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Yeah I dig it too, it's to be my daily beater on an uncle tropic strap. It's on an uncle gl831 here.
The stock 317 doesn't tweek me and I think the slightly patina'd off white spb151 lume has a far nicer appearance than the 317's. I prefer the full polished hands as opposed to half polished half brushed too.
The 317 case is amazing on wrist, so wearable, light tidy and trim.
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I've pulled the trigger on a set of old hands from the UK. Not NOS, but better IMHO as they have a little tarnish and wear their age which will suit my watch.
The hour hand really is illegible in anything but straight on and decent light.
I'll drop the watch into the local watchmaker to see if he has a tool that will open the case and get him to do the swap. If he doesn't? I'll see if I can figure out myself...
What could possibly go wrong. 🤔
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A question for the more experienced here, particularly with an eye towards vintage.
Someone shared some photos of an Omega Constellation piepan on FB.
Based on the photos I think that it's a gold capped ref2852, based on curved lugs, 2-tone case back and octagonal crown.
Now I am basing that ID on photos taken via a potato, of what may well be a very poor condition watch. I am hoping that the condition of the case back, points to a scuffed crystal rather than a ruined dial.
Anyone with a better eye? Please, jump in and steer me straight.
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I've had some advice from TZUK that leads me to think that my ID is in the ballpark, but that given the wear on the plating visible on the lugs, caseback and crystal that it may very well not be worth the effort of saving unless it had sentimental value.
The hunt for a decent piepan goes on.
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I think you're right. It looks too far gone for anything but a sentimental reason.
1975 French made (preproduction example)Lip "Mach 2000" by industrial designer Roger Tallon, housing their in house quartz. French Futurism on the wrist. 😁 And of all the watches I've ever owned one of the only ones that gets commented upon by Normal People™
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I meant to post these here and it slipped my mind completely.
I'm going to blame the post op meds for my forgetting as I had already posted them elsewhere and thought, that was everywhere 🤣
I'm sharing these as an example of what a good polisher can achieve with a rough looking watch and plenty of skill and patience. My Omega had seen far better days than it's drab matte finish would have anyone think.
I stumbled across a polishing service offered by a lad from Birmingham over on TZ-UK, a thread with examples of his work.really is well worth a look
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?534731-Bracelet-Polishing-Done-Right&p=6346041
Anyway after a few messages and confirming that I had an NI address that he could post it back to. I sent Alex my Omega GMT and I think his work on it speaks for itself.
The ones with a red background are the "before" pics and the difference is stark!
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The follow on from the Monro Adventure has entered it's pre-release promo phase. Very much a Tudor-esque/Blackbay style watch in a 41mm case and continuing what I hope becomes a staple for them, the bevelled coin edge bezel and their rubber NATO strap ala the adventure.
No word yet on pricing, but IMO? If their KS pricing here is similar to the Adventure launch price? It should be quite decent value.
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More Lip than a Mick Jagger lookalike competition. 😁
Clockwise from top; 1968 Nautic-Ski, '75 Dugena/Lip Mach2000 Roger Tallon for the German market, '75 Lip Rudi Meyer, '72 Lip Sportville and a '74 Lip Roger Tallon.
Interestingly the new fangled quartz were nearly 1000 francs, but the Meyers were half that, even though the latter has a much more complex assembly, with its bolted together case, complex crystal and superior sealing, even the chapter ring is machined alloy.
Shows how much the new quartz tech cost at that stage. The Nautic-Ski were always higher priced too. I suspect because they had to buy in the Super-Compressor cases which weren't cheap.
This one is 34mm, but 12mm thick and with a 20mm band so wears larger. Runs Lip/ESA's electronic women's movement, though was marketed to men at the time. It's high beat so pretty accurate and very easy to read. Kinda like a French Bell & Ross 20 years earlier.
Lip in the 70's and in their dying days(though these designer watches sold well it was too late) predicted things like the later Swatch and Fossil etc designer/fashion watches(though far better made). Even the 80's Seiko designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and worn by Ripley in the Alien franchise owes a little to Tallon's Mach2000.
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The other name for that square watch was "Instrument" so I suspect he was channeling some flight instrument vibes.
I do have a real soft spot for the Lip brand,🤭 particularly their 60's and 70's stuff. They really pushed the boat out. No doubt they could also have a word in Swatch's earhole.. From 1974:
They had so many lines though and though they had some plastic going on, most of the time it was steel or alloy that looked like plastic, so was more expensive to produce and sell, kinda defeating the purpose. No wonder they went bankrupt.
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