Post pics of your watches ***Please NO QUOTING PHOTOS***

fat bloke

Time wrote: »

Found this while cleaning my home office today. It’s the first “proper” watch I ever got. It was a gift and even though I haven’t worn it in a long time, and it’s a quartz (which I’m really just not into) it has sentimental value so I’ll always have it.

Swop my ads bud.

unkel

fat bloke wrote: »

Swop my ads bud.

on adverts.ie, it's adds, not ads :pac:

oxocube

Time wrote: »

Found this while cleaning my home office today. It’s the first “proper” watch I ever got. It was a gift and even though I haven’t worn it in a long time, and it’s a quartz (which I’m really just not into) it has sentimental value so I’ll always have it.

I'll give a half a block of cheese and 3 AAA batteries!

Thirdfox

oxocube wrote: »

I'll give a half a block of cheese and 3 AAA batteries!

Half a mile of cheese and 3 anti-aircraft artillery batteries sound like a good deal to be honest :cool:

Time

Thirdfox wrote: »

Half a mile of cheese and 3 anti-aircraft artillery batteries sound like a good deal to be honest :cool:

If anyone knows where I can sell anti aircraft weapons, I’ll gladly take the offer.

banie01

Time wrote: »

If anyone knows where I can sell anti aircraft weapons, I’ll gladly take the offer.

I know a guy, who knows a guy, who wants to know what range it'll take a Merlin or Chinook down at :P

Cyclingtourist

The perfect combination.

Cyclingtourist

Tissot Thursday.

micks_address

Tudor Thursday


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Cyclingtourist

micks_address wrote: »

Tudor Thursday

Why not just put automatic instead of 'Rotor self winding'?

micks_address

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

Why not just put automatic instead of 'Rotor self winding'?

I didn't make the watch

I think it's supposed to be a vintage nod

unkel

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

Tissot Thursday.

micks_address wrote: »

Tudor Thursday

Turtle Thursday



What's next alphabetically?

blindsider

Fromanteel Friday?

https://www.fromanteel-watches.com/

Dutch/Swiss...they seem to use Sellita movements. Some models seem to be homages - I'm sure I saw a 'Portugieser' there somewhere.

Still, nice watches for the price point - might be tempted some day....

Sminkypinky

Cheap, cheerful and loud - but also an ISO certified dive watch - the Seiko SKX011.

These are now discontinued as they were considered to be outdated, mostly due to the 7S26 movement which doesn't hack or hand-wind. But these anachronisms were part of the appeal of the watch for me - simple and reliable:





The standard rubber strap with the ridges for expansion is specially designed for diving but is a bit fugly, so I'll be changing it to a tropic rubber when things get back to normal.

Cassius99

Nothing fancy, a Rotary Chronospeed (I presume from Argos) but a watch I'm quite proud of. Belongs to my dad, who to put it mildly, is rough on watches. He wore it gardening, building, you name it. Numerous leather straps rotted away before he finally managed to smash the crystal to bits.

Local jewellers said it was beyond repair as the glass had got inside the movement and rotating bezel and so it sat in a drawer for the last few years. Out of pure idle curiosity I ordered a new crystal on Ebay for less than tenner. An hours messing around with a can of compressed air and with a new battery, crystal and NATO strap for under €20 and it's back working and as good as new.

unkel

Sminkypinky wrote: »

The standard rubber strap with the ridges for expansion is specially designed for diving but is a bit fugly, so I'll be changing it to a tropic rubber when things get back to normal.

Fugly, basic and humble it may be, but I've always liked the looks and functionality of them. Never saw one in the flash though. Don't throw it out when you replace it, I'll be happy to take it off your hands for whatever you reckon is a suitable price. Will stick it on my Seiko Turtle!

Thirdfox

unkel wrote: »

Fugly, basic and humble it may be, but I've always liked the looks and functionality of them. Never saw one in the flash though. Don't throw it out when you replace it, I'll be happy to take it off your hands for whatever you reckon is a suitable price. Will stick it on my Seiko Turtle!

One man's fugly is another's "functional" - the ridges are for contraction btw - when you dive your neoprene suit will compress the deeper you go so the idea is that you fit the strap on your wrist snugly at surface level (the ridges allowing for expansion slightly) and as you dive and your wetsuit gets thinner the ridges will contract the strap and keep it tight against your suit and not let the watch shift in position/potentially drop off your wrist.

