Daring Fireball thinks I'm almost no one

@Pantheist I recommend Reactor ND (Never Dark) watches. I have 3 Reactors. 2 are ND and are fantastic.

@Pantheist They do. I have a Neutron and a Posideon, both are quite large. I also have a Gryphon which is a more average 42mm. I paid $140 on eBay new in box.

@ruouttaurmind oops, sorry I deleted before I knew you were responding- decided I’d answer my own question with google. Thanks for the help though Superluminova+tritium does sound like a good idea.

@Pantheist Also consider the Trident which is a modest 40mm.

@Pantheist It’s amazing how well the combination of the 2 lumes works.

@ruouttaurmind I do like the way the Trident Titanium looks Not getting one for ~ a year, but I’ll keep that in mind.

@ruouttaurmind
Ok those are rad looking watching. Since you own some, tell me what’s awesome about them.

Also which one is the coolest? (“Enormous” is a thing but I can go for “reasonable” as well.)

PS these weren’t stolen were they? Hope not.

@f00l Yes, they were stolen. All but the Neutron.

Reactor has a marketing pitch they call “Reactor DNA”. It’s basically the core of what they consider to make them rad watches.

Among the features I appreciate are the very solid construction (the case of many models is milled from solid stainless steel), the exceptional depth rating for what I’d consider to be a non-premium price point (Poseidon is rated to 1000M; Neutron is rated to 200 meters and can be had for about $100 on eBay). Most models have screw-down crowns, models with rotating bezels have one-way rotation, straps are attached with threaded screw bars rather than spring bars… it’s just a solid piece of engineering at a somewhat modest price point.

Plus… they just look badass.

@ruouttaurmind
One of the reasons I love my g-shocks is the insane indestructibility.

Even ME^(zillionth power) prob couldn’t break them.

@ruouttaurmind Maybe when I’m insanely rich, like hand out hundreds to random homeless people rich.

@Pantheist Very classic. Very 'spensive! LOL!

I’m a big fan of artisan watches. If I was going to spend way too much on a timepiece it would be something like the Chaykin’s Lunokhod or some of Bvlgari’s Sonnerie or Tourbillon models.

@ruouttaurmind oooh, those are much nicer. Yeah, if I actually were going to spend anywhere near as much as any of these on a watch, I’d definitely have to look around for awhile. Honestly, at that point I’d probably stay away from tritium too since I’d want to be able to hand it down.

@ruouttaurmind
@Panthiest

If I had stupid $ for watches, I’d try to buy one of the watches that one of the astronauts or cosmonauts actually wore in flight out of the atmosphere.

Actually, I kinda hope the families have managed to hang onto those.

@ruouttaurmind
@Panthiest

Oh those are pretty

Nice trad watches have a slight steampunk vibe going sometimes.

@Barney

I like the humongous ones. I’m coveting a soon to be released 51mm one that I can’t justify buying but I kinda wish I could.

@f00l

@f00l I, too, enjoy an oversized watch. Unfortunately, since I lost a bunch of weight my wrists don’t really look right with a large watch. But looks be damned, I like what I like, so I wear them anyway.

I’ve always wanted a Seiko Tuna, but have yet to get the right price on one.

@ruouttaurmind

Your wrists are almost certainly bigger than mine, unless yours are very very slight.

I don’t care. I like big watches.

Been weird since birth. Everyone noticed and kept noticing. Sigh.

At some point you just decide to own it.

@ruouttaurmind
just looked it up.

The Garmin 235 is about 45mm.
The Casio Rangeman is about 55mm. I wear that one loose, since it has no heart rate sensor.

Like wearing both of them.

@f00l I used to top 330# and had a difficult time finding a large enough watch. Now, 6’ tall @140#, the opposite problem. They’re all too large.

@ruouttaurmind
Congrats on stupendous weight loss.
I am in awe. Please tell us some details as to how you managed that.
Seriously.

If you are 6’, isn’t 140 pretty lean? My Dad weighed that at that height, but under 30 years old.

Even tho Dad was extremely fit his entire life, played singles tennis 4-6 times a week until he was 88 years old, and never weighed more than 170 ever, as a fit adult over 30 he was usually between 155-162 lbs.

But your wrists are almost certainly bigger than mine, cause I have small hands even for a female, and have little girl wrists.

I like those monster watches anyway. If the watches don’t have heart monitors, I normally wear them loose.

I also bang them around a lot, so I like tough watches.

@f00l It definitely is very lean. I’m much shorter (5’7), weigh about the same, and I’m in reasonably good shape.

@f00l

How are we supposed to gift one to you if we only have a vague notion of your whereabouts?

@PlacidPenguin

This loc thing is no great obstacle. Expect a solution to appear.

For the record, I want a genuine working gorgeous Breitling. Not a pix of one, or a promo cardboard one or whatever.

If you throw in the working private jet, so that I can stroll away from it wearing my Breitling and looking cool and determined and important, I’ll double the return on your money in the investment offer.

@f00l

Threat? Promise? Both? Neither?

@PlacidPenguin

All And Everything, as Gurdjieff used to say.

@f00l

Ok. Taken care of.

@f00l

I’ll show them. I care naught for their cruel imprecations.

I’m proud to be almost no one.

@mfladd

I like the Urbane when it was announced, but I didn’t have one near to play with when it came out in order to decide if I should get it.

@PlacidPenguin The android 2.0 features just released are an improvement. Still wish it has the ability to answer calls on the watch (aka Dick Tracy). The price is waaaaaay down on these which makes it nice to buy now.

@mfladd

Wear 2.0 is nice.

The Huawei Watch has a speaker which is great for calls. If I answer a call directly from my watch, the call is through my watch, otherwise I could just select the Bluetooth option from my phone in the dialer app to just transfer the call to my watch.

@medz
I actually love Indiglo. I sometimes buy one at an estate sale or something, for the hell of it. I have a box of them somewhere.

@f00l the pinnacle of watch technology

@Shrdlu
Perhaps one of the reasons I like huge watches is the contrast between the watch and my wrist. Dunno.

More likely that I rebelled because Mom and Always-Right Grandmother were always telling me to be “dainty”. They had some sort of “updated Texas version of a Southern Belle” in mind. Mom had been one of these.

It didn’t take. I might have had a slight attitude about it. Ever so slight.

That is a really pretty watch. But if I owned it myself, I would prob only wear it to weddings or something. Perhaps not even then.

Mom has a really pretty dainty diamond watch. I’ve no idea what happened to it. It’s gone. The sort of watch where you had to worry a lot about the clasp. It was lovely tho.

@Shrdlu I think one of these is in my future, curious as to your thoughts… I’ve been all over the Ambiluna line since Citizen revealed it, though…

@brhfl
That looks very interesting. Love the sleek simplicity.

@f00l
Ebay has many thousands of ladies diamond watches. I think I would recognize Mom’s, if I ever found its twin.

It was a little in the line of these:

It had pave diamonds on the band. The face was tiny. The clasp was similar to what you might see on a delicate necklace, tho there was also a delicate safely chain.

It fit her personality.

@brhfl It’s nice enough, and does have the ecodrive (so nice to not replace batteries all the time, and makes the face very similar to mother of pearl in its luminescence). It isn’t my style, though. To be honest, the image that came up (when I invoked the slash image option) is similar to my own watches, but larger, more masculine, than I care for.