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Deep Thought

mad m wrote: »

After some Deep_Thought I couldn’t resist.

Ooooo... eeeerrrr... missus

Mine says hello

Wibbs

OK not a watch, but... kinda along the lines of Hitemfrank's "oldie". I've been keeping my eyes out for an original strap(s) for my Trench watches and a few weeks back grabbed this off ebay for 20 quid.



Made for a 10 mm strap, silver hallmarked for London 1914/15, even the prong is hallmarked. Will have to be stitched on, no springbars here. Which will probably mean the resulting strap will cost more than my watches originally did.

unkel

And I own a watch again. Thanks to the gentlemen brothers pm. and Rob

893bet

New strap = a new watch!

Omega NATO’s are expensive but they are a class apart from any other I have tried.

pjdarcy

893bet wrote: »

Omega NATO’s are expensive but they are a class apart from any other I have tried.

I just googled that. They're charging 155 euro for a nato strap on their website!!

893bet

pjdarcy wrote: »

I just googled that. They're charging 155 euro for a nato strap on their website!!

Not cheap! I went second hand so paid 110. Like anything branded when you buy second hand alot of the depreciation hit has been taken. Easily sell on and recoup most of the €€ if needed (as it’s worn in rotation, wear will be minimum).

I keep meaning to buy some premium NATO’s from non branded sellers. NATO’s in the 20-30 euro range to see how they stack up; they are probably close to Omega standard (or even better)!

Lombardo123

893bet wrote: »

New strap = a new watch!

Omega NATO’s are expensive but they are a class apart from any other I have tried

That watch is absolutely stunning. I'm doing all in my power to justify a purchase in the near future!

Wibbs

Resistance is futile...

micks_address

Lombardo123 wrote: »

That watch is absolutely stunning. I'm doing all in my power to justify a purchase in the near future!

I agree it's a lovely watch I'm not a fan of the nato look..

hitemfrank

njburke wrote: »

Theres a world of information on accutrons out there, makes for great reading if you like to anorak a watch.
A very interesting design, real innovation in the 1960s. How they made that index wheel (2 mm dia, 40 um thick, 10um depth on the teeth) in 1960s.
Mybulova.com has catalogues and adverts for accutrons from the '60s. If its good enough for an X-15 test pilot its good enough for me. LBJ gave one to Kruschev, who in turn gave it to his crack team of reverse engineers and voila we have the Slava Transistor watch line.

There is a retired watchmaker who has a video on youtube made in 80s on how to service them.

Be wary of the spaceviews, many are conversions of dialed watches into spaceviews. Prices vary, I paid £138 for the one above, servicing will be another $130 plus postage, so all in I should have a serviced birth year accutron for €300. The accutron divers like the Deep Sea and Snorkel or Astronaut are €700+

The 218 movement in mine hacks and turns off the oscillator, so I can pull the stem if I'm not wearing it, which I like. I believe older 214s don't have this feature. Replacement coils are $130 for a 214 but only $35 for a 218.

So I did a thing...

Pablo_Flox

Got a bond style nato strap for the vostok I won in the give away thread and I'm loving it!




Thanks again Birneybau!

micks_address

The Bulova is lovely

hitemfrank

micks_address wrote: »

The Bulova is lovely

It was shipped this morning so I'll get some pics up when it gets here.

There's a lovely looking maroon to black fade on the dial I'm watching at the minute too. I'll not bid on that one but interested to see how much it goes for.

Birneybau

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

Got a bond style nato strap for the vostok I won in the give away thread and I'm loving it!

Thanks again Birneybau!

No worries, hope you threw the original strap out, right hair puller!

hitemfrank

Casio Duro

fat bloke

I'm sure the skilled photography and editing is flattering but nevertheless that casio is lovely!

hitemfrank

fat bloke wrote: »

I'm sure the skilled photography and editing is flattering but nevertheless that casio is lovely!

Aye, the editing helps a lot in fairness.

