Homage watches

[landroverking]

What's your thoughts? Would you buy one as a beater?

[lig]

Nope. Too many other great real watches for that job.

[lipjin]

Yes. Why not - a homage is as much as real watch as others.



MKII - probably one of the best indie brands out there

[landroverking]

Originally Posted by lipjin

Yes. Why not - a homage is as much as real watch as others.



MKII - probably one of the best indie brands out there

Where can you find the MK in your pic.
I saw one on eBay but it was like $2600.
Any better deals out there.

[lipjin]

Originally Posted by landroverking

Where can you find the MK in your pic.

I saw one on eBay but it was like $2600.

Any better deals out there.

Sent ya a pm.

[GradyPhilpott]

Some designs have been around so long and have been copied by so many companies that it's impossible to try and figure out who was the first and even if one can be identified as a first, say, for that design on a wristwatch, the original design may have been on a pocket watch by someone else.

Is the Cellini Classic any less desirable because it resembles Patek Calatrava?

Cellini haters may skip this question.

[mr_gray]

These MKii watches look pretty great if you ask me. If that's what a homage watch is then sign me up.

[lipjin]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

Some designs have been around so long and have been copied by so many companies that it's impossible to try and figure out who was the first and even if one can be identified as a first, say, for that design on a wristwatch, the original design may have been on a pocket watch by someone else.



Is the Cellini Classic any less desirable because it resembles Patek Calatrava?



Cellini haters may skip this question.

I would add that it's very hard to improve upon the concept of telling time (3 handed time telling has been around for centuries) unless you're willing to wear a sundial on the wrist and position yourself in the open just so...

As long as you're true to yourself and like watches for what they are - a human triumph of design, ingenuity and engineering (and miniaturization (in the early 1900s)) and not try to pass off a "homage" as a "real" watch.

Btw, nice classic Cellini - all the 1950 vintage 3 handed pieces all look like that whether it be from omega, patek, ap, or other now defunct companies.

[drhr]

Yes, I don't care what they're called, original, copy, homage, clone, whatever. If the watch looks good to me, the price is right and it fits my wrist I more than likely will want/have it . . .

[osamu]

Some homages kinda turn me off, when they are maybe too blatant of a copy (see like a bagelsport or parnis milgauss), or copies of modern watches, it kinda turns me off.

Homages to like vintage watches, which are hard to find, extremely rare, and impossible afford (ie. paul newman homages) I don't have as much of a problem with. Maybe I'm just being hypocritical.

[Psmith]

I have no problem with them

[SearChart]

I have nothing against them, in fact I'd like to have an Ocean7 PloProf 1250M diver which is basically an Omega PloProf homage.

[drhr]

Originally Posted by osamu

Some homages kinda turn me off, when they are maybe too blatant of a copy (see like a bagelsport or parnis milgauss), or copies of modern watches, it kinda turns me off.

Homages to like vintage watches, which are hard to find, extremely rare, and impossible afford (ie. paul newman homages) I don't have as much of a problem with. Maybe I'm just being hypocritical.

Nope, just different perspective. Nice to know there's at least one other addict here, howzit osamu!!

[locutus49]

Doesn't Omega make homage Rolex Submariners?

[FTX I]

Originally Posted by locutus49

Doesn't Omega make homage Rolex Submariners?

No, they don't.

[GsurgBM]

I would own one and do. Not at the same level as a vintage sub by any means, but a nice wear every now and then for sure. No one outside of this forum knows the difference anyway.

[landroverking]

Thx for the feedback, now who makes the best homage vintage bond sub?

[FTX I]

IMHO the best is from MKII (nassau & kingston). I ordered a Nassau but after 2 months waiting I decided to cancel it - I would have to deal with import tax as Im not going to the US in august as I planned - but if I could get one in the future without waiting 5 months I would do it.

[lipjin]

Originally Posted by landroverking

Thx for the feedback, now who makes the best homage vintage bond sub?

Toss up between Steinhart ocean 1 and MKII Kingston.



