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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭musiknonstop


    I *really* like this Amphibian... the postman was busy last week.

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    sparrowcar wrote: »
    Problem sorted :)

    Any updates?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Any updates?

    I bought the lidl tool but tried to start a cut the other day and I really need a vice or similar. Myself and Mitch B are going to sit down and have a go some day this week. Will let you know how we get on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Seiko 7L22 Kinetic

    Bling feckin' Bling :D:D

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Use a bit of leather either side of the vise to protect it.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Love those Mondaines. And the digitals. Oh and the Tissot ain't too shabby either. :)

    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.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Lume shot, Jiusko on the left and Seiko BFK on right. For the camera geeks amongst us:
    iso 1600
    f 8
    13 seconds

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    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭musiknonstop


    Taking a break from Russian today... this Seiko arrived last week.

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    Speaking of Russian, I've ordered one of the new Vostok Komandirskie 65s. Well, it's for my birthday, some time this year :D.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Senecio


    Not what you would normally see in here.

    The Aqua Terra will sit on the night stand in the mornings while this helps to motivate me to lose a few excess kg's.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Joined the Speedmaster Club

    My 3570.50.00

    Stunner


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    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭fulladapipes


    Is that hesalite or crystal? (I should possibly know this already...) Love those Speedies and miss mine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    new boots for the Moon
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    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭musiknonstop


    Shamelessly inspired by peasant :-)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭musiknonstop


    Shamelessly inspired by peasant :-)

    Sadly my radioroom amphibia died today :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Another vintage omega from me. This one is from 1961 and in great nick. The second hand is old, but not original and is the one thing I dont like about this watch.

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    ^^^
    Pure class


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Got a news email from Meranom today - so I ordered a Komandirskie 1965 for myself. It's a manual wind watch, which is new for me. I do prefer automatics. But I liked the black face on this one.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭mynameis905


    Lovely watch dudara. I thought the same until I got my first handwinder but now I much prefer it to automatics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭musiknonstop


    dudara wrote: »
    Got a news email from Meranom today - so I ordered a Komandirskie 1965 for myself. It's a manual wind watch, which is new for me. I do prefer automatics. But I liked the black face on this one.

    I've ordered the gold faced one. It left the factory yesterday, fingers crossed it gets delivered before Christmas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,190 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    green sort of sunday yesterday :D

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Menas wrote: »
    Another vintage omega from me. This one is from 1961 and in great nick. The second hand is old, but not original and is the one thing I dont like about this watch.


    The more eagle eyed if you will have noticed that this watch badly needs a service.
    Not visible to the eye is the gunk inside the movement...but the regulator set to an extreme is a giveaway!

    Anyway, this watch and a similar one are with Michael Swift for a service...but wont be back with me until after christmas. :(


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I posted a pic of this watch a week or so ago on a mesh strap. Though I got it very cheaply it seems for one of these*, I broke a cardinal rule of mine, namely; "if a watch is best known for having a steel bracelet, then NEVER buy one without as you'll break your feckin heart trying to source one(™)". Ok it's a bit of a mouthful of a rule I grant you, but a good one. But like the gobshíte I am in this case…

    Sooo after two or three years of looking, I got nada. When they came up they were either attached to watches for crazy money(to me) or just crazy money(I've seen links go for 50 quid in auctions). Omegamania in a big way. Anyhoo while perusing my usual hail mary ebay searches, one of which is "seemaster". Yep. The bracelet came up(1268/241 for the Omegamaniacs :)). Yay! Got it at auction for 50 quid. The most I have ever paid for a strap. Ever and ever. :eek: It arrived today.

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    Double bonus was it has all the links so if/when I come to resale more nourished men and women than me are in the picture. I removed four to fit me. One helluva taper on it. The abomination of filth that came out of the ultrasonic cleaning. :eek: Oh. My. God. :D I added bleach into the second wash. Actually a bit of the old domestos sparkles up SS no end.

    Shot of it on the oul wristicle.

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    Makes a big diff to the watch and now it's "correct". TBH and I'm not sure why, this was always in my mind as a "flipper", a watch I'd sell on quickly. I really liked the watch and love the background of it being Omega's first inhouse quartz at a time when they were at the very forefront of the new tech(and streets ahead of the Japanese). And since I can't afford a Marine Chronometer *sadface*… :) But I didn't flip it. Now this bracelet seals it and I likely won't. I also like how the very early quartz seconds hands hit the marks smack bang on the money. Seiko today make a big deal of this in their Grand Seiko quartz(which BTW don't always hit said markers on the money), yet the Swiss guys and gals were doing it 40 years ago.

    /essay. :o




    *found the receipt and just over the 200 quid mark, which isn't too shabby. I thought I'd paid more TBH, though 200 is my limit, 250 if I have a (in)decent claret in me. ;-) Thought mine was a 1975, turns out it's a 73, so an early batch.

    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.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Congrats, I reckon you could sell the spare links at a handsome profit.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Aye true enough B and being the cheap bastid I am... however I am middle aged and the spread could hit anytime soon, so it might be prudent to hang onto them… :D I was surprised to find the extra links. It looks like the original owner just used the clasp adjustments to fit. Even with my scrawny wrist I have two links left and I reckon you could get down to even the tiniest lady's wrist no bother. I've never been that much of an Omega fan TBH, but over the years I have noticed they made damn fine bracelets, better than Rolex IMH. Quite a bit better actually, in vintage anyway. Longines have had some cracking bracelets too, but seemed to have been made for either Rambo on (more) steroids or rejects from Trocaire boxes like me. Not much of a middle ground going on. Though for me one of the coolest OEM bracelets was the "ladder" style one on the Zenith Defy Diver. Funkayyy.

