THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS ON TELEVISION.
It’s funny because Police officers tend to be morons.
Get it?
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The Accursed Share
A clusterfuck of philosophy, #menswear, art, music, literature, and monstrous children thereof
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I’ve been receiving a lot of questions lately about my watches: what are they? how many do I own? where did i buy them? where are my straps from? and so on.
As a result of the interest, I thought it might be about time to do a dedicated watch and watch strap post. I used to collect watches. Not high-end watches, but medium-end automatic watches of both Swiss and Japanese manufacture like Fortis, Oris, Hamilton, Seiko, Orient, etc. I’ve since sold the majority of the watches that used to make up my modest collection, and have kept the ones you see in the above picture.
I frequented the major watch forums, mostly PoorMansWatchForum, but also TimeZone, SeikoCitizenWatchForum, and WatchUSeek as well. I never posted much, but bought and sold a number of watches on their classified boards. Those are great places to buy gently used watches from people who are honest, and care for their timepieces. Many of these watches can be had for a great deal.
For those of you looking to get a nice automatic watch, but don’t have the money for a high-end Swiss timepiece, I would recommend several. If you want a diver watch (with a Rolex Submariner type look), then I’d go for the sterile dialed Submariner-style watches made by Parnis that are widely available on ebay. They have ones with Chinese made Seagull movements, which are very solid and dependable, for ~$100 shipped. If you want one with a Swiss ETA 2824-2 movement they’re available as well for about ~$250. If you’re not a watch nut, I’d opt for the Chinese Seagull movement—the case, dial, and bracelet are the same, the only difference is the movement, and the Chinese ones are now, to my knowledge, fairly dependable workhorses. I have a Parnis Explorer-style watch with a Seagull movement, and it has worked perfectly since day one. For other watches inspired by Panerai, IWC, and others, just do a general ebay search for “Parnis Watch.”
Another option for an inexpensive Japanese-made diver watch is the Orient Mako which will set you back about $115. Orient still makes their movements in-house, and they’re of incredibly high quality and dependability.
Another classic is the Seiko SKX-007. These sell in the $200 range new on ebay, but are widely available used on the watch forum sales boards linked to above. Also, the Seiko SKX-007 is a frequently modded watch, as many different companies make after-market parts for them: dials, hands, bezels, etc. You can often buy ones on the forums that are already modded. The sterile-dialed diver you see in the pic above is one such modded Seiko which has an MKII dial and hands. MKII used to be the main seller of after-market Seiko parts, but it looks like they now only sell complete Swiss-made watches designed by MKII’s American team of watch nuts. I’m sure the quality on those is top-notch, and if you’ve got the dough, you’ll be the only person wearing an MKII in a room full of Rolexes, Omegas, etc.
If Swiss-made is what you want, but you don’t want to break the bank buying luxury brands, and don’t want to buy used, you can check out WestCoastTime for some solid watches by makers like Ollech&Wajs. These will set you back about $350. The case, dial, and movements on these are solid, but the bracelets feel a little cheap for the money. But if you’re going to be throwing the watch on NATO straps and/or leather straps, that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
That leads me to straps, and the colorful NATO straps I receive many questions about. I buy most of mine on ebay, and mostly from this seller here. They’re about $9 shipped, and come in a variety of colors combos and sizes. Make sure you know the size you need for your watch. Rolex Submariners, and their less-expensive Parnis and Ollech&Wajs counterparts have 20mm lugs, so that’s the size you’d go with. The Seiko SKX-007 has 22mm lugs, and so you’d need a larger strap for that watch.
I hope this has been useful information, and wish you all luck in your watch-buying endeavors!
A little education is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring
—
Alexander Pope
I mean, fuck Pope, but this is one of those quotes by which I try to live my life
A fundamentalist does not believe, he knows directly. To put in another way, both liberal-skeptical cynicism and fundamentalism thus share a basic underlying feature: the loss of the ability to believe in the proper sense of the term…What is unthinkable for them is the “absurd” act of a decision which establishes every authentic belief, a decision which cannot be grounded in the chain of “reasons,” in positive knowledge: the “sincere hypocrisy” of someone like Anne Frank who, in the face of the terrifying depravity of the Nazis, in a true act of credo qua absurdum asserted her belief in the fundamental goodness of all humans.
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
—James Baldwin (via vouth)
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PET PEEVE.
MyHabit.com, Amazon’s flash retail site, has some pretty fucking awesome sales—as we speak Luciano Barbera and Yves Saint Laurent are both available. HOWEVER, the styling/modeling/photographing of the clothing is so horrendous that it’s almost impossible to shop.
If I’m finna drop ~600 clams on a Luciano Barbera blazer (pictured above) you better show me WHAT IT’S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. I honestly can’t believe that a website selling Barbera would photograph a blazer that fits a model this poorly. I have no idea what the blazer would even look like, because I can’t tell how it fits.
Fucking amateur hour.
Who’s up for a good post lunch cry? This. Is. Beautiful.
RIP Maurice Sendak.
Maurice Sendak On Death (And Life)
The most emotionally affecting video everyone you know will post to facebook today.
(Source: College Humor)
I’m already sold but I added a few of my own.
102. More time to eat cheesecake.
103. You can see the Avengers for the fourteenth time.
104. You’re not having sex with Kate Upton so why bother with it at all?
105. No awkwardness between you and your pets because they watch you have sex.
(Source: lostinkalifornia)
I was wearing:
- Yves Saint Laurent vintage tricot tie
- Loro Piana wool 100’s blazer
- H&M shirt
- Incotex pants
- Church tassel loafers Keats
- bracelets bought in Madrid
- Cheap Monday shades (borrowed from Filippo Fiora)
- Chanel J12 watch
I am incredibly pleased to announce
that The Kings Point will be hitting Allen Edmonds stores this fall!
A shout to everyone involved, Allen Edmonds, SCC, Parsons, our judges and everyone who voted!
Thanks!!!
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Family Guy. Season 8, Episode 17: “Brian & Stewie”
MAN, THIS IS GOING TO BE SICK. DITCH THESE BRAKES, MAKE IT A FIXIE, SNAG SOME NITTO DROP BARS, ALL SHIMANO COMPONENTS, BROOKS SADDLE, CHRIS KING HEADSET, CLIPLESS PEDALS, MAYBE SOME AEROSPOKES IN A SWEET COLORWAY … I JUST NEED A COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND I’LL BE SET.
FOR A FUTURE IN COMPETITIVE VELODROME RACING?
NO, TO LIKE … WALK IT TO PARTIES AND STUFF.
