Post pics of your watches ***Please NO QUOTING PHOTOS***

Nforce

I've only recently began wearing watches again so my collection is somewhat lacking

Everyday beater... Casio G-Shock



Sottomarino Tritium (on a NATO grey/black strap)..



Fossil Alienware LTD Edition watch..currently the oldest watch I own





and the newest ... Tag Heuer Formula 1 on a rubber strap



I'm hoping to add many more and I'm hoping the good folks here can fan the flames of my addiction.:D

Daemonic

Another week another watch. Early 90's Sekonda alarm watch arrived today. Noisy bugger when it goes off.

Eoin

Another Wibbs Special (tm).

I pounced on this Zenith when he posted a link to it - it's a great size for the more robust gentlemen, at about 41mm. It needs a good polish, but very happy with this.

Zagato

Eoin wrote: »

Another Wibbs Special (tm).

I pounced on this Zenith when he posted a link to it - it's a great size for the more robust gentlemen, at about 41mm. It needs a good polish, but very happy with this

Looks good, and to top it all off you'll be able to prove to other half that there is a Sexday!

Deep Thought

in keeping with Zenith XL-Tronic theme

blue5000

Deep thought doesn't need a reminder then;)

Deep Thought

blue5000 wrote: »

Deep thought doesn't need a reminder then;)[/QUOTE

:P

the number indicates the number of times I must request access to said item;)

complicit

Hello gents. Picked up a couple of vintage watches on ebay
1958 Tissot seastar automatic .

And


Titoni airmaster automatic . Im unsure of the age of this one . Any ideas?

Wibbs

I'd reckon 1960's myself. Nice. Love the Tissot. A name worth keeping an eye out for IMH.

Deep Thought

Parents were cleaning the attic and found this baby. I bought it in 1989

Bought a new Battery for it today and works, Chrono hands out of alignment but hasn't been working in about 15 years

StereoSound

Can those hands be re alligned by a jeweller?

Wibbs

IIRC with many of the quartz chrono movements there is a way for the user to reset the mechanism to factory and align the hands correctly.

Here's a How To video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49mOLDTDd60

Deep Thought

Wibbs wrote: »

IIRC with many of the quartz chrono movements there is a way for the user to reset the mechanism to factory and align the hands correctly.

Here's a How To video.

Well Holy God...it worked

Thanks chaps

Tweedle Dumb

Latest purchase. I'm trying not to buy, I Swear, but nice watches keep appearing on eBay

Wibbs

Tweedle Dumb wrote: »

Latest purchase. I'm trying not to buy, I Swear, but nice watches keep appearing on eBay

Yessss…. Another to the fold.


There I was this very day in the local shoppe buying the Sunday newspapers and what do I spy in the wild on the wrist of the chap in front of me in the queue, but a Longines big crown Avigation thingy. :eek:



And by sheer mad coincidence, what was I wearing but my own my "big crown" from a few years back;



80 years back to be fair, but pretty wild coincidence or wha? I didn't put the talk on the chap. He looked flustered and didn't need some watch nutter saying hello. But he did look… So if you're by a further coincidence happen to be reading this; Hello and nice choice. The past approves.

Homer

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

flutered

are the two tuning forks which sold on flea bay yesterday afternoon winding their way to this thread, a steel bulova n4, for 46stg, plus a longines blue dialed one for 132 i think

Wibbs

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

That is well lush. A very stylish IWC for that money? Imagine the same watch with a mechanical movement. At least quadruple the price. On top of that any approved service would be at least what you paid for your entire watch. And all future services to come. On the other hand with this a service consists of a 2 quid battery every 3 years and something you could do yourself. Told ya folks, the battery boys are the real easy way to get into vintage and big named vintages too. You heard it here first

Now don't get me wrong I love mechanical watches but prices are usually strong and servicing expensive. Mark my words the higher end of the collecting market is gonna come around to the early and high quality quartz stuff and when it does watch the prices climb like billyo.

Another reason and a huge issue in the mechanical only market from the bottom to the very top(Hello Mr John Mayer) are fakes/frankens. Quality quartz are nigh on impossible to fake and would be likely more expensive to do so. A lad in a shed in China can ready up a gear, movement plate etc, or change a basic common movement and put it into a fake rare case easy enough, but try faking a 1971 Motorola chip, or 8khz hand cut quartz, never mind the mechanical bits like a Beta 21 index wheel. Plus all the early quartz were already the top of the line anyway.

flutered wrote: »

are the two tuning forks which sold on flea bay yesterday afternoon winding their way to this thread, a steel bulova n4, for 46stg, plus a longines blue dialed one for 132 i think

Here's hoping F. Didn't see the Bully, but saw the Longines alright. Good price for one of them, the ultronics have been rising rapidly in price of late, even in no reserve auctions.

Wibbs

Must do up another list. Goes off to the bay...

Homer

Wibbs wrote: »

Must do up another list. Goes off to the bay...

Noooooooooooooooo

Mitch Buchannon

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

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

They look brilliant in steel.

StereoSound

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

GrumPy

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

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

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

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

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

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.