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I've reported this post to the NATO police. Get one that fitsAlanstrainor wrote: »Citizen on a timex strap...I put the strap on expecting it to be a bit rubbish...quite like it now!
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This is where it all started for me. When I was a kid of about 10 my granda had a seiko watch that I was mad about, always used to ask to see it ect then when he died my granny gave it to me. Its not worth much but I still love it! I wore this watch all through my teens then lost it, my mother found it a few years ago again and got it repaired and gave it to me one Christmas and it has lived in a box in a press the last few years and I just came across it again this morning!
Its a seiko 7009-3130 automatic
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With your indulgence AK I cropped and attached your pic. Those Seiko's are lovely. Great family history too.
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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This one arrived on Friday and its a nice Russian Aviator brand watch, kinda confusing who owns or makes them. Volmax, Buran,Poljot are all mentioned in relation to this one. 42mm case which is just the perfect size and I changed the nasty strap to a new Di Modell rally that I was not using.
It's a bitch to photograph because of the dial.
And one stolen from the web
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The latest purchase from Tatarstan
something on the rather nice Vostok mesh
another one from the Amphibia SE (special edition series)
polished 090 tonneau case with new stainless steel bezel and stainless mesh
and most importantly of all, a very nice burnt orange sunburst dial
(have had it for a few weeks already and the new puppy has managed to get scratches and shlobber everywhere ...close-ups really show up everything) 0 -
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I'd been looking around for a Flieger watch for a while and was about to buy a Junkers when @Eoin posted up his Steinhart GMT Ocean 1........that sent me off to the Steinhart site where I saw one of the best looking Flieger type watches I've seen.
I was a little bit worried that at 47mm it would huge on my wrist and to be honest it's the biggest watch I have by several mm, and while it's big on my wrist, it's not so big as to be off putting. I really like it but would prefer if it was closer to 45mm.
It looks good and being made from titanium is very light on the wrist.
Some photos....
In the box
The strap is substantial.....
Nice retro feel to the luminescence
On the wrist
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Great forum. Some beautiful watches and photos too.
Haven't worn a watch regularly in a long, long time but I've been considering getting an every day watch for a while now. I have a nice Seiko Kinetic I received as a gift that I wear on the very odd day out but it's more 'dressy' than 'everyday'.
I wasn't looking to spend a huge amount as it will be coming outdoors with me, getting wet and probably dirty but I did end up breaking the budget (doesn't everyone?
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I have no 'watch knowledge' and don't know what the fashion as such is. I browsed every picture on this and the 'Today I'm Wearing' thread to give myself some ideas. So many 'wants'! I went through every single analogue watch on both eBay and Amazon (there's a lot
). I didn't know exactly what I wanted but after plenty of research I narrowed things down.
(One thing I learned from my possibles pile was that almost all had a very simple circular shape to them. That might sound a bit daft when talking about watches but not all (most?) don't have that very exact, simplistic circular shape. That appealed to me.)
I forget where I spotted it but I really liked this watch instantly and after some searching to try to source it within at least viewing distance of my budget I have just pressed the purchase button.
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Another Russian to add to the mix. This time a Raketa from the late 70's/early 1980's with an early(second generation level) Russian built quartz movement.
Plated brass case, very lightweight in the hand, it looks like a diver and has a copy of the Amphibia screwback, but it really aint a diver. Heavy rain would likely upset it. The dial is cool though, IMH anyway and says from the top "RAKETA" "Quartz" and "Made in CCCP".
With these early quartz jobs I like to take pics of the movements to try and build up a database of them online so differences may be spotted.
For the early 80's it's very primitive when compared to the western stuff of the time. Dirty great stepping motor at the top and adjustable regulator. If it was western you'd put its vintage at around 1973. It's pretty solid, but there's a lot of backlash from the stepping motor so the second hand wobbles a bit as it ticks. Still the hand does line up with the minute markers which is more than can be said for some modern quartz'. I'd had a few of this movement over the years but I found they don't last long as "daily drivers", more a special occasion watch. I have an example of the very first quartz made in the USSR(in 77 IIRC), a Chaika. I'll try and get pics of it.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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Hmmm CB, you may have a point here. Russian folks are a damned resourceful and very clever people and most of all very practical with it, so I wouldn't put it past the feckers. This may explain how so many of my examples stopped working. Being a coeliac I'm sworn off gluten so maybe my wrist sweat was missing the vital sugars needed to power the movement(cue bloke or blokess in a shed in Yekaterinburg working on this very issue). 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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So now I wear my good watches because I am worth it.
Same with my fountain pens.[/QUOTE]
There seems to be a connection between nice watch appreciation/wearing and fountain pens. I've seen this before on other threads, and I too fall into this category. It's hard to tell if I am (we are?) nerdy or merely discerning - bit of both perhaps.
This is from this afternoon on the Atlantic coast. It's a bit dusty, but looks well in photos:
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fulladapipes wrote: »So now I wear my good watches because I am worth it.
Same with my fountain pens.
There seems to be a connection between nice watch appreciation/wearing and fountain pens. I've seen this before on other threads, and I too fall into this category. It's hard to tell if I am (we are?) nerdy or merely discerning - bit of both perhaps.
