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I've reported this post to the NATO police. Get one that fitsAlanstrainor wrote: »Citizen on a timex strap...I put the strap on expecting it to be a bit rubbish...quite like it now!
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This is where it all started for me. When I was a kid of about 10 my granda had a seiko watch that I was mad about, always used to ask to see it ect then when he died my granny gave it to me. Its not worth much but I still love it! I wore this watch all through my teens then lost it, my mother found it a few years ago again and got it repaired and gave it to me one Christmas and it has lived in a box in a press the last few years and I just came across it again this morning!
Its a seiko 7009-3130 automatic
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With your indulgence AK I cropped and attached your pic. Those Seiko's are lovely. Great family history too.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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This one arrived on Friday and its a nice Russian Aviator brand watch, kinda confusing who owns or makes them. Volmax, Buran,Poljot are all mentioned in relation to this one. 42mm case which is just the perfect size and I changed the nasty strap to a new Di Modell rally that I was not using.
It's a bitch to photograph because of the dial.
And one stolen from the web
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The latest purchase from Tatarstan
something on the rather nice Vostok mesh
another one from the Amphibia SE (special edition series)
polished 090 tonneau case with new stainless steel bezel and stainless mesh
and most importantly of all, a very nice burnt orange sunburst dial
(have had it for a few weeks already and the new puppy has managed to get scratches and shlobber everywhere ...close-ups really show up everything) 0 -
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I'd been looking around for a Flieger watch for a while and was about to buy a Junkers when @Eoin posted up his Steinhart GMT Ocean 1........that sent me off to the Steinhart site where I saw one of the best looking Flieger type watches I've seen.
I was a little bit worried that at 47mm it would huge on my wrist and to be honest it's the biggest watch I have by several mm, and while it's big on my wrist, it's not so big as to be off putting. I really like it but would prefer if it was closer to 45mm.
It looks good and being made from titanium is very light on the wrist.
Some photos....
In the box
The strap is substantial.....
Nice retro feel to the luminescence
On the wrist
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Great forum. Some beautiful watches and photos too.
Haven't worn a watch regularly in a long, long time but I've been considering getting an every day watch for a while now. I have a nice Seiko Kinetic I received as a gift that I wear on the very odd day out but it's more 'dressy' than 'everyday'.
I wasn't looking to spend a huge amount as it will be coming outdoors with me, getting wet and probably dirty but I did end up breaking the budget (doesn't everyone?
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I have no 'watch knowledge' and don't know what the fashion as such is. I browsed every picture on this and the 'Today I'm Wearing' thread to give myself some ideas. So many 'wants'! I went through every single analogue watch on both eBay and Amazon (there's a lot
). I didn't know exactly what I wanted but after plenty of research I narrowed things down.
(One thing I learned from my possibles pile was that almost all had a very simple circular shape to them. That might sound a bit daft when talking about watches but not all (most?) don't have that very exact, simplistic circular shape. That appealed to me.)
I forget where I spotted it but I really liked this watch instantly and after some searching to try to source it within at least viewing distance of my budget I have just pressed the purchase button.
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Another Russian to add to the mix. This time a Raketa from the late 70's/early 1980's with an early(second generation level) Russian built quartz movement.
Plated brass case, very lightweight in the hand, it looks like a diver and has a copy of the Amphibia screwback, but it really aint a diver. Heavy rain would likely upset it. The dial is cool though, IMH anyway and says from the top "RAKETA" "Quartz" and "Made in CCCP".
With these early quartz jobs I like to take pics of the movements to try and build up a database of them online so differences may be spotted.
For the early 80's it's very primitive when compared to the western stuff of the time. Dirty great stepping motor at the top and adjustable regulator. If it was western you'd put its vintage at around 1973. It's pretty solid, but there's a lot of backlash from the stepping motor so the second hand wobbles a bit as it ticks. Still the hand does line up with the minute markers which is more than can be said for some modern quartz'. I'd had a few of this movement over the years but I found they don't last long as "daily drivers", more a special occasion watch. I have an example of the very first quartz made in the USSR(in 77 IIRC), a Chaika. I'll try and get pics of it.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Hmmm CB, you may have a point here. Russian folks are a damned resourceful and very clever people and most of all very practical with it, so I wouldn't put it past the feckers. This may explain how so many of my examples stopped working. Being a coeliac I'm sworn off gluten so maybe my wrist sweat was missing the vital sugars needed to power the movement(cue bloke or blokess in a shed in Yekaterinburg working on this very issue). Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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So now I wear my good watches because I am worth it.
Same with my fountain pens.[/QUOTE]
There seems to be a connection between nice watch appreciation/wearing and fountain pens. I've seen this before on other threads, and I too fall into this category. It's hard to tell if I am (we are?) nerdy or merely discerning - bit of both perhaps.
This is from this afternoon on the Atlantic coast. It's a bit dusty, but looks well in photos:
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fulladapipes wrote: »So now I wear my good watches because I am worth it.
Same with my fountain pens.
There seems to be a connection between nice watch appreciation/wearing and fountain pens. I've seen this before on other threads, and I too fall into this category. It's hard to tell if I am (we are?) nerdy or merely discerning - bit of both perhaps.
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I'll admit to owning a few fountain pens (3 Cross, and 2 Mont Blanc, previously I had a Montegrappa)
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I can barely write, so it can go both ways... Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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