IWC Chronograph Automatic (Port.) weekdays, Casio weekends (unless I "dress" for dinner. |
Blackstrap, steel case, gold hands, numbers, and minute markers. A beautiful design I had my eyes on for many years. |
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/10/russian-officials-sporting-watches-worth-up-to-1-million.html
but are they audiophiles? |
I had my eye on the watch for almost 10 years, but because I am watch frugal, but eventually I felt I had to have it, I did not think I would ever want another watch, so I figured it was worth the splurge - I feel good everytime I put it on. |
A working Hamilton sounds very cool. |
Just got the Luminox Black OPs 3051 - nice for the $218 Amazon price. |
IWC Portuguese Chrono for work, Seiko Orange Monster for weekends -- something by Nike when on the bike (no motor). |
The thing watches, and a discussion about them, has in common with audio is that appeals to connoisseurship, to discriminating about the differences between things and finding a language to describe them, which is why many audiophiles also like to discuss the qualities of cars, beer, wine and guitars. Toenails might not lend itself to such chatter, though German-made scissors are mighty fine indeed. |
Solingen, the Audio Note and Jager Lacoutre of snipping blades.
Incidentally, this thread thankfully lead me to the Seiko Orange Monster which I got for $200 and wear it more than 35x more expensive IWC - which I love, but I love wearing the OM, and my stereo sounds much airier in the highs, the bass is tauter and more tuneful, the midrange is, well you know, more liquid, and it even slightly improves dimensionality when I wear it, even more improvement than an great pair of ICs and power cords, don't why it works, it is irrational, but so efficacious. |
I see the logic of this. It just might be possible that with 140 tweaks in aggregate, you could possibly surpass the sound of the real thing (TAS), and wouldn't that be something.
Clippers, hmmmm. The Germans seem to be good with steel, but the Swiss shouln't be discounted either. The world's best toe nail clippers upon which everyone can agree? I know it is out there. Nothing worse for the sound of your system than an ingrown toenail - at least according to the lab measurements made by Julian Hirsch in the summer of 1974. |
And just one more important question, what time do you wear? |
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There are plenty of audiophiles however for whom the only luxury in life worth having is audio equipment and little else - that too is a contingent of the "community". |
This thread led me to the Seiko Orange Monster - quite a nice watch for the price, feels like a much more expensive watch, might get a black monster too. |
The band does look the same, I would think you would have the same problem with the Monsters....though my wrist seems unscathed and adjustment knob (not the technical name:) on the Monster is offset to the 4:00 position which seems to help. |
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