Post pics of your watches Part II
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You have mentioned before buying a spare or donor watch for watches you want to keep long term.
There's a bit of a knack/ game of chance to buying vintage watches online. I did well with the dead lip nautic ski , sourcing a working movement and then having it exchanged. I might do more of that.
Yeah, I would say it's a given with early electronic stuff alright NJ. Though it was significantly easier to do when I was actively collecting that period. The LIP movement and spares are still easy to get and reasonably priced, GP 350 quartz stuff has all but dried up and when it comes up is a lot more pricey. The days when I was buying mine (well)for under 200 quid a pop are long gone and that's not that long ago. At one point I had six of the things and a couple of spare circuits. I gave a couple away as projects for others, or to dig out forum guys whose movements were on the blink. Thinking ah sure they seem to be easy to get... Doh! 🙂
Theres a book I'm trying to find at the moment.
Sadly there are very few books about that time period in horology, though I gather there are a couple in French. The Swiss brands for the most part don't want to talk about it and the modern market is based on mechanical soul and all that, so I doubt they'd sell anyway. There's still quite a bit to be discovered around that period. The GP350 movements were only supposed to have been fitted to four brands and Carltonbrowne late of this parish and myself found another two. The Tron dial ones were believed to be promotional items only and none were left in the wild and yet... Stiil, only five blue and three gold versions have surfaced since.
On topic and on topic. 😁
Stuck in mad traffic earlier:
That one came from Argentina of all places. All the rest I got save for one Spanish example came from France. That's a trick I found for this particular period; look on local French and Italian ebay sites. Spanish too. They seemed to have been a lot more daring style wise than the English speaking world, which tended and tends to be much more conservative on such matters.
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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Another day, another traffic jam. Going from the Future(tm) to back to the egg.
1916 half hunter Trench watch.
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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Citizen eco-drive diver BN0150 61e
Slow shutter speed responsible for the ghost second hand.
Showing clasp with ratchet adjustment.
As a couple of people have expressed interest in buying this model I will do a mini-review.
Comfortable on the wrist and doesn't wear as big as the Casio Duro which I used to have. More like a 42mm than its 44.
I've 7.25 inch wrists and I removed four links so as to get it tight and use the on-the-fly adjustment system to get it fitting correctly.
One word of warning if you buy it on the bracelet and DIY the link removal, they're a peculiar type of pin and collar unlike what you will see in most YT instruction videos like the Long Island Watch one which is a Seiko type P&C. With this one the collar fits in the inner link. I spent over an hour figuring why it wasn't fitting in the smaller outer link hole. The pins are uniform width unlike the Seiko equivalent.
Lume looks pretty good.
JustBlueFish has a good YT video about the bracelet version.
I bought mine on Ebay from a retailer in Italy who was having a 10% off sale. Brand new with tags (no stickers) and stamped international warranty card. €222 incl. postage of €15
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