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So the few home remedies didn't work and I didn't want to push it too far, better let an expert at it! Expensive enough fix, for me anyway, but I absolutely love the watch and though not noticable to others the blemishes on the AR were noticable to me and it completely put me off wearing it. So, had the sapphire crystal replaced. Looks amazing now in my opinion, though could probably do with an all round clean up, I'll leave that until the new year I think.

893bet

I always liked the real dial on those. Almost bought one once but seller backed out if I recall as they identified an issue with the watch.

Cyclingtourist

After the discussion last night on the Batman thread I put my Steinhart Ocean-39 on and am giving it some more wrist-time today.
Wet watch day looking out the window at the clampers doing the rounds. There's a guy who owns a b&w Mini who isn't going to be too happy.

griffin100

Apologies in advance, I still can't get photos to embed properly.....

I know Festina is not a brand loved by many watch fans. I once read it described as a brand for people who know nothing about watches

However i'm a big cycling fan and I love the history and association of the brand with bike racing (except for the bad bits ). I have memories as a kid of watching Sean Kelly winning races in his Festina jerseys (I've even bought my wife a Festina )

My kids also bought this for me a couple of Christmases ago after seeing me eye a similar watch up in a shop in Tenereife the previous summer. It's probably the watch I wear most.

wetlandsboy

My new acquisition. Upgraded from a 2014 GMT Master II BLNR.

micks_address

Something a little different



1977 Seiko Lord marvel high beat. 35mm

Bought from tz forum's. Details of restoration here:


https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettling.com/2019/04/13/10-beats-per-second-the-lord-marvel-5740-8000/

It's small but cool. 19mm strap. Will swap it out at some point.

Popped it on Omega aligator strap I had lying around





Cheers,
Mick

banie01

micks_address wrote: »

Something a little different

1977 Seiko Lord marvel high beat. 35mm

Bought from tz forum's. Details of restoration here:


https://adventuresinamateurwatchfettling.com/2019/04/13/10-beats-per-second-the-lord-marvel-5740-8000/

It's small but cool. 19mm strap. Will swap it out at some point.

Cheers,
Mick

Mick that's a lovely piece, but once someone reads the article...
It's an absolutely amazing piece of japanese watchmaking.

micks_address

banie01 wrote: »

Mick that's a lovely piece, but once someone reads the article...
It's an absolutely amazing piece of japanese watchmaking.

Yes it's nice piece of history to go with the watch. I have wanted one for a while but service history and condition had scared me away..oh and I wanted to have at least one Seiko

IrishPlayer

micks_address wrote: »

Something a little different
1977 Seiko Lord marvel high beat. 35mm

Beautiful watch,from the golden years of Seiko. Really cool to have the history to go with it,very well documented. Interesting the dial is a month after the caseback,from watching Spencer Klein repair videos usually the month before.

From watching all these videos and looking at pictures of movement's that make them appear bigger,I keep forgetting how small the parts really are

Thanks for sharing a cool piece of history.

Cyclingtourist

Saw this Vostok Komandirskie on the Poljot24.de 'rare watch' section. It interested me because of the dial, the fact it was manufactured in the USSR and due to my own experience working on Kuwaiti tankers at the time of the Iran-Iraq War. I did some research and saw somewhere that if the hour hand wasn't 'arrow' then it wasn't 'authentic' which put me off buying it but later discovered this wasn't strictly true.
So I got it, €92 DHL delivery inc.



For those who don't know Operation Desert Shield was what America called its mission to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, commonly called the First Gulf War (late 1990-early 1991). The dial shows the U.S. flag super-imposed on the emblem of Saudi Arabia.
This example isn't one of the more collectable 1st or 2nd edition Amphibias but it is an early Komandirski variant with crown guards in NOS condition.



I like the 'peacock' case back. I chose the light-brown Rios strap that came supplied.

I knew I'd seen this type of emblem somewhere before and it took me a few days to recall where. Rommel's Afrika Korps had as its seal a palm tree with a Swastika super imposed. Don't know if the designers of this watch dial were aware of this.
Good article here about the watch: https://vintagewatchinc.com/ussr/vostok/desert-shield/

Cienciano

If you haven't got one of those swiss army knife key rings, get one now and thank me later. I got one as a gift about 15 years ago and I use it so often I don't know how I lived without it.

Cassius99

Heres a Bulova A15 reissue I picked up a while ago. It's a good size, is pretty legible and the twin rotating discs make it a bit of a novelty. I like it, but the lume isnt really up to much...maybe I've just been spoiled by Seiko in the past!

longshotvalue

Got this last week, very happy with it. Great price. Need to take a better pic, finish is top class on this

stuchyg

aidankkk wrote: »

Got this last week, very happy with it. Great price

Is that the zen Garden on hotukd?

longshotvalue

stuchyg wrote: »

Is that the zen Garden on hotukd?

