Watch Advice

[Glenn]

Good cuz I ain’t giving any. I have not the personality nor the funds to swim in this pool of speedos.

[Luvin' Labs]

I’ll say this, it puts him in a category with Tater and LED. Draw your own conclusions….


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That's below the belt...

[fowlshot]

Hook and gaff has been a great one for me, not a Tier 1 watch though. Not well versed in watches though so may be off a tier or two.

[wob]

Check out Sinn watches. I love my 556A RS. They are not cheap, but not crazy like Rolex and such.

I've got a 104 A and a U1. The u1 has been back either once or twice, and is jacked up again.

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[WhitewaterDuck]

I’m a watch nut and have been since I was old enough to remember wanting a watch as a kiddo. My best advice, get what you like. I’ve got a “Hulk” submariner my wife bought me for my last Graduation/first baby gift, and I love it. Going to give it to my oldest one day. Bought a James Cameron DSSD so my second son wouldn’t be getting screwed when I give him the watch one day. I don’t have much love for the second watch. On my wrist currently is a Casio “stranger-things” Netflix collaboration and reissue of a cheesy 80’s digital watch that’s mass produced for probably 2$/unit some where between Japan and Korea….and it’s been beating out the Rollies, a Tudor, and several G-Shocks for the most wrist time since it arrived in the mail two months ago.

I say this because if you go expensive…that’s cool as long as you really like the watch. If you go cheaper…that’s cool as long as you really like the watch. If you don’t like an expensive purchase, you will always feel shitty about it, and if you don’t like a cheaper purchase, it will end up in a drawer and em you’ll be right back to square one in a hurry.

Personally, if you want a classic, classy diver and you can afford to pay cash for it…and you can find one in at an authorized dealer and pay retail for it, go with a stainless Rolex submariner…you will always be able to sell it if you don’t like it and make money on it.

If you want a great watch that Will be as waterproof as you’ll ever need and last forever…G-Shock has anything and everything you could ever ask for as far as functionality.

Just realized the age of this thread…so now I’ll go back and see what you decided to go with ling before seeing this incredible advice I just laid out!

[WhitewaterDuck]

And if you do go high end, don’t sweat the whole weirdness-around-people of wearing a high end watch. You’ll get scoffs; you’ll have people that think you are rich and start acting differently/weird around you; you’ll have people come out and directly tell you you are an idiot for paying bla, bla, BLS for a watch; and you’ll have the redistribution-of-wealth socialist types seething and acting passive-aggressively toward you. It used to bother me until I realized that about 100% of them all recently drove brand spanking new 70k cars off a lot with payments that would cover my watch cost in a years time. Their cars are going to be worth 20k in 7 years, and I can sell the watch Abby paid 7,800 for in 2011 for just under 50k today….in a hurry. Don’t let what someone else might think of what you buy factor into the equation at all.

[Tha Dick]

I’d love buy a high end watch, but I just can’t make myself do it. I go through the debate with myself about every year or two. It’s not the money issue as much as I know how hard I am on watches, even just “Sunday go to meeting” watches.

I was admiring my buddies new Rolex just last night. I don’t begrudge anyone for buying/wearing them and I love looking at them. I just can’t make myself pull the trigger on one personally. Maybe one day I’ll loose the debate with myself and take the plunge.

[WhitewaterDuck]

I’d love buy a high end watch, but I just can’t make myself do it. I go through the debate with myself about every year or two. It’s not the money issue as much as I know how hard I am on watches, even just “Sunday go to meeting” watches.

I was admiring my buddies new Rolex just last night. I don’t begrudge anyone for buying/wearing them and I love looking at them. I just can’t make myself pull the trigger on one personally. Maybe one day I’ll loose the debate with myself and take the plunge.

I beat the ever living shit out of my watches. I've always had to have to have a watch that can withstand anything, because if I ever took a watch off to kayak, rock-climb, hunt the backcountry, bathe, swim, mow, work on my mower, build a bow etc....I'd walk off and leave it; ADD sucks! I'm hard on my body, and I'm hard on anything I wear...especially watches. I never took my Submariner off my wrist (except to go through the Airport checkpoints when they made me) from 2011 through earlier this year, and it is bombproof. The only thing that will seriously hurt one is if you drop it just right on a ceramic tile floor...it can shatter the crystal. Getting it right next to a strong magnet for any length of time can cause it to start running fast, but the newer hairsprings in them are magnetic resistant. A Degausser is fairly inexpensive and will fix that problem easily. That said, it's just safer to wear the watch all the time than it is to ever take it off...you won't hurt it.

If you want a Rolex and are hard on watches and can get your hands on a stainless Submariner or GMT or the DSSD, you won't regret the purchase...go for it. If you are even remotely thinking about it, go to your nearest authorized dealer and get on the list. Unfortunately, it takes a ridiculously-long-while to get one unless you are really lucky or unless you've spent a pile of money in that particular store and have a solid relationship with them...or are willing to do so and develop the relationship...then it only takes a moderately long while.

I put the wrong date in my previous post, and I want to clarify a point that might be taken wrong...I don't want to cause anyone to make a dumb financial decision. My sub jumped from just under 8k at purchase at an AD in 2011 to nearly 50K on the secondary market as of this past January because Rolex discontinued it and did not come out with something similar to it or an "improvement" of it. That was fortunate and unusual. That said, they are now going anywhere from 25K to 50K depending on the condition and the number of them up for sale at the time.

The values on the grey-market/secondary market can spike and dip wildly and rapidly, so playing that game to make some money is not advised. Also, if you are lucky enough and patient enough to pick up a stainless Rolex Sub or GMT or DSSD and you turn around and sell it on the grey-market, you will never get another one at retail from an AD again once they find out what you did.

From what I'm reading, Rolex is going to be getting into the certified pre-owned-Rolex game in an attempt to kill or at least temper the grey-market bullshit that has been going down since 2018. That should cause overall prices on the secondary market to moderate and stabilize some, but I don't know how they will ever stop the grey-market without flooding the market...which they will never do.

My point about always being able to sell the watch for more than what you paid for still holds true, as Rolex keeps a tight grip on production numbers to ensure it. I state that fact merely as a nice bit of comfort for those who are worried that they will regret the purchase and fear that they won't be happy with it...NOT as an incentive to get into the "watch-game" as a money making endeavor. If you have the kind of FU money to make that work for you, you wouldn't be on here looking for watch advice.

[JABIII]

Buzz ain't skeered...

[WhitewaterDuck]

Damn...Stackin'!

[WhitewaterDuck]

My current favorite watch...

[Jozie & Me]

I have a Tag. Its in the safe.

I wear a Fenix.

[Chap]

I just can’t bring myself to give a shit

[WhitewaterDuck]

I just can’t bring myself to give a shit

There is at least two ways to go with this...

1. Consider yourself lucky...it's a terrible affliction.

or

B. Why are you four pages deep in a watch-advice thread and taking the time/making the effort to comment on it?

[JABIII]

My current favorite watch...

Love that one!

[Chap]

There is at least two ways to go with this...

1. Consider yourself lucky...it's a terrible affliction.

or

B. Why are you four pages deep in a watch-advice thread and taking the time/making the effort to comment on it?

I’d like to wear a watch, but after beating two Luminox watches to death with what I consider average daily wear, I’m over it now.

[WhitewaterDuck]

I’d like to wear a watch, but after beating two Luminox watches to death with what I consider average daily wear, I’m over it now.

Option 1 it is!