What peasant bought next ...

I (still) blame the weather

Bullseye1 wrote: »

I've never owned a 24 hour watch. Very cool.

There's a few 24h pilot style Frankensteins currently around





And for "your friend" (:D) you can even get a frankened 24h diver in the 60 mm Zlatoust 700m diver case (gold plated, no less)




Personally, I think that a 24h watch is a bit of a gimmick ...that's why I bought it (cheap )

Out of those three, I'd have the first one ...because on that one the dial actually makes sense.
(smaller inner ring for the hours that actually meets the hour hand and bigger ring for the minutes that meets the minute hand)

As the more observant among you may have noticed ...the weather is still shoyte (meaning I've got too much time on my hands to spend in the bay)

So today I fell for a Russian rat-trap

Well actually, it's a rattrapante ...a stopwatch with two hands:






Hopefully that'll scratch that chrono itch for a while


EDIT:
btw ...this is a "space" stopwatch (take that, Rolex)
http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachments/f10/38964d1171209760-new-pic-my-russian-space-watches-spacegallery2.jpg


EDIT #2:

The same company also made (in the 1960's) a mechanical stopwatch that measures 1/100th of a second and beats at 360.000 beats per hour :eek:. That's 10 times faster than the one above

ooops
Today I won an auction where I thought I wouldn't stand a chance and watch no 7 is now on its way. I currently have more watches in the post than at home :rolleyes:

Anyhow ...you guessed it, it's another Russian. This time a "Sekonda" branded (for export) Poljot with caliber 2612.1
It should look something like this (the sellers picture wasn't great so I borrowed another one)



The second crown and the extra small hand indicate that there is something special going on here.
In this case, it's an alarm (one of the trapped bee kind, like in this video of a watch with the same caliber)



The second crown sets the alarm hand and winds a second spring, which in turn activates a little hammer that hammers away at a pin in the caseback, producing the trapped bee alarm.

All a bit of fun

today I bought this:




I was told to buy it because it's a nice shade of blue
(And I won't be the one wearing it either)


For those whose interest goes beyond the colour ...
The dial is indeed blue, buit it's also guilloche. The watch itself is a Pobeda/Zim caliber 2602, handwind, 15 Jewels diameter 36 mm incl. crown

Good, old, pedestrian Russian mechanics

Still on Russians

The next one for meself, Raketa "Domino", 2628H handwind movement with day and date.

The "domino" bit would be the day display ...the red dot moves from 1 - 7 according to the day of the week.


NOS, complete with instructions and "box" (if you want to call that a box )

nope ...no Russian connections whatsoever

(There's just so much fun and the occasional good deal to be had browsing the bay for Russian watches)

Naaahh ...most of my autos handwind anyway and the one that doesn't doesn't have a date or any other complications, so it gets to rest every now and then

I've been hankering after one of those super-slim Poljot/Luch de luxe watches for quite a while now. The ones with the 2209, 2.6 mm thin caliber. (also see the red Luch above)

Several versions I nearly bought ...chromed case, gold plated case, white dial, gold dial... black dial was really tempting...until some days ago I saw a Sekonda branded version with a blue dial and red second hand:D (complete with mesh bracelet)

Here's the one and only sellers pic


Well ..today I won the auction ...now I can't wait to find out if the delivered article will meet expectations.

I don't have that many watches ...I just post a lot about them

Hi,

I'm peasant and I'm a watchaholic

:rolleyes: