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Post pics of your watches Part II
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The follow on from the Monro Adventure has entered it's pre-release promo phase. Very much a Tudor-esque/Blackbay style watch in a 41mm case and continuing what I hope becomes a staple for them, the bevelled coin edge bezel and their rubber NATO strap ala the adventure.
No word yet on pricing, but IMO? If their KS pricing here is similar to the Adventure launch price? It should be quite decent value.
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More Lip than a Mick Jagger lookalike competition. 😁
Clockwise from top; 1968 Nautic-Ski, '75 Dugena/Lip Mach2000 Roger Tallon for the German market, '75 Lip Rudi Meyer, '72 Lip Sportville and a '74 Lip Roger Tallon.
Interestingly the new fangled quartz were nearly 1000 francs, but the Meyers were half that, even though the latter has a much more complex assembly, with its bolted together case, complex crystal and superior sealing, even the chapter ring is machined alloy.
Shows how much the new quartz tech cost at that stage. The Nautic-Ski were always higher priced too. I suspect because they had to buy in the Super-Compressor cases which weren't cheap.
This one is 34mm, but 12mm thick and with a 20mm band so wears larger. Runs Lip/ESA's electronic women's movement, though was marketed to men at the time. It's high beat so pretty accurate and very easy to read. Kinda like a French Bell & Ross 20 years earlier.
Lip in the 70's and in their dying days(though these designer watches sold well it was too late) predicted things like the later Swatch and Fossil etc designer/fashion watches(though far better made). Even the 80's Seiko designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and worn by Ripley in the Alien franchise owes a little to Tallon's Mach2000.
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The other name for that square watch was "Instrument" so I suspect he was channeling some flight instrument vibes.
I do have a real soft spot for the Lip brand,🤭 particularly their 60's and 70's stuff. They really pushed the boat out. No doubt they could also have a word in Swatch's earhole.. From 1974:
They had so many lines though and though they had some plastic going on, most of the time it was steel or alloy that looked like plastic, so was more expensive to produce and sell, kinda defeating the purpose. No wonder they went bankrupt.
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What a cool piece, 7t94 I read, love the date at 9! Case shape very reminiscent of c case 70's chrono and 6105 8000 slim turtle, speaking of which...
The above clasp is the same as your marine masters. I found the six o'clock joining side to the bracelet needed careful rounding of edges to wear it without it being uncomfortable when extended.
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My every day watch since I bought her 14 months ago. I really love this piece. a) for what it is, such a beautiful watch and b) it ended the watch buying for me. I still have a couple of others and I like them too, so I think I'm done selling, but 'she' is the one. Has some symbolic value too since the last year has been tough on a personal level and she's been a reminder that no its not that bad that material things like this no longer matter.
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Over the weekend I decided to try something I'd avoided attempting before. Namely regulating one of my Accuquartz Centenary yokes. One runs crazy accurate, under 30 secs a year. The other runs fast, a couple of seconds a week kinda thing. This won't do…
The majority of early quartz(and well into the 80's) had trimmers where you could -/+ the timekeeping for accuracy. Basically a knob you could turn one way or t'other. But Bulova? Ah jaysus no. That would be too easy. Instead they went with abso-feckin-lutely tiny screws you added or subtracted to the "tuning capacitor" depending on the -/+ shift you desired.
Note they reckon you can get it to within three minutes per year. My accurate one blows that out of the water. Even the wayward one wouldn't be too far off three minutes per year. So in I went, cursing and gibbering as I did so.
First I had to come to grips with some sums.
Then in with the screwdriver. Did I mention cursing?
Look at the size of that fecking screw. Getting one out is easy. I say easy… Getting one back in is a purgatory. And I couldn't find my loupe so had to rely on the Mark 1 Human Eyeball™. But I can report so far anyway it's locked in tight with oul atomic time. 🤞🤘
Bulova's response to getting in on the new quartz thing was clever. They used their base accutron movement, but changed the frequency of the tuning fork from 360hz to 341.3, which apparently makes the quartz frequency of 32,768hz divisible into one second via the chip, or something. Universal Geneve stuck one of these movements into one of their early quartz. Cool thing is the smooth tuning fork seconds hand. Though it's now relegated to just driving the hands rather than also being the escapement as it is in the true Accutron. Nerd fact; the Accutron is the only escapement that also directly drives the hands.
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On topic; today I was wearing this big oul daft thing again:
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This build isn't what I pictured in my head, but I wasn't arsed starting over with different parts from AliX and the wait that comes with it. That said, I can't see myself wearing it too much, so I might actually start over and make more of a flieger style. It kills a few hours, if nothing else.
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Taking a moment to enjoy the news of landing of what I hope works out to be my dream job
A few years of being on a seriously steep learning curve and being well out of my comfort zone on many occasions has hopefully finally paid off.
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I was taking a trawl through Chrono24 last night and I stumbled upon a Sinn 903 navigator variant that looks very interesting. I don't think the seller knows what he has, as he's got it listed as an automatic. I'm fairly certain it's a handwind.
If I'm understanding the dial, I think it's a 24hr dial, also that it's running on a handwound Lemania 1877 movement. I am not a fan of the gold plating but if it's what I think it is? Even with VAT when landed here, it makes for a potentially decent bargain. Its listed at $1287 + shipping and if it's what I think it is? Its a €3-3.5k watch IMHO.
I'm still very much on a hiatus though, so good and all as it might be, it's not for me, at least not yet. Now that said? If it was a stainless steel one, it'd already be on its way to me.
https://www.chrono24.com/sinn/903--id32897364.htm?searchHash=c4f4ad08_ugS8ax&pos=38
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Currently wearing mine too.
Dug it out this weekend for a trip to Prague to see Rammstein. It's usually my go to for concerts where I know I'm going to have a big feed of pints, can take some beating!
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