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  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Cassius99


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    Picked this one up for dirt cheap on a Japanese auction site and it had been badly abused. The rechargeable battery was as good as dead, and some one had not only managed to snap the crown and stem, but had then wedged the broken bits between the date wheel and the dial.

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    I've been messing around with it the last few weeks and have got almost everything back on track. But theres a plastic gasket which sits between the bezel and the casing to secure it, and it needs to be exactly right before putting pressure on, otherwise you'll mash the gasket. I've had prior success with these, but I've already done in one and the bits can be hard to come by...

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    Which brings me to my next question...anyone know a decent watchmaker in the South East or Dublin with a press to sort this bad boy out and finally get it back in action?? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭athlone573



    Which brings me to my next question...anyone know a decent watchmaker in the South East or Dublin with a press to sort this bad boy out and finally get it back in action?? :)

    The only place I would trust to do more than change a battery or adjust a bracelet is Dawson Jewellers but they're closed due to lockdown. There may be others I don't know of .


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Those monobloc cases were designed to keep Citizen service centers in business ..


  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Cassius99


    Those monobloc cases were designed to keep Citizen service centers in business ..

    Until even they said to hell with that!! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,940 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Cassius99 wrote: »
    Until even they said to hell with that!! :)

    Did Calcul take a look and say that?


  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Cassius99


    banie01 wrote: »
    Did Calcul take a look and say that?

    Sorry, I should have clarified that I'm only going on what I've been reading online...I hadn't contacted them for the simple reason that i had managed to sort out the issues bar the closing by myself.

    In any posts on watch sites about more serious internal issues people basically said they had received short shrift from Citizen everywhere....I know there was a few lads in the UK doing repairs on them via ebay and the likes too, who most people wanting fixes had then turned to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Roycropper63


    @99 lovely looking back and front...
    Been hankering after a modern version which might happen sometime


  • Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭PhantomHat


    JPdZbbl.jpg92md3EOPsdOLMy Longines Conquest Heritage Automatic Chronograph. Love this watch.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,110 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    All lovely bottoms - just something that I've found personally - for example on the Speedmaster - I get an imprint and some skin getting rubbed off from wearing the watch over the course of the day - just me or do others experience it too? And does anyone have solutions to imprinted wrists?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    @PhantomHat That is very nice, but why is the 'i' on Longines lower case when the rest is capitalised?

    That would make my eye twitch.

    Can't possibly be a mistake, Shirley?

    What is the significance?


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    The original 60's Conquests had the same lower case i. That seems to be the only reason. I don't know why they did it back then either as Longines logos never did. They were uppercase LONGINES and the only example I can recall of one even having a lowercase i was the logo around 1900 where the L alone was uppercase.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Cassius99


    Meanwhile, my quest to track down some of the rarer models of the Citizen Promaster Tough 'Ray Mears' series continues. This time its the companion piece to the Yellowstone, the Aoraki/Mount Cook, model number 7878-H30351TA/PMU56-2487.

    It's very small (34mm approx) and I believe was marketed as the "womens" version. A larger 39/40mm model also exists. That said I dont have the biggest wrists and it wears well on a nice canvas NATO without looking circus freak small....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup




  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,701 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    There’s a mine of useless information on the back of a DAMASKO


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