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fulladapipes

Longford Leader wrote: »

Vostok 110SE

Nice watch. What year is it? It looks both old fashioned and quite modern at the same time.

Longford Leader

fulladapipes wrote: »

Nice watch. What year is it? It looks both old fashioned and quite modern at the same time.

2014

http://www.meranom.com/amphibian-se/110se/

Its the modern version of a vintage Vostok.

dudara

Picked up a Seiko 5 Automatic 21 Jewels with navy face on Canal St, NY. It's a little smaller than my other watches, but looks well. Picture is closest I can find online

GEO147

Is there anywhere in Ireland that does finance on watches. Would love to get something special but just donf have €5k lying around at the moment.

Mredsnapper

dudara wrote: »

Picked up a Seiko 5 Automatic 21 Jewels with navy face on Canal St, NY. It's a little smaller than my other watches, but looks well. Picture is closest I can find online

Nice taste

Mredsnapper

GEO147 wrote: »

Is there anywhere in Ireland that does finance on watches. Would love to get something special but just donf have €5k lying around at the moment.

Personaly I wouldn't advise it, you'll end up paying much more for your watch.

Sorry, don't know the if there is anyplace though.

GEO147

Mredsnapper wrote: »

Personaly I wouldn't advise it, you'll end up paying much more for your watch.

Sorry, don't know the if there is anyplace though.

I know what your saying but in the UK plenty of places offer 0% finance. Doubt if anywhere in paddy land would though.

Oral Surgeon

GEO147 wrote: »

Is there anywhere in Ireland that does finance on watches. Would love to get something special but just donf have €5k lying around at the moment.

You could get a bankloan but that's a little silly for a watch IMO. A 5k watch is for someone with 5k lying around not someone will eventually pay 6k in repayments and will undoubtably have found better uses for that money in the meantime.....

Harsh I know but true, buy a nice second hand in the meantime.

unkel

Longford Leader wrote: »

Vostok 110SE

That new Amphibian is class!

fulladapipes

Talking lume, this is how the Omega Seamaster looks in the half-light (or under my desk). Note the green minute hand...

Northern Monkey

^^^ great taste in watches

Joe Doe

This is a slightly customised (compass added and new diver strap) Lorus with full 'lumibrite' face. For it's price it stays readable all night. And thankfully the lum is non-radactive unlike some more expensive models, and will survive a day's swimming/windsurfing as is 100m proof.

click to view larger image:


Flogging shortly, as have an eye on a rus/ger 'quick set alarm' auto, lum.

TomCo

Glycine arrived in the post today from ebay, not particularly well packaged.
Takes about 9 winds to start up and the spring in the keyless works is either broken or about to break (no definite click when setting time, crown has to be held out to prevent it clicking in).

Also:



Time to mail the seller.

Wibbs

Bloody hell TC. That's well out of order. Dead right get back to the seller.

Some people don't have a clue packaging watches. I had one sent from France in an ordinary envelope. Yep, you read that right. There was a couple of squares of bogroll loose inside said envelope and the watch itself. The watch actually survived the trip intact.:eek: IIRC it was a Russian Vostok so that's all that needs to be said really... Loose inside a padded envelope is common enough. Like that will protect a watch. :rolleyes:

I have heard that ebay's global shipping program can be a right pain on this score. Apparently they regularly open the sellers packaging and transfer the item to a smaller box so it's cheaper to ship. Of course they charge the cost of the full box... US sellers and buyers are up in arms over it and other issues with said programme(the customs charges are a rip off for a start). I avoid any seller using it like the very plague*. I'd advise other folks the same, buying or selling.




*That said I snagged a longterm personal grail watch for me last week at very little money for such a grail(dire pics, wrong description and even the wrong description was misspelled) and didn't spot the seller is in this programme. Now he's in the UK, so hopefully it'll be different but I am worried TBH as the watch in question would be more delicate than some. If it's not packed well it may very well turn up buggered.

rwbug

Really happy with the Boccia Bund I bought from a seller on boards, especially now it is on a black Hirsch strap. It is now my daily watch.

rwbug

ty Wibbs (again) will get to 50 posts eventually - just need to buy more watches, post the pics and get my post count up

Mredsnapper

rwbug wrote: »

Really happy with the Boccia Bund I bought from a seller on boards, especially now it is on a black Hirsch strap. It is now my daily watch.

I'm really glad that it's found a good home and it looks great on the Black Hirsh.

CarltonBrowne

Well, it's back.


And in the meantime I've managed to pick up another lost cause - more of that once it's been to the doctor (and winged its' way over the pond).

Wibbs

Bloody lovely watch CB.

Wibbs

Ok crappy late nite pic. With CB's UG mocking me in the background with it and his class and refinement...