Ryath

hitemfrank wrote: »

Casio Duro

https://i.ibb.co/PWGY0Sh/IMG-20200211-125726.jpg

Is that the older model with the black dial and blue bezel? Seems hard get. I've been tempted by the all black one a few times. Looks to be a new all blue one
.

Makes a great beater watch.

funkyouup

hitemfrank

Ryath wrote: »

Is that the older model with the black dial and blue bezel? Seems hard get. I've been tempted by the all black one a few times. Looks to be a new all blue one
.

Makes a great beater watch.

It was a black dial black bezel ones. I just swapped out the bezel insert as I couldn't find the blue version anywhere

Cienciano

funkyouup wrote: »

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=502559&stc=1&d=1581434358

Very nice. Did you just buy it?

Ryath

Ryath wrote: »

Makes a great beater watch.

You hear about people in the states getting the black MDV106 for $30 or $40 in Walmart. Unreal value.

It's more like €70 or €80 over here.

Ryath

Deleted User wrote: »

You hear about people in the states getting the black MDV106 for $30 or $40 in Walmart. Unreal value.

It's more like €70 or €80 over here.

It's gone up a good bit in price used to just be £40 to 45 on amazon uk it's £90 now! Can get it from amazon .com for $68 ~€61 with duty paid.

hitemfrank

I got mine for £60 from amazon last June ish after it was up around £80 before that

funkyouup

Cienciano wrote: »

Very nice. Did you just buy it?

Thanks, Got it off eBay a few years back and hasn’t been worn much, took it out today to give it a wind and put it up on adverts but I changed my mind after a few minutes:)

njburke

hitemfrank wrote: »

It was shipped this morning so I'll get some pics up when it gets here.

There's a lovely looking maroon to black fade on the dial I'm watching at the minute too. I'll not bid on that one but interested to see how much it goes for.

I was in the horology section of the Deutschs museum this afternoon , they had a small display of wristwatches and sure enough it had an accutron spaceview in a cushion case. I put mine up to my ear for the hum.

Lovely looking watch, wear well.

celtic_oz

Bought a few cheap watches in my time but I'm truly blown away by the build quality of these two I got recently. Click the picture for prices





I've bought watches based on these reviews and I think these one are higher quality.

hitemfrank

How do the 'diamonds' on the second one actually look?

There was a Cadisen I was thinking of picking up ages ago (after I gave my dad my other Cadisen) that had one of those diamonds at 12 and it really put me off.

celtic_oz

hitemfrank wrote: »

How do the 'diamonds' on the second one actually look?

If anything they are more subdued than the picture .. if you look at reviews of the watches some will have pictures of them on the wrist

Pablo_Flox

Got this as a Christmas present from the in-laws and wearing it today. Not something I would have bought myself, but fun piece for Casual Friday!

TheRepentent

I actually like the look of that

EDIT: and it is actually wood..thats brilliant

eljono

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

Got this as a Christmas present from the in-laws and wearing it today. Not something I would have bought myself, but fun piece for Casual Friday!

The day indicator is cool, don't think I've seen that method before.

Daemonic

This arrived yesterday.

tobdom

Out of a modest enough selection, this one tends to see a lot of wrist time.....

unkel

Very grown up! I like the 24h one hand complication. Why doesn't it say Vostok on the dial anywhere though?

Krombopulos Michael

tobdom wrote: »

Out of a modest enough selection, this one tends to see a lot of wrist time.....
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=502873&d=1581695030

Oh I like that. I think on the black and orange striped nato strap from Getkota would be really be my cuppa tea. ....your tempting me now.

banie01

Daemonic wrote: »

This arrived yesterday.

SNIP

That I like!
Between that and kinglizards GMTs I'm drooling

banie01

It seems to have been a day of deliveries!

My HKEd Bund V3 has finally arrived!
I bloody love it, it's absolutely mint!
Also came with a lovely 5 slot travel roll too, that was an unexpected bonus.

