but was thinking… can I have 2 watches from one brand?
I am not a fan of this thinking and neither are my 3 Sinns 👀
Its grand, buy and wear what you like and don't ever let my Mrs in on your 1 per brand heresy😂
I have a Steinhart GP LE, was thinking of picking up a Flieger from them .. but was thinking… can I have 2 watches from one brand? Should I go down the Stowa, Laco route or bide my time .. keep saving and get the IWC big pilot
It's the 42mm have to say I'm absolutely loving it so far.
Is it the 39 or 42mm version? I've the 42mm and love it.. was my entry to automatic watches..slippery slope
This is a Steinhart that every single time I see it, strikes me as being my next watch 😉
Yes it's full on homage but it's such a great take on the McQueen explorer but it is very well executed.
Yeah Vanilla does this. I've found the only way aorund it is to download the file, convert it into jpg, rotate it and reupload it, which I've done. Tweaked the brightness a bit too.
Been waiting awhile for this one. Birthday present from my wife.
@Wibbs Thanks for that😁
Nice that.
Oh my god, something weird is happening here.
This ticks so many 'anti' boxes for me. Gold, strange complications, hand wound. Almost the polar opposite of what I usually go for.
And yet, I look at it and I think its beautiful and I want one.
i had forgotten how much I like this watch - yellow Seiko BFK
That's a cracking piece and all the moreso because you had your own input.
It's official then 😃
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F3OEtmUv5Nc&feature=shares
German excellence in watch making.
Here are the actual watches issued to a Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot. None of this navigator luxury nonsense.
I have a sneaking suspicion real pilots just climbed in the cockpit and set the clock built into the panel and used that during the flight. I really can't see them messing about getting a pocket watch chronograph out, with the risk of dropping it if you didn't tie it on a cord.
We had a panel clock out of a Hurricane that a mechanic gave my father as a present. It was installed in a cabin cruiser my mother and father built in our backyard. Years later some thieves broke in and stole it from the instrument panel. I find it very curious that a thief would be such a discerning and sharp eyed horologist to even have the faintest idea what it was. None of the other instruments were touched.
Wibbs, can you account for your movements in or around 1975? You weren't in Australia at any point, by any chance?
;-)
Somewhere I even have some original navigation maps for the NW UK Irish Sea and NI as he was in and out of RNAS Eglinton in NI.
The Omega is 32mm and is stuffed; the JLC still works. I have to say those real men aviators wear massive flashy watches Brietling ads with a spitfire in the background annoy the shit out of me, knowing the truth was vastly different.
doubt anyone will be running in the claim that 😂
Any of you boys up to the North West recently! 😎
Watch out – is this your Rolex watch found on Donegal street? – Donegal Daily
Oh. Wow. Niiiiice.
lurker here. wearing my grand uncles Record Datofix today. manufactured circa 1950.
I am indeed. It's for a Pelagos 39, but it already comes with a black rubber strap. Thanks anyway - very generous.
If you are Dublin based I have a rubber 21mm set of straps I won't use...
There was quite a price difference between dealers and private sellers. I ended up finding something in the middle, that has been serviced.
So, despite having a box full of 20mm straps, I have an 18mm watch, a 19mm watch and a 21mm watch.
Just trying this on a rubber strap - opinions?!
Thats lovely, very smart. The Omegas from that era are very classy watch and while 50 years old don't really show it in some of their designs.
I just bought my first vintage on Friday so it should arrive tomorrow I guess. Not as flash a seamaster though but we all have to start somewhere.
My grand Seiko snowflake is the same , the date starts changing over well before midnight so it’s not just the cheaper seikos .
Seems early, Turtle was lying on my desk all day since I swapped to the Citizen for work this morning, even now at 23:20 date still hasn't budged. Never mind it's 12 hours ahead! 😂 Checking setting it starts at 10:45 too.
yep
That date already changing?
samurai save the ocean great white shark ...
You know it makes sense. 😁
Nice BTW. The 70's had some oddball crown functions, so that doesn't surprise me.
Handily and thankfully the vintage market has deflated a lot since the mad peaks a few years ago. Many dealers don't seem to have realised this, but private sellers have or increasingly are. I noted this difference on chrono24 in a few areas. Dealers wanting X, private sellers wanting noticeably less. There was always a difference, but it's widened by some margin.
This landed today. Omega Seamaster 166.067 from 1971. It has some form of vaguely sparkly dial. Polished 35.5mm front with matt sides, which is unusual. The quick date setting is done by pulling out the crown, which then springs back in. Each pull out moves the date forward. Needs a better strap.
Dipping my toes in the vintage waters.
