Sweet Hermes. Must have cost a fortune. Love the dial on that VHP. I had always found the ones I had seen rather bland.
Sweet Hermes. Must have cost a fortune. Love the dial on that VHP. I had always found the ones I had seen rather bland.
My favorite quartz watch:
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"So?"
-Andrew Breitbart 1969-2012
My conclusion?
It's ain't all about accuracy.
Thanks everybody.
Yes and accuracy is a tricky concept because at the end of the day standard quartz accuracy is fine for most any need and one (at least I do) tends to get aggravated when an HAQ is out of specs and can't be self-tuned like the ETA watches.
This non-HAQ 6M26 came in this week and I'm lovin' it...as you do with a new watch but this one will keep its appeal I'm sure :
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My favorite:
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I've always been a fan of the Sinn UX.
This one seems to work pretty well for me....
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"Now that's not a watch..This is a watch."
Here are a few shots of my all-time favorite quartz. It checks all the boxes for me: 5 seconds per year spec, titanium case and bracelet, optically flat, coated sapphire crystal, perpetual calendar, independently adjustable hour hand, luminous hands and markers, ten year warranty.
The only down-side I can see is that for warranty work or service, it has to go back to Japan because it’s not sold by Citizen outside Japan. But the ten year warranty includes free replacement batteries, adjustment to the 5 seconds per year spec and service when the battery is changed. Because it's JDM it has to be returned to Citizen via the vendor. This has proved to be no problem at all since I bought mine in 2006.
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My all time most favourite HAQ, SBCM023:
One of my rare keepers. The brutal accuracy (Few secs / year), 8 year battery life, Perpetual Calendar, Seiko reliability; you can not go wrong . . .
Capt. Serdal
Casio: F-91W (Keeper); MKII: LRRP UTC 48; Stingray; Seafighter (Keepers); Seiko: SKX007J (Keeper); 7548 - 7009; 7548 -700H; 6117 - 8000 Navigator GMT (Keeper); SBCM023 Prospex Perpetual; MM 600 SD; CYGHAL: Alarm (Keeper); Shanghai: Mechanical; Marathon: MSar 500 Pc. Ltd. (Keeper); ROLEX: GMT II Pepsi; PAM: PR.
Man...tough call, as my collection is mostly quartz, and I love so many of them.
If I had to pick 1:
These are my next 2 favorite's
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