Post pics of your watches Part II

Fitz II

The best bezel in the business, quite dark most of the time but pops in the sun....god looking forward to the weekend, only back this week and its like I have been working for 5 months straight.

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Ionised

A couple of arrivals this week.

Very pretty little (34mm) Credor. Battery change and a polish was all that was required.





GS bracelet for my dark blue dial GS that had come on a leather strap. I have been looking for one for almost a year. People ask stupid money for them! This one came from Japan and was a third the price of some I have seen on Chrono24, even factoring in import charges. It is not perfect, but then I wear this watch most days so I don't worry about the odd scuff.

Birneybau

HDMI wrote: »

Arrived today, always liked the ProTrek range from Casio even if I don't have a clue how it works

The hands tell the time. Dunno about the rest.

Cyclingtourist

Stowa flieger frozen in time.

Cyclingtourist

Poljot in the permafrost.

Wibbs

Bored, so checking my over wintered silk lines on my fishing reels. As you do...



1916 Borgel cased Trench watch. IIRC it's a Helvetia movement in this one. Gonna redo the lume I reckon. Make it paler, less faux bollexed radium.

guitarhappy

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Lorddrakul

guitarhappy wrote: »

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

Probably 17 jewel manual wind. Nice to have the CCCP on the dial. Puts it into the 70s I'd say.

Wibbs

It's an actual old Soviet one though. Rather than the post soviet era ones more aimed at tourists and the like.

guitarhappy

Lorddrakul wrote: »

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

If you squint your eyes and look at just the right angle... it's almost Patek.
He says he has a Rollox to send me next

Fitz II

Comrade you never really own a Pateka you merely are keeping it for the glory of motherland

guitarhappy

Fitz II wrote: »

Comrade you never really own a Pateka you merely are keeping it for the glory of motherland

Nope. I'm keeping it for the glory of it being a freebie. It only runs 10 hours on a full hand wind so I'm sure not keeping it as a timepiece.

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

My best friend owns an antique/used furniture & junk shop. He's got 3 or 4 cardboard shoe boxes full of old watches so I asked him to look and see if he had any Patek Philippe. This is the Patek he sent me...

Lorddrakul wrote: »

Close, but no cigar.

'Tis a fine Raketa, but sure ' tis no Patek Philippe.

Probably 17 jewel manual wind. Nice to have the CCCP on the dial. Puts it into the 70s I'd say.

This looks to be it in the 1983 catalogue.

guitarhappy

Daemonic wrote: »

This looks to be it in the 1983 catalogu

What's missing is the pentagon that says CCCP and the other 4 pointed geometric logo. So the catalog is possibly later. The story I got, for what it's worth, is this was in a box lot from the estate of a woman named Mabel who died in the late 1970's.

Pablo_Flox

I only recently found out that if you line up the hands on some Seikos they make a rocket! An interesting little detail that I hadn't noticed.

Roycropper63

had a monster that did that....kept me happy

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

What's missing is the pentagon that says CCCP and the other 4 pointed geometric logo. So the catalog is possibly later. The story I got, for what it's worth, is this was in a box lot from the estate of a woman named Mabel who died in the late 1970's.

Your watch has the CCCP Quality Mark which is rarely if ever included on the catalogue pics. The dates can be hard to pinpoint as I'm not aware of any Raketa catalogues from 78-83 and watches were produced for long periods if popular. Anytime from 75-85 would be a reasonable guess for the age of your watch, but it's your watch alright.

dinorebel

Pablo_Flox wrote: »

I only recently found out that if you line up the hands on some Seikos they make a rocket! An interesting little detail that I hadn't noticed.

Guaranteed Fitz wont think it's a rocket.

guitarhappy

Daemonic wrote: »

Your watch has the CCCP Quality Mark which is rarely if ever included on the catalogue pics. The dates can be hard to pinpoint as I'm not aware of any Raketa catalogues from 78-83 and watches were produced for long periods if popular. Anytime from 75-85 would be a reasonable guess for the age of your watch, but it's your watch alright.

Interesting. That's great detective work!
It has a model number 943141 stamped on the back.

Fitz II

dinorebel wrote: »

Guaranteed Fitz wont think it's a rocket.

Daemonic

guitarhappy wrote: »

Interesting. That's great detective work!
It has a model number 943141 stamped on the back.

As per the catalogue pic, the model number is 4396649, the number stamped on the back is probably a serial number.

Northern Monkey

hitemfrank wrote: »

It tries to connect to a signal sent from Frankfurt and has about 1500km range so in theory it should be okay for Ireland.

I wonder why I've looked into it :pac:

Just got my dispatch mail!

Horoaddict

Weirs Delivery today, last of their Cal 1863 Speedmasters.

Ordered in December and was touch and go if they were going to get it in after the new ones launched (apparently)...delighted they did!

hitemfrank

Northern Monkey wrote: »

Just got my dispatch mail!

I got mine on Thursday even though I ordered after you.

Delivery for the 18th according to DHL.

Northern Monkey

hitemfrank wrote: »

I got mine on Thursday even though I ordered after you.

Delivery for the 18th according to DHL.

Mine is going to NI so that might be the difference in the dispatch time. Will be interesting to see if I get a vat payment request with it.

Wibbs

fat bloke

So today I received a Fort Knox-worthy package. Inside was my forum-issued Steinhart GMT. I eschewed all unboxing etiquette in my haste and delight but my first reaction was "Aw jeez, it's tiny!". But I've been wearing a monster citizen diver for ages now which has my tolerances skewed.

I've it on now and, as I am wont to do, have no plan to take it off again for months. My first GMT and poshest watch to date. Thanks Banie011

Whaddye think? Too dainty for Fat Bloke?

I reckon it's actually bang on and my other watches have been too big really.

micks_address

Looks perfect to me

banie01

Delighted it's made its way to another forum regular
I think it's a nice fit too

micks_address

What’s your wrist size? They say size doesn’t matter but it does