My excuse? 15year old #SARB017 is losing a (nearing)minute daily and rotating bezel’s gritty from min 30 to min 45.

Solar+GMT Sumo’s surprisingly light(coming from SARB017 and Garmin Instinct). Doesn’t feel too tall nor overhang on my 7.25in/18.4cm wrist.

On Single pass RSM Field Grey Herringbone Twill strap until I get bracelet link removal tool. Love this strap as I can position all the hardware away from bottom and underside of wrist, makes sysadmin’ng a breeze.

Seems that I got lucky with alignment draw? Seconds hand appears to be mostly hitting all indexes on the rehaut, missed a by bit from min 45 to min 60.

Overall, Chuffed to bits.

  • narwhal@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Lovely. We need more appreciation for great quartz watches.

    I’m collecting more and more quartz watches myself, and HAQ watches is something I’m very interested in.

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      1 year ago

      For flyer/traveller/true GMT’s, I think a solar quartz movement makes a whole lotta sense. As setting time and date on flyer GMT’s a pain, given that you’d need to go through all-of-them-hours to set date. At least on caller/office GMT’s, one can set date separately.

      Of course, if you only have that single watch, above won’t be an issue, but who does that subscribed to Watches@lemmy.ml :).

      HAQ? I might have been tempted by the Citizen chickenThe Citizen, especially the Indigo Washi Paper dial one.

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    1 year ago

    Wait, there’s a solar quartz gmt from seiko? This is amazing!

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      1 year ago

      <self-justification>

      Wanted GMT complication, 'twas between this and MM200 GMT.

      SBPK003 edged the MM200GMT as it didn’t use the high~er beat rate Cal6R64 as used in Sharp Edged Presage GMT.

      Didn’t hurt that I liked the “hooded/shrouded” bezel look of the sumo vs bare and exposed one on MM200GMT.

      15 years back, I don’t think I’d pick up a quartz watch with jerky-seconds-hand-that-reminds-me-of-a-school-wall-clock.

      <self-justification>