    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.



  • Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭Lombardo86


    I think when you have more than one, it means you have a collection now? If so - i've started my own collection now.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Mako on a NATO...

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭ghostchant


    Picked this up last week. Getting some assistance with the purchase which means it's now locked away til Christmas

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    Interview watch!

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    What job? MI6?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭gucci


    I love the bevelling on that omega watch Wibbs, so well "engineered" looking, but beautifully elegant at the same time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭gucci


    My casio a500we.

    It may lack the elegance of Wibbs Omega but the functionality of being able to change timezones with such ease is incredibly useful......for a lad that travels 8 miles to work every morning :-)

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    gucci wrote: »
    It may lack the elegance of Wibbs 893bet/Ghostchant's Omega
    FYP. :) I have a huge amount of affection for Casio's. Bloody great watches and they really pop in stainless steel.



    Funny enough that Omega of mine allows you to change the hour hand/timezone without stopping the watch or moving the minutes hand. It was a big feature of their early quartz movements. Dunno if Omega quartz are still like that?

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    What job? MI6?

    I could tell you but Id have to kill you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭paulanthony


    Recently acquired addition - very comfortable

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭ghostchant


    Wibbs wrote: »

    Funny enough that Omega of mine allows you to change the hour hand/timezone without stopping the watch or moving the minutes hand. It was a big feature of their early quartz movements. Dunno if Omega quartz are still like that?

    My quartz Seamaster above has that. Annoyingly it doesn't have a quick-set date though...I'd rather it didn't have a date at all as a result.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Been wearing this a bit.

    Orient Curator with Power Reserve.

    41mm, Automatic

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    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    ghostchant wrote: »
    My quartz Seamaster above has that. Annoyingly it doesn't have a quick-set date though...I'd rather it didn't have a date at all as a result.
    Funny enough the original of the species is similar. It does have a quickset day, but not date.
    Been wearing this a bit.
    I can well see why DT. That's a very nice looking timepiece. There's quite a few of the Orient watches that have caught my eye in the last few years.

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Wibbs wrote: »

    I can well see why DT. That's a very nice looking timepiece. There's quite a few of the Orient watches that have caught my eye in the last few years.

    Aye...

    150 Euro for a 41mm, Automatic and sapphire,lovely leather strap... good deal

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭ArphaRima


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    My Tag Heuer Monaco has been replaced by a Huawei watch temporarily and my Breitling Transocean is just back from major repairs after a motorbike crash wrecked it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    fluffer wrote: »

    My Tag Heuer Monaco has been replaced by a Huawei watch temporarily and my Breitling Transocean is just back from major repairs after a motorbike crash wrecked it.

    If that IWC was a woman I would be breaking the tenth commandment right now. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭Homer


    Menas wrote: »
    If that IWC was a woman I would be breaking the tenth commandment right now. :)

    Thou shalt not steal another mans watch?? Thought that was number 7 ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,488 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    I'd break every commandment for that IWC

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭Homer


    Jaysus we better be careful who we invite to the next get together :P Speaking of which.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭CarltonBrowne


    This actually landed a couple of months ago. It won't be a travelling watch much as I have a suspicion that it set off a radiation alarm at Heathrow when I first flew with it :eek:.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    Not exclusively mine, I bought this for a friend as an Xmas gift... €75 and its quite a nice looking watch despite being more of a fashion brand then a proper watch. Personally I would wear it as a second or spare watch. No idea what kinda movt it has, I assuming a Chinese one but it seems to be keeping time pretty well.
    Abit of a Breitling ripp off, very suspicious looking lol.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭firestarter51


    well as the title says i picked up a tag on ebay and it turned up and all looked good for a minute, then i realised it was fake, seems to be a very good fake.
    i contacted the seller who told me i was wrong and he is a jeweller and to trust him, it is on its way back now anyway.
    Tag Heuer link automatic calibre 7 is the title and model number was wjf5111 which doesn't seem to exist
    just thought i would let everyone know in case


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Some of the fakes can be scarily bloody good these days, especially the "home cooked" ones you see on faking forums. Good that you're sending it back and hopefully you get your cash back. Then again generally speaking though ebay can be a pain, you will usually get your money back. It's much better for buyers than sellers.

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    €75 and its quite a nice looking watch despite being more of a fashion brand then a proper watch.

    Rotary is very much a watch brand!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭firestarter51


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Some of the fakes can be scarily bloody good these days, especially the "home cooked" ones you see on faking forums. Good that you're sending it back and hopefully you get your cash back. Then again generally speaking though ebay can be a pain, you will usually get your money back. It's much better for buyers than sellers.

    I buy and sell on there, never had a problem selling, first fake that's fooled me from pictures, buyers are looked after by eBay and PayPal so my money should be safe.
    No doubt it will be up for sale shortly after it goes back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭qm1bv4p8i92aoj


    That's a beautiful looking timepiece Stereosound. Can I ask where you purchased it please?

    I'm just waiting on hitting 25 posts so I can post pics of my own watches.


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