I’m kinda into watches. I only have one nice one so far that was a gift from my wife. If you are looking at buying a decent watch I’d strongly recommend considering the Citizen Eco-Drive with a sapphire crystal and radio sync to the USNO time server. No battery and never needs to be reset. Not cheap but sturdy and very useful.
@tweezak I like watches, too, but I’m not really into the “jewelry” aspect of them.
I you are looking to buy a watch to tinker with, I’d strongly recommend a Vostok Amphibia. You can get a watch with a hand-assembled automatic movement and several really interesting and unique design features for under $75.
It’s cheap and easy to get replacement parts, and there is a large modding community, so you can get aftermarket bezels, dials, and hands if that’s what you’re into.
Quality control is a bit lacking, but that is to be expected as such a ridiculously low price point.
@Limewater That sounds like a fun bit of kit. I’m a tinkerer myself and may look into it. Thanks for the tip. I’ve always wanted an automatic mechanical. When my wife bought me the Citizen I was looking at Asian gray-market Seiko 5 Sports series watches. At the time they sold for about $150 and are actually really nice watches.
i guess i wear several pieces of “jewelry” every day because of my piercings, but it’s all minimal stainless steel and i never take any of it out so i don’t really think about it.
occasionally if we’re going out i’ll wear a necklace, which is usually something lucite or acrylic on a short chain. but day to day, no.
My favorite kind of jewelry is the kind worn by other people. I get to see it and admire it, which is all it is
really good for, without paying a cent for the privilege. The irony is that for most jewelry, the wearer is the only one who can’t see it.
@kittykat9180 they’re not even the rarest gemstone it’s just fake scarcity drummed up by marketing and monopolies for a few centuries.
Honestly, I think diamonds are kind of boring. My wife has a nice engagement ring with one, and several other pieces where the diamonds are accents… But honestly, rubies, emeralds, citrine, sapphire, tanzanite… They all look prettier than boring old transparent diamonds. Heck, cut glass looks nicer than diamonds.
I wish we left the diamonds to commercial and scientific uses where they’re very useful and we didn’t artificially drum up the cost by making them jewelry pieces.
I think the move is slowly being made away from diamonds to other stones in engagement rings. If I ever had to buy an engagement ring again, unless the girl objected to the idea, I’d much rather go for a higher quality gem that looked nicer than stick with a boring diamond.
I don’t wear jewelry, I don’t even wear the wedding ring anymore. Not so that I can pick up other women. (Wife knows I’ve no interest in that.) I just never really felt comfortable with the ring, always hated the feel… And honestly, I get hit on by women less since I stopped wearing the ring.
Found some of those high quality rubber wedding rings some years back and wore that instead for a few years… I liked the look more too… Less gaudy and flashy. But even though they’re tough as heck under normal use, I fidget a lot and couldn’t help myself playing with it all the time and they would break from stress of being turned inside out and back again.
I do wear watches occasionally. Usually wooden watches, because they’re less shiny and less eye catching. That’s it for me.
As for women. It’s no requirement for me that a woman wears jewelry but I do find large dangly earrings sexy for some unexplainable reason… Lol. Maybe it’s the little boy in me wanting to poke them and make the earrings swing.
Ankle bracelets are quite attractive too, again I’m not sure why, maybe because I draws the eye to the lower legs and it’s usually associated with carefree happy sunny days on the beach or the meadow.
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Just came in to brag… it was my birthday yesterday and my spouse bought me a beautiful alexandrite ring.
To be fair, it was the exact ring from the link I sent him when giving him birthday gift ideas, but hey… color changing gem! Woo!
@jakeline Wow – I have one real alexandrite. Not one you hear much about these days. My Mom’s birthstone.
@jakeline pic?
@katbyter to be fair, it’s lab created, but it’s still alexandrite. I’m very partial to color shifting gems like opals and smoky quartz.
Watch
@ThatsHeadly
/giphy vagazzled
I wear a wedding ring. I don’t need anything else (so my wife tells me).
@hchavers Don’t the neighbors complain?
I’m kinda into watches. I only have one nice one so far that was a gift from my wife. If you are looking at buying a decent watch I’d strongly recommend considering the Citizen Eco-Drive with a sapphire crystal and radio sync to the USNO time server. No battery and never needs to be reset. Not cheap but sturdy and very useful.
