In terms of value and provenance.. Seiko makes more sense.

Constellation's nice... my wife's got one .... but eventually... a matter of time... she still will want a Rolex.

True story.

Got $99 seiko 5 ker?

Feiko?

You're getting another monster?

If you're a fan... why not?

Other than that... Miyota quartz movement and mineral crystal

Edit: Interesting read on Obama watches.... http://www.onthedash.com/docs/obama.html

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 12 2012, 11:31 AM

I forgot the Constellation's ref number... the plain SS one... from many years ago.

The rollie's ref 177200

Just a small suggestion.

Perhaps you guys can resize photos or put a spoiler cos its killing the puny 1366x768 resolution of my notebook

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Added on November 12, 2012, 2:40 pmWell.. luckily she's not in the bling and expensive little pebbles.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 12 2012, 02:40 PM

I read that if bring in stolen Rolex to their service center, it'll get confiscated right?

I dont think can just base on own experience ... Some ppl also claim super accuracy from their 7s26 wat.

Expanding your portfolio ka?

Rewind a bit back up... looking again at the Orient that Chopin posted.

Is it really necessary to have that quickset date button there? I mean it sorta like throws out the whole proportion of the watch.

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Added on November 12, 2012, 11:52 pm6D for you sir?

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 12 2012, 11:52 PM

What's there to be sorry about? It's natural to be excited over a new toy.

I'm also uber excited over my Seiko 5

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 13 2012, 09:54 AM

Well the story goes like this.

I've only recently taken an interest in watches which started after rediscovering my old Tag that was lost for many years inside storage boxes and learning about its origin etc.... result = poisoned by mechanical watches.

Anyway, one thing lead to another and I wanted a mechanical beater watch so I went hunting for the popular Seiko divers but they didn't really speak to me contrary to the internet photos. During this hunt... while looking at heaps of watches, its always the Seiko 5 military's that caught my attention.

I didn't get it immediately as I was put off by the Seiko 5 shield. As a watch noob, my impression of Seiko is that its just another mass manufactured el cheapo watch usually sold in uncle/aunty watch shops and Seiko 5 being the el cheapo version of an el cheapo watch until I read more about it.

Seiko 5 stands for 5 design principles:

1. It has the Diaflex unbreakable mainspring
2. Diashock shock protection
3. It has to be an automatic
4. Day/Date
5. Water resistant

Seiko 5 sub-brand itself has been around since the early 1960's primarily in Asian countries and the Seiko also have a history for making military styled watches (and real military watches for Japanese Imperial Army and war criminals alike )

Then it starts to make sense, here we have an affordable, unpretentious, tough as nails everyday joe nelayan, roti canai seller (before they become millionaires anyway) etc tool watch... with a display caseback (bonus for aspiring watch nut), great lum, backstory and a manufacture movement to boot... heck this is the perfect beater.... all for a measly RM400.

So I bought this... the SNZG13J stainless steel bracelet version.



It also looks good on NATO and other straps as shown in this more professional review http://wornandwound.com/2012/09/26/seiko-5-snzg-review/

Other versions are also available ... bead blasted ones with canvas band and a black pvd bracelet version with lumed numerals.

So far I find the SNZG works with everything from selipar tat seng to dress down fridays. And I could've sworn that for some black magic reasons, the bracelet seems a lot more scratch resistant than my rollie.

Noteworthy moment is that its freeze resistant too....

KL should have but dunno where cos not in KL.

Ya..I think the snob's "on the ball" for this one

a 100m water resistant "Scuba"?

Quick poll... who has g-shocks in their collection here?

Thanks guys... with all the multitude fine timepieces in your collection. Does your gshock still get wrist time?

Genuine question here cos internal dilemma. Thanks.

Thanks all for the gshock feedbacks.

Eh.. when did this happened? So no more CWC?

Thanks... not big fan of the G10 but fancied one of those RN diver. It's got this old school charm to it.

Yeah, Citizen's very widely available but haven't paid much attention to them