All things time: clocks, watches, their workings, collecting, repair.

A colleague is visiting Switzerland and of course the talk is about watches. Here's my advice on buying a watch:

• If you want to know what time it is by looking at your wrist, buy a quartz watch. I'm a fan of Casio, but anything will do.
• If really want a mechanical watch, care about precision and quality, and want to have the best bang for your buck, buy a Japanese watch. You can't go wrong with a Seiko.
• If you want a reasonable watch and spend as little as possible, Chinese company Seagull got you covered. I own one, it's fine.
• If you want to buy some jewelry that also tells the time, buy Swiss.

I recently came into possession of this beautiful clock! I don’t know anything about it unfortunately and the hourly gong mechanism appears to have slipped, but it keeps time!

Needless to say, that watch got pre-cleaned right away and all the cleaning fluids safely disposed off :-)

This is a very interesting (and expensive, and sensitive) clock mechanism that generally doesn't require any energy, it gets it from the atmosphere.

Of course, as any fine timepiece goes, it needs proper maintenance every now and then..

Don't mind me if I drop posts of interesting timepieces occasionally...

This build is super crazy and creative, and explains the internal workings of a clock, in detail, in its own unique way.

I want this kit!

What's some of your favorite watches? I really like Kinetic watches; so I'm curious to hear what brands/styles people like

Moving from Reddit, I noticed there's little talk over on Lemmy about what is turning out to be my main hobby. So here's a very broad community, in the hope that all my peers in the hobby will find it :-)