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Post pics of your watches Part II
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Pablo_Flox wrote: »I don't know exactly what it about it, but I find the Explorer a little unexciting and "safe".
That's exactly what I was looking for in my first Rolex, it being very much understated. A classic. Then when I got it, I wanted more bling
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That's exactly what I was looking for in my first Rolex, it being very much understated. A classic. Then when I got it, I wanted more bling
Its like drugs, you start out on the light stuff. The stuff nobody else notices....then a few years later you are living on the streets, no teeth and injecting heroine in between your toes.
The explorer is a gateway watch. If I had to choose it would be the Rolex every time. The tudor is a excellent watch, but if you want a Rolex then it wont scratch that itch and BB58 are not holding value like they did in the past. I think they are really in two different brackets. The Tudor is the king of the discount divers...the rolex
is entry into the next level.
I find explorers a little to bland also, I think a Milgauss is a better watch in the segment or push the budget to a pre ceramic sub. I would have said explorer II but they are 12 grand now I hear
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Apologies to Wibbs, I know he had asked for some more details about a few of the electronic watches I had picked up a while back when I last posted my Seiko electronic watch, however with college and work, I just didn't have the time for much Boards recently.
I said I'd share this one with ye today, it's a Citizen Cosmotron from April 1972. The dial is best described as a sunburst grey which ranges from black to a light grey or light brown depending on how the light catches it.
Interestingly, both the day and date are changed by pushing in on the crown at 3 o'clock (hold the watch up straight and push to change the date, upside down for day) and the button at 8 o'clock when pressed brings the second hand to the 57 second point on the dial if pressed after 30 seconds and back to 12 is pressed before the 30 seconds mark (I believe this was to attempt to get an accurate time adjustment in line with radio announcements in the days gone by).
Finally, theres the handy battery hatch on the rear that can be opened with a coin in order to facilitate replacement (a handy little feature). A lovely little watch that I think all in cost me the guts of €70 on yahoo auctions (a dangerous rabbit hole to go down!).
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When the electronic and later quartz came along the brands often added all sorts of little "complications" like your Citizen. Resetting to 12 when pulling the crown to set was a common enough one, though not common at all in purely mechanical movements(there was a 60's Longines handwinder that did it). Push button day and date changes, incrementally moving the seconds hand forward was another and independent hour setting hands for timezone changes was common enough. A lot of these features were mechanical in nature too. Which begs the question why the brands hadn't implemented similar in their every day mechanical movements. I suspect they didn't for two reasons: 1) the early quartz/electronic watches were the most expensive in the range so this allowed for more investment in such features and 2) the vast majority of company's mechanical movements were based on calibres that had been around for decades. Innovation behind the dial was minimal. About the biggest change in mechanical movements since the 30's was the introduction of high beat movements for greater accuracy. The automatic chronograph was the other. That's about it. The battery powered stuff was a new slate to work on.
Speaking of batteries and high beat movements Girard Perregaux were pioneers of both.
Girard Perregaux 9444 from 1973.
Separate to the rest of the Swiss industry(save for Longines) they had gone their own way with the new quartz technology and with the help of JLC for the mechanical bits developed their own. One quite different to the Swiss Beta 21 quartz family. For a start it had a stepping motor rather than a tuning fork driving the hands and the stepping motor was a beauty and superior to those that followed. It can drive much larger hands for a start. Grand Seiko's current quartz movement requires two motors to drive the normal sized hands(quartz movements have much lower torque than mechanical so hands had to be made lighter). The seconds hand hits the indices precisely too. The other advantage is that the GP movements had no delicate exposed coil. They built it with ordinary watchmakers in mind, so much easier to service. They then used teflon bearings instead of jewels. No oiling or maintenance required, but people wanted "jewels" and associated them with "luxury" in movements, quartz or no, so that didn't last long.
GP also came up with and set their quartz frequency to 32768 Hz which is what 99% of quartz movements have since set as the standard, because it gave the best trade off between accuracy and power consumption(up to that point 7000 and 9000Hz was the usual).
They advertised annual battery changes which was better than the competition. They also entered the watches into observatory chronometer testing(much higher criteria than COSC) which they won easily.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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