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Mechanical Watch (2022)

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Re: Mechanical Watch (2022)

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Post by maratc »

NoSalt wrote: post #72
dionian wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or buy a nice Swiss automatic in the 1-2000 range.

Do you have any good recommendations for me?

Good starting points for first Swiss mechanical are Tissot, Hamilton, Mido, or Certina. They all belong to the same conglomerate (the Swatch Group).

The "gateway drug" these days seems to be Tissot PRX. Their quartz models are about half the price of their mechanical ones.

Re: Mechanical Watch (2022)

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Post by dang »

wateralien wrote: post #3
alxgsv wrote: post #2

2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533

Are we allowed to see it again?

Oh yes! Reposts are welcome after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

We particularly want new cohorts of users to get acquainted with the classics :)

When users (or mods) link to previous threads, the intention is simply to share other troves of comments for curiosity gratification purposes.

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Post by throwpoaster »

cacozen wrote: post #77
throwpoaster wrote: post #50

This (re-)triggered a huge (dormant?) mechanical watch special interest for me when it was first posted. Neurospiceys tread carefully. <3

I hope nobody tells the neurodivergent about rotatewatches.com or diywatch.club, because it's been a money sink...

NNNOOO000ooo...…

Re: Mechanical Watch (2022)

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Post by stilldavid »

Esophagus4 wrote: post #68
haritha-j wrote: post #51

I think one of my favourite things about an automatic is that its design calls for it to be worn and not collected. If you collect them, then you'd either be wnding or shaking them when you actually want to wear them, so they aren't automatic. It forces you to wear, and therefore own, just the one, which is how it should be. I have a seiko 5 which i always wear except in the shower.

Any reason for not wearing yours in the shower? I wear mine pretty much all the time except sleep.

I wear mine to sleep and that's where I get tremendous value out of it! I have small kids who are up one or more times overnight, and it's the first thing I check - is it midnight? Closer to 4am? Helps me make immediate decisions about how to handle the situation.

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Post by harrisi »

Probably my favorite thing about the author's posts is that it's all handwritten, vanilla code - as far as I can tell. It seems like all the HTML, CSS, and JS are just plain, standard, universal code. It's one of the few "advanced" sites that just works on an old iPhone 7, for example. So many modern sites that use modern frameworks just don't work anymore.

Also just a huge fan of using the existing infrastructure of browsers - even older ones - in effective ways. Browsers have been quite capable for awhile now.

Re: Mechanical Watch (2022)

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Post by arwineap »

I've been hyper fixated on mechanical watches this year, and I'm so happy to have this resource, it's clarified my gaps, and corrected multiple misunderstandings.

Very excited to get home and rebuild my keyless!

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