This thread is about the appreciation of horology, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.
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I'm absolutely in love with this 18 carat, rose gold TAG Heuer Carrera watch purchased from the beautiful city of Perth. Made with sapphire infused glass that only diamond can scratch, I've spoiled myself with this gorgeous timepiece. The calibre 16 movement has been crowned as the most successful automatic chronograph movement ever produced, completely handmade by man. It is also my very first day date watch and it will be interesting to see if it becomes an important feature that Will depend on over time. I hope you all enjoy this watch as much as I do.
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Are there any repair/mod guides for Vostok Komandirskie?
I can find all sorts for amphibia, but not komandirskie.
I scratched the shit of the crystal on one of my new ones, and successfully took the back off and pushed the crystal out just to see if I could. Not sure if I damaged it or did it properly tho
Can anyone help me with a strap size?
Let's say I was getting this;
ebay.com
the sizing is confusing me, by width do they mean length?
They mean they have straps that fit lug widths between 8mm and 22mm and you have to choose the one you want.
>by width do they mean length?
>Width8mm-22mm
Maybe if the intended buyer was a malformed fetus or something.
>Length:Long side - 11.5cm
Gotcha, 20mm it is then, thanks.
Alright, alright.
I'm describing the watch the way it was described to me. I'm sorry but "nice watch" doesn't quite make the 500 character count. Besides, why would I leave out such a detail when I'm also trying to justify myself spending so much on a non-essential... No regrets.
Reminder only pedofiles wear watches with integrated lugs
Any reccs for a cushion case chronograph?
Also pedophile here
inb4
>lemania 5100 speedmaster
I threw up a little but I hope you like it man.
Is this able to be fixed by adjustment? Or is this something that is too sporadic to be fixed by that? Is it too soon to tell, is more data needed? Also just fuckin with this editor app i thought it would be a good idea lol
Can what be fixed? That rate is really quite good.
Yeah? I mean its in COSC bounds as far as a few days have demonstrated but never hurts to squeeze more performance out of it, if it can be done.
There's a big difference between running between -4 and +6 on the wrist a d running between -4 and +6 in five positions; are you sure it's running to COSC specs?
You can probably slow it down a few seconds a day by nudging the regulating lever over a bit but it's a pretty small adjustment; I'd be surprised if you didn't need to take a few tries with a few days of timing in between. Feel free to go for it but if you're running a vostok between +2 and +4, I'd say leave well enough alone.
Is pic related a meme apparatus, kind of like the finger box?
Because it seems like all this thing can do is grab crystals that have already been pressed loose.
That's what I get for mentioning something I only have a rough understanding about incorrectly on a watch thread haha. Appreciate the explanation.
Also its a Seiko SRP775 Turtle, not bocțok
Chinkshit ones don't really work. You either need to pay a small fortune for a Bergeon one or find a vintage Swiss.
My mistake, confused you with the other user. Regardless, statement stands; you could probably get the turtle a /little/ better than it currently is.
What does it even do though?
All I can see it doing is grab the crystal by the edges.
There's no mechanism that I can see for actually lifting the crystal out of the case.
Normally you'd use it with a caseholder or some other way of holding the watch itself down while you lifted the crystal away.
Is the Omega Seamaster /fa/? Got a new job and a huge sign on bonus so going to reward myself with my first true luxury watch. Thinking of going with this over Rolex. Thoughts /fa/?
Not looking at the bond version, that's just the image Google spit out
Is the Omega Seamaster Sup Forums approved? Got a new job and a huge sign on bonus so going to reward myself with my first true luxury watch. Thinking of going with this over Rolex. Thoughts Sup Forums?
Don't bother with Swatch Omega.
No, get a Submariner.
why the Omega hate?
That's the alternative I'm looking at
Pre swatch omega is fine, or getting used (non coaxial) so you don't get fucked for the price is fine too.
Seconded, can't go wrong with a submariner
>7750
yuck
Love my Amphibia, but I wish it was a bit smaller :(
did breitling get a name change?
Sinn bought the rights to the design decades ago, one of the times when Breitling was going bankrupt.
>bit by a radioactive commie watch at a young age, our hero gain the amazing power of never being to drunk to piss standing up and double jointed ankles to aid in unscrupulous squatting
The design is nice, especially the blue one, but the cuck-axial is a technological mess.
>tfw Omega will never backpedal from the cuck-axial with all the marketing invested into trying to sell it
>tfw there will never be a Swiss lever escapement or 300hz tuning fork special edition Seamaster in your lifetime
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they're basically the same watch.
