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Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)
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I had the first one on your list B. Was NOS in box with all the trimmings. Very cool tbh. Iirc it needed winding near every day though, which I suppose was no great hardship. 🙂 A charity I was involved with was looking for items to auction and I gave it to them. Tbh it spent much of my time with it in its box. But yeah, very cool. Again iirc it cost me around 150 quid just over ten years back.
The French made Dodane Type II on the left I still have and wouldn't part with it. Got it from a client, who became a friend. Very interesting chap and lovely with it, once late of the Irish Air Corps. He knew I was into watches and he had this. Originally from a 1970's Irish Air Corps Aerospatiale Alouette helicopter.
With aircraft/tank/military clocks I'd advise one bit of caution B; the pre 60's(and sometimes after) cockpit instruments, including clocks were often/usually liberally lumed with radium. WW2 kit especially so. EG
(Excuse the hair in the gate..). My JU-87 Stuka altimeter(with artificial horizon just in shot)from 1940, "recovered" from a known downed Stuka in Kent during the Battle Of Britain, makes my Geiger counter go absolutely batsh1t crazy™. Like two days into Chernobyl, we need to get the feck outa here Now! batsh1t crazy™. Still slightly glows in the dark and it's not from the phosphors… 😱 Fwiw, my two clocks above were pretty much "dead' radioactively. The Dodane was tritium so long depleted, the Soviet clock was some sort of non radioactive lume in the first place.
But otherwise I say go for it.
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Interesting one for me. I have a Seiko snj025 (arnie) that I got from Banie01 some time ago. I really like this watch and tend to only wear it now and then. Silly me forgot its a solar watch and had it in my watch case with the window covered and when I went to wear it for the first time in months the other day, it was dead. Tried to charge it by leaving it in the window for over a day and nope, no life back into it.
After some checking online, I saw some people recommending a solar watch charger light so I picked up this from amazon
6 hrs on this solar light, and the watch is back on my wrist and working great.
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I throw them all in the window every few months. I try to consciously rotate what I wear but some do get more wrist time than others.
Only realized I'm up to 6 solars when I threw them in the window last week! The Ray Mears has got a lot of wrist time since I got it. Should really sell one or two. The Casio waveceptor is definitely surplus to requirements. And maybe the Citizen Promaster. I don't tend to pick it over over my Seiko mechanicals too often.
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