IWC Mark XVI and Visconti Opera.


Let's see some of your favorite fountain pen and watch combo photos, if you got them

This is a quick and dirty picture using my cell phone (pardon the quality) ... two aviation inspired items in black and stainless:

Swiss Army automatic pilot chronograph and Parker "51" flighter.

Both my go to every day users.

Here we go...
My everday $14.95 Benrus WalMart Special.... and a beautiful Sheaffer 1250 Balance in virtually mint condition.
When you spend most of your day working with your hands, you don't buy good watches... to me a watch is a practical tool. I appreciate the look of fancy watches, but just can't see myself spending money on one... same way with pens... That might be the reason I don't own a high end fancy modern pen.
OH, the fact that I am cheap might also account for this.

Tom - I used to have around 10 watches, none of them super expensive (I'm also pretty cheap) but all relatively nice automatics and vintage models. I traded and bought/sold similar to pens. Then I had my first child, my now 4 yo son. I've now added another, my 5 month old daughter. Watches are generally more expensive than pens (not nearly as many Phileas, Safari, heck Snorkel or "51" priced watches) so I have now settled on 3 watches. I have the gold Hamilton that my father gave me as a high school graduation present, the chronograph pictured above, and a Seiko automatic dive watch. That along with a couple black plastic watches and most of my bases are covered. Particularly when you add in the 3 vintage pocket watches I also own (one from each of my grandfathers and one from my godfather).

For a guy who was once a died in the wool WIS (Watch Idiot Savant) I have found myself wearing my Timex Ironman and Casio GShocks more than anything else - playing around with small kids and a couple dogs isn't the environment even for my Seiko - which in the watch world is generally considered an inexpensive watch!

Sorry, haven't got any pen pics. Here are a couple of watches

A not so good pic of the one I'm wearing today - 1963 Omega Cal. 562 Pie Pan Constellation.



Girard Perregaux demonstration watch sent to jewellers c. 1950



c. 1954 Le Coultre Futurematic (note lack of winding crown)



I like the idea of combining pen and watch images - I have a new digital camera that I need to evaluate for macro and that would be a great subject for test shots.

Mind you, pens are dead easy to photograph compared to watches - you need to remove the crystals on many watches to prevent glare, or use a light box to photograph them.

Very nice pie pan Connie and what looks like a grains of rice bracelet! A stainless pie pan is pretty much the only watch left on my wish list - basically like yours - dagger hands and block markers (rather than arrow head). I can't tell if yours is gold capped or not, I like them both.

It remains for me one of the most enduring watch designs and as far as design on a broader scale, up there with the Jaguar E type, the Parker "51" and a host of other items that I hold in high regard.

Yup - I lucked onto some NOS beads of rice bands, otherwise a bit hard to come by. Had to get the watch from Spain (another ebay adventure) but was quite pleased with it - which is why I often wear it.

I like 50s and 60s style - see my car page at CARS

for far too many (I don't still own them all

Excuse the reflections on the watch, just a quick snapshot. The watch is a Tag Heuer which never normally leaves my wrist, the pen is a skip find Conway Stewart 27. For a number of years I used to wear a fake Tag Heuer, which I still have and it still works perfectly, as a result of that, most people who know me assume that the watch in this photo is also a fake. It's not, it's the genuine article. If only I had the money, I could get very interested in Tag Heuer watches.

It doesn't really show up on the photo, but the watch face is actually a very dark green, hence photographing it with a green pen.

Connie, very nice vintage Omega. I got a Vintage Omega that had the textured face and black band, it might have been a frankenwatch but I loved the face so much. It never kept good time so the seller took it back. I ended up getting a new Tag Monza for half price but while it is nice, it does not have the cachet of that vintage Omega. I would have had to spend over $200 to fix it I bet. Ill still be on the lookout.

I had bid on some LeCoultre Futurs with the help of a guy from watchzone who lived in Niceville, Florida. Nice guy. I might try again, who knows

Sam

Here are a couple that I took for selling purposes on this and other boards.




