Watches... No... the other kind!

Neraida

Neraida

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OK then you lot, who's got a boaty watch? How many have "Rolex Oyster Swan Regatta", "Corum Admirals Cup", "Casio Sunday Club Series" or whatever..

I havent got one, but I rather fancy the Omega Seamaster Chronograph thingy.

What would you recommend?

Oh yeah, BOYS ONLY, not interested in the "Gucci G&T On The Foredeck" girlie range.... /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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I did have a Rolex Yachtmaster but I thought it was a little tacky so I am now upgrading to a Rolex Oyster Perpetual with gold bracelet. Hope this helps.

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I know what you mean about tacky, but they're not really in all cases. Somebody of your stature can carry off a timepiece of that size I always think.

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"There's only one thing worse than a fake Rolex and that's a real one." Thankyou Oscar.

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Mickey Mouse? In 1983 I was having a break of several months in South Africa. I then secured a job, out of the blue, as a deck officer on a ship that was leaving Durban. (I think the Israeli owners liked the idea of saving the air fare from London!). I joined the ship in a hurry, and found myself setting off to navigate (Sextants, of course!) to Singapore then Japan........ with Snoopy playing tennis on the face of my timepiece. Very embarrassing.
I bought a Seiko Chronograph with stop-watch etc for £35 in Kobe and it's on my wrist yet. Brilliant.
Always fancied a Breitling, but they are so massive, you'd go straight to the bottom if you fell in.

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Huh.
Mickey Mouse watches are for girls & softies. Real blokes have Dan Dare or Hopalong Cassidy watches.
Why do you need special watches for different applications? Do they give you a better quality of time to Casio for example?
Dan

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I've got a genuine Breitling. I know it's genuine 'cause the guy in the market in Tunisia told me so and it says so on the back of the watch! And it was only 50 quid.
No problems about sinking just wear and extra life jacket.

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Re:Casio and Seiko

are the only words you need to know about watches.

Casio make a bewildering range of bewilderingly complex watches for sailors. They make some nice accurate simple watches at reasonable prices too.

In 1968 my dad bought a Seiko watch, duty free it was about £12, it goes to this day and drops about a minute a week. I've got one of those army looking Seiko's with the white face. Simple and wow is it the best luminecence you ever saw or what?

I've also got an Omega Flightmaster that when I bought it in 1974 cost me 7 weeks wages. It's inaccurate and un-reliable, and always has been, but I love it.

The only sailing watch I have is a big yellow race start watch. It has huge numbers and you can attach it to the boat and see it clearly from yards away. Good loud countdown too.



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went out and bought myself a casio which calculates the tides for my home port, a very useful piece of kit. a few days later i won a 'sailing' watch in the late lamented YM competiton. this one contains a barometer/altimeter (for measuring wave height?) but no tide data.

one day someone will put it all in one package.

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I have a Tudor submariner. Had it since I was 21, now 35 -- utterly reliable, keeps great time, no batteries to change. I have had it serviced once for £130. I bought it for £500 with my first proper pay cheque.



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Nobody has the top of the range, the newest and latest gizzmo GPS/Trimming/Sailmanager including PC link thingy?
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Just a lousy 700 euro's/470GBP.

Got a very cheap Lotus Titanium myself cause its low weight and I tend to break watches within 2 years....

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I did have one of these and sold it on Ebay within a couple of months. Why? 'Cause it's much to fiddly to be of any real use. IMHO it's just a toy.

I do have a Rolex (only an Oysterquartz sadly) but I am wary of wearing it aboard, so I bought a Seiko diver's watch on Ebay. Guaranteed waterproof (note; waterproof, not merely water resistant) to 200m so it'll work even after I've been overboard /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Tony C.

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I want that beast! it even calculates line bias!
It says it does anyway, how accurately remains to be seen...
Bet you have to plug it into the mains too!

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