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Mitch Buchannon · 14-04-2015 12:29pm

So A new arrival to the watch box... another Wibbs Special ©.

I have this 1940's Chronographe Suisse. This watch is 39mm which is a good size for they 1940's. It has a Venus 170 movement inside.

The case is in good condition. There are a few marks where the case back has been taken off in the past. The movement looks clean but it's in desperate need of a service. When wound the second hand runs intermittently. The chrono hand runs to about 20seconds and then stops. It doesn't reset to zero.

All that said, I am very happy with it. I'll be even happier once it's back from a service.

Here are a few pictures.

StereoSound · 14-04-2015 1:55pm

I got this old skool Casio of a friend today as a gift, he knows I like this old style Casios. Nice to see you can still buy these new after all these years. Really cool yoke I like it very much.

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Wibbs · 14-04-2015 2:08pm

They look brilliant in steel.

StereoSound · 14-04-2015 3:03pm

Haha ye, its a cracker I have to say. So light you can hardly feel your wearing it.

GrumPy · 14-04-2015 3:06pm

StereoSound wrote: »

Haha ye, its a cracker I have to say. So light you can hardly feel your wearing it.

Was gonna pick one of these up in Argos on the way home (just handy for a the holliers) How does it fit? My wrists are like a 12 year old girl's, despite being a 26 year old man - so when I wear a stainless steel strap, it usually moves around on my arm and gets really annoying...

StereoSound · 14-04-2015 3:11pm

Go for it! It has an adjustable clasp thingy which when released will slide up or down the strap and then you snap it back into place. I have slim wrists too so it will fit you perfectly with room to spare if needed.

Mredsnapper · 14-04-2015 7:52pm

Homer wrote: »

My IWC from the bay arrived this morning Delighted with the condition and size, at 38mm is actually wearable on my not so manly wrists!
Thanks again to Wibbs let the sickness continue :pac:

Couple of quick phone pics

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Would have been even cheaper if I hadn't been bidding against you. I thino you managed to snipe it at the last minute.... looks even nicer in your photos than the eBay ones. Yummy.

blue5000 · 14-04-2015 9:35pm

I bought 5 watches as spares or repairs in a joblot on ebay last week, plan is to 'practice' on them before I do a bit of modding. Gave this a shake and it's been going since….

Eoin · 15-04-2015 12:14pm

I missed having a diver in my collection, and wanted something I could take on holidays next month without being too worried about it. Might throw it on a NATO, the rubber strap is comfortable but I just don't like them. It's 45mm which used to be the size I always went for, but I've found myself preferring slightly smaller watches recently so not 100% sure about it now.

Tragedy · 15-04-2015 4:34pm

Tragedy wrote: »

About 0.25s fast after 6 weeks, but considering I set it by holding it up against the atomic clock webpage, there's a good chance it's not lost a second since.

My titanium skagen is now +6s, my rotary divers is +1.5s and my R&Co is +2s.

Time hasn't been altered since 26th of October and is -1.25s behind uhrzeit.org.

Mredsnapper · 15-04-2015 4:47pm

Time will alter by one second this year

http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-all-getting-an-extra-second-on-june-30-this-year

Couldn't help it. Soz

Faith+1 · 15-04-2015 5:30pm

GrumPy wrote: »

Was gonna pick one of these up in Argos on the way home (just handy for a the holliers) How does it fit? My wrists are like a 12 year old girl's, despite being a 26 year old man - so when I wear a stainless steel strap, it usually moves around on my arm and gets really annoying...

I know your pain. My wrists are the same size as my mothers!:eek:

Eoin · 15-04-2015 6:05pm

Faith+1 wrote: »

I know your pain. My wrists are the same size as my mothers!:eek:

But that means you get to wear all the vintage loveliness in a good size for you!

Daemonic · 15-04-2015 9:41pm

This weeks watch is a vintage Vostok. The deciding factor on snapping this one up was the 'lightning bolt' indices.

Deep Thought · 16-04-2015 8:05am

Eoin wrote: »

But that means you get to wear all the vintage loveliness in a good size for you!

Don't be making excuses for the girlie wrists..

Wibbs · 16-04-2015 9:38am

Moar new shoes!

Distressed leather Nato.

Cheapest way to get that new watch feelz.

14 quid from an Italian crowd on the Bay. Can't go wrong.

