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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 605587" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>Field watches are really some of my favorites. I love me a giant dive watch, but really, my roots are in field watches. My very first watch as a young teenager was a Timex Camper, green plastic-bodied field watch with green nylon strap. They were everywhere. I think I paid $12. I bet if I looked on ebay (too lazy right now), they're selling for a lot more than that now. Anyone remember those endearing pieces of junk? I've watched some youtube videos from watch collectors the past few months (haven't been interested for years, but ran into an interesting video that got the ball rolling), and it has been re-affirmed that I'm instantly attracted to field watches. The Orient Defender has been bookmarked for a long while now, but I think they changed production or design or something. I have no evidence I can share from memory, but I think I've read they aren't what they used to be (big surprise). I've talked about this elsewhere on the board, but one of the watches reviewed in those youtube videos was a British field watch still being made in the WWII tradition (WJS?), and when I went to price it, I learned they were $12K. Typical. Aren't Hamilton's around $2500?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 605587, member: 1211"] Field watches are really some of my favorites. I love me a giant dive watch, but really, my roots are in field watches. My very first watch as a young teenager was a Timex Camper, green plastic-bodied field watch with green nylon strap. They were everywhere. I think I paid $12. I bet if I looked on ebay (too lazy right now), they're selling for a lot more than that now. Anyone remember those endearing pieces of junk? I've watched some youtube videos from watch collectors the past few months (haven't been interested for years, but ran into an interesting video that got the ball rolling), and it has been re-affirmed that I'm instantly attracted to field watches. The Orient Defender has been bookmarked for a long while now, but I think they changed production or design or something. I have no evidence I can share from memory, but I think I've read they aren't what they used to be (big surprise). I've talked about this elsewhere on the board, but one of the watches reviewed in those youtube videos was a British field watch still being made in the WWII tradition (WJS?), and when I went to price it, I learned they were $12K. Typical. Aren't Hamilton's around $2500? [/QUOTE]
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