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Looking for some help with vintage omegas. Last thread someone said that most 5xx movements are in the GOAT line for being fantastic production omega movements. I’ve been looking at a few vintage omegas and the three dial and case combinations that have caught my eye use a 601, a 620, and a 511 movement. I havnt had a lot of luck finding technical documents comparing and contrasting these models. Also these are manual wind not automatic and I can’t compare the two 6xx models to the specific automatic 5xx models that were posted last thread. Anyone have experience with these movements / know where to find resources that will help me?
/our watch/ Sarb033 is.
Got a new strap for this to replace the uncomfortable default one
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WHY THE HELL MY AMPHIBIA KEEP GETTING STUCK
When i adjust the time moving the hands counterclockwise the second hands just stops moving and I need to shake it or plainly banging it against something.
WHY
will loving the cartier tank louis get me banned
Can we make this a thing, taking glamour shots of shitters.
It shouldn't, it's terribly good looking.
>go to kickstarter's "successful funding" page to check out product design stuff
>literally every other item is a watch
Anyone ever bought one of those kickstarter-funded watches?
Much like the rest of that site it all seems like vague high-concept ideas that are difficult at best to realize, but I was wondering if anyone actually bought one of those and if it's decent.
>shitter
Here you go m8 :^)
Why is every shitty kickstarter watch called "Venice"?
post an example or something.
Make me think that they are just chinkshit like those "FREE WATCHES JUST PAY THE SHIPPING" scams
Russian feature, hacking movement on the cheap.
Simply require a moscow jumpstart to get watch running again.
you sound southern english
Post expensive atomic watches
I brought one which is how I got into watches. Still have it though the bracelet died (fuck pin and collar). I haven't used it in a we while now.
Pretty shit and not worth the money now I know better. Seems like they are using kick started to get their MVMT tier shop up and running.
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how do you even read that shit
zenith can't get anything right holy shit
i thinks its p cool
le sneaky windyknob guy gets me again
Copped this last week
New watch for my lanklet wrist.
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Nice, user. How's the lume?
Rate my new watch fellow gents :)
lol?
Not bad at all. If you get a good charge on it, it will last through most of the night.
>If
>most
Guys what these signs indicate?
Plus Minus
See that ç shaped bit? See where that little bit sticks out?
You can slide it to the + or - to adjust the rate of your watch.
>taking glamour shots of shitters
I'd do this if I had a decent camera, just for the giggles.
it looks like a retarded speedmaster
>all that empty space
>lmao just put dials on top of one another
It's a fucking joke.
Guess what
GLORIOUS RUSKI SPACE BOCTOK BEST WATCH EVER
>Twf sold my shittiest soviet shitters for decent profit and was left with the bolshoi horologie soviet timepieces now.
I really need to get a Poljot de luxe.
First time 5 ring Zulu. Am I doing something wrong or I can forget about wearing it comfortable?
Great watch. Enjoy.
One of the 'points' to wearing a zulu over a one piece or standard nato is making the bottom of the wrist only have a smooth strap with no buckles catching or banging. After trying and failing to enjoy my 30+ 4 and 5 ring nato/zulus, I just gave up and cut my leather bands into one pieces and swapped to perlon for light watches and rubber for heavy ones.
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My absolute favorite nato that became even better after cutting the overlapped lower part off. Topped only by the hirsch tiretrack natural rubber in terms of weight, security, and comfort, IMO.
What strap is it?
There are a few good ones and many terrible ones.
That's not from Zenith. They literally asked Bamford to mod their own watches in an official way. Bamford has always made terrible watches.
Speaking of Soviet shitters which is the best new Amphibia to buy, best case, dial etc?
I like the 710 case. I think the 150 is similar but with a steel bezel and milled crown.
What are these straps called and where can I buy? I need a rubber strap like this.
The ones that have wider part than the lugs.
I like the 090s
Exactly that model, the SpaceX Amphibia.
Get one now before even used ones will be worth $2000.
>Implying anyone but Reddit autismos would...
Shit I'm buying 2 then.
Plus a 710 with a radio room dial
>710 with a radio room dial
They're not sold directly sadly, you'll have to modify one
>tfw there is literally nothing better out there for £60
this would have cost a small fortune in the 70s
could just add the "spare parts" thing to his basket plus movement, hands, case and radio room dial, and then tell them to put it together
Yeah, two backyard furnaces and a Red Book.
Where did you get it from?
It would probably be cheaper to use a complete 710 watch and just add a dial, wouldn't it?