It's also why the Tudor Pelagos has that intricate spring system and contracts the band too - but rubber ridges work fine too

Cyclingtourist

I hereby solemnly declare today 'Seiko Sunday'.

shano76

I have to say, I really like that Rotary! Good work!!

banie01

Changed the strap on this as the leather was wearing a bit too loose for my liking until my punch pliers gets here

Unfortunately I have no 20mm NATO/Zulu to hand so it's a slightly oversized 22mm.
That said there is plenty of space on the lug to absorb the extra 2mm.

The red/black combo strap sets of the dial nicely too IMO at least

shano76

Cassius99 wrote: »

Nothing fancy, a Rotary Chronospeed (I presume from Argos) but a watch I'm quite proud of. Belongs to my dad, who to put it mildly, is rough on watches. He wore it gardening, building, you name it. Numerous leather straps rotted away before he finally managed to smash the crystal to bits.

Local jewellers said it was beyond repair as the glass had got inside the movement and rotating bezel and so it sat in a drawer for the last few years. Out of pure idle curiosity I ordered a new crystal on Ebay for less than tenner. An hours messing around with a can of compressed air and with a new battery, crystal and NATO strap for under €20 and it's back working and as good as new.

I have to say I really like that Rotary! Good work!

banie01

Thirdfox wrote: »

It's also why the Tudor Pelagos has that intricate spring system and contracts the band too - but rubber ridges work fine too

I don't have a pelagos, but I do have a citizen titanium diver with a beautiful titanium strap with dive extension clasp that is lovely looking
But a pain in the arse on a dive, particularly if going deeper than 18mtrs.

I usually dive with a rubber ridged citizen strap that even has a dive table printed on it!
Not only functional but very useful esp if not using a dive computer.

unkel

That strap suits the watch very well, banie01. Sporty!

A 22mm strap is also noticeably more comfortable than a 20mm with a heavy watch, I'd take the extra comfort over the perhaps not perfect looks of the oversized strap any day.

colm_mcm

Cassius99 wrote: »

Nothing fancy, a Rotary Chronospeed (I presume from Argos) but a watch I'm quite proud of. Belongs to my dad, who to put it mildly, is rough on watches. He wore it gardening, building, you name it. Numerous leather straps rotted away before he finally managed to smash the crystal to bits.

Local jewellers said it was beyond repair as the glass had got inside the movement and rotating bezel and so it sat in a drawer for the last few years. Out of pure idle curiosity I ordered a new crystal on Ebay for less than tenner. An hours messing around with a can of compressed air and with a new battery, crystal and NATO strap for under €20 and it's back working and as good as new.

Can you send me the link to where you got the strap please?

Cassius99

colm_mcm wrote: »

Can you send me the link to where you got the strap please?

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/1-colour-nato-style

There you go. It was the 22mm grey strap for the princely sum of £2.10. Postage was €11 if I recall but I got a good bit of stuff from them at the time. I know the watch originally has curved springbars but I stuck in some regular ones I had lying around with no issues.

redlead

Cassius99 wrote: »

Local jewellers said it was beyond repair as the glass had got inside the movement and rotating bezel and so it sat in a drawer for the last few years. Out of pure idle curiosity I ordered a new crystal on Ebay for less than tenner. An hours messing around with a can of compressed air and with a new battery, crystal and NATO strap for under €20 and it's back working and as good as new.
SNIP

I know its off topic but it reminds me of the time I was getting a quote to put down a basic patio and the lad that turned up sucking his teeth and offering a crazy quote telling me that "no one digs anymore" justifying the mini digger I'd need for a small patio. The Polish lads that did it turned up with a couple of shovels and had it dug out in about 2 hours.

Unreal how lazy some service providers have gotten. They don't want the hassle of a harder job when they can charge the next guy 25 euro to take a link out of a bracelet. Fair play for having a go yourself and pulling it off.

On a side note and cool watch, but how does a non Chinese brand get away with such an unashamed rip off. Sinn bought the rights at least.

Eoin

unkel wrote: »

Fugly, basic and humble it may be, but I've always liked the looks and functionality of them. Never saw one in the flash though. Don't throw it out when you replace it, I'll be happy to take it off your hands for whatever you reckon is a suitable price. Will stick it on my Seiko Turtle!

I may have one that I am not going to wear, I'll have a look. It's yours if so.

Thirdfox wrote: »

It's also why the Tudor Pelagos has that intricate spring system and contracts the band too - but rubber ridges work fine too

A little more dear than the rubber option, but I think that's one of the finest bracelets I've tried on.

