Today I got an email from my brother with the subject "Hey brother WIS". WIS stands for Watch Idiot Savant, or basically people who really like watches. My brother wanted to share a picture of his new mechanical watch. I got into mechanical watches 9 years ago. I do not have any Rolexes but a few nice watches that most people would not recognize as much but once in a while someone would notice and that is cool. I find myself looking at the watches people wear, how geeky is that?
Anyways, I have not been active in reading the watch forums due to being busy with Mattias and mainly watches cost money. Thanks to my brother I spent tonight looking at the watch forums and thinking how to raise money for a new watch. (ssshh, dont' tell Justine) ;-) Actually Justine got me a nice strap for Christmas for my favorite watch, awww.
Anyways, above is a picture of the watch I was wearing today. It is the only mechanical watch that I have bought new and I really like it and the deployant clasp I got with it. It is a German watch brand called Limes but pronounced LEE-MIS. I am a watch geek.
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I'm the mini-WIS. Too bad it's so expensive a hobby, the technologies are very cool -- even though automatic watches have been around for decades.
Bang for the buck, Sea-Gull (quality watches out of China) currently look really good. I only discovered them after I won a Seiko on eBay, which also has some good bang/buck watches based on the 7S26 movement.
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