I've only owned the MKIIs but sold them to a guy who had the Steinhart.

[drhr]

Originally Posted by lipjin

Toss up between Steinhart ocean 1 and MKII Kingston.



I've only owned the MKIIs but sold them to a guy who had the Steinhart.

100% agree!

[irate03]

ooh I like this thread. so at the risk of getting lynched this is my take, I got in to homages four years ago when I saw a photographer I follow online wearing a Panerai luminor. I'd never seen anything like it before, I'd always liked a nice watch but my budget had only ever taken me to the dizzy heights of Fossil and Accurist, sub £100. I discovered a few places selling homage pams and was reluctant to pull the trigger, eventually I did, a mariner militare, I wore it for a few months and through more research discovered people building their own "vintage" watches with old parts and new parts, the beauty of the old movements, to have something 50 or 60 years old powering a watch on your wrist and still going strong!! blew me away. Four years later and I have been educated in things I never thought possible, like stripping and servicing certain movements (on a amateur hobby level of course) and actually building a watch top to bottom, customising parts as I went. In the last couple of years I have found I wanted more than built historic homages and I sold off a few of my collection to other homage enthusiasts (I have never pretended they are anything other than what they are) and started collecting a few "real" vintage watches, and I now have two 1970's valjoux powered chronographs, a little old Russian beater which looks like they tried to copy an Omega Ranchero, my grandfathers basic little Swiss 70's watch which was passed to me last year which I got working again, and now my most recent investment a 1971 Rolex datejust 1603, the jewel in my collection.....so far. I am now on the lookout for a nice classic super compressor when I can afford it, but it will mean one of the other watches has to go I think.
So I digress, at the risk of being tarred and feathered, here is my completely hand built, aged, serviced and fully working Italian navy homage.
The hands are steel, I learnt to heat blue them and custom fit them to the cannon pinion, the dial is hand painted and lumed, I also made the strap.

[HERITAGE82]

Originally Posted by irate03

ooh I like this thread. so at the risk of getting lynched this is my take, I got in to homages four years ago when I saw a photographer I follow online wearing a Panerai luminor. I'd never seen anything like it before, I'd always liked a nice watch but my budget had only ever taken me to the dizzy heights of Fossil and Accurist, sub £100. I discovered a few places selling homage pams and was reluctant to pull the trigger, eventually I did, a mariner militare, I wore it for a few months and through more research discovered people building their own "vintage" watches with old parts and new parts, the beauty of the old movements, to have something 50 or 60 years old powering a watch on your wrist and still going strong!! blew me away. Four years later and I have been educated in things I never thought possible, like stripping and servicing certain movements (on a amateur hobby level of course) and actually building a watch top to bottom, customising parts as I went. In the last couple of years I have found I wanted more than built historic homages and I sold off a few of my collection to other homage enthusiasts (I have never pretended they are anything other than what they are) and started collecting a few "real" vintage watches, and I now have two 1970's valjoux powered chronographs, a little old Russian beater which looks like they tried to copy an Omega Ranchero, my grandfathers basic little Swiss 70's watch which was passed to me last year which I got working again, and now my most recent investment a 1971 Rolex datejust 1603, the jewel in my collection.....so far. I am now on the lookout for a nice classic super compressor when I can afford it, but it will mean one of the other watches has to go I think.
So I digress, at the risk of being tarred and feathered, here is my completely hand built, aged, serviced and fully working Italian navy homage.
The hands are steel, I learnt to heat blue them and custom fit them to the cannon pinion, the dial is hand painted and lumed, I also made the strap.

An Absolute beauty of a watch!!...well done!!

[the_Hunter]

I wore Steinharts for years and loved them.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by landroverking

What's your thoughts? Would you buy one as a beater?

You could just buy a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms.

Hold on, was the Rolex Sub was a homage to that model?.

[Bluside]

I have no problem at all with the Steinhart watches I have. Love the quality, and there are times and places I just don't want to wear my Rolex watches.

I have also given a few as gifts.