Today I'm wearing... ***NO quoting photos***

Very nice Sir. Very nice.

Those Steinharts are bloody gorgeous IMH E. Looks good on the Nato too(though I would say that... ). I know what you mean about the leather ones though. They take time to bed in and form to the wrist.


Today I was rocking a family piece old skool*.



A Zenith pilots watch, in the rarer centre seconds version(with original cathedral second hand. You can just make out the red colour it was originally painted). Plated brass case with rotating bezel for timing. Made/sold in 1936. 41mm minus the mad crown(for winding with gloves in a cockpit) so huge for the time and a big enough bugger for today. Remarkably comfortable mind you. Fixed ribbon lugs. Originally a strap was stitched on, but today a Nato is the way to go. Very nice movement in these(slightly different to the subsecond version) large size with breguet mainspring, chatoned jewels and micro adjustment on the regulator**.

Even more sadly it had to be redialed in the mid 90's, but the original was very far gone, barely legible and it turned out the radiation pumping out made Chernobyl look like an effin organic farm. An exact copy though. Most had "special" on the dial this one had "extraspecial" and 1A for some reason and only in the last few years have I found others with the same markings online.

Of all the watches I have, my LIP Roger Tallon wacky bastard '70's yoke and this get the most looks and actual comments by far. Most non WIS think it's "Victorian". It has the steampunk vibe to it alright.








*and the first watch I posted a pic of in this forum. Ahh nostalgia, t'is goin outa fashion. .

**After a service by a real old master(who has since sadly passed) who took it on as a project and poised the balance etc it was running within 2-5 seconds per day. :eek: Sadly I took a tumble with it and it got a bit of a clatter so now is running 30-40 odd seconds a day fast.

Am wearing this today.



My Roger Tallon designed LIP Mach 2000 all the way from 1975*, with the LIP R33 quartz calibre, that was produced in house for an all too short time. I love wearing it. It doesn't look so huge and ungainly as the pic might suggest, that's a lens effect. Sadly it's very delicate a movement. Stops every so often with no real warning, so more a drawer queen display item. Though I have an ebay search saved for another with that same movement in the hope that I can get a donor movement that may be more solid in use and I could wear it more.



*it's a rare bastid as is. It makes a Rolex mil spec submariner look positively common, but it also has gradations on the inner bezel and even among the rare examples that show up and in all of the adverts for them at the time I've found, it's the only one I've ever seen with that. So if anyone ever tells you that you can't source real rarities anymore unless you're willing to pay big bucks? Ignore them. They're still out there and usually for less than 200 euroquids too.