Cassius99

redlead wrote: »

Unreal how lazy some service providers have gotten

You've hit the nail on the head there. I know down the country there are a lot more generic jewellery shops than actual watchmakers, but I was surprised at how easy a fix it was (and how lazy the shop had actually been). A few euros on the crystal, a €2 can of air and a cheapo set of watch tools from Amazon was all it took.

On the same topic, I had recieved a cheapish carabiner style watch from my parents for my graduation years ago. Again, completely impractical and not expensive (I presume around €50) but it was a lot of money to them and it had obvious sentimental value for me. It stopped working and after visits to 2 separate jewellery shops was told they couldn't get it working. So into the drawer alongside the Rotary it went. Took it back out after the success with the Rotary. Ordered a battery and a replacement miyota movement (I think the battery cost more). Done some tinkering. The issue?? BOTH jewellers had replaced the twin batteries that operated the light function, and neither had replaced the battery that actually powered the movement...

893bet

redlead wrote: »

Unreal how lazy some service providers have gotten

That’s one factor of it but I think it’s a deeper change in the developed countries driven by consumers.

Driven by consumerism and the expectation of more goods and cheaper goods. Labour costs are high in developed countries and goods are cheap then due to automation and cheap imported goods.

Repair then becomes expensive! Very few repair electrical items for example. Why repair a 4 year old TV? Yeah I paid 500. It’s going to cost 150 to repair but I can buy a bigger and better one brand new now for 300 with a 6 year warranty.

We are a throwaway society.

If the shop were to fix that they may have needed to charge 100 quid or more. An hours work for some one, plus parts, plus vat plus overhead plus warranty.

If they did that you would be raging about the bill and rightly so as relative to the watch it does t make sense.

And that’s if they used compressed air! Let’s be honest, there is likely still glass in the movement, you have got it working, but it may stop again! You would be back to the shop waving your warranty.

Economics of repair often don’t stack up!

redlead

893bet wrote: »

Economics of repair often don’t stack up!

I agree with your overall sentiment in general but it doesn't always necessarily hold up with watches where sentimental attachment comes into play. For instance I have a 15 year old seiko arctura that needs a full service now. You can pick those up in good condition used for 300 bucks probably but I want my one even if it costs me the same. I know my uncle spent multiples of a watches value to be fixed because it was his father's and then he wore it for decades too. I can't remember what it was but it wasn't anything too fancy.

What you say is true in most cases to be fair. Mad to think there used to be TV repair shops....

Cassius99

893bet wrote: »

That’s one factor of it but I think it’s a deeper change in the developed countries driven by consumers.

You've made some very good points there. Commercialism is rife and the consumable nature of items makes them easy to throw away and replace.

To quote Fight Club: "We're spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like"

I suppose the truth is a combination of both factors: small easy jobs make more financial sense for a business and sometimes customers forget that what would appear to then be a small job is actually one that requires skill and thus the increased associated costs.

funkyouup

Cassius99 wrote: »

To quote Fight Club:

shhhh:D

Roycropper63

@banie. Could you post a pic or model no of your citizen titanium diver please?

banie01

Roycropper63 wrote: »

@banie. Could you post a pic or model no of your citizen titanium diver please?

There is a photo or 2 of it earlier in this this thread.
It's a jp3050.

colm_mcm

Cassius99 wrote: »

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/1-colour-nato-style

There you go. It was the 22mm grey strap for the princely sum of £2.10. Postage was €11 if I recall but I got a good bit of stuff from them at the time. I know the watch originally has curved springbars but I stuck in some regular ones I had lying around with no issues.

Thanks - Just ordered 6!
Have a few quite similar Rotarys so this will freshen them up.

Roycropper63

Thanks banks. Lovely watch

Thirdfox

Eoin wrote: »

I may have one that I am not going to wear, I'll have a look. It's yours if so.



A little more dear than the rubber option, but I think that's one of the finest bracelets I've tried on.

Agreed! - more than once I've had a tiny regret in selling off that ETA pelgaos - but the Hamtun Kraken was a good novel watch and nowadays I'm wearing the Sólás to test-drive the movement, straps etc. so even my beloved Speedmaster is off the wrist for the time being. Test model 1.03 is functioning very well btw

banie01

Roycropper63 wrote: »

Thanks banks. Lovely watch

Thanks Roy, it's one that on occasion I've thought of moving on but tbh it means quite a bit to me.
I can't believe I ever even countenanced flipping it.

I've had it @15yrs and it was probably in the shop for @3-4yrs before it was bought for me as I it needed a battery change in the 1st yr I had it.