Yep, took off the bracelet, as i have too many of those seiko bracelets. Might get a better blue strap for this

stuchyg

aidankkk wrote: »

Yep, took off the bracelet, as i have too many of those seiko bracelets. Might get a better blue strap for this

The dial looks lovely on the zoomed pics, poor man's snowflake

Black Sheep

JLC Polaris automatic ... Getting daily wrist wear.



(I can see the embedded pic on my phone, but not on my desktop... Hmm...?)

893bet

Very nice. I looked hard at a blue version of the same.

A lot of “sleeper” amazing watches the last month! Hulks, solid gold subs etc.

eljono

Beautiful Polaris, do you have it long? Its a watch I've admired from afar but have never tried one on.

yamaha4life

A Tag heuer 2000 series with coke bezel i recently sold, replaced it with a Tissot Prs 516 im hoping to replace that with a breitling wings or if i go mad an omega planet ocean.

Black Sheep

eljono wrote: »

Beautiful Polaris, do you have it long? Its a watch I've admired from afar but have never tried one on.

I've had it a couple of weeks.

No Polaris to try on in Weirs, Sheerans etc. In fairness it's probably a bit niche, they would likely sell a lot more Reverso and Master.

It was a funny time, just post-lockdown, when I started looking, and they were all at sixes and sevens when I went in, maybe they have more stock now.

I have a Reverso already for dressier occasions, so the brief for this watch was everyday wear ... A bit sporty but a bit smart too.

All going well next watch will likely be a Master Compressor... A Diving, Memovox or Chronograph.

Probably a Master Compressor Diving.

893bet

This week I have been mostly wearing this.

Cyclingtourist

Strap-swap Sunday

micks_address

Picked up a canvass strap and it arrived today.

Makes this look and feel a lot better.

The included bracelet was bottom of the bin type quality

893bet

Busy Monday in work......both my Omegas are definitely gently edging towards the door......still very nice to look at of a Monday.

micks_address

You have 'graduated' to the next level i think Omega is my everest for the moment. Seen a boxed skyfall looking for 4.7k? USD on watchukseek. I think it would go 2.5 sterling on TZ easy enough

unkel

micks_address wrote: »

You have 'graduated' to the next level

You do realise you are insulting him with that remark? Insinuating he is only moving up from phase 3 at this stage? :pac:

893bet

I have forgotten what the levels are at this stage but I think I had skipped most of them if I recall..... onto a different graph characterised entirely of a stage of only wanting watches you can’t afford.

893bet

micks_address wrote: »

You have 'graduated' to the next level i think Omega is my everest for the moment. Seen a boxed skyfall looking for 4.7k? USD on watchukseek. I think it would go 2.5 sterling on TZ easy enough

4.7 US? I would hand deliver it to the states for that and still be ahead.

micks_address

unkel wrote: »

You do realise you are insulting him with that remark? Insinuating he is only moving up from phase 3 at this stage? :pac:

I did think about that afterwards... I was more thinking what he was leaving behind than attaining at this stage

micks_address

893bet wrote: »

4.7 US? I would hand deliver it to the states for that and still be ahead.

Yeah seems high alright

https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/for-sale-omega-seamaster-aqua-terra-james-bond-skyfall-38-5mm.5228765/#post-52279094

njburke

Another affordable Casio arrived today, a GBX 100. Syncs to phone and has tide and fitness/step tracker. It also has a very nice matrix display.

Oafley Jones

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

For those who don't know Operation Desert Shield was what America called its mission to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, commonly called the First Gulf War (late 1990-early 1991). The dial shows the U.S. flag super-imposed on the emblem of Saudi Arabia.

Pedant: Desert Storm was the war against Iraq forces in Kuwait. Desert Shield was the phase where they were bolstering the defences in the region (primarily SA).

Oafley Jones

njburke wrote: »

Another affordable Casio arrived today, a GBX 100. Syncs to phone and has tide and fitness/step tracker. It also has a very nice matrix display.

Those displays are a massive improvement on the old negative ones. Hope the tech makes its way into a module for the steel series. Really fancy the gaudy “gold” model, but can’t deal with the legibility of it currently.

njburke

Legibility and viewing angle is excellent on the display. Some of the font sizes are too small though. Scrolling text would fix that, but I suspect the refresh rate needed to achieve scrolling is not possible with the current technology. The stop watch for example doesn't show 1/100ths. Casio could have got round that by just showing 1/100ths in the stopped state.
It's battery powered, either the display is power hungry or they couldnt integrate solar and the negative display, light only passing through the negative portion of a sandwege display panel.

Only slight regret is I didn't get the blue one. I think this will be a good seller for Casio.

Cyclingtourist

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Pedant: Desert Storm was the war against Iraq forces in Kuwait. Desert Shield was the phase where they were bolstering the defences in the region (primarily SA).

