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A small, "would anyone be interested in..." post.
Orient Mako III/Kano/whatever name it has now, model RA-AA0011B19B. Bought it at the start of the year, have worn it once or twice, but it's just too big for me skinny wrists and arms. It looks brand new, no scratches or anything and I've still got the box and guarantee. It is a bloody lovely watch, really well made, accurate, can't argue with it at all...just wish it was 42mm and not 46mm.
Drop me a DM if you'd be interested
The fit is amazing - perfectly radiused for the case.
It has transformed a very attractive watch into a stunner!
Fortunately I had a scratch card win that covered the cost.
My Feiko SKX007 that I posted about a few pages back...
Because I know it's not what it purports to be, I've stopped wearing it so I'm going to sell it. Obviously can't flog it as a Seiko, but it does have a genuine NH-36 movement, signed crown and extra spare stem plus a fully lumed bezel insert.
In this case, would you bung it on eBay as a franken-watch with an honest description or take the the good bits out and sell those as an upgrade/repair kit? What would get more interest/better price do you reckon?
(this wasn't a stealth add honestly, but if anyone is interested in either option...)
but if anyone is interested in either option
I’m looking for a not too expensive second bracelet watch, but cant find your post, can you post a new pic?
Afraid you'll need to add your own bracelet.
I have a spare strapcode bracelet.
Hmmm -how much would you want for it?
Mini PSA for the G-Shock nerds:
GW-M5610 is on for £90 at Amazon…
Good price but it has been £80 within the last 3 months. I have a tracker on camelcamelcamel for it
@dmorts you should have bought it then!
Most places seem to have the M5610 up to £100+ there was a "Good Used" one in the alternative vendor options at ~£83 this morning, dunno if those sort of used offers on Amazon throw out the Al-gore-rhythm on price trackers.
I can't see them going much cheaper, I bought a G5600 (essentially the same watch minus MB6) for ~£75 last year.
I've had a yearning for something blue for a while - so now have this... Samurai Save the Ocean Great White. I think it looks great, feels comfortable on my wrist so really happy. The bracelet is a bit cheap feeling but I'm seeing references to Strapcode on here so might get one of their blue rubber versions.
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That dial is nice, but the bezel looks very different in the two photo's.
Sold my Feiko for £80 on ebay with the honest description, pleased with that. Actually got about £150 all in because I had 4 to go that I'd bought for various reasons, (mod project, Watch Swap on here) which don't get worn. Still got a while to go before I can afford my dream Omega! 😁
It's the same watch, just one view in the sun rather than shade. Certainly not a fake I hope, bought from a reputable watch retailer.
Anyone ever had trouble refitting a bezel on an SKX? It just won't go back on. Maybe needs some silicon grease?
I was admiring Roberto Mancini’s watch the other night. Then I saw the price!
c 220 000 euros
Certainly not a fake I hope, bought from a reputable watch retailer.
Sorry dude, wasn't meaning to compare your new one to my sold one, though on re-reading it could come across that way!
Phew, thought you knew something I didn't! No worries, I'm dead chuffed with it, looks brilliant and even the wife commented on it and she never notices what watch I have on 😉
I’m dead chuffed with it, looks brilliant and even the wife commented on it and she never notices what watch I have on
This is helping me remind myself of my Samurai and avoid buying a Pagani. On another foot, I quite like the new Presage "Sharp edge" GMT's - looks a bit like a less affluent persons Grand Seiko:
I was looking at those the other day. I quite like it but not sure about the calendar dial
A proper tool watch and another chunky vintage Omega - original Ploprof from mid-1970s - like the Flightmaster, wears surprisingly well given it's hewn from a solid chunk of steel.
Not something I could see myself wearing, but that's got a great back story and the very essence if a tool watch.
Do you take it off to do the washing up? 😁
I recently replace my Samurai's NATO with this from Crafter Blue.
Not cheap (£62) but look see:
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What do people think of the new Black Bay 58 Bronze? Tudor seem to be doing a new watch a week at the moment.
