What time is it? Watches and horology

You have to be careful - if they're not fully working, getting them working is difficult / specialised / expensive.

Luckily I’m off watches for now then! Think he had it for sale?

Speaking of Seiko 7A28's, a friend's ex-group captain father has a 7A28-7120 from his RAF days that I'm dying to take a photo of sometime. Oddly though he didn't keep the one from his active service but wrestled one new from the QM stores, with much difficulty I was crisply informed, nearer his retirement.

Had a very entertaining timepiece conversation with him a year or two ago. They were all issued Omegas while operating Typhoons out of Germany in the early 70s and at one point he went through three watches in as many months thanks to a sudden obsession with ice skating that took over half the officers' mess. Or there was the time he was forced to fly a Lightning back from a recce to Cairo without its all-important cockpit clock that had been inadvertently left with the ground crew. I got the impression that if he'd lost visual with the other aircraft he would have been very properly stuffed. Anyway it turned up at his home base several months later in a battered brown paper parcel covered in stamps and Arabic writing.

Ah, I don’t remember. Very possibly, he was selling a few watches to pay for his JLC I think. In fact he may have sold it to another T4AP regular which might have been why it was there. Not sure! It is a really nice example.

The issued ones are super cool.

https://www.vintagewatchadvisors.com/2019/03/17/seiko-raf-gen-1/

Love it. Thanks for posting.

I do hope you are getting sponsored @Regal you are like a West End Salesman. :oP

I am open to any and all sponsorship opportunities

I have a Seiko with the 7a42 movement which has finally given up the ghost. There were a number of developments from the 7a28, with my one having a flyback chrono hand (a first for quartz). The last decade has seen a ready rise in value for the issued watches. I wonder if early Breitling Aerospaces offer more value particularly in bimetal. I fancy one so trying to justify superfluous consumption.

Anyone got the new Casio MTP-1302PD?

Went for the blue but now I regret not going for the green :)

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if you want to part ways with it I could send you some cash

Is like a DJ for the cool... 😁

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I gave my 21st present to my sister a few months ago, which my dad got for his 21st. Neither of us wore it much due to it being 30mm. Few pics attached.

Only real watch I wear is my trusty Alkin (see previous page) and an f91w when cycling.

I have wanted to replace the 21st present since I let it go. Not really got ££££ for a pelagos 39. However, I have just seen this for sale and I really am quite close to getting it.

Any reason I shouldn't? Or anything i need to think/ask about?

I think it is stunning. Also - I like 34mm as size, price looks good, been serviced (so saves £300 vs buying one off a private seller), dealer looks legit, but most importantly it reminds me of the watch I gave to my sister which has a nice back story.

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Great pics @Regal, Such a shame I couldn't make it... The MC is nice, but more of a fan of the MQ myself... Batteries don't last, unless you know the magic trick

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I'd be a bit nervous the blue finish is delaminating from the dial - the edges are already beginning to peel. And if I'm not mistaken they've carefully photographed it so the seconds hand is masking a rather large scratch where presumably the hands were removed for servicing. I'd pass and look for better.

Is the blue sold out?

closest I can find is in stock jan '24

Thanks very much for looking. Can see the edges going especially at the top - thought that was patina ;)
Think they are hiding something with the second hand potentially as they have a photo on their instagram of it on someone’s wrist and it is in the same position

Oh ok. Let me get it first then we'll see ?

No worries, it's a shame because it's a cool reference but blue dials from this era (Rolex and Omega included) are notoriously unstable.

Will keep my eyes peeled. Big fan of black bough watches as a seller and they tend to get that type of thing in. This is nice

To play devils advocate, while I agree that there's definitely a mark there, it might have been done without any malice. If you check their instagram, the seconds hand is in precisely that location in basically every photo they have of every single watch.

Finaly back from STS. New hands, canon pinion, mainspring, crown, crystal and one of the train of wheels.

1969 Omega Constellation.

Happy Friday.

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nice! loce that colour!