What time is it? Watches and horology

I'd take £575.

How much?! Wow...

650 on the bracelet + the rubber, 575 on the rubber strap only. I got a decent discount on it in the first place, that’s the only reason I’m letting it go this cheap. As I said in the description, it’s immaculate and not even five months old.

Ah... abort, abort, the end links are different. Ok, I’d only want to sell it with the bracelet. Sorry. But I would happily knock twenty quid off if you didn't want the rubber strap thrown in.

Something for tomorrow's keyboard shot.

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I wish I could but I just spent a small fortune on my teeth, thank you though

You tease, I’m still on commission for the 053 right?

Np dude, smiles before dials, or something(??).

You can have the free nato strap Gnomon sent me. It's red with a white stripe, reeeally tasteful, would def look good on your Speedmaster.

Glands before hands you mean

Woooooooo! I love the suspense!!

I've missed this at auction today

And this went for 250€

I was looking at that exact model Lip earlier.

Something for tomorrow's close to a bicycle or component shot.

Ftfy

Challenge accepted

Doubtful I’ll ever afford one, but Charles Bronson’s in The Mechanic (1972) is bang on...

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Put the bracelet back on the flags, though I don’t like the subtle tiny rattle between the links. Suppose even clamping the links one by one won’t end that, as it’s probably always had some play, and the rest will be from wear over the decades before my ownership...

Interesting reading here about how it’s not stretch, and about steel tensile strength:

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=109448

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Gnomon have a sale on. Couple of Squale 60 Atmos "Squalematics" at 30% off.

http://www.gnomonwatches.com/watches/11-11-sale-2018

Also a few Alpina, Oris and Victorinox.

I’d agree with that thread as far as, say, modern Rolex oyster bracelets made completely from solid, machined blocks of stainless steel are concerned.

Older style bracelets with folded centre links (like a Seiko SKX jubilee) can definitely stretch, though.

New watch day for me today; picked it up from the post office on the way into work.

It's a Seiko Elnix (0703-7020) from 1973. It's the last of Seiko's transistorised movements (a precursor to quartz) so employs a balance wheel like a mechanical watch but has a coil and a double stacked balance wheel with magnets attached, generating current when it swings back and forth:

This means the seconds sweep like a normal mechanical watch at 28,800bph. It's sort of a super early version of the thought process used in the spring drive watches.

It's got a lovely weaved etch on the dial as well as a cool raised Elnix logo and super seventies angular case sides.

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Cool!

Very cool, and looks great too.

Ok, Seiko h8ers avert your eyes.

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My Armida A6.

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