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Post pics of your watches Part II
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I know, I know that I'm currently selling a Sinn 103 variant but, hear me out...
I just saw this Sinn 356 variant with a guilloche dial and apart from the colour, the gold hue doesn't suit this watch IMO. I think I want one 😖 in a green or blue dial tho.
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I've been alternating this pair of late. Nearly a centimetre apart in case size. 😮
Not too far off the same thickness mind you. I generally don't wear watches in bed, but there are four watches in my hoard that if I forget to take them off after I settle in the leaba, I don't go "ah feck!" and then take them off. These are two of them. The 43mm chrono(minus crown and pushers) shows how clever case and lug design can make watches "shrink". I have found down the years military specced watches about the best designed in this regard. I suppose because they're designed for more constant use and for a wider range of wrist sizes, so it's less about fashion?
I've also been fiddling with their regulation. Both are down to +2/3 seconds per day on the wrist. I'll stop fiddling now before I break something and cry. 😁 I also replaced the chronographs chrono hand because it had become floppy(a known issue with vintage valjoux stuff). It might return to 12 on reset, or 1, or 10, or... Got one from a German contact. Chronograph hands have to be on tight. Very tight, as the forced of reset are very strong. The flyback function adds more grief. This design doesn't help with the big "heavy" feckin triangle of lume on the end and it's entirely friction fit. The hand pinion is like one and a half blonde ones, the socket on the hand itself one blonde one. It took me a half hour to line up. Then prayers to various deities pressing it on. But now it resets like a boss.
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I haven't started to regulate them yet, one or two I've had serviced have been regulated. My view of watches is that they are marvelous miniature machines that perform an important function, their form follows function. Accuracy or a reputation for accuracy once was an significant selling point, but not any more, we have moved to intangeible selling points.
I have good selection of electric,electronic and quartz, I can understand their operation and appreciate the technology. I invested 30€ in that biaozhun meter and it's a bit of fun to measure or track accuracy. Things I've learned from it and the watch check app are;
my 9F quartz lives up to it's spec, it's error in a year is on a par with COSC for a day.
A radio synced Casio is a sloppy quartz (0.5 s/d) during the day.
High end twin quartz Seiko lose their mojo after 40 years, but for brief periods they can get it back, it's an out of error band or aged crystal issue. There may be no point in regulating.
Everyday quartz watch accuracy improves during the summer as the mean ambient rises .
My GP is so well anti mag shielded the meter doesn't detect it's pulse edge.
And now, a bit of snorkel jacket anaroking.
These three watches were synchronized two months ago, two stayed together one wandered of at its own pace. They are 45 years old.
The meter shows,
A +5.4 per day Ronin.
A negative 0.0, it's one of it's better days.
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I’m sun bathing for a week and brought these 3 . Wife thinks it’s a “ridiculous amount of watches to bring for 7 days “ but i pointed out that I brought less watches than she brought shoes which ended the conversation fairly quickly
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I dress like a hobo
Meet your twin. Well, more a hipster hobo. 😁
TBH I never used to be concerned on holidays or other jaunts abroad, or evenings imbibing. I'd be more cautious now that the watch thing has gone mainstream, more people buying much more expensive watches and all that getting onto the scum radar. That said none of my watches could be confused with a gold sub or anything like that so would likely go under the scum radar anyway.
When it's night out in new surroundings I'd usually wear this;
Small, beer proof(tested and certified), can take a smack and scum might get a hundred quid for it from a fence. Plus since the vintage market has gone softer than a nonagenarian in a bordello, what once would have been 6-800 quid to replace is now more like 200. 👍️
TBH if I had Pateks and AP's I doubt I'd wear them nearly so casually, insurance or no. I'd be extremely dubious of hotels and hotel "safes". Fair play to those who do.
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Mexico sound fantastic Banie and ye well deserve the break. 🙂
Today I went all 1974. As you do.
Had a bit of an issue with this and thought ah feck it's gone and died, but I could see it trying. The stepping motor on these is like a wee propeller suspended between magnets and you have to look very closely to see it trying to spin, but it was. While it has decent enough torque for a quartz(and the time, though the GP 350 is far superior) one problem with this kinda setup is it's kinda floppy, so it has an indexing system to prevent backlash and make sure the seconds hand hits the markers exactly.
This consists of an index wheel with 60 teeny teeth and a pawl the arow points to which engages with them that makes a blonde one look like a giant redwood, adjusted by the dark grey screw that even if you look at it funny the pawl moves. So I turned it so the pawl completely disengaged with said teeth and off she ran and strongly. Well.. because of the oddball stepping motor it would run, but wobbly and every so often run backwards for a few seconds. Like a drunken man trying to walk home. It was getting there, after a fashion. 😁 So I slooooooowly and imperceptibly brought it back in contact. No. Too far, ohhh, ahhhh OK(with my tongue stuck out the corner of my mouth). I got it on the ball indexing away. Sorted. I do not know how guys servicing tuning forks do it and those teeth are literally microscopic.
It's clearly had a couple of services in its life going by the screws and scratches in the caseback. I like to see that. Even though it's a quartz, these were an expensive watch and Omega had ploughed millions(in 70's millions too) into the tech back then and it shows. That circular bit with the numbers is a teeny hologram which was sicfi back then. It's got a timezone function so you can adjust the hour hand(and day) while it's running and by a series of magnets and magic it sets the hour hand to the correct position when you click the crown back in. It has two buttons either side of the crown. The bottom one advances the date, the top if pressed once moves the seconds hand forward in one second intervals, hold it in and it stops the seconds hand, all to get it to set to the exact time. It's very much a quality Omega movement. Back then they could do that I suppose, when you consider their Marine Chronometer had an RRP twelve times that of a Speedmaster. The above Seamaster was twice the price and given they sold them from 74-80 and the numbers still around clearly they sold well. Going by the day wheels a large percentage of them seem to have sold in Germany.
Values these days? Well dealers look 1000 and up depending on condition, box etc. Ebay auctions run to aorund 5-700 depending.
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After a bit of patience I have ended up with this, it's a 7548. At some point in the late 70s Seiko did what VW did with the egolf, they took what they were already making and switched to electric . The mechanics of this watch are from the 6309, so the baseplate has holes for the mainspring arbour but there is no mainspring. Some engineer in Seiko drew a line through a system diagram and said keep this and innovate that.
So my purchase runs and from the dial and hands it looks like water has not been in.Plan is to have it serviced and crystal+gaskets.
Oh, today I'm wearing the lip nautic ski which was bought dead and revived with a donor movement.
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