What time is it? Watches and horology

Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday ya all

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I am not afraid

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Daily/beater/best all around. Can't fault it.

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Way past his bedtime 🥱

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Always liked the look of these, nice 👌

Rad

Yeah it's one of the new ones. Have also heard about negative experiences with Eddie. Will contact him first but will assume that he will be a dick and use the above advice.

Really late response, but how did this go in the end? Fixed under warranty or did you go to a someone else for repair? In a similar situation and wondering what to do.

Good timing as I just received the tracker today for him to send it back to me.

Only got good things to say about Eddie. He fixed it under warranty, no argument. I haven't received it yet but after I took a few weeks to send it to him, he's had a look and says that because too much time had elapsed between the ingress of water and the return of the watch, the movement was too badly corroded to be repaired so he ordered a new one and has replaced it.

Whenever I asked him about progress he responded the same day via email. It's taken a while to get done but everything takes ages to get delivered at the moment and for a one man band fair play.

Let's see how it is when I receive it but no issues so far.

Have you had the same thing happen to the same watch?

OK, thanks, good to hear there's been no issues so far. Different watch - PRS29. Poor and inconsistent power reserve. Was just contemplating my options re. returning to TF or getting a third party repairer to look at it.

Hello folks, is there a thread approved place for repairs?

I'd like to have another go at getting a watch repaired after a couple of local places have both failed to get it working. I'm in the north east but don't mind posting it.

It's a Seiko 5 sport so nothing particularly special, but high on sentimental value so it'd be nice to be able to reliably use it.

It's a Seiko 5 sport

Feels like a repair would be a ‘new movement’?

I've no idea but that seems likely. It does nothing besides rattle at the moment.

And at a guess it is at least 40 years old

Re. my TF watch, have been told "if it's found not to be defective there will be a charge", and he can't confirm what it would be because there would be "variables".

funnily I was just looking at trying to buy an Everest today, said it would be on the site today. Refreshed the site a few times and it changed from 'date expected 15th Aug' to saying nothing and being advertised on the home page but I couldn't add it to my cart yet didnt have a sold out label either. Now the store says its closed so I guess I missed out

New(ish?) 38mm Seiko SBDC147 is handsome (apart from the logo and text in the lower half of the dial) and looks like unexpectedly decent value, given the 6R movement, screw down crown, 200m water resistance and sapphire crystal:

https://www.gnomonwatches.com/products/prospex-1959-alpinist-re-interpretation-black-bracelet-ref-sbdc147

Would ditch the bracelet immediately though.

Modded?

What's the dial and base watch?

Would ditch the bracelet immediately though.

The 19mm lug width might make this somewhat annoying. Nice watch though, might try to go and see if I can try it somewhere in Paris later this week.

I'd pop one of these on it and call it a day:

https://www.watchobsession.co.uk/collections/rios1931-watch-straps/products/rios1931-mittenwald-retro-organic-leather-watch-strap-in-black

The lack of the goofy date mag window pleases me.

Horage Tourbillon, good looking watch

Tried some stuff today

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Was left cold by the titanium hi-beat. The SBGR251 is a really good value proposition. On the wrist the Datejust beat all the Grand Seikos.

The guy in the rolex store was bemoaning the fact he had no men's watches to sell. There was someone in London on holiday who was coming over to look at it, because they wanted a datejust but in a different size. Seems you can't even get hold of any steel models now. Very funny.

The Datejust looked the best of those to my eyes. By a long way.