/fa/ - Fashion

>>13487323
I have the feeling that the designers just wanted to make a cool looking egg watch and then the coked up marketing department came up with the idea that it was supposed to be ergonomic and made up a bunch of shit.

>>13347383
Obscure brands or brands that used to be big but are dead today are probably the best place to find deals if that's what you want. Omega has tons of watches out there and there's plenty of information out there on them. Seiko is also popular and the less desirable ones can be cheap, vintage quartz Seikos are a great cheap option because they're durable and low-maintenance so there's less chance you'll get a busted expensive headache that needs lots of servicing. Rolex probably has the most information out there on every single little variation and obscure model, but the prices are insanely overinflated and totally not worth it for what you get unless you're really obsessed with owning a vintage Rolex. Old Soviet watches like Amphibias or Raketa or whatever are dirt cheap and they're kind of fun, but a huge portion of the ones on ebay are non-original or in terrible condition and most Soviet watches are just really shit.

You need to do your homework on whatever you buy so you don't overpay and get burned with some parts-bin or repainted or broken junk. And there's just a whole lot of garbage out there, everyone with an ebay account thinks their dead uncle's beat-up piece of shit watch is worth a million dollars. Whatever you buy will probably need servicing when you get it which will add on to the purchase price, you can rarely trust whatever the seller says about "recently serviced runs great" or whatever because most sellers offer no guarantee or proof of any of that.

Vintage watches are generally just more fragile and not waterproof and more finnicky. Newer watches have little conveniences you'll miss like sapphire crystals and quickset dates and stuff. I like all my vintage watches but I woudn't want to wear any of them as an everyday watch, new watches are just easier to deal with.

>>12955265
Hey I have one of those too. I wouldn't send it to Omega personally, that's way too expensive. I guess it depends whether you would rather have it original or have it refinished to look new. Refinishing will ruin all resale/collector value but I know you're not planning on selling anyway and the watch isn't worth much to begin with.

>>12895618
The egg shape is supposedly designed to fit your wrist more comfortably than a round watch. It also has no lugs and the bracelet attaches to the watch using a screw-on ring on the back which is supposed to be easy to swap out for other straps Omega sold as accessories. The straps were a futuristic waterproof material called Corfam also known as really shitty fake leather. Because of the ring on the back, there's no caseback so it's a monoblock type case where you have to access the movement from the front by removing the crystal.

It's 70s as fuck.

>>11522614
Geneve Dynamic, it's a neat little weird watch Omega made in the 70s.