Im cheap haha
Despite this 44 year old case having some bad pitting under the caseback gasket and not having the exact o-ring for the crown it now seems to be doing well. It had some minimal bubbling during a 3 bar decompression test, but nothing too bad that wouldn't make me trust it during a hand wash.
Pic is during a 4 bar submersion test, and water isn't seeping in at all. I don't expect it to be good for swimming, if it's airtight and splash and rain proof then I'm happy.
hey guys, i need to find the model of an old omega watch that look like a bit like a flying saucer
any ideas?
what case is it?
Here's the new watch I ordered online this evening, faggots. If you only know low end watch brands, let me dumb it down for you. This is called a Rolex Presidential.
I never wear cheap watches like working class faggots who act rich and wear trash tier brands like Casio and Timex. Money isn't a problem, but that's not something you can understand. Your overworked palms are too dirty to even be near expensive things.
To you middle class peasants who barely scrape by on bad credit, have fun dying early. I'll retire around the same time you're buried. This watch easily costs more than the shitty cars you drive, if you even own one.
AMA. If you are extra kind, perhaps I'll give you some life tips to be rich as I am. Just maybe you can luckily work for me some day, if you get up the ranks? Maybe serve me a glass of four figure priced wine?
I was thinking about getting a Seiko Lord Matic like pic related. How much should I expect to pay for one?
A white dial Seiko Elnix 0703-7060.
Here's the original Yahoo.jp pic.
Ministry case black scuba dude.
>Im retarded haha
Ftfy
>I get triggered based on what wrist watches people wear
>pointing out that you you bought the watch with the worst price/value ratio imaginable, making you, well, a retard
>triggered
Dynamique?
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not sure but that look like it, thanks!
If you really were cheap and not retarded you would be wearing a Seiko 5, a Vostok or a cheap digital Casio of some sort.
That watch is overpriced for what you get.
Alright, I suppose it's done. I figured out why I couldn't get a signal on the timegrapher. I though this was a 21600bph movement, but it turns out it's 28800bph (kinda fast for 1974). And since it uses a pallet fork the beat of the seconds hand isn't halved either so it's as smooth as a modern ETA shitter.
Now that I've serviced both Citizen's 7803 Cosmotron and Seiko's 0703 Elnix, on terms of which is better in quality, design and build I'd say it's pretty much a tie. The Citizen tries to be a high-end movement with the lack of wire springs, the exotic complications and the high beat, but the Seiko ain't no shitter either, with some gold-plated screws, quality-looking electronics, full beat seconds hand, sane dial-side construction and general good build.
Only thing that might be left now is getting a genuine Seiko bracelet as originally this one came on a Bambi. I don't understand why the fuck the Japs did that, replacing the decent factory bracelets with Bambi and Maruman bracelets that are most of the time the EXACT same build quality and construction.
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what were the nips thinking with those faceted crystals?
Nice
Im not the owner of the watch, but I have no time to care if people buy poor value for money shitters.
Do you care when people buy good value watches and show it off here then, stupid? What DO you care about, and why are you wasting your time here then?
I think these crystals are pretty cool. Orient released some 70's-style watches with faceted crystals a while back, though I don't think they originally had a model like this back then.
Bought my F.SHITTER from kickstarter :^)
For me, it's the Shitflake. ;^)
>entire thread talking about sghitter watch
>think its literally real
>google it
>nothing, it was a joke
>i wanted it
>he doesn't know how to get an F.Shitter
Exclusive, but affordable.
Just a leather strap
The default is this pseudo nato canvas thing
If it even existed it would be on google.
Btw I'm /3/
Gomma make some photorealistic renders to troll you
Monumental shitter collection
I am the guy who did the all but the omega one, never knew it would go so well. Very lovely to see that people are reposting my pictures.
:^)
Love that watch. How much was it?
needs the panerai penis indices
What’s the most expensive watch you own, /wt/?
I bought a xeric. I was afraid it was going to wind up being chinkshit and then sell it, but I was surprised at the quality. It feels really solid and it has pretty nice finishing.
Personally, I would never pledge money to a kickstarter. Buy the product after they've finished manufacturing. You don't want to wind up with a coolest Cooler or something.
At the moment, Orient Ray.
I have a watch preordered that's more expensive though.
You have a high chance of buying either an overpriced mecha-quartz or a really overpriced Sea-gull movement (These are good movements but you can get factory sea-gulls at better quality for less than the kickstarter watches) or you'll get something Miyota but assembled and "machined" in Germany or America but nearly all the fabrication is done in China.
Good morning wt
Nomos Club.
Unironically Alpenis.
I just won this on Yahoo.jp auctions. What strap to replace the shitty expanding bracelet when it arrives?