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To: TobagoJack who wrote (216157)	8/25/2025 3:49:42 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218030

I absolutely LOVE watches. Not that we need them if we have a smart phone—but, the STATEMENT they make! My favorite watch in my collection is my Japanese made Yo-Kai watch. The design is distinctly oriental and when I wear it folks immediately take notice. The great thing about is that my age and stage it helps that I can I make my own dials (so to speak) which depict the time via images rather than numbers. Here's a pic of it with dial I had on yesterday which reminds me that it's the day for me to go to church. Instead of the time controlling me - I CONTROL THE TIME! If I want to have a cup of coffee I can just slip the coffee disk in, same with a walk, sex, whatever. No longer time's slave - time does what I dictate! . It has an easy open casing - instead of a crown there's a button you push to pop it open so you can insert your own time. As I age I find the large display easy to read and no confusion as to whether its day or night / am-pm Not to brag, but put us both in a room full of people - you with your favorite watch and me with mine and you'd soon discover that the exquisite craftmanship and elegant profile of my Yo-Kai would be the one catching eyes. tic

To: TobagoJack who wrote (216157)	8/31/2025 5:17:37 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218030

I don't judge watches by politics. The bottom Soviet/Russian watch looks cheap and poorly finished. The Chinese watch is much better finished, imo, and better looking in general with its long term durability being a separate matter altogether as mentioned earlier. Lest we forget, the House of Faberge was founded in Saint Petersburg in the mid 1800s. I'm not too familiar with Russian watchmaking under the Communist era but I'd imagine there was a decent trade squashed and collectivized in the name of the people. East Germany had an even richer watch culture that was collectivized and they produced sh!t for decades on end until reunification. And then Lange shocked the watch world in the mid 1990s. alange-soehne.com Putin is known to have a fine watch collection at least based on what he's worn publicly in the past 20-25 years. Even his deputy Medvedev has a collection and he's been spotted with a watch I've owned for over 20 years. Technically it was the first "nice" watch I bought for myself. :-)