>Is the Omega Seamaster Sup Forums approved?
No.
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What's wrong with the co-axial though?
Looks pretty damn good on paper.
>theoretical benefits of the co-axial element
>silicon balance spring
>free-sprung balance
>60hr power reserve
>balance bridge for stability
With the real daniels or roger smith coaxial, nothing. The whole point is the escapement shouldn't need lubricating. That's not the case with omega's coaxials though. Instead you get an escapement that's just more finicky to service, with no actual benefit.
>pelagos LHD is my grail
>old two-line pelagos is 30% cheaper
That's 1.000 buckaroos price difference.
Wat do, /wt/?
Look it up, I'm not gonna get into all the shit that's wrong with it, but let's just say this: it took a decade (or two), extremely precise amount of oil (on an escapement originally designed as lubricant.free), lowering the beatrate and strict adhering of recommended service intervals to make it about as reliable as anything ETA or Miyota shits out (at a higher beat rate)
It's basically the early M16 of horology.
I'd get the non-novel-on-dial version to be honest. The novel version does have the in house movement though.
Guys, need help. I once saw beautiful watches made by some kickstarted company with pilot theme...they were
Nice Rotary homage m9.
Helgray?
Budget? As I'm morally obligated to mention vintage Omega Speedmasters with the Lemania 5100 movement, but also many other vintage Lemania 5100 chronographs were made in that style of case.
Yes, it would be possible to adjust the regulation on the watch to reduce how much time it gains on the wrist, however since movement in that watch does not have a micro-adjuster for the regulator it will be a frustrating and time consuming process of nudging the regulating arm back and forth repeatedly to try and get the rate you want.
On top of that, the lack of a micro-adjuster also makes the regulating arm much more vulnerable to being moved by shocks and screwing up the regulation you set.
To be honest, I wouldn't even bother if the watch is gaining less than 5 seconds a day.
Which you should go with depends on how highly you value Tudor's in-house movement. Personally I way prefer the in-house movement so I'd bite the bullet on the dial novel and price to get it. If you aren't as obsessed with movements as I am, then the 2824 model is cheaper and aesthetically superior.
Bingo!
May you slay thousand pussies before the year ends.
>Helgray
what movements are they using?
I scratched the hell of my seagull 1963 in a drunken fight.
I heard polywatch can help, but the crystal is so fucked up I doubt it.
Is it possible to replace the crystal?
I just built this fucking thing... any thoughts/changes I should make?
Nodate dial and steel syrette hands
thoughts? is the 15 in the 14, 15, 16 slightly off or is it just me
Did you get beaten for looking like a fag wearing that watch?
Those hands don't look right, but everything else looks fine to me.
How did you start the project? Which movement are you using and where did you get the case from?
yeah they don't have the balls to get rid of the date window unfortunately
I already bought steel hands I just threw these gold ones on to practice so i didn't fuck up the right ones. Top grade eta-2824 I bought a gold rotor for it on star time and the case is from ofrei. ss with uncoated saphire on both sides. Its not that hard just takes steady hands and patience. I bought a case that fit the movement and then bought a dial that fit in the case. hand sizing is a bitch the minute hand is too long on the hands i got....
It's some quartz movement, noting too fancy. Their chronographs (Silverstone) is using the Seiko VK64 Meca-Quartz movement, which is nice, but I read that the watch itself is not so much...
But before you do anything, read about them on the interwebs. Apparently the maker (called Nadim I think) is a pretty shitty guy and their quality is a hit and miss.
Don't. I know it's cheap, but don't.
Buy an honest ripoff (rolex) for your money and not this "swiss" piece of shit that has a bracelet, case, dial and hands and probably half the movement made in China and Thailand for all we know.
Many a time wandering through some airport, alone and far from home after another waste of time business trip I come across the inevitable Omega boutique in duty free, and in my weaker moments I've almost been tempted by these submariner wannabes. And they're so cheap in duty free, too!
Then I come to my senses and remember that it's a glorified, Chinese made swatch with a stupid movement.
Get a rolex. At least you can be assured that it's made where it says it is, and that it doesn't have a retarded movement with a gimmicky escapement that is there purely for marketing purposes (to try to compete with rolex, lol) rather than for any tangible benefit. It increases complexity, and thus ensures future service fuckery, and yet others that go with the tried and tested escapement types manage to go toe to toe or exceed the co-fagsual without the bullshit.