Wibbs

Very very nice B. Looks the absolute spit of the Heuer. Which was a Leonidas design(they bought the company to get it), copied from a standard for pilots watches going back to WW2.

banie01

Wibbs wrote: »

Very very nice B. Looks the absolute spit of the Heuer. Which was a Leonidas design(they bought the company to get it), copied from a standard for pilots watches going back to WW2.

As you know from my drooling after your Heuer
It's been a grail of mine for quite a while.
I've only had this for 2 hrs and it's already convinced me that should the opportunity ever come my way to pick one up for a reasonable price I'll definitely buy 1!

The watch wears an awful lot smaller than I expected it too aswell!
Another thing you were right about

Daemonic

unkel wrote: »

Very grown up! I like the 24h one hand complication. Why doesn't it say Vostok on the dial anywhere though?

Most of the Amfibia (as opposed to Amphibian) range omit Vostok from the dial design.
They are kind of the 'expensive' Vostoks and definitely feel a little more luxurious. Even the stock strap is comfortable which is almost unheard of on a Vostok.

fat bloke

banie01 wrote: »

It seems to have been a day of deliveries!

My HKEd Bund V3 has finally arrived!
I bloody love it, it's absolutely mint!
Also came with a lovely 5 slot travel roll too, that was an unexpected bonus.

That's an absolutely gorgeous looking watch, for any money. Love it. - While I waited for Google to do it's thing I fully expected an asking of a couple of grand.

banie01

fat bloke wrote: »

That's an absolutely gorgeous looking watch, for any money. Love it. - While I waited for Google to do it's thing I fully expected an asking of a couple of grand.

One of the users here (Thirdfox) put me onto HKed as I was looking for an affordable Bund homage.

I was in the pre-order group placed my order in November with expected delivery in late January.

Pre-order price was $430, delivery was slightly delayed but I'm going to hold Corona virus against Ed .

The strap, the watch case and finishing and the overall action of the movement are all far in excess of what I expected.

I'm happy to share any info I have, and indeed if there is a particular pic or angle anyone is after let me know and I'll try get it.

Honestly cannot see much else being on my wrist for the next few months.
I smile every time I look at the time.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Got this off Unkle, an original wave dial ETA Seamaster 300 professional. Think this is my favorite dive watch. I had the ceramic dial version...but somehow that was not as iconic. On a blue rubber strap just for variety, a good weekend watch/gym watch. Happy to have one again, and happy to have this version...the definitive version.

hitemfrank

banie01 wrote: »

As you know from my drooling after your Heuer
It's been a grail of mine for quite a while.
I've only had this for 2 hrs and it's already convinced me that should the opportunity ever come my way to pick one up for a reasonable price I'll definitely buy 1!

The watch wears an awful lot smaller than I expected it too aswell!
Another thing you were right about

I was browsing the Sinn website and see they have a similar watch now.

https://www.sinn.de/en/Modell/158.htm

My main reason for being there was to ogle the limited run of the 104

https://www.sinn.de/en/Modell/104_St_Sa_A_B_E.htm

Lorddrakul

Julian Nice Tattoo wrote: »

Got this off Unkle, an original wave dial ETA Seamaster 300 professional. Think this is my favorite dive watch. I had the ceramic dial version...but somehow that was not as iconic. On a blue rubber strap just for variety, a good weekend watch/gym watch. Happy to have one again, and happy to have this version...the definitive version.

Well wear, mate, that is an absolute cracker.

unkel

That rubber fits to perfection. I take it a genuine Omega one?

Well wear!

(now what will I get? )

Spocker

Seiko Sunday anyone? First time posting in this particular thread, so thought I'd start with my favourite Seiko Kinetic. I can't for the life of me remember where I got it, so I don't have the exact model number (this SMY151P1 is the closest I can find) - I must dig out the original box.




[Edit] Found it, it's an SMY153P1 I got from Creation Watches a couple of years ago

micks_address

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mad m

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