Yeap, The Watch Steward in post is like MN. I’m partial to the “G Series” as that doesn’t need spring bar removal to change out.

Buuuut I think one can’t get away from elastic webbing itself stretching out. Left is ~3 month old, One on the right stretched to ~1.5x it’s original length, had to trim it after ~5 years of use .

edit: added length-of-use

But yeah, I passed on the Brown Weave 1959 Alpinist because of the not-that-improved 6R35 movement. Even though that dial is mesmerizing IRL.

:) as it happens sarb017 has been stored like so for about a week now, lost a minute since I last set against NTP/internet time servers. Been winding once daily and amazed by the huge improvement of losing a minute daily before maintenance.

Wrist times been dominated by SBPK003 in new-watch-honeymoon-phase.

Nylon Coffee is skate or bicycle away from home.

They also drop freshly roasted beans on a vending machine so I can pickup beans anytime. I prefer african/floral variety so skipped their South American heavydeliver-to-home-subscription.

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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.

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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.