Any watch lovers here????

Keeps oils from your fingers getting on the internals - also prevents leaving a fat finger print on the movement.

 

^^^^ That’s pretty much it.

I don’t wear them (finger cots) when I take things apart since it’s all going in the watch cleaning machine anyway.

 

Makes sense when putting em back together.
Cleaning machine will handle/clean shit before reassembly.

I was driving an heir to Marriott fortune.
We stopped at La Costa Resort on way home from Pasadena.

She handed me a Cartier Tank watch and said Happy Xmas Ciaran.
Red leather band.

She bought all the watches they had in stock....at a hotel/resort store as Xmas presents.

I stashed the watch she gave me, went to Nurnberg 2006 for soccer.
Came home and the watch is gone, missing....never found it.

 

Were you spending time with @Captain Morgan ?

 

The only watch I ever owned. Just goes on for surfing or paddleboarding to be back to work at 8 am. Rather spend my money on a euro motorcycle than a watch

 

I’m in Manhattan for the weekend. I was walking down 5th Ave and saw the Omega store. I realized I had on my Speedmaster that I bought from this here beeb, so I had to go in. They had one of these - https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/...hronometer-chronograph-45-5-mm-21530465199001

I like it A LOT.

 

Reminds me a lot of The Omega Seamaster 300 GMT Chronograph. It came close to being my first.

 

I actually like both of these. Do they hold their value or double the minute you buy them like the Rolex's do?

 

The fact that they had one in the store pretty much tells the story. They will lose a little value off of retail, but you often don’t have to pay full retail either.

 

Yup. Nice thing about Omega is there aren't very many "unobtainables," and even those that aren't immediately available from an AD you can often find pretty quickly on the open market for nowhere near the markup you'd see on some of the harder to get Rolex's.

I have friends who have literally been waiting years for a specific Daytona/GMT/etc. and they aren't holding out hope they'll ever see one for anything approaching retail.

Meanwhile I got my Speedmaster from an AD with paperwork no less than 24 hours after plunking down less than retail. Since it's my "heirloom" watch, I don't really care about the value, but if for some reason I had decided it wasn't for me I could have pretty easily gotten full value back on the open market.

 

Thank you. I figured since it was in stock, they didn't shoot up in value like a Rolex, but it is nice to hear they don't drop much either.

 

Got here a bit late.
But Thompson said it well, accurately.

 

Can anybody help me ID this watch? The case back is blank and my googles yielded nothing.

 

And for those of you who like cool watches, this is the watch my Uncle wore as a P-47 pilot in WW2. Army Air Force issue Elgin A-11 Hack

 

Looks fake. I'll give you $20 for it.

 

@pefrey

Not sure what information you are looking for.

Your answer is in the second photo.
Longines (maker)
Stop Second (model)
17 jewels (inner workings)

My guess is that it's a manual wind (knob at the 3-o'clock position)
The long gold hand is the second hand for TIME
The button at the 2-o'clock position is the stop-watch start/stop function.
The red hand is the second hand for the STOP WATCH
The sub-dial at the 6-o'clock position is the minute hand for the stopwatch function.

 

It would serve you well to get this serviced and then wear it. The watch, in and of itself is fairly valuable, in that it's not a re-issue.
The sentimental value that it was your grandfather's during WW2 would make it priceless.

 

For the Longines - does it run?

I think it is a flyback stop watch.

The GF on the tag stands for gold filled case.

 

Is this it?

https://www.timelessgalleryshop.com...gold-filled-case-boxed?variant=36552917090462

 

Well done!
Looks to be the same.