I have previously mentioned my early quartz and leccy watch madness and I also mentioned that if you get into these it's a damned good plan to have a spare movement/watch stuck somewhere safe in a static bag with moisture gel stuff and a large hound to guard them(check to all). Well here's a public demonstration of my madness. I have posted and bored ye to tears with pics of my 1975 LIP Roger Tallon designed R33 quartz. Rare as hen's teeth in unicorn gravy(and my particular example only exists as a singular so far), but obsessive bloody nutter(true hearted WIS)* that I am, I also have another as a "backup". And here it is. A German Market LIP rebranded as a Dugena mit Deutsch day wheel and local dial printing.Funny enough, as things turn out the "spare" is far less flakey than the "original". Very solid and very accurate(3 seconds per month). Though like all of these movements the hacking feature is a hack. Pull the crown and the second hand get's all disco and jumps all over the place.

For future Google ref. Crown first position on these babies changes the day/date, clockwise to advance the date, anticlockwise to advance the day. T'is fiddly.







*I'd go with feckin certifiable TBH. Oh you think that's excessive? In movements/watches, I have two Omega 1310's, four Girard Perregaux 300 series, two Accuquartz, two Mosaba tuning forks. That's before we get to my mechanicals...

Menas

This bad boy arrived from China today.

Smart watch for $33.

Cant really go wrong with that price. Limited that it does not have Andriod on it (so must use the stock apps), does not have wifi or 3g capabilities.
It connects to my phone via bluetooth and imports address book and any notification from your phone appears on the watch.
The watch can also receive and make phone calls via blue tooth or when micro sim is inserted.

Its a bit of a gimmick really, but something to show the lads down the pub over the christmas.





Looks much bigger than I am used to on the arm.


For comparison, beside a 2 euro coin.

the goon

Wow that looks lovely. I myself am waiting on one so would be interested to get your opinion on it when you have a chance to play around with it. To be fair though, I can't really expect to much from a smartwatch that costs less than 40 quid!

Menas

the goon wrote: »

Wow that looks lovely. I myself am waiting on one so would be interested to get your opinion on it when you have a chance to play around with it. To be fair though, I can't really expect to much from a smartwatch that costs less than 40 quid!

There is a fairly good review of it in Bargain alerts.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92943598&postcount=1

Menas

the goon wrote: »

Wow that looks lovely. I myself am waiting on one so would be interested to get your opinion on it when you have a chance to play around with it. To be fair though, I can't really expect to much from a smartwatch that costs less than 40 quid!

I posted this review over on BA.

Having had this watch for a few days now I have to admit to being underwhelmed by it.
Its horses for courses of course, but my main gripes are:
1) The watch is physically too big for my liking. Not possible for me to wear it under a shirt cuff as not enough room there to slide the cuff back if I want to see the watch!
2) When connected via bluetooth the watch gives you any notification that your phone has. This is ok but can be anoying when your watch buzzes to give you a notification that your phone is aligning GPS, or has just updated some app.
3) For emails you just get a notification via bluetooth on the watch that an email has been received and who sent it. You cannot read the email.
4) The blue tooth connection is a bit flakey for me. Seems to randomly disconnect sometimes, and buzzes to tell me that. Then reconnects and buzzes to tell me that too. There is probably a setting that you can use to stop this.
5) The quality of phone calls over bluetooth is poor unless you use the headset. Even then it is just about acceptable.
6) The pedometer seems to reset itself every now and again which defeats the purpose. Also, it is just that, a pedometer. No way to link it to an app or GPS for more detailed analysis.

I dont really see this as a 'smart' watch. More like a phone watch with some features that are not very useful in my opinion.
I have not yet used the watch with a sim card inserted, I may try that later in the week.
But it is looking like, in my case at least, that the watch will be in the bin by the weekend!

the goon

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I posted this review over on BA.

Oh well. I might just keep it in the packaging and gift it to someone as a gadgety Xmas present. Having read that thread over on Bargain Alerts I think I will have a look at the Pebble.

Eoin

New arrival - bit of an impulse purchase, but under 100 quid. It's unbranded, but I think it's pretty similar to a Parnis. I sort of regretted selling my Russian flieger a year or two ago, but at 47mm with a massive crown, it was too big. This is a more manageable 45mm and I think it wears a little smaller. No idea what the lume or timekeeping is like yet. Still not sure the flieger look is for me though.

the goon wrote:

Having read that thread over on Bargain Alerts I think I will have a look at the Pebble.

That's actually my other recent arrival (Pebble Steel) - I'm looking into apps for smartwatches at work, so finally had a sort of valid reason to get one to play around with. I'll report back.

893bet

Just lightened my wallet today also! Looks my my skyfall is gonna have to wait till next year now.

Deep Thought

Nice Railmaster

Like wibbs, am also wondering about the Stowa Flieger I just bought and it is big enough for me at 40mm

Eoin

Here's the Pebble Steel. It looks bigger than it is from that angle, it's actually quite subtle.

The first pic is a list of notifications; the others are different watch faces that are available. If I had it connected to my work phone, I'd probably use a more detailed face that shows meetings etc, but I like the simplicity of the first watch face.



I posted a few initial thoughts about it here in case you're interested.

On another note, I'm not really bonding with the flieger I posted earlier; think it'll be flipped soon enough.

Menas

Eoin wrote: »

On another note, I'm not really bonding with the flieger I posted earlier; think it'll be flipped soon enough.

Form an orderly queue behind me folks.