Post pics of your watches Part II

saccades

Wibbs wrote: »

One thing that Rolex divers always had were feckin fantastic bracelets. Even the vintage 60's examples have brilliant bracelets(and cases). Plus they show that they wear the years much better than others I've seen of the same age, or younger. Even after daily wear they stretched far less. If you got a 50 year old example, gave it a wash with fairy liquid, rebrushed it with the oul sandpaper* and presented it to someone today as new they'd not blink. Rolex; giving great bracelet since 1960.








*Fitz has now fainted. Proper back of the hand to the forehead and swoon too.

I hope that's sarcasm...

Thirdfox

unkel wrote: »

Well wear! Yes a very big and heavy watch. Tall! Lovely colour too.

It's a great quality watch for the money, if I have just one criticism, it would be that I would have liked a glidelock type of adjustment system. If you're gonna copy everything on the watch, apart from the Rolex logos, you might as well copy that! And I believe it is no longer under copyright protection by Rolex. Didn't thirdfox post something like that?

I got my dates wrong - the patent (rather than copyright) runs out in another 9-10 years I recall. ...But! I see genuine brands who aren't fakes have been making glide-lock-esque clasps too - see the Monta clasp.

So glide-lock(esque) is back on the table for the Equinox

njburke

All the posting on the lip watches spurred me on to get mine repaired. I found a R184 movement and a chap to fit it. Give me a couple of weeks and we should be sorted.

OldRio

Wibbs wrote: »

Maybe try(if you haven't already of course) this; pull the crown to the date setting position and turn it the opposite way to advancing the date. That's how a couple of my 70's day/dates work.

Hi Wibbs, I tried that. The crown pulls out to the first stop to change time. Then the second stop for the date. The date changes in both directions Clockwise and anti. Plus 1 ot minus 1 depending on direction. I've fiddled about a bit with the crown but alas. Nothing changes the day.
Never mind it's keeping great time. Thanks for your advice.

david

OldRio wrote: »

Hi Wibbs, I tried that. The crown pulls out to the first stop to change time. Then the second stop for the date. The date changes in both directions Clockwise and anti. Plus 1 ot minus 1 depending on direction. I've fiddled about a bit with the crown but alas. Nothing changes the day.
Never mind it's keeping great time. Thanks for your advice.

Worst case advance the time a few 24h periods to get the correct day?

cnocbui

Wibbs wrote: »

... Well modernism arose in Paris like many art and design movements do, neatly bookended by the Eiffel Tower of 1887 and the Pompidou centre or 1977. Now such things as you note are relegated to collectors or lifestylists, often ironically. Hipsters of a vanished dream...

The Pompidou Centre was designed by that absolute legend, Norman Foster, and some other notable British architects.

Ryath

cnocbui wrote: »

The Pompidou Centre was designed by that absolute legend, Norman Foster, and some other notable British architects.

Forgetting about an Irishman Peter Rice who made a lot of the design possible! Caught a very good documentary on RTE about him a few months ago.

Wibbs

cnocbui wrote: »

The Pompidou Centre was designed by that absolute legend, Norman Foster, and some other notable British architects.

It wasn't Norman Foster. It was Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini. Two Italians and a half Italian English guy.

cnocbui

Wibbs wrote: »

It wasn't Norman Foster. It was Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini. Two Italians and a half Italian English guy.

You are correct. I was confused because he and Rogers were partners in a firm called Team 4 and I thought they had both been in on it.

oknepop

HKED Bundeswehr V3

Wibbs

That's scarily accurate to the Leonidas(Heuer) design. The dial printing is better I reckon. Well the numerals certainly are.

banie01

oknepop wrote: »

HKED Bundeswehr V3

I've one myself and I bloody love it.
Don't wind it on the wrist tho, crown has already gone once in mine and as Wibbs said at the time....
Makes it an even better homage :pac:

fulladapipes

Quite dark out there today. Good lume opportunity for the Seamaster 600m. I just got it back after 10 weeks in Breretons getting its first service since 2007.

