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tommyombomb

MrSparkle wrote: »

Nice choice. I have this one Velatura SRH005.


The build quality is very good on these Velatura's. The case back has a cool design also.

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my god that is mouth watering literally. getting the idea of buying a nice watch recently and been looking into seiko's recently. think this is the one i was.

how often do you have to wind it up or will it go on its own movement.

seen it on amazon for $600, good price i think but is there anywhere you would advise buying in a shop in ireland that can match that price roughly

damo86

Just found this forum, fellow watch nut here!!

My Chaps! (Apologies for the photos..no natural light and watches need a proper clean up!!)



The collection..had more but sold them on!



Citizen Eco Drive Skyhawk (blue angels edition)



Citizen Aqualand 20th Anni Dive watch (actually use it as dive watch too!!)




My Bell & Ross BR03 Aviation (forgot to centre the dial! :eek:)

Regards

Damian

MrSparkle

tommyombomb wrote: »

my god that is mouth watering literally. getting the idea of buying a nice watch recently and been looking into seiko's recently. think this is the one i was.

how often do you have to wind it up or will it go on its own movement.

seen it on amazon for $600, good price i think but is there anywhere you would advise buying in a shop in ireland that can match that price roughly

That's a really good price, I think it would be hard to beat or match that in a shop. I'm not sure if Amazon.com will ship watches internationally, I've never tried.

I've seen this is model in Weirs and also in Field's Jewellers I think it was, it may have been Rocks Jewellers, it was around the €900. This was probably about 9 months ago so the price may be different now or they might not have them in stock anymore. Worth checking those places on Grafton Street to see if you can try it on and if they can offer you a good price.

Yep just turn the crown to charge it first and then it charges while it's on your wrist. It has a battery in it also where you can build the charge upto one month. The indicator on the left hand side shows how much of a charge you have.

Homer

Picked up this vintage Seiko 7s26-0050 just before christmas but hadn't got around to taking pictures.. Came on a Seiko rubber strap and had the bracelet included but decided to stick it on this Nato.











Slightly smaller than I thought at 38mm (comparison with the Seiko Pepsi)

Deep Thought

Homer wrote: »

Love the white dial

bogmanfan

JLC arrived just before Xmas, and the Zenith arrived today.

CarltonBrowne

I'm afraid that your welcome to the Zenith but the JLC is a thing of beauty.

Bullseye1

Congrats BMF. Two great additions.

Deep Thought

wow..Love the JLC

It aint cheap either...nice buy

Mitch Buchannon

Wow, someone has been busy ! I love the JLC. The Zenith is lovely too but I'm not the biggest fan of open face watches.

Great purchases dude, looking forward to possibly seeing them at the next GTG.

gerfmurphy

wow BMF the jlc is great. would like to hear how it is on the wrist and maybe a pic or 2, i know you have the talent to capture it properly

flanzer

flanzer wrote: »

Treated myself with an early Christmas present. Not too keen on the brown strap. May have to order the black version

Seiko SRH011

So I changed to the black strap last week. I think it's better

CarltonBrowne

The one on the left arrived before Christmas but I was only united with it yesterday.

Next stop will have to be Bund diver but there's a bit of due diligence required before I can make the decision - and another pay day might help.

peasant

CarltonBrowne wrote: »

The one on the left arrived before Christmas but I was only united with it yesterday.
Next stop will have to be Bund diver but there's a bit of due diligence required before I can make the decision - and another pay day might help.

Cool and interesting watches.
But for someone like me who at some point was forced to wear jocks & socks (and everything else) with "Bund" written on them ...somehow they just don't have the same appeal

PS:

That grey strap would be the Luftwaffe colour, to go with their snazzy leather jackets



need to get yourself one of those now too, don't you ?

Wibbs

Say nothing CB, we may have useful contact above ^^

peasant

Wibbs wrote: »

Say nothing CB, we may have useful contact above ^^

pfff ...as lowly cannonfodder footsoldier I had to bring my own watch

CarltonBrowne

It's funny; I know lots of people that are ex-forces (UK mostly but also German, Indian etc) and not a single one of them has ever even had a sniff of an issue watch. I suppose it probably pays to be one of the QMs mates, technically known as being a REMF.

peasant

To get an issue watch in the Bundeswehr you had to be a professional soldier (not drafted in other words) and you had to have a permanent assigment where the job specs actually said that you needed a watch with certain functions.

