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Post pics of your watches Part II
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Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
Aiming to get back into wearing a watch everyday.
Nice Seiko.
I'd say I have worn a watch every day for more than 30 years. When I don't have one on, it's like driving with no seat belt, it feels unnatural.
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I picked up a couple of steel bracelets that I'd forgotten I'd ordered.
My Kreisler/Coffin link for my astronaut is suffering from a dodgy spring bar in the clasp.
The replacements I've found so far have all been a bit wide at the head and don't seat well enough to leave me any confidence when I wear it.
Slimmer ones are on the way tho
So I had ordered a generic matte/polished combo bracelet that arrived this morning and looks better than I'd hoped on the watch!
Also ordered a cheapo canvas strap for the IWC to try out. No photos yet, but will add some when I swap it over.
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I bloody adore that Accutron.I picked up a couple of steel bracelets that I'd forgotten I'd ordered.
Can't really go wrong with a Sumo, or a Seiko for that matter. You nailed the photogenic hand position to a tee 2Shea
Sumo Monday
Interesting thing about Seiko. When they joined the chronometer competitions in the early 60's they started off decidedly out of the game, coming in 100 and something place, but with each year crept higher and higher up the rankings. In 1966 things started to change. First with Girard Perregaux who before were a bit player in the trials, they brought their high beat movement(the first from any manufacturer) and rather than one off the highly fettled movements that all the others used GP submitted production movements you could walk out and actually buy and won across the board.
This spurred Seiko on and by 1968 they too brought one of their production movements to the trials. They took seven of the the top ten prizes from the Swiss. The Swiss took the top three. Only thing was, the Swiss movements were all quartz. So in the home ground of Swiss mechanical chronometer excellence Seiko produced the most accurate mechanical timepiece in its history. And you could buy one in the shops.
While nigh on everyone has had Chronometer on their dials, Seiko along with Girard Perregaux are the only two watch brands in history who have sold Observatory Chronometer Certified watches to the public and in some quantities(COSC certs are significantly easier to get).
This Japanese threat did not go down well with the Swiss at all. They had a hissy fit and closed the competitions down. They essentially went home taking their ball with them. When the observatory trials were started up again around fifteen years ago, the Swiss stipulated two things; no quartz and all parts must be made in Europe. So no chance the uppity Japanese or new tech would worry them again.
On topic; one of the new quartz movements that won prizes in prototype form was this.
Longines UltraQuartz from 1970. It was actually the first Swiss quartz watch announced in August 69, eight months before the Swiss conglomerate effort(that Longines were also a part of) Beta 21 and and four months before the Seiko Astron. Seiko got more of their example to actual shops first so they win the first crown. All early quartz were essentially handmade from the ground up so were crazy expensive at first. The Seiko Astron famously cost the same as a family car from Toyota. Swiss efforts were actually cheaper, but not by much. The Longines was one of the "cheapest", but still six times the price of a Rolex Submariner. They only produced just over 1000 examples in two styles. Few survive today, far fewer again still working(Longines themselves don't have a working one). More an interesting horological piece than a watch.
I once had two, both NOS examples, but stupidly sold one off. Not for the cash aspect, but for the spares. Though I gather there are guys out there who can fix them so...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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Squale 60 Atmos "SqualeMatic"
This one was originally bought by a German in Italy, but doing the rounds on boards / adverts over the last year or two
Big watch, wears only a tad smaller than the James Cameron
Review for anyone interested with some history on the company (von Büren / Squale) going back to the 40s for making diving watches and initially watch cases. They've made cases for lots of other companies too including Blancpain, Doxa, Zenith and Sinn!
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A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a Citizen Promaster Tough Titanium, the BN0118-04E, which I had recently purchased.
Since then, partially in order to keep myself occupied through lockdown, I've been trying to track down a few of the other, older variants of the Citizen "Ray Mears". This is the PMT56-2711 Perpetual Calender on a single pass Haveston Nato canvas strap. I really like the Haveston canvas straps, they're not too long, so no excessive folding, are the material is of a good quality and thickness.
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A mate of mine has one like yoursA few weeks ago I posted a picture of a Citizen Promaster Tough Titanium, the BN0118-04E, which I had recently purchased. and I agree the strap is very nice. Very nicely built watch. Feels like it could take a beating. Tough is right.
+1. I never really got the gra for the Spaceview tbh, and many if not most of them available are "fake", rather they're standard Accutrons, with the dial removed and new crystals fitted. Bulova themselves actually produced kits in the 60's so dealers could "spaceview" customer's watches. The Bulova Astronaut is a cracker. They've gained a fair bit in value over the last few years. I'd reckon outside of very rare original Spaceviews or 18kt gold examples they're about the dearest of the line.Lorddrakul wrote: »@banie01 Love that Accutron - the Sled Driver's time piece.
Can't understand why they don't have more of a following than they do.
I much prefer them to the Spaceview, which I'm not that mad about at all.
Though I'd agree should have way more of a following. Like you say they were the choice of test pilots flying rocket planes and were actually issued by the CIA to SR-71 pilots. well technically and oh so anally the CIA's A-12 spy plane. Pilots had found that the mechanical watches they were wearing over their pressure suits had a tendency to give up the ghost, or go wildly inaccurate because of low pressures, G forces, electromagnetism and very high cabin temps in some phases of the flight, so they tried these and they worked flawlessly. These attributes meant that accutron movements were used extensively in aircraft, satellites, rockets and ICBM's for timing. The onboard timers on all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo craft were accutrons. The one disadvantage they had was they didn't make a chronograph. So enter stage left Omega and the Speedie. How different the watch world might have been if they had a chrono... Interestingly one occasion where the Omega and Bulova interacted was after Apollo 11's LM landed on the moon. That was the turn for the accutron to gave up the ghost and that's why they left Armstrongs(IIRC) Speedie inside the lander as a backup.
After wearing my Longines oddball anachronism today, also a tuning fork(more like a feckin tuning hammer...) I "rested" it again and slapped on another Accutron buzzing homage.
PotatoCam(tm) set to sepia.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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A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a Citizen Promaster Tough Titanium, the BN0118-04E, which I had recently purchased.
Since then, partially in order to keep myself occupied through lockdown, I've been trying to track down a few of the other, older variants of the Citizen "Ray Mears". This is the PMT56-2711 Perpetual Calender on a single pass Haveston Nato canvas strap. I really like the Haveston canvas straps, they're not too long, so no excessive folding, are the material is of a good quality and thickness.
I have the latest one too. It's my most worn watch since I bought it 2 years ago. Seriously under rated watch. Great size too at about 38mm0 -
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barney shamrock wrote: »Took me a while to work it out but it reminds me of a tag monaco.
Speaking of.
Feels like a changeover day but until a later decision this is it for today.0 -
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