If you want to LARP James Bond get the pre coaxial plain jane ETA SM.
The 2254.50 is the last good looking semenmaster, but its price is climbing because of this. The blue wavy Brosnan sm can be had for cheap.
Still a chinese made swatch though, so be sure to buy cheap.
What does this watch say about me?
You are poor
Shit taste
Major rich superstars with public images to maintain like James Cameron and Schwarzenegger have been known to personally wear Seiko beaters.
Yeah, in the 80's when they were actually cool.
Custom strap?
Got that pic from google.
Makes sense except no it doesn't.
Back when Seiko quartz was the shit to have and even the Bond films would product placement the shit out of Seiko quartz.
I remember when having the terrorist watch in primary school was ironically cool, in that age when air travel didn't fill people with anxiety if a brown, bearded fuck was in the same cabin as you. And those remote control casinos that were the shit for fucking with TV's, or that IR Casio that could sent text messages to anyone else that had one within a metre range. I was the only kid in class that had one.
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There's a recent TGV vid about the Arnie. He wears it in several movies, it's not product placement like the Seamaster in James Bond
>Back when Seiko quartz was the shit to have
Protip: that wasn't the 80s.
In the 80s, only kids got excited about those gimmicky calculator and tv remote casios. Just like today, really.
If anything, digital shitters like g-shocks are more popular now than they ever were in the 80s.
You'd never see CEOs or millionnaires wearing digital shitters in the 80s, while now it's almost of status symbol to show how down to earth you are.
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In-house Chronometer is worth it desu.
That and the LHD just looks fucking sexy.
>That and the LHD just looks fucking sexy.
It's the same fucking watch but with the crown on the wrong side, there isn't anything special about it
>wearing your watch on your hand
>It's the same fucking watch but with the crown on the wrong side
>wrong side
different colors too
Its shit m8
In-house vs eta shitter. Novella vs novel. Crown position. Much different.
James Cameron and Arny are both homosexuals and have no taste
You cucks wear 100 dollar Seiko's, orients, and other nip garbage and shit on a swiss movement company who's cheapest top grade movement is 280 dollars alone.
>You cucks wear 100 dollar Seiko's, orients, and other nip garbage and shit on a swiss movement company who's cheapest top grade movement is 280 dollars alone.
Not all of us user.
I and a few other people on here just get annoyed at people constantly shitting on eta.. The make good movements period. Sure its not a Rolex but they are not "shitters" were talking the best of the best right under 10+ thousand dollar watches and even then sometimes there's only a 4 or 5 component difference.
I'd just like to interject for moment.
What you're refering to as Omega, is in fact, ETA/Omega, or as I've recently taken to calling it, ETA plus Omega. Omega is not a watch manufacturer unto itself, but rather another Swiss component of a fully functioning watch conglomerate made useful by the ETA movements, Chinese cases and vital dial components comprising a full watch as defined by COSC.
Many watch owners wear a modified version of an ETA movement every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the model of ETA movement which is widely used today is often called Omega, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically an ebauche, developed by the Swatch Group.
There really is an Omega, and these people are wearing it, but it is just a cosmetic part of the watch they wear. Omega is the brand: the advertising agency that determines the names and cosmetic designs of the watches. The design is an essential part of a watch, but useless by itself; it can only function when fitted with a completed movement. Omega is normally manufactured in combination with an ETA movement: the whole watch is basically an ebauche with Chinese parts added, or ETA/Omega. All the so-called Swiss watches are really distributions of ETA movements in Chinese cases!
As a lefty myself, yes, the wrong side. It's the same as the normal in house movement pelagos aside from the crown.
I am talking about eta never mentioned omega. And you are going a bit far m8.
kys perth boy.
There's nothing wrong with a 2892 in a $50 case selling for 600. There is something wrong with a 2892 in a $80 case selling for $4000+.
The problem is never eta movements. The problem is sellers who market their $8000 7750 as if it were the pinnacle of exclusive horology.
never gets old, no matter how many hundreds of times it's reposted
guy just called eta in a Tudor a shitter when the "in house" movement is the same exact thing with literally a handful of swapped parts..
is that guy(AL) the devil?
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>guy just called eta in a Tudor a shitter when the "in house" movement is the same exact thing with literally a handful of swapped parts..
This is the caliber of absolute know nothing retard you find in /wt/ defending ETA shitters. Holy shit this kid is the poster child for the Dunning-Kriger effect.