Omega Seamaster 600m

Thirdfox

banie01 wrote: »

I've one myself and I bloody love it.
Don't wind it on the wrist tho, crown has already gone once in mine and as Wibbs said at the time....
Makes it an even better homage :pac:

Did Ed sort you out about the crown? I don’t think you should need to be particularly careful about wrist winding - I’ve always wound the 1963 I had on the wrist without issue.

banie01

Thirdfox wrote: »

Did Ed sort you out about the crown? I don’t think you should need to be particularly careful about wrist winding - I’ve always wound the 1963 I had on the wrist without issue.

Yeah, he sorted it out asap in fairness.
No issues at all with that.

Apparently the original had a tendency to snap stems too and I'm a fan of better safe than sorry.

2shea

My Seiko DayDate 36mm:-)

njburke

2shea wrote: »

My Seiko DayDate 36mm:-)

That's a nice looking 5. I see the fabled snkl23 is available again after hodinkee put a rocket to demand.

somebody_else

2shea wrote: »

My Seiko DayDate 36mm:-)

Nice !

I went for black dial with black date and day and now can't see day-date :-(
(got NH36A movement so most likely gonna do the swap).

Cyclingtourist

Steinhart Ocean One and the 'true story' of U-Boat boardings (13) in WWII. Also describes the 'Irland' (Ireland) Code for concealing messages (such as the capture of Enigma machines) in private letters sent back to Germany from POW camps.

Iguarantee

unkel wrote: »

Well wear! Yes a very big and heavy watch. Tall! Lovely colour too.

It's a great quality watch for the money, if I have just one criticism, it would be that I would have liked a glidelock type of adjustment system. If you're gonna copy everything on the watch, apart from the Rolex logos, you might as well copy that! And I believe it is no longer under copyright protection by Rolex. Didn't thirdfox post something like that?

One things I’ve noticed with the OceanX SHARKMASTER is that the 12 o clock position on the rotating bezel doesn’t exactly line up with the 12 o clock on the watch face.

Is barely noticeable but now that I’ve seen it I can’t unsee it.

unkel

Yep. Same here. I'm far from OCD and I don't really care, but I spotted that too...

But shure, this is a €400 watch. Seikos costing over a grand can have this too.

banie01

Iguarantee wrote: »

One things I’ve noticed with the OceanX SHARKMASTER is that the 12 o clock position on the rotating bezel doesn’t exactly line up with the 12 o clock on the watch face.

Is barely noticeable but now that I’ve seen it I can’t unsee it.

As Unkel has said it's a PITA when it happens, but no volume watchmaker has perfect QC.
Indeed the professional part of me would opine that amongst bespoke makers 100% perfect, 100% of the time is a technical impossibility. Hence the reason for tolerance in specifications.

Now leaving aside the ridiculously boring technicalities of quality management and sigma

It's usually a simple job for a competent jeweller to pop an insert and realign it.
It's a lovely watch BTW.

Thirdfox

Well this was kinda unexpected... but *lots* of brownie points earned with MsThirdfox - a small celebration in our household and an opportunity too good to pass up came up and the first Rolex I've ever bought has entered the collection...



Pearlmaster for the better three quarters (according to Wibbs )



She loves it - this could be well be her "one and done" watch (when she's not modelling/enjoying a Sólás timepiece). And now I get to point out to her that she now owns the most expensive watch in our household (at least per rrp)

It also makes you realise that hmm - you can get a solid gold Rolex for the price of stainless steel men's Datejust/Submariner - world is pretty mad.

Cyclingtourist

My Seagull 1963, more inscrutable than enigmatic.

oknepop

SBBN015 today.

Fitz II

Its a gud un

Cyrus

Year starting to change over on the PC

mountain

I logged in just to thank the beginning of the year change...

893bet

Cyrus wrote: »

Year starting to change over on the PC

Having little experience with PC I am a little disappointed that’s it’s not a snap over at midnight.

Though now thinking about it...it does make sense that it is slowly changing when you consider the amount of cogs and wheels that are controlling the once yearly movement.

Cyrus

893bet wrote: »

Having little experience with PC I am a little disappointed that’s it’s not a snap over at midnight.

Though now thinking about it...it does make sense that it is slowly changing when you consider the amount of cogs and wheels that are controlling the once yearly movement.

yes i was thinking the same, but i guess it all part of the charm :P