Post pics of your watches Part II
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Wearing my early 80's Mortima quartz the last couple of days. Cheap as chips when new, cheaper than chips now. 😁 Mortima were a very cheap and cheerful French novelty brand watch and the French so loved their novelty watches. Pin pallet movements with "jewels" stuck to the plates just to raise the jewel count, with plated brass cases in all sorts of usually "diver" style watches with mad dials festooned with writing like "SuperDatomatic" and "Superwaterproof". Even in the 80's they had "100% Etanche". Remarkably popular at home and abroad and employed generations of French folks. One story from the factory was when a well dressed African gentleman showed up one day, asked to see someone in charge and dropped many thousands of francs in cash on the desk as a downpayment on a big order for his country. Like a boss. As you do. The fully inhouse quartz movement in my example was by far their highest quality movement in their interesting history and it matched far more expensive offerings at the time. It even has a screwdown crown and clicking bezel. 😮😁 Fanceh. It was their last gasp before the doors closed.
Most of all I got it because the very first watch I got as a kid of eight was a Mortima "diver" for my birthday from my mum and dad on a holiday in Spain. I clearly remember the shop and all the watches in the window, my nose pressed to the glass and picking "my" watch out not thinking it would be mine(they kept me in suspense 😁). I still have it but it long gave up the ghost. I loved winding it up, reading the words on the dial and the lume in the dark(there are strange subatomic particles that last longer..) and dropping it into glasses of water to watch it tick away because it was a proper waterproof watch just like Mr Cousteau wore. Or so my eight year old mind thought, as eight year old minds will. 😊 That watch and my dad's influence is why I ended up loving and collecting watches and how they can connect you to people, places and things in a very personal way.
More than that it reminds me of my mum and dad and a happy childhood I'm very grateful for as too many didn't and don't. It only cost me 30 quid. Best bang for buck ever.
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With the price of my GP Laureato SS blue dial having more than doubled in recent months, I am just after completing a deal on Chrono where I did a direct swap for this - a 42mm Rose Gold GO Senator Chronometer. It is 2018 and in mint condition with full papers/box etc.. A totally different watch to the GP but had been looking for a German watch for a while. I hope I made the correct decision as I loved the GP and couldn't fault it, though hard to justify the current grey price for them now.
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Wearing the Ugly watch co. 100m sport prototype today.
It just launched on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laune/100m-sport-mother-of-pearl-dial-sport-watch-automatic/
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To keep up the Samurai Saturday theme.
Really like that the dial on your's Pablo but why are they putting cyclops on the King versions. There's a few King Seiko's I like but I can't see past the cyclops. A Turtle will probably be my next big purchase but I'm tempted to stretch to a Sumo.
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Turned it the right way around for you RC. Was going to crop it, but then saw the cute as fook woof woof and nearly cropped your watch outa the pic. Same woofer is thinking "oh God monkey boy is on the interwebs again. I better be getting belly rubs". 😁
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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My first King samurai- the 2020 save the ocean model. This is the manta ray 2 model also called the dark manta ray as it’s a darker dial version than the manta ray on the bracelet which was also released that year in typical confusing Seiko manner .
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Watch arrived earlier and here are a few wrist shots of it which hopefully gives an indication of size - I have an 8’’ wrist. It is a 42mm dial and wears exactly as that. The back is really lovely and very well finished. Overall, very happy with it. Posting this on mobile site and what a disaster it is - skipping back and forward
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