Do you take it off to do the washing up? 😁
Ha. To be honest it's worn pretty frequently, and yes, even when washing up - mine appears to have been well-used - like most examples - they were typically purchased as tools and used professionally. Seems daft to stick it in a drawer or watch-winder when it's been subject to far rougher treatment than a bowl of fairy-liquid.
a bowl of fairy-liquid
Ah - you're supposed to dilute it...
I recently replace my Samurai’s NATO with this from Crafter Blue.
That looks very nice.
What do people think of the new Black Bay 58 Bronze?
Personally I don't like that one, but I do like this one:
Thats on my 50th birthday list.
@derek_starship That strap is pretty much exactly what I had in mind, thanks. Looking at the website now 🙂
PSA for Yema, various offers on watches, including 15% off and a free LED watch with the Heritage models.
https://en.yema.com/#summersales
That brown bronze bay was the first wasn't it? Or ... Was the first a brown smily dial? I liked, and still do, the brown, but like kryton the slate grey is my preferred. I've not tried one on. I suspect it's big. It's 43mm iirc, and if it's as thick as my 42mm pelagos it'll wear really big. I've become accustomed to buy watches though.
I’ve become accustomed to buy watches though.
Yes, the evidence has been plain for us all to see over the last couple of years of this thread. 🤣
Ok watchers, I've got a watch that needs a new movement but because its a promo (yes it's a beer watch 🙂 ) and there appears to be no markings at all, what is the chance of getting a working movement into it? Current one had a fresh battery in but didn't last long before stopping so went in the drawer
D'oh! Auto typing on the phone.... Should have been big.... But yes it was apt!
I just realised, bronze bracelet? Wtf? And realized it's a bb58, so not do big. Nice but the bracelet? My wrist can go green enough from the head of my CW bronze, a bracelet as well is going to be messy.
Mrs TiRed has shown little interest in luxury goods (nor bikes for that matter). But a belated 50th present and a special day has seen her acquire an interest in watches! Quartz not manual (she'll get bored winding daily), and a little shiny but not too much. Absolutely lovely and she is worth it (she has me and my bikes to put up with). JLC Reverso Quartz stole her heart.
@edhornby - can you fix the picture in your posting please? Dropping a new quartz movement into a watch is pretty easy - someone like this could do it but it may be more expensive then buying a new watch. Alternatively, DIY - lots of videos, the most difficult bit will be refitting the hands.
try again! The question is whether I can find a movement that will do the chrono (not that I use them but it will look odd without...)
Picture still not working - try https://imgbb.com/
If you can take the back off it should be easy to identify the movement
Have seen YouTube, I need a shop to do this 🙂 will report back when it's working, cheers all
Unless anyone tells me I'm making a massive mistake, I've decided I might flip my Geckota as I want to buy something else, and thought I'd post here first to see if there's any interest:
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Only worn a handful of times spec at follows:
Domed Sapphire with AR
Acrylic bezel
PT5000 movement (ETA 2824-2clone purportedly COSC accurate but not Swiss so they..)
Two Tone Warrington SS Jubilee sized for 17.5 with spare links included.
Going on the 'bay for £330, I'll take £300 posted from STW.
https://www.watchgecko.com/geckota-g-02-gen-2-automatic-diver-watch
https://www.watchgecko.com/what-is-the-pt5000-watch-movement/
If anyone fancies a Sunday night treat.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124783295178?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338273189&customid=&toolid=10001&pub=5575378759&icep_ff3=1&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229508&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg
Not tonight, but the ‘You might like’ link showed me this beauty…
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174817576222
Any recommendations for somewhere to service a Sub in the Hants/surrey/Berks area? Not comfortable with sticking it in the post and the RSC will whinge about the dinged bezel and aftermarket strap.
I had a “**** it” moment an bought a Swiss piece at the weekend. I’ll post a photo when it arrives, I think you’re all going to hate it….
Talking of Swiss pieces I finally got round to ordering and fitting a Renata in this lovely little fellow:
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Not bad for a 43 year old Certina Chronolyompic DS.
