What time is it? Watches and horology

My Dad's daily watch, which my mum gave to me recently. It had a bracelet on that I couldn't get on with. Nato strap arrived this morning and whacked it on a few mins ago.
By no means in the same league as the other watches in this thread but it means a lot to me, it's not too big on my dainty wrist and I'm much happier wearing it now. 🙌

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That’s nice. Good to have the memory too - probably more important.

Mrs Radar has a 34mm quartz Max Bill that I gave her in 2014. The scratch resistance of the crystal has been really good, as you say. The problem has been a hairline crack that developed after a couple of years and has recently spread and deepened - you can feel the edge with your fingernail now. It’s away for replacement at the moment.

That sounds...not good enough. Not something I heard of before though.

Nothing beats sentimental value when it comes to watches.

I just spent £150 on parts repairing a £20 Seiko and £300 repairing a £250 Omega for that reason. They are priceless to me.

one's gotta do what one's gotta do

^^ If anybody is interested how I'm spending so much, both watches were damaged in a flood and left in wet box for three years. Dial restoration and full service with a more expensive donor watch for the seiko and dial and hand restoration with NOS replacement movement for the Omega.

The Omega had some corrosion damage to the bracelet. I thought about leaving it for character but it was a bit too much for me so I'm having the gold filling redone on that.

Cheers for the suggestions. I've been meaning to go to Alsal for a look for a while but their opening hours don't work too well with a 9-5 job.

Me neither. No idea whether it’s a manufacturing flaw, or whether she cracked it by mistake. Either way, it’s out of warranty.

My bet would be manufacturing error. A tiny offset when setting the acrylic would probably put quite a force across it.

Before and after pics when finished?

I didn't take before photos. I'm a moron.

Draw it. With an lfgss poo as well.

That said...

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I tried to come up with some vintage suggestions earlier but went down a serious Seiko wormhole, sorry.

It’s a tougher brief than I initially thought, I looked at Tudor (Oyster variations), Longines, Omega, Seiko and Zenith - mainly because you can date them. The stuff from ‘79 in budget just aren’t the quality you should be buying... something might show up if you set up enough ebay/thesaleroom alerts but you’ll need to be super patient.

Plenty of superb vintage pieces sub £1k out there, especially manual dress stuff from the 60’s.

Edit: also stumbled across this 34mm Tudor Oyster Date linen dial which for £1300 is almost worth a credit card splurge. Refinished case and probable relume but man that dial and date wheel. Yeah yeah I said I hate cyclops...

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you are. But that said, I'll settle for after pics once you get them back.

I am very into that Tudor.

Alsal is doing the work, I have three watches with them at the moment and waiting for a fourth to be delivered to there. When the fourth is ready, will pick them up and post pics. Hopefully in a couple of weeks.

So the everlasting rumour that the SKX007 is out of production does seem to finally be coming true this year. They're replacing it with a Seiko 5 Sports model in the same style. 4R36, display back, hence the lowering of the water resist rating to 100m / 10 atmos.

Edit: my first takedown notice!

If only man's size

I've just taken a punt on one of these as a replacement for the Steinhart.

My NATO needed replacing because it's starting to whiff and this wasn't much more than a NATO or ZULU.

If it's not very good I'd like to try a perlon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07G5QHDJD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A "copy" of the Panerai Assolutamente

Have they finally sold one to every watch collector in the world then?

My NATO needed replacing because it's starting to whiff

Through the wash in one of those protective bags with some anti-bacterial additive sorts them out. I need to do my MN, which I can confirm stinks up just like a regular nato.

Damn. Really nice other than the ‘Automatic’. Hate that shit.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of that font... sorry LFGSS... it’s a 50s Americana thing, not a proper cursive. But anyways. There’s a new seiko 5 logo on these. And an orange one with gilt bezel??

Bit of a shame it’s not a certified divers watch anymore, but that had been on the cards for a while.