Eoin · 16-04-2015 10:32am

Nice! Can you link to their eBay store?

Wibbs · 16-04-2015 11:53am

No worries E, here ya go. Very supple strap I have to say, nice hardware too and they deliver fast and registered with it. Big selection and not just Natos.

Eoin · 16-04-2015 12:22pm

Lovely, thanks for that. I think my watch I posted above would be too top heavy for a canvas NATO, so a leather one might work better.

fulladapipes · 19-04-2015 7:58pm

I have this watch about six weeks now and haven't taken it off. It's a good size (41mm), great lume, feels well-made, and is generally what I would call a 'handsome' watch - relatively plain, not faddy, should stand the test of style time.

Here it is driving into the Spanish sun. If you ever eat paella in Ireland the rice in it is grown in these fields all around me here - they're planting them at the moment for harvest in September I think (not being in any way agricultural, me, I'm kinda speculating here...).

Wibbs · 19-04-2015 9:14pm

Hmmm, living with the leather Nato on the Zenith above for the last few days, I'm actually beginning to think the new stylee nylon Nato looks better :eek: Less "hipster", less trying too hard to be "authentic" or something…

For a change and one I've not worn for a while I'm sporting this today;

Hampden from around 1915-16. In dire need of a polish and new crystal.

The hands ain't original either. They would have been radium filled "cathedral" hands originally. Nightmare to source. I did source the dial that would have worked with those hands, but they're common enough, that hollow numeral radium dial style are a lot rarer for these. Like I've only seen one in pictures rare. The search continues…

Cracking little movement in these. Real quality. Much higher than the vast majority of Swiss movements at the time. Overcoil, screwed gold chatons, fine regulation and such like. To this day a nicely accurate performer. Over the last 24 hours it's gained 15 seconds and going on previous will consistently do so and hasn't had a service in at least six years.

Wibbs · 20-04-2015 6:36pm

Took a pic of the above Hampden's movement to show want I mean about the nice quality of it.

A 15jewel "Diadem" originally fitted to ladies pocket watches. Gold set and screwed jewels, fine regulation, nice bit of plate finishing and decoration too. The Americans seemed to really go in for this at the time. The europeans were usually much less blingy. You can see the dirt on it though.

And while I was at it I took a snap of the Zenith Pilots movement. Cool thing about these is it's under a glass inner cover.

Really fills the case, which means you can run a bigger balance wheel which makes for more accuracy. Frosted gilt finish, plain but effective. Nice finishing on the edges of the plates. Breguet overcoil spring, snail cam regulator, indirectly driven centre second gear wheel at "7 o'clock". It was considered a complication in them days. The hand flutters more than the later direct seconds layout. This style of Zenith movement regularly won chronometer competitions back then. Their best result in such a competition in the 50's with their 135 calibre IIRC was also very similar in layout to this. The last time this got a proper service with balance work and such, it was running well under chronometer rating. +/- two seconds per day. Not bad for an oul fart. Sadly it's not like that these days. In dire need of a fettling, but if I put this in the post I'd likely need daily injections of horse tranquillisers until it returned.

Deep Thought · 20-04-2015 8:45pm

Zenith XL-Tronic

Wears Lovely, but one closer inspection the glass is scratched at 3 and 5 clock...

so, email on the way to seller...would they polish out ?

rwbug · 20-04-2015 8:46pm

That is nice.

Mredsnapper · 20-04-2015 8:53pm

That's looks like a keeper NM

Wibbs · 20-04-2015 9:21pm

It looks like standard 70's mineral glass DT. Yep it will polish out, though requires more elbow grease than acrylic using brasso or polywatch. If you want to do it yourself I can do up a how to for you. You need a special finishing paste, but it's cheap as chips. Like a fiver on the Bay. The other option is a replacement crystal and because it's circular and flat that would be easy peasy to source a generic. However I'd personally not go that route as it's not exactly fecked going by the photo and the guy fitting it might screw up.

Oh and BTW, very cool looking watch DT.

Not a cheap watch when first in the shops. By any means. Rolex money effectively.

