ROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEX
16 June 2019, 07:43 AM | #31 | |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Real Name: Neil
Location: UK
Watch: ing ships roll in
Posts: 59,214
|
Quote:
|
|
16 June 2019, 09:40 AM | #32 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 12,356
|
Japan is very safe but personally I'm not just walking around shopping/eating/sight seeing. I'm out and about being active and enjoying everything the country has to offer... So I wouldn't take a Patek with me. In terms of safety, not a single thing to worry about as others have said unless you're asking for it like the Kabuki-cho example.
|
16 June 2019, 10:36 AM | #33 |
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: Brooklyn
Watch: Sd43
Posts: 684
|
Very nice collection.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
16 June 2019, 11:00 AM | #34 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: United States
Watch: Rolex and Patek
Posts: 10,578
|
Why wear anything and just not buy a watch in Japan?
|
16 June 2019, 03:13 PM | #35 |
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,120
|
I thought the same. With fam in Lithuania and then Portugal. Took 5168 g which goes completely unnoticed probably because of the rubber strap. Nothing at all which I am surprised. Took the 126710BLRO but that got too many eyes. That jubilee really makes it glitter. I am really cautious of surroundings and don’t wear watches through the airports.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
16 June 2019, 03:23 PM | #36 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: USA
Watch: addiction issues
Posts: 36,856
|
Sounds like you made the right choice bringing the GS back to the motherland. Enjoy your trip!
__________________
|
16 June 2019, 03:36 PM | #37 |
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: DC
Watch: PP/AP/BP/UN
Posts: 1,015
|
What's the point in having watches if you're afraid....literally afraid....to wear them? You're going to a safe country that might have some rain. Any watch you have would be appropriate. If you're going to be active, then any of your sports watches are appropriate. Your Nautilus is the watch to wear. If you're afraid of crime, then the LAST watch you should ever wear is a Rolex because that's all criminals in most countries recognize. As for the guilt of wearing a 50k watch and choosing to wear a Seiko, that is just ridiculous! Unless you're going to the Congo, Venezuela, or Somalia, then wear the damn Nautilus! What watch you wear on your Japan trip is no different than a watch you would wear on California trip. I also don't get the fear of leaving a watch in a hotel or losing it.... That's what insurance is for and your policy should cover those sorts of things. If I had a Nautilus, I would beat the crap out of it.
|
16 June 2019, 05:09 PM | #38 |
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: Santiago, Chile
Posts: 147
|
A fascinating conundrum indeed. I'm all about situational awareness when traveling. I've spent a large portion of my career working in some rough countries. But I never worried about my watch. What is the point in having them if you aren't confident enough to wear them... especially in a place as safe as Japan?
Now, the real problem is that we are talking about what watch to wear when you go to Japan instead of what JDM Grand Seiko to buy when you get there. Sent from the voices in my head and translated by their drinking buddy. |
17 June 2019, 06:45 PM | #39 |
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Los Angeles
Watch: 3970
Posts: 3,799
|
Been 2 days and i’ve seen at least 10 rolexes on wrists. A bunch of submariners (one bluesy) the others black, some date justs. Seen an older aquanaut on a Japanese lady. That’s all so far
|
18 June 2019, 02:19 AM | #40 |
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Real Name: K.
Location: 780
Posts: 10,386
|
Very nice collection. There are at least half a dozen pieces in there that I would wear without any worries. Have a good trip!
|
18 June 2019, 02:40 AM | #41 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: The States
Watch: Cosmograph Daytona
Posts: 6,787
|
5164
Easy |
18 June 2019, 02:54 AM | #42 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 4,340
|
NO brainer, 5164a.
|
19 June 2019, 05:36 AM | #43 |
2024 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Family first
Posts: 652
|
|
23 June 2019, 08:33 AM | #44 |
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jan 2019
Real Name: Mohi
Location: Boca Raton, FL
Watch: AP 26405CE
Posts: 38
|
Enjoy your vacation!
It seems like you went with the Gran Seiko. If I was in your shoes, bringing the Seiko to Japan would have been poetic and the clear choice. Planning on traveling there myself within a few years. I've got a date with a certain 2000GT in the Toyota museum. |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
*Banners
Of The Month*
This space is provided to horological resources.