@tweezak I like watches, too, but I’m not really into the “jewelry” aspect of them.
I you are looking to buy a watch to tinker with, I’d strongly recommend a Vostok Amphibia. You can get a watch with a hand-assembled automatic movement and several really interesting and unique design features for under $75.
It’s cheap and easy to get replacement parts, and there is a large modding community, so you can get aftermarket bezels, dials, and hands if that’s what you’re into.
Quality control is a bit lacking, but that is to be expected as such a ridiculously low price point.
@tweezak If I didn’t wear a garmin watch 24/7, I’d be into watches too.
@Limewater That sounds like a fun bit of kit. I’m a tinkerer myself and may look into it. Thanks for the tip. I’ve always wanted an automatic mechanical. When my wife bought me the Citizen I was looking at Asian gray-market Seiko 5 Sports series watches. At the time they sold for about $150 and are actually really nice watches.
My favorite kind of jewelry is whatever keeps my honey happy.
@2many2no aww, you have a lucky honey!
Wedding ring. That’s it.
Wedding ring and medical alert necklace. Occasionally a watch, but that doesn’t seem like “jewelry” to me.
i guess i wear several pieces of “jewelry” every day because of my piercings, but it’s all minimal stainless steel and i never take any of it out so i don’t really think about it.
occasionally if we’re going out i’ll wear a necklace, which is usually something lucite or acrylic on a short chain. but day to day, no.
Never been a big fan of jewelry. Wanna drop some serious cash on me? Spring for a new tattoo.
Or a trip somewhere
My favorite kind of jewelry is the kind worn by other people. I get to see it and admire it, which is all it is
really good for, without paying a cent for the privilege. The irony is that for most jewelry, the wearer is the only one who can’t see it.
As long as I didn’t pay for it and it’s all real (gold/gems/diamonds) no synthetic or fake shit, I got mo problem with any of it.
(Mouth breathing heavily) “Oooh shiney! Take money, give shiney.” That’s how a feel about people’s fascination with pretty rocks and metals.
None. I don’t understand the fascination or why people think diamonds are so rare/valuable.
@kittykat9180 they’re not even the rarest gemstone it’s just fake scarcity drummed up by marketing and monopolies for a few centuries.
Honestly, I think diamonds are kind of boring. My wife has a nice engagement ring with one, and several other pieces where the diamonds are accents… But honestly, rubies, emeralds, citrine, sapphire, tanzanite… They all look prettier than boring old transparent diamonds. Heck, cut glass looks nicer than diamonds.
I wish we left the diamonds to commercial and scientific uses where they’re very useful and we didn’t artificially drum up the cost by making them jewelry pieces.
I think the move is slowly being made away from diamonds to other stones in engagement rings. If I ever had to buy an engagement ring again, unless the girl objected to the idea, I’d much rather go for a higher quality gem that looked nicer than stick with a boring diamond.
Some people prefer:
I don’t wear jewelry, I don’t even wear the wedding ring anymore. Not so that I can pick up other women. (Wife knows I’ve no interest in that.) I just never really felt comfortable with the ring, always hated the feel… And honestly, I get hit on by women less since I stopped wearing the ring.
Found some of those high quality rubber wedding rings some years back and wore that instead for a few years… I liked the look more too… Less gaudy and flashy. But even though they’re tough as heck under normal use, I fidget a lot and couldn’t help myself playing with it all the time and they would break from stress of being turned inside out and back again.
I do wear watches occasionally. Usually wooden watches, because they’re less shiny and less eye catching. That’s it for me.
As for women. It’s no requirement for me that a woman wears jewelry but I do find large dangly earrings sexy for some unexplainable reason… Lol. Maybe it’s the little boy in me wanting to poke them and make the earrings swing.
Ankle bracelets are quite attractive too, again I’m not sure why, maybe because I draws the eye to the lower legs and it’s usually associated with carefree happy sunny days on the beach or the meadow.
@OnionSoup
/giphy necromancer
@RiotDemon I need to change my name to that… Lol… Didn’t see the spam post that pulled this up.
@OnionSoup I deleted it. Once I delete what bumped it back up, the thread goes back to whence it came from. If you had the page up and didn’t refresh it, you wouldn’t see the spam. You posted a couple of minutes after I deleted it. You most likely had the main forum page up when the spam was still active.