Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

micks_address

Very nearly picked up one of these second hand yesterday

https://www.seikowatches.com/global-en/products/prospex/spb079j1

Having some serious not buyers remorse..



Anyone talk me back into or out of buying

Jurgen Klopp

Anyone here know how easy it is to remove gold plating from a old watch?

I was looking at certain old Seiko's that seem to mostly be gold plated and most are half worn so it's the silver showing

I'd love it in the silver just don't want to buy and find out I'd have a lot of trouble removing the gold plating

Jurgen Klopp

hitemfrank wrote: »

Does anyone know of a site with a catalogue of old Timex watches?

My mother has a watch that belonged to her grandmother that I want to send off to be fixed/serviced for her and I'd like to try get a bit more info in the watch itself.

I realise a service is going to be many multiples of the value of the watch but it's sentimental. She got the watch around the early to mid 1970's and it was because of this watch that she actually learned how to read the time. It was left in a cabinet after her grandmother died and her grandfather told her she could have it if she learned to read the time from it.


Edit: I've been able to find service manuals online for a number of the Timex movements so I might be able to narrow the model down when I get home.

Don't know just want to say that's a lovely touching story if I'm honest

It's well with paying more than it's worth to service it given the sentimental price

Wibbs

+1, for me sentimental value always outguns financial.

hitemfrank

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Don't know just want to say that's a lovely touching story if I'm honest

It's well with paying more than it's worth to service it given the sentimental price

It's a pretty nice story.

She spent a lot of time with her grandparents growing up - pretty much every summer from about age 5 to onwards.

After her grandmother died she used to walk all around Dublin with her grandfather. Whenever they went past a building with a clock he would ask her what time it was to make sure she knew the time before he gave her the watch.


I'm other news on the watch, the 20-odd manuals I found for old Timex watches didn't really help narrow down the search for the model. There is also no indication on the dial of the model or year of manufacture like on vintage mens Timex watches. All I know is that it was made in Great Britain at this point.

I've sent off an email to see about getting in serviced. The watch can still be wound but does not feel good being wound.

Jurgen Klopp

Fire up a pic if it Frank maybe one of us might find something

Roycropper63

@jurgen .good question regarding the gold plating. Will be interested in the answers

hitemfrank

Here's the nondescript Timex. Please ignore my terrible hands. Rock climbing really takes it out of them.

Jurgen Klopp

Lies Frank! You just made **** of your hands edging straight razors!

I will do a bit of googling to try and help with the Timex I've time

hitemfrank

It's the finger nail bed used to check the edge is good, not so much the inside the hands.

It's my poor t-shirts that take the brunt of the damage from honing straight razors and knives. Got a beard now, so the straight razors see next to no use these days.

Jurgen Klopp

Was doing a little googling Frank, have you taken off teh case back some models have the movement/model stamped inside the back if teh case

From eBay and Google vintage Timex searches it comes very close to a lot of 1960s Timex models looks wise

Edit: very similar

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F264612973289

If you go to picclick.com and search something like Vintage Timex Women's Wind Up it pulls in all eBay listings and it's easier have a look there's a lot similar there unfortunately most don't have model numbers either

hitemfrank

I'll try pop the back off tomorrow night and see. I've seen lots of similar looking ones, but no closer to finding a model name/number.

njburke

Is it hand wind only?
Any chance a movement from the same era such as Timex Marlin would fit it ?

hitemfrank

njburke wrote: »

Is it hand wind only?
Any chance a movement from the same era such as Timex Marlin would fit it ?

Yeah, it seems to be hand wind only.

Not a clue about the Marlin movement fitting but the only pictures of them I've seen look a fair bit bigger than this watch.

Lorddrakul

Once again, it seems Ireland's criminal fraternity are using luxury watches almost as currency, or at least, a uniform.

pjdarcy

Lorddrakul wrote: »

Once again, it seems Ireland's criminal fraternity are using luxury watches almost as currency, or at least, a uniform.

The state of that Rolex is upsetting. :eek:

Lorddrakul

pjdarcy wrote: »

The state of that Rolex is upsetting. :eek:

One shudders to think what it might have been through in that environment to end up like that.

pjdarcy

Lorddrakul wrote: »

One shudders to think what it might have been through in that environment to end up like that.

Yeah I don't understand it at all. Tony Soprano's Rolex was always gleaming

Cienciano

Pity some older watches are so small, something like this is a very smart watch but I just don't like the small size

https://www.adverts.ie/casual/watch-omega-50-60-cal-511-hand-winding/19619651

TheRepentent

Cienciano wrote: »

Pity some older watches are so small, something like this is a very smart watch but I just don't like the small size

https://www.adverts.ie/casual/watch-omega-50-60-cal-511-hand-winding/19619651

It is a very smart watch but 33mm? It is tiny !!

Lorddrakul

Cienciano wrote: »

Pity some older watches are so small, something like this is a very smart watch but I just don't like the small size

https://www.adverts.ie/casual/watch-omega-50-60-cal-511-hand-winding/19619651

Exactly that!

A 39mm is about the smallest I can manage.

Even my old Tag F1 Pro feels very small on the wrist sometimes.

Cienciano

Makes buying something older that bit harder. Lots of older style watches work really well for an formal wear watch, but they're the size of a 20 cent coin!

hitemfrank

Cienciano wrote: »

Makes buying something older that bit harder. Lots of older style watches work really well for an formal wear watch, but they're the size of a 20 cent coin!

On the other hand (bum tish), it's means more for those of us with the wrists of a 4 year old girl.

TheRepentent

OmegaGene wrote: »

its fake btw so the condition is bound to be crap
the watch is wrong is so many ways, all cab seem to do is find fake or vintage watches and declare them as worth tens of thousands when its actually worth less than the canada goose jacket (that could be fake too lol)

Yeah down through the years have seen people tell the gards on their twitter feed some of the watches are fake.

Cienciano

OmegaGene wrote: »

its fake btw so the condition is bound to be crap
the watch is wrong is so many ways, all cab seem to do is find fake or vintage watches and declare them as worth tens of thousands when its actually worth less than the canada goose jacket (that could be fake too lol)

In fairness, you could buy an amazing fake for the price of a Canada goose jacket, they go for around 7 or 800 quid!

But that watch in the photo is one of the worse I've seen, it looks like a cross between 3 watches, €70 fakes are better, that looks like a €7 one

TheRepentent

Shamelessly taken from the Random Video thread.

https://www.dumpert.nl/item/7834015_7a811728

funkyouup

Not farmiliar with his channel(horology house) but apparently hes been selling fake daytonas.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9hg4NjyWTeIUQ1H_WKZIw

https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/comments/ewojle/warning_uhorologyhouse_has_been_caught_selling_a/

Krombopulos Michael

TheRepentent wrote: »

Shamelessly taken from the Random Video thread.

https://www.dumpert.nl/item/7834015_7a811728

Just watched this, wow.

https://youtu.be/b9Y4bmbh1KY

scotchy

https://www.thejournal.ie/ceann-comhairle-rolex-watch-4989817-Feb2020/

Nice.

banie01

Just got the notification that my HKEd Bundeswehr v3 has been shipped

Spring festival and Corona virus aren't doing anyone in areas affected any favours and I honestly thought Ed would not be shipping for a little while yet.

So I shall be taking copious photo's when it arrives and hope that my $430 has at least some of the wrist presence of the original

Next purchase may well be a Bund style strap, just to round out the look.