Deep Thought · 20-04-2015 9:33pm

Wibbs wrote: »

It looks like standard 70's mineral glass DT. Yep it will polish out, though requires more elbow grease than acrylic using brasso or polywatch. If you want to do it yourself I can do up a how to for you. You need a special finishing paste, but it's cheap as chips. Like a fiver on the Bay. The other option is a replacement crystal and because it's circular and flat that would be easy peasy to source a generic. However I'd personally not go that route as it's not exactly fecked going by the photo and the guy fitting it might screw up.

Oh and BTW, very cool looking watch DT. Not a cheap watch when first in the shops. By any means. Rolex money effectively.

they feel quite deep, more like a gouge to be honest...but its very nice, was gonna return it as its quoted as perfect and it aint...mmmmm

Deep Thought · 20-04-2015 10:05pm

Wibbs wrote: »

If you want to do it yourself I can do up a how to for you. You need a special finishing paste, but it's cheap as chips. Like a fiver on the Bay

that would be great, waiting for seller to come back to me and se what he says

893bet · 21-04-2015 1:25am

Goodbye for a while...….

gizmo555 · 21-04-2015 8:42am

Wibbs wrote: »

It looks like standard 70's mineral glass DT. Yep it will polish out, though requires more elbow grease than acrylic using brasso or polywatch. If you want to do it yourself I can do up a how to for you. You need a special finishing paste, but it's cheap as chips. Like a fiver on the Bay

Wibbs, how well would that paste work on a Seiko Hardlex crystal?

fulladapipes · 21-04-2015 10:10am

893bet wrote: »

Goodbye for a while...….

Any replacement sorted??

fulladapipes · 21-04-2015 10:11am

Deep Thought wrote: »

Zenith XL-Tronic

Wears Lovely, but one closer inspection the glass is scratched at 3 and 5 clock...

That is a lovely looking watch.

Wibbs · 21-04-2015 10:13am

gizmo555 wrote: »

Wibbs, how well would that paste work on a Seiko Hardlex crystal?

Dunno TBH G. Never tried. I think the hardly material is more of a sapphire type? More hardened, in which case no, or it would take ages.

Deep Thought · 21-04-2015 1:21pm

seller came back and said they can replace the glass, or they can replace with another one they have or a refund...

What ya all think

893bet · 21-04-2015 2:55pm

fulladapipes wrote: »

893bet wrote: »

Any replacement sorted??

Won't be gome long! Just dropped it into the AD for its first service!

Wibbs · 21-04-2015 3:53pm

If they have another one the same, that would be the route I'd be taking myself DT. Once I'd have been surprised to hear that they had two of such a thing, but in the last couple of years I've bumped into a fair few sellers who seemed to be liquidating old stock from ex jewellers/watchmakers, newly retired or even closed down in the economic downturn?

Lots of parts, non working watches and near NOS stuff coming onto the market. A lot more 1970/80's stuff compared to the usual background level too. One example was a Longines Beta 21 quartz. previously known from one low res photo and considered a one off, before last xmas three such examples all NOS came to light from three separate Swiss dealers. Five overall, all NOS last year.

fret_wimp2 · 21-04-2015 11:30pm

Latest aquisition beside a little treat after a long day.

gizmo555 · 22-04-2015 8:49am

Wibbs wrote: »

Dunno TBH G. Never tried. I think the hardly material is more of a sapphire type? More hardened, in which case no, or it would take ages.

I gather from what I've read that it's not as hard as sapphire, but less brittle. Certainly much harder than acrylic.

PS - I see the French war hero and secret agent Bob Maloubier died on Monday, aged 92. What's that go to do with watches, you ask? Well, if an original Blancpain Fifty Fathoms ever turns up here, he's the man to thank:

Maloubier went on to become a founder member of the French equivalent of the US Navy Seals. He joined the French intelligence services and also designed the famous Fifty Fathoms diving watch worn by the celebrated oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.

Wibbs · 22-04-2015 9:30am

An uncle of mine has an original Fifty Fathoms. Got it decades ago, in the 1960s IIRC, when on holiday in Spain. He told me it wasn't expensive. He's into the oul swimming and the wife had suggested he buy a divers watch. He had been looking at Omegas, Longines, Rolex and a few others and he said the BP was cheaper than any of them. :eek: and he much preferred the look of it. Felt it was more "dressy", less bulky than the Rolexes he was looking at and it came on a leather strap according to him which he preferred. It's his daily driver ever since. Haven't seen him or it in a while. I do recall it's in amazing condition and smaller than you might think. Wore like a 38mm watch kinda thing. He has it on a spidel expanding type metal strap. I know…

He was always very suspish if I made a cup of tea for him, convinced I was gonna dope him and steal the watch.