Wierd, I thought I had more than just those two.

Anyway, let me know what you think

Cheers,
SG

I have about a dozen Le Coultres but I think the Futurematic is my favourite. Great watch, andtakes very little motion to keep it wound. I prefer the black face but the white is very nise as well.

You should be able to find a decent one on ebay for $800-1800, depending on case material and condition. Of course that would also buy a couple of pretty nice pens....

Since Life is about making the best of materials at hand here is my submission:

The watch is my Swiss Army of the day- $10 on ebay.
Pen is Waterman M something with a radically flexy broad nib- $14 at Mifflinburg,PA antique store day before yesterday.
Background is Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate- Priceless.

I don't know if you can see it in this picture but the song is "Hard Headed Woman" Cat Stevens borrowed from my sister- also Priceless (my sister, that is!).

I'm a colorful kid at heart!

will i be the only one with a non-analog chewtoy rubbber watch??

Hey it's a swatch I have a very very very thin swatch watch too...it's very cool!

A defunct politicial campaign watch and a $2 cartridge fountain pen loaded with red ink.

The only wearable timepiece I own. AND, it is right twice a day. This is unlike any politician I have known. I haven't owned a politician and am not sure if I could afford one I would want to own any now in orfice.

Ron

yes, it was intentional.....

Didn't have time to set up a flash properly, and I'm still playing with the macro on the Sony R1 (think I might like the older Minolta D7i a bit better for macro work - the depth of field is off on this shot and I should have manually set a higher f stop), but I thought that the watch on my arm and the current pen in my pocket actually made a pretty good match - an Omega Constellation Pie Pan and a Shaeffer Legacy Heritage King's Gold.

Probably should have gone for a fine nib, but I'm learning to like the M in this pen and a great writer - starts right up after being left sitting uncapped for 10 minutes.

Audi Solar-powered Watch + My Parker Sonnet workhorse

(bad phone camera picture)



(i dont drive an Audi - the watch was a gift )

Good Golly! Look at the time on my watch I better sleep!!!



Speaking of Watches + Fountain pens, look what I found on eBay!!



http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nifty-Watch-for-the...2QQcmdZViewItem

Here's a big ol' Crocker MHR blow-filler with #7 nib and a random pocketwatch. Not my best photo work, but I did it quickly.

--Daniel

something i took a while back...

All our pictures are pushed aside when lanatair posts I've always loved all your photos very very much...and I love the Omega Watch *drool (but for the women's version)* Hope to afford one of these someday.

Kelvin - wonderful photography - what rig are you using?

A few more of mine (quickly snapped)



c. 1954 Jaeger Le Coultre Cal 497 bumper automatic in black face

Montblanc Meisterstuck 149




1950 Longines Cal. 22A automatic

Parker Sonnet in Sterling with gold accents, Fougere finish




1967 Longines Ultrachron Cal. 431

Montblanc Meisterstuck Solitaire Doue, Burgundy, Vermeil cap




1963 Omega Constellation Cal. 562 chronometer

Sheaffer Legacy Herritage Kings Gold



Universal Geneve Cal. 332

Mont Blanc 164 ball Burgundy

Here's a interesting item for this topic; it's a Sheaffer-branded pocketwatch from Sheaffer's jewelry business, most likely from before Walter A. entered the pen business. The dial says 'Sheaffer Special'; the next post will have a picture of the movement with an identifying mark:

Here's the Sheaffer Special's movement:

it's always interesting to see certain pairings... would love to see why ppl choose to pair a particular watch with a pen

Betty, you are too gracious... my work is far from perfect and maybe a wonderful vintage omega for u?

wspohn, i'm using a canon rig... with 2 speedlights and DIY softboxes

kirchh, that sheaffer watch is special! wonder who made it for them.

It's a Dueber Special. Here's the stamp from the inside of the case:

History link

Hmm I'm assuming the movement was made by Hampden and Dueber made the case.

2 more shots, with Delta Dolce Vita

lovely seiko samurai!