Only very few job specs actually did.
But if it did you HAD TO wear the Bund watch ...no matter what lovely timepiece you might actually have brought to the job yourself.

CarltonBrowne

peasant wrote: »

PS:

That grey strap would be the Luftwaffe colour, to go with their snazzy leather jackets



need to get yourself one of those now too, don't you ?

You forgot to mention the mullet as well; that's probably mandatory.

Wibbs

CarltonBrowne wrote: »

It's funny; I know lots of people that are ex-forces (UK mostly but also German, Indian etc) and not a single one of them has ever even had a sniff of an issue watch. I suppose it probably pays to be one of the QMs mates, technically known as being a REMF.

It seems to have been more common in the past. Maybe because in the 30/40/50's a lot of young men who joined the forces(mostly working class lads) simply didn't have/couldn't afford a serviceable watch? A halfway decent quartz(timekeeping wise) can be had for 10 or 20 quid today, you'd have to spend much more relatively speaking for a similar mechanical back in the day. Even more so for a stopwatch/chrono watch. I recall reading a book about war in the trenches in WW1 and it mentioned how the officers "new fangled wristlet" cost the equivalent of two months wages for a working man. Plus many civvie watches of the time wouldn't have been ideal for military use. No lume, white dials, soft cases, zero protection (and small size), even though in general most official issue for the ordinary soldier often weren't that much better. Today the average Casio, Timex etc would be perfectly fine. Plus for pilots back then they had to rely far more on accurate timekeepers. Today that stuff is all built into the aircraft and from ground control.

A lad I knew who was in the US marines owed me one after covering for him and his mates(long story, but drink was involved ) and I asked him to try and source me one of the US issued watches and he had a hard enough time trying for me. Like he said the PX was chockablock with casios, ironmans even Rolex so few of the lads ever bothered anymore with the issued watches. He did get me one in the end from a mate of his who happened to have one. He did tell me specialised guys like divers and SAR lads still got issued watches.

Homer

Thanks to Peasant for posting this in the bargain thread.. Turns out the motor seems to have seized on it so I picked it up for half price 45 euro
Will have a look at it when I get time to see if I can get it working again, if not it's a nice ornament for the office!!











Hanging in the office!

Deep Thought

Wibbs wrote: »

He did get me one in the end from a mate of his who happened to have one. He did tell me specialised guys like divers and SAR lads still got issued watches.

What did he get you in the end ?

What? Oh Rly!

Love it!

Eoin

Very nice! I have one too, only with the SS strap and blue face. Kind of wish I'd gone for the black face though, looking at yours

What? Oh Rly!

Eoin wrote: »

Very nice! I have one too, only with the SS strap and blue face. Kind of wish I'd gone for the black face though, looking at yours

Yeah, I was researching for quite awhile on a new watch and always came back to the prc-200, always find myself starring at it longer than I should when checking the time...

Wibbs

Deep Thought wrote: »

What did he get you in the end ?

One of these guys;

Stocker&Yale 490. Mechanical, hacksetting. Pretty robust. Well it was until an ex I loaned it to broke the crown off. Still have it, but never got around to sorting the crown.

peasant

Homer wrote: »

Thanks to Peasant for posting this in the bargain thread.. Turns out the motor seems to have seized on it so I picked it up for half price 45 euro
Will have a look at it when I get time to see if I can get it working again, if not it's a nice ornament for the office!!

That looks real good on yer wall there ...

I'd say if push comes to shove you could probably put some cheapo off the shelf quartz wallclock movement in there, just to get the hands moving, like

peasant

This just arrived:

Vostok Europe Gaz 20M "Pobeda".
Possibly the heaviest dresswatch I]Clarkson voice[/I...in the world [/Clarkson voice] ...only 38 mm but 173 g, hewn out of solid steel

Snake_Doctor

peasant wrote: »

This just arrived:

Vostok Europe Gaz 20M "Pobeda".

Now Thats what I call a watch. Where preytell did you aquire that beauty - there should be a new rule - all nice watches to be accompanied by where they can be bought...:D
My Vostok Amp. is still my only watch that keeps perfect time with the system clock in work - to the nearest second over a few days...

peasant

Snake_Doctor wrote: »

Now Thats what I call a watch. Where preytell did you aquire that beauty - there should be a new rule - all nice watches to be accompanied by where they can be bought...:D

This watch is discontinued.
There are currently three or four different models on ebay (where I got mine also), only that they cost a bit more than I paid

(search for Pobeda and list by highest price first ...they'll be on the first page)