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I'll admit to owning a few fountain pens (3 Cross, and 2 Mont Blanc, previously I had a Montegrappa)
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I can barely write, so it can go both ways... 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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Following on from my previous Raketa quartz made in the USSR, here's another from that neck of the woods, but earlier.
The first quartz watch made in the USSR in 1977. Chaika 3050 Quartz Resonator(with an original ZIM "steel" bracelet, that couldn't be more crappy). Size wise it's huge, damn near 12mm thick and design wise I think they took styling cues from ABBA at their most glam. 
Going by the stamp on the quartz capsule this one was made in 78.
On the back it says Quartz Resonator in Cyrillic. Similar kinda sealing setup to the Amphibia.
The movement is a 3050. Very primitive by Swiss and Japanese standards of the time, but built in house without butting into western patents. Huge stepping motor, that's the yolk at the one o'clock position. The stepping motor wheel makes a full revolution per second which makes for a pretty loud tick, though it's more like a whoosh. The electronics are pretty rough and have wires exposed. The movement was built in different sections by different factories around Moscow and then put together in the Chaika factory, which made it very expensive to manufacture and was very pricey for the local market(it was never exported, even to former Soviet Bloc countries).
I've read online by a few commentators that it was inspired by/copied from an early 1970's ESA quartz. It has very similar features, but I would suggest maybe a more direct "influence" may have been the French maker LIP and their very short lived and rare to find in house quartz the R33(30). It shared the general principle of the ESA, but was like the Russian more primitive in build and had a larger stepping motor and no backlash prevention.
LIP had gone through some hardships, including strikes, army sent in, a commune type takeover by the workers(including removal of movements and designs and parts from the factory as a bargaining tool with the government of the day). So it was a very left wing environment at the time, so it wouldn't surprise me if someone in LIP made some contacts with the Russians(or vice versa) and passed on some of their tech. Just a thought.
Compare both to the ESA that "inspired"
IMHO the LIP and Chaika look more like each other than they do the ESA.
I'll say this anyway, that compared to the ESA or Omega and especially the GP 200 quartz(which is bulletproof), both the Chaika and the LIP are in daily use delicate and flakier than a leper with eczema. And dandruff. They work, but they're really only for special occasions or static display IMH.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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OK while I did mention I was generally not so much an Omega fan(save for the nod to 893bet's PO which is bloody lovely), well here's my only Omega.
Mid 1970's Omega Mariner from the mid 70's. I stuck a mesh bracelet on it after seeing others so accoutered.
I love how quartz was so "in" back in the day that they advertised it proudly and loudly on the watch case itself. You wouldn't get that today.
Omega's first completely in house movement the 1310. Solid performer, but fiddly to work on. Some cool features though, like the way that in first position on the crown you can change the hour hand without stopping the watch or affecting the minute hand, so you could change timezones without interfering with the accuracy. Uses a pair of magnets that sync with the hands so when you push the crown in the hands snap to their correct position. Pretty cool and expensive.
And it is pretty accurate. My example runs around 2 seconds per week slow which is not bad at all for a non temp compensated quartz and after all this time. Like all early quartz, it also has trimmer so you can advance or retard the timing which allows for quartz aging and the like.
From a time when a quartz movement didn't cost a tenner. Very expensive watches at the time. This model was twice the price of a Speedmaster*.
Because of Omegamania they tend to be pricey today, 4-600 Euroquids, though you can if you're lucky get them for much less, like 200-300 for the head only. Originally you could buy one with or without a bracelet and the former are cheaper. Either way a lot less than a Speedy of the era anyway.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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I'm surprised nobody is doing it already TH. Well some rare models, like old Speedys, but everything else no. I suppose the costs of potentially having to ready up any number of different casebacks, threads, diameters etc. Then getting the right kind and size of glass that will seal as well as the original... Like you say 3d metal printers would make it so much easier.
Your raise an interesting follow on question though. I wonder when the first commonly available glass backs came along? From early on you could get so called salesmen pocket watches that had glass backs as movement quality was a big selling point, but they were made in small enough numbers not meant for retail sale. EG
The earliest clear backs I've seen were on 1960's electronic watches powered by the LIP calibre. To show off the new tech I suppose. They were retail items, but still rare.
Accutron had their "Spaceview" which had no dial so you could see the movement and they became very popular. By mistake. The joke was they were originally made up by the factory in small runs specifically for Jewelers window displays to show off the new tech. It was only when said retailers found that people wanted "that see through watch in the window" over the regular ones that they went into proper retail production and Spaceview kits were sent out so normal watches could be converted. Of course they're still being faked today. It's hard enough to get an original one.
Funny enough my 1930's Zenith Pilots watch has a clear display back, under the normal metal one. For what reason I have no idea.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 new leather strap arrived this morning. Watch has an awkward 21mm width, but ordered a 22mm Hirsch and it fits perfectly.
The Omega version of this strap (in real alligator, in fairness, with the deployment strap) is a whopping €672. Yes, €672. I couldn't justify that, so after some interwebbery, I came up with the Hirsch at £39.99 (plus rather expensive postage at £6.90...anyway).
Yes, it's not quite the same as the Omega in quality terms (replica alligator vs. real deal; deployment vs. pin and buckle), but for the price difference, it'll do just fine in these straitened times. I love Omega bracelets - they do them very, very well - but I do think the leather, especially with the tight curved ends - suits this watch perfectly.
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