Thermexman-Feb 21

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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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Thanks for sharing Steve. Hard for me to pick any one favorite...I like them all.
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Thermexman wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:30 pm
Kansas City Milkman wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:07 pm
Thermexman wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 2:50 pm

Without wanting to sound too much like a stalker? I know. :lol:
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It was hear where you let slip...

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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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Plenty of good stuff in there. If we’re choosing favourites I’ll go for the Seiko LE, the Dartmouth and, surprisingly for me at least, the CW chrono.
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Many thanks for the comments gentlemen.
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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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Nice stuff, Steve.
I love the Seiko SPB149 J1 LE & SPB079J1.
Hope you are keeping well.
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timeonourhands wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:31 am Nice stuff, Steve.
I love the Seiko SPB149 J1 LE & SPB079J1.
Hope you are keeping well.
Thanks, both of those Seikos are rather nice up close. I'm very well thanks, hope that you are too?
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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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I’m well, thanks. :)
The bezel of the SPB079J1 looks great.
It reminds me of the way the bezel on the mm300 changes in the light.
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timeonourhands wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:47 am I’m well, thanks. :)
The bezel of the SPB079J1 looks great.
It reminds me of the way the bezel on the mm300 changes in the light.
It's a lovely petrol blue shade and looks almost liquid like, due to it's glossy finish. I've no idea how they achieve that? I'm sure it's just painted aluminium but it has an almost ceramic quality to it?
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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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That's a great selection that you have there Steve :thumbup:
All very nicely presented.
Difficult to pick a favourite but I do find myself drawn to the CW C65 Chronograph.
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If I pretend that the G-Shock simply doesn’t exist ;) that’s a superb collection Steve. One that I do miss seeing on the forum is your Sinn 103 - if it was 3 or 4mm thinner it could almost be the perfect watch... but then, perhaps that’s why you no longer have it, and very much why I didn’t buy it the moment you put it up for sale.

I still very much like the Kinetic Seiko, but then I own the same watch in a black dial. For my money, it’s a toss-up between the two Tudors... Image
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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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That's a nice collection Steve, you clearly like your Seiko's, rightly so.

My favourites are probably the C65 chrono & Dartmouth plus your BB ETA and Ranger.

Your SPB149 looks excellent too although I find some of the 44mm Seiko divers a little large for my wrist.
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Thegreyman wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:35 pm
Your SPB149 looks excellent too although I find some of the 44mm Seiko divers a little large for my wrist.
Thanks Patrick, the 149 is actually only 40mm so, is a much nicer size than the Turtle or the Samurai at 44mm. Fortunately, I can get away with the larger ones but am leaning towards the smaller stuff, these days.
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gaf1958 wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:21 pm If I pretend that the G-Shock simply doesn’t exist ;) that’s a superb collection Steve. One that I do miss seeing on the forum is your Sinn 103 - if it was 3 or 4mm thinner it could almost be the perfect watch... but then, perhaps that’s why you no longer have it, and very much why I didn’t buy it the moment you put it up for sale.

I still very much like the Kinetic Seiko, but then I own the same watch in a black dial. For my money, it’s a toss-up between the two Tudors... Image
How can you pretend that the G-Shock doesn't exist? It's fantableeoos!
As for why I sold the Sinn? I had my eye on a couple of up coming watches and decided to sell off some watches to release the cash. Being as one of the watches I was fancying was the C65 Chrono (before I'd even seen it?) it made sense to offload the Sinn Chrono for three reasons:
1) Value
2) it was a chrono.
3) didn't want to sell my Tudors
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Re: Thermexman-Feb 21

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Thermexman wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:48 pm
Thegreyman wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:35 pm
Your SPB149 looks excellent too although I find some of the 44mm Seiko divers a little large for my wrist.
Thanks Patrick, the 149 is actually only 40mm so, is a much nicer size than the Turtle or the Samurai at 44mm. Fortunately, I can get away with the larger ones but am leaning towards the smaller stuff, these days.
That's interesting Steve, at last a 40mm Seiko diver, I must check them out :thumbup:
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Thegreyman wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:03 pm
That's interesting Steve, at last a 40mm Seiko diver, I must check them out :thumbup:
here's a link to a review of my 149. It's an LE so you might struggle to grab one but they do different dial colours so the review applies to those in terms of description I guess.

https://wornandwound.com/review/review-seiko-spb149/
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