It's back to about a battery change every 3/4 hrs yrs! Dammit thanks Jurgen :P now.
It's been down to @50mtrs and highest it's been is probably Mt Teide on a hike.

The dive alarm and a couple of other little features like ascent rate alarm and even altitude are all great little extras.

Makes for a very "sporty" lifestyle that I'm getting a bit too delicate for these days :pac:

Jurgen Klopp

banie01 wrote: »

It's back to about a battery change every 3/4 hrs now.

Jaysus to have your money and patience

oxocube

redlead wrote: »

Mad to think there used to be TV repair shops....

My Father ran a tv repair shop for 30 years untill the mid 90's. He knew the writing was on the wall when most of his jobs were taking twixes and lego out of front loading video recorders and he was told that they "were just going to buy a new one". Sign of things to come.

Speaking of repairing a tv. I've a 10+ year old 50" plasma that was very expensive to buy at the time. I replaced the power supply when it broke. Not a big job to do, couple of screws and plug in two cables and it was sorted. Cost me €60 for the new power supply.

I wont be upgrading it till it goes again and I can't fix it. I'll have a reason to buy a nice 4K OLED that I've had my eye on :cool:

sparrowcar

Wrong thread

Blanchy90

I brushed the case on my Radio Room Amphibia yesterday. Very happy how this turned out I've ordered a couple more Vostoks to do some proper mods to.

Cyclingtourist

Blanchy90 wrote: »

I brushed the case on my Radio Room Amphibia yesterday. Very happy how this turned out I've ordered a couple more Vostoks to do some proper mods to.

As a former ship's radio officer this type of clock face is very familiar, although the 0 & 30 markers were normally coloured differently as they denoted 'silence periods' for telephony rather than telegraphy with the 15 & 45 minute markers.

Blanchy90

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

As a former ship's radio officer this type of clock face is very familiar, although the 0 & 30 markers were normally coloured differently as they denoted 'silence periods' for telephony rather than telegraphy with the 15 & 45 minute markers.

It's hard to see in the picture but they are actually a lighter shade of red.

Cyclingtourist

Blanchy90 wrote: »

It's hard to see in the picture but they are actually a lighter shade of red.

In my seagoing days the telephony periods were commonly green. Not sure the aesthetic works for me on a watch.

unkel

oxocube wrote: »

My Father ran a tv repair shop for 30 years untill the mid 90's. He knew the writing was on the wall when most of his jobs were taking twixes and lego out of front loading video recorders and he was told that they "were just going to buy a new one". Sign of things to come.

In 1975 a basic colour 21" TV with 8 channels (and no remote) cost about 3 months net wages for someone on a median income. 40 years later a 49" TV cost about 3 days net wages

redlead

Blanchy90 wrote: »

I brushed the case on my Radio Room Amphibia yesterday. Very happy how this turned out I've ordered a couple more Vostoks to do some proper mods to.
SNIP

That's a really cool watch. Coincidentally I was only reading about the radio room this morning as I hadn't come across them before. That's what I love about Vostoks, there's a cool story behind all of them.

Thirdfox

unkel wrote: »

In 1975 a basic colour 21" TV with 8 channels (and no remote) cost about 3 months net wages for someone on a median income. 40 years later a 49" TV cost about 3 days net wages

1975: Yeah living in the decadent west that is Ireland...

In China you couldn't even buy a TV without getting a voucher from the government allowing you to purchase a TV - you probably had to trade in a few months'/years worth of rice vouchers for something as extravagant as that - and know the right people to get considered for a voucher.

You'd be the most popular guy on the street though - be ready for all the neighbours to want to have a go looking at your fancy new appliance. This was in the era that to get married a guy needed to provide his spouse with 1) a bicycle, 2) a sewing machine and 3) a radio - 21st Century it's 1) a car, 2) a nice healthy bank account and 3) a house.

edit: and to make it tangentially watch related - wristwatches weren't exempt from needing vouchers too - something to be earned not just bought for a tuppence at your local department store. Nowadays order it from jd.com and you could have one couriered to you from anywhere in China with 24 hours generally.

micks_address

micks_address

New to me today... Omega Quartz Ref 25418000

Bought from chrono24. My interest was sparked a few weeks ago with one on adverts that was going relatively cheap but had a chip in the crystal and the bezel had few scratches.

burned a hole in my head to try and find one... damn watches.. posted from Hungary yesterday.. arrived today.. box with cards.

Looks very clean to me.. Bracelet was a bit to small so put in a link and its a little loose now so a bit of playing to be done..

https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/watch-omega-seamaster-300-m-quartz-25418000