Hi gang!
Long time no see, but now I need your WIS consolation.
When I came home this afternoon, someone had kicked in my door and stolen my watches. Just that. Everything else seems to be here, including a fairly new cell phone. (OK, it's a Nokia 106, but don't spoil the story, will ya.)
The two missing pieces are:
1. Longines Conquest V.H.P. Quartz from 1996 with a stainless steel folding bracelet
2. Ventura v-tech alpha, the original design by Wettstein, not the new ugly one, with a black military-ish watch strap! (I like that strap even more now, because it will increase the chances I recognise the watch on e-bay by at least one order of magnitude.)
Now, this may verge on heresy in this forum, but I think I will miss the Longines the most. First of all, the alpha broke twice before the guarantee expired. I also realise that finding something akin to the Longines will be really hard today.
The reason is the watch market's long-lasting infatuation for oversized watches. The 1996 Conquest V.H.P. is smaller than 40 mm in diameter (with some margin), definitely thinner than 10 mm, yet it was (nominally) waterproof to 10 ATM! A dress watch you can go sailing and swimming with. I always left it on my wrist when I went to the sauna.
My impression is that I you want anything which can take a dunk, you must put up with enormous hunks on you wrist.
Please tell me I am wrong!
p.s. The big joke of the evening: The police asked if I had the door chain on. Well, I do have slender arms, but I cannot activate the door chain from the outside. (...and no, I don't usually leave my home through the windows on the second floor)
Long time no see, but now I need your WIS consolation.
When I came home this afternoon, someone had kicked in my door and stolen my watches. Just that. Everything else seems to be here, including a fairly new cell phone. (OK, it's a Nokia 106, but don't spoil the story, will ya.)
The two missing pieces are:
1. Longines Conquest V.H.P. Quartz from 1996 with a stainless steel folding bracelet
2. Ventura v-tech alpha, the original design by Wettstein, not the new ugly one, with a black military-ish watch strap! (I like that strap even more now, because it will increase the chances I recognise the watch on e-bay by at least one order of magnitude.)
Now, this may verge on heresy in this forum, but I think I will miss the Longines the most. First of all, the alpha broke twice before the guarantee expired. I also realise that finding something akin to the Longines will be really hard today.
The reason is the watch market's long-lasting infatuation for oversized watches. The 1996 Conquest V.H.P. is smaller than 40 mm in diameter (with some margin), definitely thinner than 10 mm, yet it was (nominally) waterproof to 10 ATM! A dress watch you can go sailing and swimming with. I always left it on my wrist when I went to the sauna.
My impression is that I you want anything which can take a dunk, you must put up with enormous hunks on you wrist.
Please tell me I am wrong!
p.s. The big joke of the evening: The police asked if I had the door chain on. Well, I do have slender arms, but I cannot activate the door chain from the outside. (...and no, I don't usually leave my home through the windows on the second floor)