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I know, I was just joking. This is a day-to-day watch, so I want it to look dressy. I'd say that my Bulova Lunar Pilot watches are my real beaters. Anyway, my issue isn't that the watches will get scratched (I'm mister "Just wear the watch, things get scratched"), it's that a 50 year old Rolex or Omega costs a fucking fortune to service, and they aren't very shock resistant.

They sure were in the late 1960s.

You mean like all of my tool watches?

I finally realized that wearing vintage and otherwise luxury watches to a job where I run around and bump into shit constantly was maybe not a good idea, so I used some of said store credit. I still needed something that would easily fit under a cuff. This Citizen Signature is a great watch. I didn't like the gold accents in the web pics, but it's really nice in person. Good complications. Build quality is way, way above the price range, quality wise.

Yeah, me too. I've had an iPhone X and a pair of AirPods for all of a day, though, so I think that is my Apple allowance for a while. I love both of them.

Spectrum gave me a free upgrade. It's not bad. I wish the upload were better.

If you mean the Silver LE Lunar Pilot (the Chronograph in the first pic is also on the right!), you can get it with bracelet, I believe.

We were at a jewelry store getting a piece repaired for Colie, when I saw that they had the silver limited edition Bulova Lunar Pilot, which is no longer made and long out of stock in their inventory system (I've asked). No idea where it came from. I wanted it, of course, but didn't want to buy something for myself without getting something for her. Unfortunately, I have a credit line with this store, so we looked slightly to the right of the Lunar Pilot. Colie really liked the Bulova Chronograph C, so... I really rather like it. Funny enough, due to the date window and the modern, as opposed to the vintage, typeface that is on the older, silver LE, the black PVD watch actually looks more vintage, especially with the strap I have it on.

Yes. The master calendar is an annual calendar, not a perpetual, though, right? Shouldn't be quite as expensive. Still expensive. Cartier watches usually get a decent discount at the AD. I bet you can pick one up for under $5k, in the summer.

That sounds like a "I couldn't be bothered to carry the boxes," rather than a phantom welder.

That's fucked up. Were you able to get it resolved?

If I were in the market for a dress watch, and I didn't want to spend 5 figures, I think I'd have a hard time not waiting to try the Drive de Cartier in steel on.

I like the looks of these. Maybe there will be another pair of Senns in my life that I'll buy and sell three times, who knows?

So, I did lots of things today, but the thing that really stood out was my going "what the fuck?" One of my speakers was off its base. It happens to be the speaker that is next to where the cats get catnip. Could cats really move a 70+ pound speaker? I know that it isn't that hard to move, given that it's on spikes on a polished granite (I've knocked it off the base a couple times myself), but really? Cats? I'm 99.99% sure that no human touched the speaker today, until I put it back where it belonged. Speaker undamaged, but really. Cats? Cats. CATS!!

Thanks, Nate. I've really enjoyed wearing it.

Here it is on a Vollmer mesh bracelet, which I think looks quite nattily 1960s.

So, I got my dad's UG back. I had asked that the case be cleaned up, but that the polish be conservative. In hindsight, maybe I should have asked for a bit more polishing, but the watch looks honest. I have it on a late 60's NOS Spiedel Teju-skin strap, with a correct UG gold filled buckle. The watch wears extremely comfortably, and has a totally different flavor from anything else I own: I'm very glad to have it, both for those reasons and that it connects me to a period of my dad's life that I know very little about, even if just tangentially. Sorry for the slightly out-of-focus wrist shot.

Woke up with what appears to be bronchitis on what would have been the first day of my job. I'd had a cold the last week, but had been feeling better the last couple of days, and then boom. Argh.

We've been married for a while, but it's nearly my 37th birthday, so here is a pic. That is what a well tailored Brioni suit looks like on a hugely fat piece of shit. We got rained on, hence the droplets on the shoulder.

No pics, but tonight was taco night. Deep-fried shrimp tacos with roasted tomatillo and cowhorn pepper salsa, and miso and garlic-confit refried beans between the doubled corn tortillas for Colie, and deep-fried avocado (and the same other things) tacos for me. Guacamole and homemade tortilla chips as a starter. The grocery store had some great looking big freshwater shrimp on sale, so I also made four pan-seared freshwater shrimp with a chipotle-lime vinaigrette for Colie. Pretty good stuff, especially with a brace of grapefruit-based cocktails.

A big pair of Genelec powered studio monitors would be high on my list.

The particular PVD coating this watch has is very tough, in case anybody was interested in getting one: I whanged it pretty hard against a brass door hinge, tonight, and there isn't a mark, even under bright light and magnification.

Thanks. I was finally able to get the OEM strap off (the spring bars were glued to the leather, and some glue had seeped inside the bars) and I currently have it on a grey/black NATO from Clockwork Synergy that I found in my box of watch odds and ends. I transferred the signed Bulova buckle over, to complete the look. I think this is a nice combo, and it's very comfortable. The leather strap was actually very nice, but the sizing wasn't quite right for my wrist. This isn't a watch I would have gotten if I hadn't been able to get it for essentially free, but I actually really rather dig it. Part of that is just because of how different it is from everything else I own.

So this is not at all what I was expecting: it's a Unisonic with a 14k bezel! It's currently riding on a JB Champion two-tone bracelet, which is rather fitting. I have no idea if my watchmaker can service this, the early electric watches being... quirky. I definitely want to get it up and running. It has an inscription on the back, with my father's name. I'd show a picture of that, but it also has his SSN (a common enough thing at a certain point in time, I think). What an interesting watch for a man in his early 20s to have bought. The unexpectedness makes having it all the more special for me.

It can be two things.