Fossil Grant Skeleton watch

This is a review of the Fossil Grant Skeleton watch after over 200 hours of use.

INFORMATION
The Brand : Fossil
  SERIES LABEL Grant
  GENDER Men's
  MODEL ME3052
  MOVEMENT Automatic 111509 movement 

- The watch has a reliable movement, no complaints. 

- Very smooth and keeps itself wound well. No noticeable loss or gain in time.

CASE
  CASE SIZE 44 mm
  CASE THICKNESS 13 mm
  CASE MATERIAL Stainless Steel
  CASE SHAPE Round
  CASE BACK Transparent
  
  The case is comfortable on the wrist.  

As the weight, not particularly on the heavy or light side.

BAND
  BAND MATERIAL Leather (high quality thick leather)
  BAND TYPE Strap
  BAND COLOR Brown
  BAND WIDTH 22 mm
  CLASP Tang

DIAL
  DIAL COLOR Cream Skeleton-Center
  TYPE Analog


CRYSTAL Scratch Resistant Mineral 

[above average material for mineral glass, truly scratch resistant]


HANDS Luminous Silver-tone [Luminous material is horrible 

- most Chinese watches do better (brighter, longer, clearer)]

MAIN DIAL MARKERS Roman Numeral
SECONDARY MARKERS Minute Markers around the outer rim

SUB DIALS One - Small Second

LUMINISCENCE Hands only... no numbers or markers are luminous.  Poor material used

BEZEL TYPE Fixed
BEZEL COLOR Silver-tone
BEZEL MATERIAL Stainless Steel

CROWN Pull / Push  - horribly difficult crown to use.  

Never seen such a bad crown on ANY Fossil watch before.

Overall Features

WATER RESISTANCE: 50 meters / 165 feet  not tested.  

Front and back crystal/glass appears to be well made and water tight.  

Other than control issues, lock issues, the Crown does not look to be well done for 

water resistance either.

FUNCTIONS: Hour, Minute, and Seconds hand

Price purchased: $115  

Recommend: No.  

Nice looking watch, but better watches can be purchased for this price point.

all 324 from chi and +26 more today

I have the the last two week purchases cataloged. Today, I purchased 26 more cards for Topps 1984 and got those cataloged also. Even after this, I still have not cataloged 20k cards yet.

I feel it is time to start looking at the major holes between my 1965 set and 1984 sets, and see if I can't reasonably plug some of those holes.

Really, I never dreamed I would have some of the range of this collection as I do.

Still cataloging cards from Rosemount

I'm still extremely happy with my pickups from that weekend,
but like my collection as a whole, I still have not gotten
everything cataloged.

Some favorites from these pickups:

  Lee Smith         1983 Donruss Cubs      [HoF]       
  Remainder of the  1983 Topps   Cubs      team commons
  Remainder of the  1983 Topps   Cardinals team commons
  Sammy Sosa Rookie 1990 Score   White Sox 
  Bobby Cox         1969 Topps   Yankees   [HoF]
  Nico Houerner     2020 Topps   Cubs      Rookie
  and just so many cards that I needed in my 1983, 1970 and 1969 sets
 

I was surprised to hear that 2023 nationals had the largest turn out in the conv long history. The NSCC does not release official attendance numbers, but the 2023 Rosemount IL card show is believed to have attracted more than 100,000 attendees, surpassing the 1991 show in Anaheim, Calif. for the largest of all time in it's long history.

My understanding is that next year is in cleavland and then back to Chicago Area in 2025.

Card Collectors Nationals! I made it!

2023 was the year I finally make the Nationals. I had so many expectations, and the size of this "card show" was greater.

I purchased 324 cards, yet I feel I should have walked away with more. I was able to find cards at better prices than I have had the opportunity in years.

Here is a simple breakdown of my purchases in Rosemount IL

Quantity, year, make   
       5, 1966, Topps  
      31, 1969, Topps  
     102, 1970, Topps  
      15, 1972, Topps  
       2, 1979, Topps  
       2, 1980, Topps  
       3, 1981, Fleer  
      11, 1983, Donruss
      27, 1983, Fleer  
     115, 1983, Topps  
       1, 1990, Score  
       2, 2019, Topps  
       2, 2020, Topps  
       6, 2022, Topps