Post pics of your watches Part II
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Have looked at these on & off for a while and always decided the strap was a bit shiny but had been watching this drop in price on adverts for a while and at just over €2k its worth its price so decided to try it .Honeymoon stage so liking it a lot at the moment but I’ll see how I go with it.
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As the golden rays of the setting sun, well… set😁 My dad's 1950's Longines in 14Kt gold(he bought it in the States).
It's tiny for today's tastes at 33mm(iirc), but it sits so well on the wrist. On mine anyway. Far too elegant for the likes of me. 🙂 I'm glad he resisted getting the dial "cleaned" back in the day as it's aged to a lovely linen colour. Though he did get Longines to replace the crown in the 80's.
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That's a lovely piece Wibbs and great to have it's history and a connection with your auld lad.
I'm currently keeping an eye on vintage Omega as the young lad has decided he wants an Omega piepan for his 21st. I've plenty of time, it's not until next march but? Its a minefield of repainted, weirdly polished or Frankenstein's.
The search was originally for a dog leg pie pan, a 168 or 14381 ideally in stainless, but gold capped will do depending on condition. The amount of questionable provenance pieces at strongish money is insane.
Then while he was browsing today, he came across an Omega Geneve with sector dial and sub-seconds and triangular indices, that he has now set his mind on, as, the indices look like paper airplanes and will make the gift a little more sentimental as a "dad" gift given my own grá for aviation. The 3rd of the pics below was the original front runner, he wanted an honest watch, patina and wearing it's age proudly. After his speil about the planes tho? I'll be hunting for the Geneva 😉 Now the hunt begins in earnest.
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Sounds like you and the son are on a quest Banie, no doubt you'll find something and learn a whole heap along the way. Love the vintage Omegas, so stylish.
The oem bracelet and mm clasp arrived for my 62mashup. For once I feel male end links are a complimentary feature.
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My one "safe queen" and a real rarity in original working order. Only bring it out on high days and holy days. 😁 Figured I'd make sure it was still running. My NOS 1970 Longines Ultra-Quartz.
In the mid 1960's Longines among many other Swiss brands were part of a co-op to spread the financial and intellectual investment to produce the first Swiss quartz, but had enough cash left over to produce their own in house movement(which ended up in court as the others in the co-op got pissed off with Longines). The so called "Project Hourglass"
And boy did they smoke the funny tobacco while doing so. Because "silicon chips" were a large chunk of the cost of producing these new quartz movements back then, Longines decided to build theirs using discrete components(from the hearing aid industry of all things) of 14 transistors, 19 resistors and 7 capacitors. Hand soldered no less. The hand cut and tuned natural Brazilian quartz(near an inch long)vibrates at 9350hz. This is the "master" signal, the "slave" is similar to an Accutron tuning fork arrangement running at 170Hz, which drives the hands, with the circuitry balancing the rates. The world's first and only "Cybernetic" watch. The movement is truly off the scale nuts:
In the end it wasn't much cheaper to produce and so was a very expensive watch at the time. So much so that they came with free insurance against loss/theft. Their bigger problem was their delicacy. That big dumbbell tuning fork thingie was/is very delicate and can go open circuit very easily after a hard knock . In Longines literature of the time the only spare part listed was the entire movement…
The setting crown is on the caseback like many Accutrons and like Accutrons the seconds hand sweep is ultra smooth. The other thing about these is the sound, more like the noise. Accutrons hum, but this thing buzzes. You can actually feel it on your wrist if you concentrate on it. No way a light sleeper could have one in the room with them. By the mid 70's and quartz tech being much cheaper and much more robust these went the way of the dodo. Longines offered a newer quartz movement to replace the original(mostly taken up by those who had bought 18kt examples), drilling the side of the case to add a crown at 3.
These still come up for sale today, but many if not most are not working, or part working. Even Longines in one of their ads featuring one showed it ticking like any other quartz, so it didn't have the original engine. These chew batteries. 6-8 months kinda thing. I suspect all that energy going on. It's bloody accurate though even 50+ years later.
With its sister, another early quartz(1971)
So after today mine again goes back into it's safe space. Until next time. 😊
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New watch day... Have been eyeing this for a little while and bit the bullet last week, and bought it. Honestly, I love it! It is exactly my style. Looks modern, and fun with the quality of finishing that you would expect from Sinn.
That now brings me to 3 Sinns (this 105, a 104, and a U50). I had said no more watches until a big one for my 40th, but this got inside my head and I couldn't resist.
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