Post pics of your watches Part II

Wibbs

Moved the coffee talk to the Off Topic thread.

Cyclingtourist

Wibbs wrote: »

Moved the coffee talk to the Off Topic thread.

Off topic? There's a chap on YT who makes a living from the close association of watches & coffee. Adrian the BJ guy.

Wibbs

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

Adrian the BJ guy.

I have questions that probably don't bear the weight of answers...

IrishPlayer

Boarding the train for a trip to Waterford

Blanchy90

Love the watch but the loose end on the strap would drive me mad haha. Do you not tuck it back in?

Wibbs

Earlier. Stuck at temporary tarffic lights beyond the Pale.



They took feckin' ages to change.

cnocbui

My Honda has a white dial.

Cyclingtourist

Omega Seamaster diver 300m from 1998, the low maintenance original quartz version.



Collected from my local pawnshop (Brereton Capel St.) today.

IrishPlayer

Blanchy90 wrote: »

Love the watch but the loose end on the strap would drive me mad haha. Do you not tuck it back in?

Honestly never really took much notice!



Also a little spoiler from my trip so far, more to come!

Cyclingtourist

IrishPlayer wrote: »

Also a little spoiler from my trip so far, more to come!

Looks good. Interesting use of a disused church. The high ceilings with a mezzanine to create more usable space seems to work for a museum. Must go down myself sometime to have a look.

Ian OB

IrishPlayer wrote: »

Honestly never really took much notice!

snip

Don't those belong to Wibbs?

Wibbs

Nah, mine have the proper hands and the correct straps... The straps remind me that back in the day the only straps I could get for mine were ladies watch straps. They do have the correct crowns though, which are often missing. Pity they couldn't source better examples. Interesting that both are full hunter style(pop up solid cover for protection) watches. That design was only popular for a short time until "unbreakable" crystals came in and would be the rarer of the Trench watches.

Pablo_Flox

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

Omega Seamaster diver 300m from 1998, the low maintenance original quartz version.

2 Omegas added to your collection within 3 months... The San Martin will be doing well to see any wrist time for while!

Cyclingtourist

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

2 Omegas added to your collection within 3 months... The San Martin will be doing well to see any wrist time for while!

Yes and a few others also.





Edit: BTW I should compliment Breretons of Capel St. for their excellent service and competitive price.

micks_address

Hi cycling do you mind me asking price paid? I sold mine for 1400 last summer to a forum regular

Cyclingtourist

micks_address wrote: »

Hi cycling do you mind me asking price paid? I sold mine for 1400 last summer to a forum regular

I will send you a PM.

Pablo_Flox

IrishPlayer

On the train back home after a great trip to Waterford. Really enjoyed my visit to the Irish Museum of Time, thanks to Cyclingtourist for posting it on the forum.

Great to see so many other people with the same interest and grateful to be able to travel again.

Picture taken yesterday evening during a lovely sunset

fat bloke

Grey old day.




Delighted to get this back on my wrist. Since I got it there was something up with the bracelet fitting the watch itself and I was worried the case was damaged or something but jewellers were all closed so I couldn't get it assessed. It went to the back of the cupboard and the back of my mind.

Anyway, turned out whoever had it before fitted springbars that were too short so now it's tight as a Steely Dan arrangement .

Pablo_Flox

Is that the titanium version?

Thirdfox

Taking some pseudo-studio shots (hence date and time is "studio setting") of the Starlight that's on the wrist today.

fat bloke

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

Is that the titanium version?

Yeah. That's the one.

kop-end

One of my personal favourites, Bambino 2

Cassius99

A recent addition to the collection, a Seiko SRPE43J1. The dial is a real eye catcher, the pictures dont do it any justice




Now I just need an excuse after the reopening to wear it!

fulladapipes

I was out for a few pints with colleagues the other night and one of them mentioned his Longines with a smashed crystal. Longines wanted €1,000 to repair it. I said I would ask some gurus (you guys) if there was another way to get it repaired.

Any thoughts on whether there is somebody closer to home who might be able to fit a new crystal?

Thirdfox

A generic sapphire crystal should cost around 20ish euro + labour and new seals I'd say it will come to heck of a lot less than 1k. Any good watchmaker would be able to replace it with a generic sapphire. Depends on if it was AR coated and if you want AR coating which may raise the price a bit (but as in from 35 euro to maybe 70-90 euro for more fancy German made sapphire crystals) - see counsins.co.uk for crystal prices:
https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/sapphire-watch-glasses

Pablo_Flox

Had a lovely summer evening walk tonight!

IrishPlayer

Continuing on with the week off activities, after cycling to Kilcock the other week, decided to go a little further down the Greenway to Enfield



Got lucky with the weather, only started raining heavy closer to home on the way back.

Fantastic cycle along the canal, a mixture of different surfaces, great scenery





Planning on Mullingar for the next trip

fulladapipes

Thank you, that's great. I had thought it shouldn't be too much of a job, but wasn't sure. I'll pass that on to him.

Thirdfox wrote: »

A generic sapphire crystal should cost around 20ish euro + labour and new seals I'd say it will come to heck of a lot less than 1k. Any good watchmaker would be able to replace it with a generic sapphire. Depends on if it was AR coated and if you want AR coating which may raise the price a bit (but as in from 35 euro to maybe 70-90 euro for more fancy German made sapphire crystals) - see counsins.co.uk for crystal prices:
https://www.cousinsuk.com/category/sapphire-watch-glasses

fat bloke

Plastic bag saddle, Spar-bought water bottle...

Old-school 1980's cycling shtyle! I'm just disappointed you don't have the Kellogs spoke reflectors.