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@neilnevill, my SBGN005 doesn't have a fixed place in my watchbox, or is it definitely an automatic/spring drive you're after?
Postman arrived!
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Thanks gaidong, I'm just in the admiring from afar stage, still doing the man maths to finish paying for the seamaster too. The spring drive is what I'd want though I think.
Thats is very nice Kato, congrats!
Yes, nice Tudor, the GMT seems to really nail the vintage look.
Postman delivers here too, thanks to @neilnevill I now have a new (new to me anyway) watch. Never really fancied a green faced watch, but I think this is fantastic, in most lights it doesn’t really look green, almost black.
Very pleased.
I’d love a green watch but not brave enough yet. I posted up a bronze Rado Captain Cook with a green dial a few months back. I’d go for that when the time comes
If you like the styling of the Tissot but don't want to spend £2k, then Yema do some similar 'vintage chronographs' with a mecha quartz movement for a lot less...
The lume isn't that great on the Yemas I've seen, but the finish is good for the price point, and they seem solid and reliable.
I like the green on my Pantor a lot more than I thought I would seeing as how I don't usually like green. It seems just that bit more casual than blue and even more see than black
I'd quite like something similar in decently bright red now.
Great! Glad you like it walowiz! It does change from almost black to that golden green sunburst according to the light, which is something I enjoyed about it.
Hmmm a bronze captain cook with green dial... Sweet!
I’d quite like something similar in decently bright red now.
Decently bright, very red and only about 80 quid! 😁
@tthew that’s a mighty fine Komandirskie!
(Командирские)
Might need to get another Vostok.
Lots of red Vostoks in stock here:
Evening guys, not a watch person looking for some advice! Stepdaughter fast approaching 16th birthday and I thought I’d get her something that will last longer than Harry Styles tickets she’s so chuffed with! Thinking a nice-ish watch around £150.00 budget, any recommendations?
Standard answer - a Seiko, there are plenty of lovely dress watches at that sort of price. Creation Watches are a good place to buy from if you don't mind an import.
What about a nice little Tissot?
https://www.tisso****ches.com/en-gb/t1292101603300.html
Mrs SSS has a Tissot PR50 as well, nice little watch at the lower end
That Tissot looks a good shout.
I found a channel on Youtube doing watch reviews. Lots of cheapish watches reviewed. Decent content, hardly any views so I'm linking here to give it a boost.
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I’d quite like something similar in decently bright red now.Decently bright, very red and only about 80 quid! 😁
I've never really looked at Soviet watches before, this might turn into something of a rabbit hole...
https://meranom.com/en/ Enjoy!
Takes 6 weeks or so to get to you, but great value. I paid £87 for my scuba dude Batman gmt, watched it track across Russia for 4 weeks, then Moscow to London on a flight arriving 2 days later. It was worth the wait though.
Online.vostockinc.com has been better than Meranom recently. Better stock and prices. Despite what Meranom say, vostokinc really is the factory store.
Oh dear. Against my better nature, I clicked on the Meranom link. First watches I saw, the Airship model, I thought to myself, hmmm, those are rather nice, and then I got to the bottom, and spotted the Gagarin watches, with the aged lume.
It’s not like I need another watch, and I seldom wear anything other than dive watches, or my Yema chrono, but damn, those are really nicely styled watches in a properly retro design.
Hmmm, just checked the prices - £287. Guess it’s going to have to wait.
Any thoughts on a Yema Superman Automatic or Navygraph Automatic?
Anything similar? Automatic? And is Watchgecko the only reasonable place to buy them?
TIA
You can get Yema direct from the manufacturer via. the web, and more often than not there's a 10% discount offered.
At least you could pre-brexit, might be a bit of an issue with import now.
I bought my Geckota from Watchgecko and they were very good in comms and sending the watch.
At least you could pre-brexit, might be a bit of an issue with import now.
Indeed 🙁
I’ve seriously considered a NavyGraf, Yema now have their own movements, and I really like the style of that particular watch. My Yema, despite it saying 100% waterproof on the caseback, won’t go anywhere near water!
It’s fifty years old, and a chrono, without a screw-down crown, plus an acrylic crystal, so wearing in the shower is a no-no. I’m even wary about having it on when I wash my hands - a service and mainspring replacement cost me £400-odd, I can’t afford to risk any damage to the movement. Yema have a decent history as a company, although they went through a bad patch when they got involved with Seiko, and ended up as a subsidiary brand making tacky-looking fashion watches.
The NavyGraf is a nice looking tool watch, if I had some spare cash, I’d have one in a flash!
I hope sll you Russian watch fanciers will be buying elsewhere from now on...
I am looking for a Seiko 5 field watch, to wear daily and I have always fancied a mechanical / automatic.
The green dial ones are now £160 online, but can be bought from creation watches or jomashop for a lot less. I realised I may be liable for 20% import duty but even with this added on they are a fair bit cheaper.
Has anyone used these online retailers and are there any other costs / considerations?
https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-watch-snk805.html
Thanks @countzero I ordered one this afternoon. I can’t have it until April though 😖
@tomvet £99 and in the UK.... I like that myself to be fair
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185319342976?epid=28046971480&hash=item2b25e4c380:g:usMAAOSweVJgt5mC
Thanks I hadn't spotted that, will email the seller
I hope sll you Russian watch fanciers will be buying elsewhere from now on…
Yep. They'll be stopping in my watch roll for the foreseeable. Or I may buy some blue/yellow straps to wear them on.
Actually, like these!
I hope sll you Russian watch fanciers will be buying elsewhere from now on…
TBH I had moved on from them a bit and was previously considering offloading my (modded) amphibia. yes they're Cheap, modifiable reasonably rugged watches but they don't really feel like very refined products.
I did wear a komandirski to work yesterday though...
A birthday gift from Mrs K today:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kryton1957/51917438494/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kryton1957/51917734465/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kryton1957/51917734470/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kryton1957/51917210403/in/photostream/
Its a lovely thing, and a proper super compressor. I've tried to capture the sunburst, raised multi faceted indices and the compression ring, very difficult to show the amazing way it catches the light, even indoors. Its not dusty btw, thats the lense on my phone....
Details here if interested.
@kryton57 Very Nice gift. 🙂
I dont have a CW myself but quite a few friends have and appreciate the quality of them.
@Kryton57 that is very nice indeed. Mrs K does have good taste. Loving the attention to detail on that CW.
I’ll google it between work, but what’s the super compressor do? And the two side buttons ?
One of the 'buttons' (Crowns) rotates the bezel inside the case, which is super cool. The other one is the normal winding/time setting crown.
Yea that’s it, an internal bezel - that’s the top/orange highlighted crown ^^
You can see more detail on the website but the super compressor means the orange ring - the compression ring - you can see through the case back and through the oval holes it has a very thin opposing spring against the gasket, meaning the more pressure on the caseback the more waterproof it becomes. It’s an older technology revised but a nice to have from a horological perspective.
The detail is pretty amazing, sapphire front and back and being domed on the front it really highlights those multi faceted indices. It wears bizarrely thin and light - it weirdly gets heavier when you take it off. Plus at 32,0000 the Sellia almost sweeeps, you just need to squint a bit.
Now to find out if I have any 20 or 22mm lug watches...
Er, 24 hours too late!
Now to find out if I have any 20 or 22mm lug watches…
As it's a NATO, you'll be OK going a millimetre down. I've orderd a 20mm for a 19mm lug width.