What time is it? Watches and horology

One of the few details that is accurate to the original though!

Green is...nice

Ha! So it is. Ed White still ma fave.

Csb

Can anyone recommend a watch repairer please? It's for what I hope will be a simple but unusual job.

The long version is that I have a Lanvin watch with a '70s electric movement, a PUW 2001. The movement is dead. The 2001 was notoriously short lived. It usually died of rust. It's not possible to repair or replace it, so I want to swap it for a different model of movement from the same PUW family. I'm told by someone with a huge collection of electric watches that it should be a simple job. But I'll have to cannibalise another watch to do it - there aren't any spare movements available.

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Hah! It's good to know there's a smidgen of truth to the myth. I suppose there must be so many watches sent out for photography that they can make quite a saving if the case is empty. And anything sent out on loan by PR or marketing people to photographers can easily disappear in transit.

Probably helps that that hands won't be moving.

Most turn up with a security person or at least somebody from the PR office or the journalist though i guess that’s because stuff has gone missing in transit before.
For the really expensive pieces or if its under embargo they fly you to the manufacture to shoot there

@nick_h. it does but usually just pull the crown out and fix it in post

Was it this one? I tried this on in Selfridges in 2018 for lulz

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No, it was a black one. Same as my fake. Stunning. I reckon it would look better without the wart and with an anti-reflective crystal. I'm going to remedy that when I get mine running again.

Green for me, really nice.

edit: quite the difference in pricing in Europe. Omega website is listing at 9200 euro vs the 8600 USD in the Hodinkee article.

£25,050

That £50 really makes the difference!

LOL

Stellios (easyJet) is obviously an Omega fan

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I'm sure most know this already but there's now a small Watches of Switzerland at Gatwick Airport. They had, Breitling, Tudor, Zenith, Longines, Oris and a few others.

This pistachio number was better looking in real life, all the bright lights over exposed it.

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Those are nice but £3000 more than they should be really

aren't they pushing 2cm thick?

edit - actually the one DDog posted is the B09 which is 13mm thick. The B15 is the chunky one

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£3000 more than they should be

A rising tide floats all boats

Hah. Yeah.

Except Seiko

Lol

Yeah the pistachio one is on the right side of wearable. Nice watch IMO.

But even that one you posted is an automatic triple calendar moonphase chronograph and it's 15.3mm, which in the scheme of things really isn't too bad, especially for a modern watch. The 1861 Moonwatch was 14mm. There are other Breitlings that are waaaaay thicker tho, they do have form.

I'm not saying they should be 6.2k GBP but I disagree. Really beautifully finished in the flesh, 100m water resistance in a chrono (though I appreciate this is useless with a 'gator strap), 70 hour power reserve, 5 year warranty, COSC spec in house movement (that looks superb IMO).

Also, they're listed for $6700 from dealers (meaning you could probably make an offer) on C24 right now in the U.S. which I think is a deal.

Compare that to a Panerai Luminor Chrono or an IWC Portugeiser Chrono and I think it's a really good price.

100m depth with chrono pushers and a 5 year warranty...must be some good engineering.

My +25 year Colt Chrono automatic, with pushers, is 100m so nothing new from Breitling