An attempt to impose a historical context on some things I've accumulated simply because I like them. It starts to break down in the 1950s, which means I now have no alternative but to buy a Parker 51, Rolex etc etc ...


Two great American brands beginning with 'W': Waterman and Waltham


1920s-30s: De La Rue Onoto and Eberhard


1930s-40s: Mentmore and Longines


1990s: Tibaldi and Zenith


1990s-noughties: Visconti and Longines

Some nice hardware! Richard S's El Primero, Lanatir's Coaxial Omega and Boston WIS' orange Samurai were particularly notable for me at least!

Not to mention the pens...

Oops, just one more. (Looking at the calendar, it's time I used this watch more frequently.)


Stipula and IWC

nice stuff. I don't have a watch but how's this?

This is what matched best my Pulsar I guess, a Mont Blanc Boheme:

Nice match.

I am trying to think of what will go with my Pelikan - don't think I have any green faced watches......

My wife saw me hauling out a tripod and asked what I was doing with the pens and watches.

She then asked me why I didn't take a picture of what she calls my 'lounge lizard' watch, a Cal. 500 black face Omega. She said anyone caught dead wearing that watch would probably have the Sheaffer Kings Gold in his pocket. I looked at the two of them and figured she was right. The unusual band on the watch is nicely echoed by the nig and surround design on the pen.

Tell me what you think (I actually used a bounce flash on this one which cures a lot of the usual highlight glare errors watches are prone to).

Here's my Seiko Monster with my Vanishing Point - both very affordable but very reliable tools, in my opinion. I got the Seiko for Christmas this year, and I never go a day without it.

2 more shots with Seiko Samurai and ST Dupont DLink

These are hurridly shot pics but do show two of my "kids".My Omega SMP and a Visconti Van Gogh.

Handlebar

And one more pic:My Hammy and Signum Nova.

Handlebar

Was just browsing by, and couldn't resist chiming in. Sorry about the poor pic quality, a scan as opposed to a well-lighted photo.



The pens may be none too impressive, just Parker 75 Sterling Ciseles. The timepiece is perhaps more interesting, a silver pocket watch by Richard Colton of London, c.1705. It has condition problems, and is missing its outer case, but it possesses, IMHO, the finest pierced silver champleve dial I have ever seen (center piercing is backed by blued steel). I might guess that, judging from earlier entries here, kirchh and RichardS may get a bit of a tingle out of this one. I hope to improve the quality of the pen representation as I get further into collecting writing instruments. The watch is residue from an earlier and now receding wave of antique accumulation lust.

Nihontochicken, that Colton is giving me more than a tingle. What a beaut! Any chance of a larger, but tighter crop on the dial?

TIA
RichardS

Sorry, I have no digital camera that will perform macro, and the scanner won't cut it. I once had a digitized photo somehow, but it has vanished into the ether. Will try to see what I can do, but you'll have to take my word for it right now, trust me. Hahahaha! Once you see late 17th to early 18th century Brit pocket watches with silver champleve dials, well, they kinda ruin you for most anything later. Same might be said for that period brass dial long case clocks, IMO. However, like Japanese swords, decent pieces start at multi-kilobucks a throw, which is one reason why I've gotten into Georgian sterling flatware and vintage pens.

Not much of a watch person, but I'll play. The pen is a specially made "nightingale". I like the nightingale, but the colors are... well, feminine. So, I have these made for a customer who wants a manly color, and this one is call the Hanava Brown...





Kevin

This watch go's everywhere with me and it is very robust, it has survived a huge wipeout on a downhill mtb track and feels very much at home under water.
The pen is an Onoto BHR with broad nib from around 1910, I replaced the washer and cork seals about a month ago and have used it everyday since, my daily rotation is feeling a bit left out due to this pen.
The nib is georgous and writes extremely smoothly with just the right amount of flex, very good flow and a wet line, the shut off on these is a neat feature and works very well and it holds a huge amount of ink.

With a new strap for my Aqua Terra and a new Visconti Pericle 2001 I got the other day, I had to add a new photo to this thread.