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Post pics of your watches Part II
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Been trying this, not bad.
Pagani Batman, its some spec for cheap as chips
It has a tiny spec under the crystal, bit smaller than I had anticipated
But for E100 - not too shabby
DT
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Not as fancy as many shared here but this has been on my wrist every day for the past 19 years. The replacement capacitor and various other repairs have cost more than the original purchase. After much humming and hawing, its successor will be the Sólás Starlight, so this one can finally retire when it turns 20.
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I just had this arrive in the post.
It is the NTH Barracuda Polar White. I have to say that I think its a beauty. NTH made 50 of them in total in this run, 25 date and 25 no-date; so I am very happy to have gotten one. It looks like this no-date version sold out very quickly.
This is it on the wrist. I need to size it, but annoyingly the screws in the strap are much smaller than any of my other straps so I have nothing that will work. Very irritating!0 -
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I'm gonna cover myself in bubble wrap and sit in the middle of the room praying to all the deities I can remember at 13:13...
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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My best mate got married on a Friday 13th. Sure that woudn't mean bad luck? He was divorced 7 years later
A friend pointed out it's not just Friday 13th - but Friday 13th of 2020 :pac:
At least we didn't live 700 years ago
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Nice, local (very local) pick up
as i said to Fitz when he was buying it, i have owned the GSOTM, the DSOTM Pitch Black but never the OG DSOTM but IMO its the nicest variant,
and i was right
Welll wear, its suits you. I really wish I could have kept it, but because I love to make bad watch decisions, I needed to become more liquid rapidly. I did however have the privilege of trying on Cyrus's VC Offshore...and well thats a special watch. Know you have a buyer on that should you ever decide to sell. I have sold my JLC and Omega this weekend, people are thirsty of watches at the moment, a pal of mine is mid purchase on a fancy forum watch also. A good time for trading.0 -
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I've never been much of a fan of gold watches or fluted bezels. So obviously I bought something that combines them both.
A Tressa Lux (which is a pain to get a decent picture of)
It was the day/date layout that I really liked on this. And I'm coming around to the gaudy gold fluted bezel. A bit of flash in the collection now.
I do not like the brown alligator pattern leather strap however so a new strap metal strap is on the way. Two tone because a full gold one would be way too much for me to deal with.0 -
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And when your bank balance gets a bit healthier, you'll replace that homage with the original. Fluted bezel, full on 18kt yellow gold at that stage, on the president bracelet. Phase 4, hitemfrank. Scary stuff! :pac: My ads on adverts.ie
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And when your bank balance gets a bit healthier, you'll replace that homage with the original. Fluted bezel, full on 18kt yellow gold at that stage, on the president bracelet. Phase 4, hitemfrank. Scary stuff! :pac:
Well I did just have a review in work :eek::eek::eek:
I think this might just be a bit of a fling with the gold as while I'm coming around to the gaudiness it's still a bit much and I don't think the real deal is something I'll ever aspire to.0 -
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Battery change yesterday.
Bulova who made the Accutron, when quartz came along cleverly adapted an Accutron movement to take a quartz module, so very smooth sweeping seconds hand. And buzzing. Those teeny screws at the top left was how you regulated the +/-. Nightmare. Luckily this one is spot on. Under a minute a year. Note how the "silicon chip" has the manufacturing date on it as was the fashion in them days. 38th week of 1974.
Stuck in traffic...
Accuquartz 1975 centenary edition. NOS when I got it. Funky strap and all, but I swapped that for a NOS suede one(70's baby!). The blue dial is brushed and lovely, but hard to get a decent pic of. One handed. Waiting for lights to change. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Accuquartz 1975 centenary edition. NOS when I got it. Funky strap and all, but I swapped that for a NOS suede one(70's baby!). The blue dial is brushed and lovely, but hard to get a decent pic of. One handed. Waiting for lights to change.
Very cool style, sort of thing a hipster microbrand today would try to do. Great having the original0 -
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It's a bit odd alright and very 70's I even found a gold plated centenary version. Also NOS. 
In fairness I got very lucky and that one was under 30 quid, partially disassembled(the steel was under 100). Both were from European ebay sellers and neither would have been seen by .com viewers, specifically American where most Accutron collectors are and would pay significantly more for them(they're about the rarest of the centenary editions).
Both had the original hang tags and prices. Not mad money for the time, but not a cheap watch either. So where an Omega Speedy was around 300 quid, these were around 200. I suspect they were a little too oddball looking at that price and didn't sell so well and the cheap digitals were starting to come in and were becoming more fashionable.
Down the years I have noted analogue watches quartz or not, can be much more easily found in NOS form from the period of say 75 to 85. Or are engraved retirement presents. Even analogue watches made in 74 being engraved with dates from 83 or whenever, so held in stock for years(I saw one Girard Perregaux quartz from 72 with a 1986 dedication). The popularity of analogue fell off a cliff for a time.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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^^^ Man of Mystery you are Wibbs....
Speaking of the 70's. Continuing the theme today.
Girard Perregaux from 1973. Lovely linen dial in the flesh. Got it from an ebayer in Argentina of all places. The first quartz movement that set the frequency standard for the vast majority of quartz watches down to today. Though IMHO a far superior design than pretty much all that followed(no exposed coil for a start). More expensive to make mind you. Teflon bearings instead of jewels so no oil required. Mechanical bits by Jaeger LeCoultre and oddly for them below par.
Sweet! Funny enough when I finished working earlier my mind wandered to other things and what needed doing...Think my delivery of that WW1 watch is arriving tomorrow
I removed the as healthy as snogging an ebola patient radium lume during the summer. Bloody carefully, masks, gloves, a geiger counter and paranoia were involved. Today its time to relume! Half way there. I'm easily amused. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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