To characterize Desert Shield as purely defensive is misleading. It involved a build up of forces to either intimidate Saddam Hussein into withdrawing from Kuwait or failing that providing the military capability to force a withdrawal.
That's why I used the word 'mission' .

Oafley Jones

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

To characterize Desert Shield as purely defensive is misleading. It involved a build up of forces to either intimidate Saddam Hussein into withdrawing from Kuwait or failing that providing the military capability to force a withdrawal.
That's why I used the word 'mission' .

Poor form Cyclingtourist. Misleading is where you selectively forget that you explicitly referenced the war. Hadn’t you mentioned that you could somewhat/badly argued that you could merge it into one single event, rather than two very distinct operations. Who doesn’t remember General “Shielding” Schawrzkopf!!! Did I really have to explain the implicit threat of the arrival of carrier battle groups etc? Disappointing.

Cyclingtourist

Here's one I took earlier.

Blanchy90

njburke wrote: »

Another affordable Casio arrived today, a GBX 100. Syncs to phone and has tide and fitness/step tracker. It also has a very nice matrix display.

Very nice!

I want another gshock and that looks like a great option. I love the blue one.

If it had a heartbeat monitor it would be perfect

Black Sheep

JLC Reverso, both sides.

The strap is from Camille Fournet - in brown calf.

eljono

Black Sheep wrote: »

I've had it a couple of weeks.

No Polaris to try on in Weirs, Sheerans etc. In fairness it's probably a bit niche, they would likely sell a lot more Reverso and Master.

It was a funny time, just post-lockdown, when I started looking, and they were all at sixes and sevens when I went in, maybe they have more stock now.

I have a Reverso already for dressier occasions, so the brief for this watch was everyday wear ... A bit sporty but a bit smart too.

All going well next watch will likely be a Master Compressor... A Diving, Memovox or Chronograph.

Probably a Master Compressor Diving.

Black Sheep wrote: »

JLC Reverso, both sides.

The strap is from Camille Fournet - in brown calf.

Great pairing, two beautiful watches that fly under the radar except for those in the know.

I really admire a lot of JLC models but have never owned one. I tried on and considered a Reverson Squadra Hometime back in January but it was too tall and large for me. And a few months ago when looking for a 300M SMP, considered a Polaris from C24, but didn't want to pull the trigger without ever having tried one on.

I have heard some interesting stories about JLC servicing costs, how has your experience been?

Black Sheep

eljono wrote: »

I have heard some interesting stories about JLC servicing costs, how has your experience been?

I've serviced two Reversos and they were somewhere around the 600 euro mark each. That was about five years ago.

There is a service calculator on the JLC website where you can enter the serial number of your watch and get a service quote. I popped it in just now for this Reverso and apparently for a regular service / classic maintenance, with no additional work, it is €590.

Some further details on how they handle their shipping kits here: https://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/eu/en/customer-services/send-my-watch-for-service.html

It may be more expensive to service things like the Master Compressor range but I actually don't know whether that's really the case or just something people say.

I'd consider doing the service with another provider next time, if it was markedly cheaper, but I'm not that fussed either way.

redlead

That's a beautiful reverso. Whats your wrist size out of interest? Is that an XL model? The Master Control Calendar is probably my grail watch at the moment; although my head keeps getting turned by some Cartiers. The reverso could be a good compromise.

Black Sheep

redlead wrote: »

That's a beautiful reverso. Whats your wrist size out of interest? Is that an XL model? The Master Control Calendar is probably my grail watch at the moment; although my head keeps getting turned by some Cartiers. The reverso could be a good compromise.

It's a Grande Reverso 976.

I actually don't know what size my wrists are, sorry...! I would have said they're fairly middle of the road.

Clareman

Can't believe 893bet still has the Omegas, they truly are wonderful pieces

Cyclingtourist

Just to illustrate the point I was making when I first posted pics of my ODS Komandirskie about how the overlaid palm tree motif resonates historically with the Afrika Korps crest.

Birneybau

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

Just to illustrate the point I was making when I first posted pics of my ODS Komandirskie about how the overlaid palm tree motif resonates historically with the Afrika Korps crest.

For a second I was thinking, that's a mad thing to have on your wall!

Cyclingtourist

Birneybau wrote: »

For a second I was thinking, that's a mad thing to have on your wall!

As long as it was only for a second. Reminds me of that Father Ted episode where he gets the reputation as Craggy Island's resident Nazi. :-)

david

Cyclingtourist wrote: »

As long as it was only for a second. Reminds me of that Father Ted episode where he gets the reputation as Craggy Island's resident Nazi. :-)

I hear you're a racist now Cyclingtourist :pac:

banie01

david wrote: »

I hear you're a racist now Cyclingtourist :pac:

Mmmm....
I wonder what else is in CT's past :eek: