I am in bother with my wonderful wife. Again. I have two hobbies in life, away from footy and sport. I keep fish and invest in watches. I have taken on a dozen orfe that were becoming homeless and the fella has messaged to say he needs to drop them round before 7:30 in the morning. Saturday is my wifes only lie in day but because I take my lad boxing training between 7 and 9 on a saturday she is going to have to take collection I am in bother more than normal because a watch arrived a month ago that was meant to be secret!! Does anyone else have innocent vices that get you in bother?
What kind of watches do you collect? If money was no object I'd have a hell of a collection. Vacheron Constantin is what I'd be buying, I sometimes enjoy looking at them and pretending I could spend 50k on a watch.
I dont so much as collect but try to buy to sell. There are loads of watches turn up in sales that with some basic maintenance double in value. There is also a great market in English 50s and 60s watches and I have a bunch of those to renovate. Personally I love Breitling. I have 3 of those which are not for sale and 1 is my day to day to watch. In my opiniom they outperform anything at their level. I am wearing a navitimer right now and it makes me smile.
Really like Breitling too. Just googled them to refresh my memory and the one that caught my eye was the navitimer, beautiful.
This will be my first purchase should I win the lottery: https://www.vacheron-constantin.com/gb/en/collections/historiques/5000h-000a-b582.html
Not so much that I get into bother with it, more I can be a pain in the arse because of it. Astronomy. I've got a couple of telescopes, but I can be a pain to some friends and family when I want to do some observations. I don't drive and due to light pollution obscuring what you want to see, sometimes I need a lift to go into the countryside where there's less light and you can observe more, particularly if it's a bit of a "special" event. Saying that, where I live now in Sunderland isn't too bad for light pollution (even though it's not great), so I'm not as big a pain as I was 15 years or so, but I still get the odd eye roll now and again!
I would love to be in to that. I bet it is amazing to just see space in a bit more detail and wonder...
It is mate. Even just basic lunar observations can blow your mind, no matter how many times you do it. Through a telescope the moon is just so beautiful, you almost take it for granted just looking at it normally, but once you see it in a bit more detail... It's definitely worth doing, even if it's just once. When you study it on a waxing or waining moon and you can see the shadows cast by the mountains or around the craters. A good pair of powerful binoculars can give you a good idea to start with. My favourite experience was a good few years ago studying Jupiter, being able to pick out the red spot, but also the 4 big Jovian moon (Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede). I've seen the red disk of Mars, Saturn, but I could pick out any of the moon's the last time I looked at it.
Sounds absolutely beautiful mate. I could see me sitting out with a flask of Irish coffee and happy as larry.
Too many to mention. Not a Rolex fan, like Omega. The holy trinity, Patek, VC and AP. IWC pilots and Portugueser appeal. Quite keen on Navitimer, recent editions. My daily is usually my AP.....Affordable Piguet... the Tissot PRX
One of my hobbies is ghost hunting. Been on quite a few and on my very first one actually saw a figure! I heard unexplained bangs, knocks in response to questions, black shadows and I've actually been marked on my back when there was no one near to me and a voice response on equipment to a question I asked someone that was present with me. I'm not a total believer and I always try to find an explanation to things that happen. I know that people think that there's no such things as ghosts but I've experienced so much that I can't explain. My personal way of looking at it is, during our lives we have energy within us, when I was at school we were taught that energy can't just disappear so if thats the case - what happens to our energy when we die?
Its a brilliant thing to get into. I've got a couple of telescopes, a skywatcher 130pm which is on an equatorial mount, and a skywatcher 130 heritage which is basically the same scope, but extends out, and on a dobsonian mount. Much easier to use and transport....can carry the whole lot with one hand. The eq mounted one just doesn't get used any more now. I live on the outskirts of consett, so get reasonably dark skies from the garden. Best skies I've seen were in the Galloway Forest Park at Kirroughtree near Newton Stewart....stunning
got myself a nice 'goto' the last one i had but not enough room anywhere to keep it, even dropping the tripod and tilting the scope i got wrong for,,,first shot of jupiter i was jumping watching the moons as well, first clear look at saturn was amazing, not a spectacular view but saw the rings, could not afford one i wanted but did what i wanted. past few years radios but whatever i choose i know i will get wrong for it.
That was the "wow" moment for me....first time seeing Saturn's rings. Still in awe every time I look at it. Never tire of looking at the moon either....just fascinating.