Ok, I'm prepared to be flamed; here it is:
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Bought on a whim really, I like the Tissot Supersport and of course I'm a cyclist and its "that" time of year. Secretly I always wanted a TdF edition but found prior years models too garish, I like this one. So, to watchists that may be tacky/a gimmick but in reality this is a 100%; Swiss sapphire ETA quartz Chrono EOL.
It looks big hear and IS a big watch at 44.3mm, but wears a little smaller than it looks in the pics, the lugs don't go past the edges of my wrist.
Detail pics:
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and of course:
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Looks classier on the brown leather strap:
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Put the yellow strap back on! At least for the next nearly 3 weeks. 😁
If it's a real TdF watch, shouldn't it measure the EPO in your bloodstream?
Quite like it. The flat lugs would make it wear big though, I'd have thought.
Omega Seamaster chronograph 300m Titanium, £3.5k watch just returned from £400 service…it started running fast, broken hairspring.
Casio G-shock GravityMaster with a compass £200, batteries replaced every few years, saved my life when my lights failed in sub zero conditions in northern Finland. I could not read a normal compass in low light, but the watch has a built in compass and light. I Managed to waypoint back to a hut.
Guess which one goes to the trails and which one goes to the office….!
The flat lugs would make it wear big though, I’d have thought.
It does. I cant get thw perspectivw from the camera on my phone, but each end of the lugs is only about 2mm from the edge of my wrist.
The yellow strap - now back on - exaggerates this as its a bit stiff still so falls vertically down from the lugs and compresses the edges of my wrist. If you lightly squeeze watch and buckle to "bow" the strap just slightly the whole look improves. Maybe it'll soften up. Its a very solid piece, and so very quiet. Looks good in the dark with blue superluminova
Like the Tissot Kryton!
Just wondering if anyone be interested in buying one of these?
Brand new, still wrapped up with stickers on. Comes in a nice travel case too. It came with the Navygraf I bought in Yema's sale but it's not for me. I just can't see myself wearing it
I bought this from Watches of Switzerland in Manchester in August 1992. I'd been brochure bothering for some time and decided this twin dial version was for me.
It was in the window for £525. I went into the store, tried it on and offered cash for a discount.
No procrastinating from the salesman - 10%. So the bracelet was adjusted and I left feeling fantastic.
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Does anyone have any experience of ICE watches?
I'm after a cheap and cheerful watch which is waterproof enough to cope with diving into a sea from a windsurfer on an alarming regular basis. Ideally the budget is less than £50 and they seemed to be 100m resistant which will cope with my penchant for falling in !
I have 3 lovely watches but I daren't use them as I have a history of damaging 2 (both G shocks) and losing 1 entirely (digital timex) so far, what's that thing falling to the sea bed ??? Get back to shore - that'll have been your watch 🙁
love the Omega - I have an omega seamaster and I would cry if anything happened to it. It was my 40th birthday present and I was caught completely by surprise when he gave it to me ....
LOVE the Certina!
Was musing over Tudor North Flag for a while. Muse no more, discontinued now. What is similar in the sports watch 3k bracket?
I’m after a cheap and cheerful watch which is waterproof enough to cope with diving into a sea from a windsurfer on an alarming regular basis. Ideally the budget is less than £50 and they seemed to be 100m resistant which will cope with my penchant for falling in
See if you can find a AQ-S810W-2A2VCF Tough Solar. Mine costs £26 and then I added a nato.
Cant really fault it for the price.
TOUCH THE IMAGE FOR THE LINK
Note: there's no backlight but it is lumed.
Just One More Watch got taken down by YouTube yesterday - false accusation of promoting fakes. Now back up.
I like Jody’s vids. YouTube have offered no explanation either other than a generic email suggesting his channel was involved in counterfeiting
some new things here…..
Turtle is now on a Super Engineer 2 which is way more comfortable than the Seiko bracelet but I’m not sure the angular bracelet works with the pillow watch head?
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and I finally bought a G-Shock! A Casioak!
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I like the Seiko, it works for me!
