Dreadhead]

I'm with Dan, that's a very nice looking watch and congrats on the weight loss!

Man there are a lot of different watches that look amazing. I'm going to stick with the GS though (I think).

[grawk]

wait, the 3rd picture is a different watch. That's the one I like

 

The planet ocean is nice, just not as compelling for me personally.  I think I like the professional because it looks like the breitling steelfish, tho.

[HeadphoneAddict]

11 hours ago, grawk said:

wait, the 3rd picture is a different watch. That's the one I like

The planet ocean is nice, just not as compelling for me personally.  I think I like the professional because it looks like the breitling steelfish, tho.

Thanks for pointing that out.  I changed the 3rd photo to the correct watch.  We have two of the wrong one between myself and my son, and are considering selling one of them, but not sure yet.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Hey guys, where is Jacob?  I went to a long standing 2 year long multipage PM with tons of info in it, including some about where to send an Omega or Rolex watch for service by mail, and it's all gone.  Tried to send him a PM and it says he can't receive messages.  Now I can't find his recent posts either - a search shows he's a member with no ports found.

 

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[Dusty Chalk]

I don't have the full details, but apparently he quit head-case, and apparently his quitting head-case had some deleterious effects on anything he had to do with, including threads started by him (I would say this is a bug with the software).  Seems it deleted your PM thread, too.  Sorry, that was nothing done by us in retaliation or anything, it was an unknown and undesirable side effect of his leaving -- he probably would have done things differently if he had known.  We don't have a solution for bringing it back.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Wow

[Craig Sawyers]

I'm actually in shock.  Jacob quit? WTF.

[Dusty Chalk]

I think we all are. 

[MexicanDragon]

3 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

I think we all are. 

This is like the 14th time he's quit in ten years; how is this a shock?

**BRENT**

[HeadphoneAddict]

4 hours ago, MexicanDragon said:

This is like the 14th time he's quit in ten years; how is this a shock?

**BRENT**

I joined in august 2008 and this is the first time I've seen this happen with Jacob.  I really looked forward to my chats with him - we became friends and he liked me too.  So, yeah, I'm shocked...

[Dusty Chalk]

7 hours ago, MexicanDragon said:

This is like the 14th time he's quit in ten years; how is this a shock?

I don't know, just seems different this time, is all.  Maybe shocked isn't the right word, maybe disappointed is closer.  But it did catch me off guard a bit this time, so there is a certain amount of surprise.  I definitely missed something.

[grawk]

It was the first time we've had all of anyone's posts nuked

[TMoney]

So thats where all those missing threads went.

I wish him nothing but the best.

It seems like he hasn't been in a "good place" for a while and hopefully some time away will help.

[mypasswordis]

He said it wasn't his intent to destroy content, and would prefer it restored. Most likely impossible if they were permanently deleted unless there were backups taken at some point.

[HeadphoneAddict]

So, is anyone working on trying to restore his posts?  There was a lot of valuable information in many of them.

[DefQon]

I'm in shopping for some new Seiko watches and would appreciate if some of you HC'ers help me decide.

So far I'm torn between these 2:

[grawk]

I guess it depends on if you're a top or a bottom?

[DefQon]

I'm more of a bottom also because it has the black. 

What about you grawk?

Edited March 30, 2016 by DefQon

[Voltron]

I'm more of a bottom also because it has the black. 

What about you grawk?

Steve?

[grawk]

so you want the rose gold because you're a bottom, or you like the black because you're a bottom?

 

Personally, I pick watches for myself, so the question is kinda moot.

[Dusty Chalk]

It's one of those no-lose choices -- my preference would be black dial, gold rim.

[DefQon]

Yeah I was browsing some of the ones with black dial and gold rim but my options was the upper range of the Chronographs or the Grand Seiko Spring Driver's, all of which are well above what I want to spend on (>$800).

 

I'm not getting you grawk.

Edited March 30, 2016 by DefQon

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeah, I figured it was something like that.  But my point -- either one looks great, you can't choose ... "unwisely".

9 minutes ago, Voltron said:

19 minutes ago, DefQon said:

I'm more of a bottom also because it has the black. 

What about you grawk?

Steve?

Naomi?