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Post pics of your watches Part II

Wibbs

And we're onto a new thread... Here's to the next 10,000. My first post in the last thread featured this watch I'm wearing today as it happens so seemed appropriate.

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Northern Monkey

hitemfrank wrote: »

It tries to connect to a signal sent from Frankfurt and has about 1500km range so in theory it should be okay for Ireland.

I wonder why I've looked into it :pac:

Just got my dispatch mail!

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

Interesting. That's great detective work!
It has a model number 943141 stamped on the back.

As per the catalogue pic, the model number is 4396649, the number stamped on the back is probably a serial number.

Fitz II

dinorebel wrote: »

Guaranteed Fitz wont think it's a rocket.

guitarhappy

Daemonic wrote: »

Your watch has the CCCP Quality Mark which is rarely if ever included on the catalogue pics. The dates can be hard to pinpoint as I'm not aware of any Raketa catalogues from 78-83 and watches were produced for long periods if popular. Anytime from 75-85 would be a reasonable guess for the age of your watch, but it's your watch alright.

Interesting. That's great detective work!
It has a model number 943141 stamped on the back.

dinorebel

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

I only recently found out that if you line up the hands on some Seikos they make a rocket! An interesting little detail that I hadn't noticed.

Guaranteed Fitz wont think it's a rocket.

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

What's missing is the pentagon that says CCCP and the other 4 pointed geometric logo. So the catalog is possibly later. The story I got, for what it's worth, is this was in a box lot from the estate of a woman named Mabel who died in the late 1970's.

Your watch has the CCCP Quality Mark which is rarely if ever included on the catalogue pics. The dates can be hard to pinpoint as I'm not aware of any Raketa catalogues from 78-83 and watches were produced for long periods if popular. Anytime from 75-85 would be a reasonable guess for the age of your watch, but it's your watch alright.

Roycropper63

had a monster that did that....kept me happy

Pablo_Flox

I only recently found out that if you line up the hands on some Seikos they make a rocket! An interesting little detail that I hadn't noticed.

guitarhappy

Daemonic wrote: »

This looks to be it in the 1983 catalogu

What's missing is the pentagon that says CCCP and the other 4 pointed geometric logo. So the catalog is possibly later. The story I got, for what it's worth, is this was in a box lot from the estate of a woman named Mabel who died in the late 1970's.

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Lorddrakul wrote: »

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

Probably 17 jewel manual wind. Nice to have the CCCP on the dial. Puts it into the 70s I'd say.

This looks to be it in the 1983 catalogue.

guitarhappy

Fitz II wrote: »

Comrade you never really own a Pateka you merely are keeping it for the glory of motherland

Nope. I'm keeping it for the glory of it being a freebie. It only runs 10 hours on a full hand wind so I'm sure not keeping it as a timepiece.

Fitz II

Comrade you never really own a Pateka you merely are keeping it for the glory of motherland

guitarhappy

Lorddrakul wrote: »

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

If you squint your eyes and look at just the right angle... it's almost Patek.
He says he has a Rollox to send me next

Wibbs

It's an actual old Soviet one though. Rather than the post soviet era ones more aimed at tourists and the like.

Lorddrakul

guitarhappy wrote: »

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

Probably 17 jewel manual wind. Nice to have the CCCP on the dial. Puts it into the 70s I'd say.

guitarhappy

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Wibbs

Bored, so checking my over wintered silk lines on my fishing reels. As you do...

1916 Borgel cased Trench watch. IIRC it's a Helvetia movement in this one. Gonna redo the lume I reckon. Make it paler, less faux bollexed radium.

Cyclingtourist

Poljot in the permafrost.

Cyclingtourist

Stowa flieger frozen in time.

Birneybau

HDMI wrote: »

Arrived today, always liked the ProTrek range from Casio even if I don't have a clue how it works

The hands tell the time. Dunno about the rest.

Ionised

A couple of arrivals this week.

Very pretty little (34mm) Credor. Battery change and a polish was all that was required.

GS bracelet for my dark blue dial GS that had come on a leather strap. I have been looking for one for almost a year. People ask stupid money for them! This one came from Japan and was a third the price of some I have seen on Chrono24, even factoring in import charges. It is not perfect, but then I wear this watch most days so I don't worry about the odd scuff.

Fitz II

The best bezel in the business, quite dark most of the time but pops in the sun....god looking forward to the weekend, only back this week and its like I have been working for 5 months straight.

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Pablo_Flox

Cyclingtourist

Hairy Clarke's watch.

david

micks_address wrote: »

Seiko build back from Neil with Dave from these parts Crafter blue strap fitted. Very comfy.

Well wear! I'm a huge fan of the Crafter Blue with that colourway. Looks the business.

kagni

Roue TPS

micks_address

Seiko build back from Neil with Dave from these parts Crafter blue strap fitted. Very comfy.

cnocbui

banie01 wrote: »

In 2017 it bought my triple glazing, paid off my car loan

It's an awful affliction tho, I sold out of everything to cash a few weeks ago.
I was up, made a nice profit but if I'd kept the positions just a bit longer...
Profit would 400% rather than the paltry 50% I banked.
It has more than paid for the current crop of watches too.

Still I'm now waiting for the next crash to buy all over again.

I'm currently sitting on 2,300 % profit.

HDMI

Arrived today, always liked the ProTrek range from Casio even if I don't have a clue how it works

Lorddrakul

Speedie in the snow.

Not its natural environment.