Before I bought the Tissot my other choice was the Casioak, although I was looking at the stealth one. It looks good, bigger than I expected, buy I'm guessing its pretty light? If it had Sapphire and Solar it'd be pretty much perfect in my view.
Yeah weighs nothing! It’s actually wears quite small as it’s certainly not the usual G-Shock big! I think it’s just the camera angle that makes it look large. Considered the stealth one as well as it looks better, but wanted to be able to tell the time!
Treated myself and ordered one of these today:
sprootlet
Does anyone have any experience of ICE watches?
Yes, I have a couple of ICE watches for beach / DIY / knock about use. They are absolutely fine and also cheap to pick up on eBay should I need to replace!
My Hamilton arrived and it's lovely.
Time is displayed constantly but brightness can be boosted by pressing the button.
Strangely for LEDs (OLEDs actually) they become more visible in bright light.
Hewn from a solid billet of SS, it feels very well made.
This pic shows the display in its normal unboosted state.
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If it's constantly on, how long do the batteries last, or is it rechargeable?
Or are they actually LED's and not some kind of modern low power display that's mimicking them.
The display is hybrid, comprising reflective LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) / emissive OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes).
With no "uplighting" battery life is approx. 5 years.
If you're pressing the button dozens of times a day then it's not going to last so long!
I had a Texas Instruments watch like that. Still have it somewhere. The display was blank until you pressed the button. It was great.
Thanks for the reply GTDave !
Has anyone got a Marloe watch? I like the look of them, but I don't get the references e.g. Coniston Vulcan
I sort of understand the link to Coniston Water and Donald Campbell through the caseback engraving (tenuous as it may be), but then what's the Avro Vulcan got to do with that as well? It's like they converted the ideas/inspiration board directly into the marketing pitch.
I think the watch could stand up on its own without the references.
There is a link to the Vulcan
Shortly after [Donald Campbell's] death, a Royal Air Force Vulcan from 12 (B) Squadron made an impromptu tribute, flying over Coniston Water and conducting a wing wave as a mark of respect.
Makes a bit more sense now rather than just a collection of British icons in one watch!
Warning: distressing content
A veritable snip at a mere £1775!
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Awful
Got a nice new NATO strap from WatchGeko, thought about getting some spare spring bars to replace the cheap Chinese ones that I threw away as they rusted solid. Decided to be good and save a couple of quid.
Guess who's just heard the sound of a spring bar flying across the room, never to be seen again?
Has anyone used Chrono24 or similar to buy an expensive (few thousand) watch?
Lots of options on there significantly cheaper than AD's for brand new with papers and box, and it sounds safer than the likes of ebay. Just a little scary trusting them that much money.....
Has anyone used Chrono24 or similar to buy an expensive (few thousand) watch?
Lots of options on there significantly cheaper than AD’s for brand new with papers and box, and it sounds safer than the likes of ebay. Just a little scary trusting them that much money…..
Yup. Same as anywhere - you buy the seller more than the watch and if it seems to good to be true etc. I've bought from private sellers and dealers on C24. In either instance, using their escrow service. I've then had the purchases verified by AD / Service centre before approving the release of funds.
EDIT: I've also just had a bad experience with one of the online platforms that promise to 'authenticate' the items before they send them onto you. The watch that turned up was so obviously a replica as to be almost funny - I had used Paypal so leant on their refund process to ensure I got my money back. So I wouldn't put too much store in these places that offer to verify anything - you want things checked out by the brands themselves where possible. Depends on the brand too though - especially where 'standard' ETA movements are concerned some of the replicas are pretty much true 1-to-1 with gens.
I bought a flieger! I’ve previously had a miyota powered Laco and wasn’t impressed. What I really want is a Stowa but I’m changing jobs so can’t justify the spend.
So I give you a Chinese special Escapement Time B-Uhr. Got an NH35 and sapphire crystal!
for £80!!!
I’m actually quite impressed with it, although 42mm dial and 50mm lug to lug is as big as I’d want to go. It will suffice until the Stowa arrives!
Oh. And I’m going to be a train driver! A good day!
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@kato, congratulations on the new job. Watch looks good, utilitarian just like the originals.
