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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 🙁