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^ That's cool!

 

 

i picked up a new band for the pulsar today. the band that it came with was GARBAGE! i am liking the new one!

 

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs244.snc6/179251_1615879155248_1184415665_31380229_5609169_n.jpg

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i went to JCPenny today. they have a real decent selection of Invicta. it was cool to actually see some of the watches I have been looking at online. I didn't even know they carried them. They had one of the better watch lineups I have seen, locally. and i should say $100 - $500 type watches...
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What is this and where can I get one? It would be perfect for my job. Less shit to get in the way = better.

 

 

F1/Carbon GMT concept watch designed by John Pszeniczny. I'm pretty sure it's not on the market yet, nor if it will ever be, and it's not gonna be cheap by any stretch of the imagination.

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I'm not a huge fan of the seemingly large watch faces that seem to be hip as of late.

 

That being said what would be a decent well built sub $300 watch? I have a fossil now but it is just worn and haggard looking.

 

Invicta, Seiko, Citizen and Orient all make real nice sub 300 watch. imo

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Invicta, Seiko, Citizen and Orient all make real nice sub 300 watch. imo

 

Since you and a few others here seem to be wise and hip on models, care to point out a few? I'd like the fave to be no more than 1.5" as I don't want it overtaking my arm/wrist.

 

I've been looking on that watchdoddy site but nothing has struck me yet.

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Since you and a few others here seem to be wise and hip on models, care to point out a few? I'd like the fave to be no more than 1.5" as I don't want it overtaking my arm/wrist.

 

I've been looking on that watchdoddy site but nothing has struck me yet.

 

what do you want? Automatic self wind? or a Quartz? round or square? stainless or leather band?

 

Here are a couple i like...

 

 

40mm

http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SNAB65-Alarm-Chronograph-Leather/dp/B0012LUXAS/ref=sr_1_5?s=watches&ie=UTF8&qid=1295717509&sr=1-5

 

 

39mm

http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SNA765-Chronograph-Black-Watch/dp/B000IBNPDA/ref=sr_1_11?s=watches&ie=UTF8&qid=1295717535&sr=1-11

 

 

38mm

http://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Khaki-Stainless-Quartz-H68481733-IV/dp/B003V4TLM0/ref=sr_1_48?s=watches&ie=UTF8&qid=1295717723&sr=1-48

 

40mm

http://www.amazon.com/Tissot-Mens-T17-1-526-52-PRC-Watch/dp/B000KKO894/ref=sr_1_49?s=watches&ie=UTF8&qid=1295717753&sr=1-49

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Spyker, the supercar maker who recently bought Saab, has commissioned watches that don't just bear the car company's name, but also incorporate design elements of the car itself. My idea of eye candy for a car enthusiast:

 

"typical" Spyker dash:

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/Spyker-watch-151.jpg

 

The Spyker watches:

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/Spyker-watch-91.jpg

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/Spyker-watch-61.jpg

 

notice how the airplane prop and the exhaust tip designs are used on the buttons and stem

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/Spyker-watch-31.jpg

 

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/spyker-chronograph-watch-2.jpg

 

The latin inscription says, "No road is impassable for the tenacious."

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/2010-jaguar-c-x75-5_800x0w-1.jpg

 

 

There's also a watch connection to the Jaguar C-X75 hybrid concept car that runs over 200 mph. This is one of the concepts on display at the current auto show.

 

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/2010-jaguar-c-x75-5_800x0w.jpg

 

An unusual design element of the car is that in the bottom seat cushion, between the occupant's legs, is a lever marked PULL, similar to the ejector seat handle in a fighter jet. This lever, however, opens the car door.

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/2010-jaguar-c-x75-11_800x0w.jpg

 

The maker of the concept car's clock, Bremont, makes a watch, the MB 1 chronometer, which is pretty exclusive.

 

http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r445/martyr65/watches/Bremont-Martin-Baker-MB-1.jpg

 

The watch can only be purchased by someone who has successfully ejected from a Martin-Baker ejection seat (about 4800 pilots have been saved by these seats). Each watch will be engraved with that individual's ejection seat number. The watches are tested by being launched from aircraft ejection seats and also undergo vibration testing meant to similate extreme conditions. From the press release:

 

An Ejection Seat may sit for 40 years, but the day it is used, it has to work. As a Company, their testing facility is unique, and one of its facilities will endow the new watch with a trial found nowhere else: the ability to simulate 30 years of aircraft life through a vibration machine, during a 4-hour test.

 

There are possessions that money alone won't buy. I'll bet that The Most Interesting Man in the World wears one. :D

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