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Old 07-06-2022, 02:45 PM
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That is a great watch! Thanks for sharing.

I went through the Swiss / German mechanical watch thing for about 10 years. Probably bought and sold about 100 like commodities and almost always made money. Then one day I looked in the watch box, realized I had a bunch of very expensive jewelry and sold them off. It's kind of like selling all of your bikes.

But I still liked watches, so I decided to collect watches that divers actually wore when divers wore dive watches rather than computors. That generally means Seiko and Citizen, who were the leaders in dive watch innovation. Cousteau and his crew wore Rolex dive watches because Rolex sponsored their expedition.

If you want to go down the Tuna rabbit hole, here are a couple of good articles.

https://monochrome-watches.com/histo...na-dive-watch/

https://thespringbar.com/blogs/guide...lectors-guide/

https://prowatches.com/seiko-tuna-a-...robust-models/

Since this is a bike forum , here are a few for fun.


And since this is a bike forum, here are a few photos. BTW watch collectors are just as weird and obsessive as bike collectors.


IMG_5568 by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_6888 by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_6496r by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_6383r by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_6123 by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_5740r by Robert Copple, on Flickr

IMG_5622r by Robert Copple, on Flickr
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