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Originally Posted by 7enderbender
I was just clicking around here a bit and signed up recently since I finally went and hunted down the 16600 Sea Dweller I always wanted to go with my Omega Moonwatch Automatic that has been with me for 30 years now almost daily.
Not that the list of watches I eventually want to get is complete and there are some other really cool watches in the family that will eventually go to my son (a 50s Omega, a Blancpain, a Reverso, a late 19th century Lange pocket watch...)
And I’m not surprised to find this subsection here about pens. I’ve been enjoying a Montblanc 149 for years now, same with some Meisterstück and Pelikan ball pens.
What sums up the fascination with these things that are very connected in my mind (some may call it stubborn clinging to an idealized past or snobbery)?
Who else likes or is fascinated by these things? And what do they have in common? Mechanical watches, pens, cars with manual transmission (not giving up on those yet and willing to switch brands to whomever still makes them), guns, pocket knives, Italian bicycles, guitars, tube amplifiers, vinyl record players...
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I totally agree! All the moving parts in a Rolex and yet it is COSC! Amazing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSC
With pens it is not so much the mechanics, but the aesthetics. Especially the Urushi and Maki-e Japanese pens. They are a true work of art!