Post pics of your watches Part II
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Still wearing my £3.70 Omega 😁
Nice sunny evening here in Henley
Over the weekend, finally got around to getting frames for these posters I picked up in a tool shop in Biel, Switzerland back in January
Ebauches SA was made up of a group of various different watch movements that eventually merged with ETA. There were 6 different posters from the early 60s that were used in watchmaking schools, including the Irish Swiss Institute of Horology
Here's the set in the top background of graduation class 1987
And a set that sold on eBay
The guy in the shop had a small museum of various watchmaking teaching tools etc acquired over the years that he is planning on donating to a museum that is being set up
The 3 I bought were extras as he already had the full set downstairs, there was so much more I would of bought if I could but great to see that they will hopefully go on display in a museum.
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I'm not sure where this post should go but putting it here anyway.
Some of you might be interested in this 4-parter BBC radio series (it's on BBC Sounds) - Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers: she's a watch maker and horology academic:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001lqt0
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Thought I'd spruce up the sort of smart watch for summer. It was really starting to annoy me and thought about binning it several times. Thing is I really like the alarms on it as the vibrate in the morning disturbs nobody else. Also handy for walks and taking the odd call if the phone is left somewhere safe when working.
So a new old orange silicone strap which seems like decent quality and is more comfortable than the OEM and 50c on a watch face. So for sub €15 it feels like a new watch again. Guess it wil live for a few more months. Half tempted to replace it with a G-Shock but don't know if I would get tired of it as well.
So here it is in all its orangeness!
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@H_Lime As requested in the chat thread, 1 Blancpain and some quite delicious charred asparagus 😉
The steak in the frame is hands down one of the finest prepared and tasting cuts of beef I have enjoyed in years! A Croom cow too, kept it local!
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The latest addition to the daily beater rotation, a 39mm Hydro Conquest auto. I didnt like the detailing on the ceramic bezel variant so went for this slightly cheaper steel variant. I picked it up at discount to about 70% of RRP… then spent nearly that same 30% saving a few days later to replace the metal bracelet with the infinitely superior OEM rubber strap. As ive always found to be the case with mid-tier swatch family brands, the build quality is excellent for the price.
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The Prospex X tends to divide folk alright. Nice legible uncluttered dial on yours and I do like the scuba. It's the perfect case for ti being bigger as well.
I've been mulling purchasing the monococque case Marine Master 300 vs the MM200 reduced so I built a proxima based homage using seiko bits which is pretty much identical.
Whilst I think the mm300 is my ultimate seiko dive watch wearing this has shown its too chunky for anything other than ocassional wear so I bought the 200 spb187 reduced. Should land next wk.
It's a shame seiko seem to be moving from lume filled applied indices in the 1000 euro-ish bracket. Pressed indices and blob lume seems like a cheap out on their part.
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This used to be my daily driver for a few years way back when and it's crept back into it's old position of late.
Now it's about as water resistant as a fishing net, with no shock protection and with the oh so lovely, but delicate enamel dial of its era, but it's never missed a beat, even though I've gone through three crystals out of clumsiness.
I've noticed the silver cases of Longines of this period for some reason are shinier, more lustrous, less "grey" than my other contemporaneous silver cased watches. The London casemaker and partner/importer of Longines, one Arthur Baume seems to have used a different alloy? I've had two jewellers in the past at first think it white gold. Though silver is like pearls, they both gain a lustre from being worn.
I got the so called "Kitchener" strap back in 2002, by random chance from an older American chap who was making of all things WW1 helmet liners and chinstraps for reenactors and the like on original machinery and patterns he had found. As you do. I bloody love mildly eccentric folks like that. He also had original patterns for watch straps and made them almost as an afterthought, so I bought a half dozen of the things. He made them well.
Yep, Hirsch straps are around that long and are today the biggest watch strap maker on earth.
I got it before the interwebs and I was very lucky as it's all original which of course I didn't know before said web and few enough are these days after over a century. No Trigger's broom(Theseus' ship for the pseuds 😁) here. Save for a new mainspring in 09 and the radium being swapped out in favour of Seiko lume(with a watercolour wash imitating the original radium hue when new). Being Seiko schmoo laid on in a few layers it glows all night like the main reactor of Chernobyl after the whoopsie, minus the mutation threat.
TL;DR? It has been and remains my one of three watches that if my house is on fire I grab first. 😁
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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