He was gobsmacked when I told him of its likely value. He even has the original sales receipt somewhere.

gizmo555 · 22-04-2015 10:09am

Wibbs wrote: »

He was gobsmacked when I told him of its likely value. He even has the original sales receipt somewhere.

Here's one (older than your uncle's, mind you) with a BIN price of thirty thousand Euros!

http://www.ebay.it/itm/Original-LIP-Blancpain-Fifty-Fathoms-Militartaucheruhr-Modell-1953-/231533746920?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item35e87c9ae8

mad muffin · 22-04-2015 5:47pm

A little something I picked up from Amazon recently. It was £35 reduced from £145 so I thought, why not? I don't know if I'd pay £145 for it but for £35 it's extremely nice

Lovely domed crystal too.

Some domed crystal pron. for those who are into that kind of stuff

Wibbs. Can you transfer this post to the post pics of your watches thread? I posted it here by accident

Wibbs · 22-04-2015 8:35pm

gizmo555 wrote: »

Here's one (older than your uncle's, mind you) with a BIN price of thirty thousand Euros!

http://www.ebay.it/itm/Original-LIP-Blancpain-Fifty-Fathoms-Militartaucheruhr-Modell-1953-/231533746920?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item35e87c9ae8

Oh if I ever win the lotto… the LIP version is what I'd go for. The uncles looks like that model(though later). Maybe it was in stock for ages?

Daemonic · 22-04-2015 9:33pm

This will stop being a weekly series of updates sometime soon, maybe... after the 2 or 3 that are in the post arrive.
Anyway this weeks watch is a blue dialled 70's Vostok. In lovely condition for €30.

And here it is in the '77 catalogue on the top left.

Wibbs · 22-04-2015 9:54pm

Cool D

and you have the catalogue pics too. Nice. I love that kinda thing.

Today I is wearing this mad hornets nest jammed into and barely contained by a wristwatch case.

Mycroft H · 23-04-2015 5:55am

Is that an emate wibbs? Not seen one in years!

Wibbs · 23-04-2015 8:27am

It is. Works too.

Can even sync it with my macbook.

Ryath · 23-04-2015 9:50am

Wibbs wrote: »

It is. Works too. Can even sync it with my macbook.

I have this vision of Wibbs upgrading the hard-drive on his pc :P

D'Agger · 23-04-2015 10:22am

Been wearing it as a casual watch since I got it but decided to wear it to work today, very much enjoying the latest addition:

Wibbs · 23-04-2015 9:45pm

D'Agger wrote: »

Been wearing it as a casual watch since I got it but decided to wear it to work today, very much enjoying the latest addition:

Niiice D. Reminds me of a modern take on a 1950's Omega Constellation "Piepan" This is Good(™)

Oh and here's a video(bans self) of the seconds hand on that Longines UltraQuartz above. Gives an idea of the days when quartz didn't tick a second at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0jv6c1NKU0

It's a bit mesmeric. Can feel a bit like time is somehow running faster in a way. The one tick per second quartz feels more sedate, grandfather clock kinda thing. I can kinda see why the Chinese market didn't initially like mechanical watches and clocks that didn't tick once per second. 60 ticks a second is like the average human heart at rest, even relaxed*, whereas the usual mechanical escapement in a watch is more like the heart rate of a very excited hummingbird, having a coronary event.

The racket from that Ultraquartz? Well if you leave it on a hard surface close to you and wake in the middle of the night, you do awake with a start thinking, "jesus! feck! where's the fire!!!". :pac:

One of these days I'm gonna try recording the sounds of various movement types from mechanical to battery.

*top athletes, fakirs and swamis with heart rates of 10 beats per minute can eff off. :pac:

D'Agger · 24-04-2015 9:49am

Wibbs wrote: »

Niiice D. Reminds me of a modern take on a 1950's Omega Constellation "Piepan" This is Good(™)

Why thank you Wibbs! That's a lovely looking piece by Omega!

It's a bit mesmeric. Can feel a bit like time is somehow running faster in a way. The one tick per second quartz feels more sedate, grandfather clock kinda thing.

Very much agree with this sentiment

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