What time is it? Watches and horology

difficult one as " working well " seems to hint all is tickety boo , but then it also hints that it may need a " cleaning" which means a service .
and it is 70 years old .......

me too funnily enough , we have a steel one in stock at mo but the gold one is really nice . the baddy in Skyfall wore one . ( not the blonde one .... )

you bought a watch from Istanbul and wonder why it's a bit moody..?!

Worth at least 10 camels. 😀

Ha!

No I'm not wondering why it's a bit moody. Although I think that's a very disparaging view of a lovely people.

I took a punt and it didn't pay off.

I'm more wondering;
a) should I take it up with the seller and eBay to see if I can get some money back - especially given the time frame. And
b) whether at the end of the day I'll be able to get what I'm looking for ( freshly serviced and working) for sub-£300 anyway?

It's not likely going to be resold. So provided it ends up being a working watch, to me it is worth my original budget of £200-300*. It's whether it's "worth" spending the money on fixing it, or is there something "better" to be had.

*Although for £300 I had wanted something like an Omega or a Tudor rather than a Tissot.

what is that longines? me gusta

Longines Heritage Diver

http://www.montredo.com/en/longines-heritage-legend-diver-l36744500-3904.html?cur=1&gclid=CjwKEAiAmNW2BRDL4KqS3vmqgUESJABiiwDTxKX1-EkCxPAPJxsxggWWVMKeS3Xg68aLS7xgB8qugxoC8irw_wcB

Difficult when you've gifted it to someone, but I agree with Ejay - the seller says it could possibly do with a clean and oil (ie. servicing). "Running well" can be interpreted in different ways. I see an old Tissot in need of cleaning and probably not worth especially much. If it kept reasonable time for say a day before selling, then I might say something along the lines of "running ok".

If it were me, I wouldn't invest much money into it, but it's a personal opinion.

31mm. Arrived today. Looks lovely, and came with its last service centre receipt. I don't think it's been worn much at all. May sell on depending on how I get on with selling another Lemania chronograph which I'm currently negotiating.

So, I went to a jewelery store to see if I like the SKX007 in real life. I had it on my wrist but it's such a tiny tiny watch. It really surprised me. On most of the pictures I see, it looks like a big watch when I see pictures on google, but on my wrist it looks more like a childrens watch.

Would love to try that size, suspect it's a little dainty on a chap but sometimes these things can work out.

Could you have been looking at the SKX013 by accident?

http://www.watchsleuth.com/seikodiverfinder/compare/?MOD1=SKX007&MOD2=SKX013

lol...

Zoolander - my hero

That might have been it. I've only seen it online and they had two watches that looked like the 007 and the 009 by design. If that's the 013, it makes a lot of sense. I didn't see any model number and there was a sticker on the back preventing me to see if there was a marking there. Guess I should look at another jewelery

Oof. Lovely.

Nice, wears big for 31mm.

On most of the pictures I see, it looks like a big watch when I see pictures on google, but on my wrist it looks more like a childrens watch.

#humblebrag

If anyone cares, my Seiko solar problems appear to have been cured by leaving it on a windowsill for about a week. Which is handy as the automatic needs a service

Edit. Tiny wrists?

Looks shopped? :oP

Oof, indeed... Bloody lovely...

I've just put a new battery in the Omega Quartz I got a while back. Embarrassingly I can't remember how to set the time on it. Pulling the crown out and turning it changes the hour hand in 1 hour increments. There is a button in the crown that I seem to remember did something for the minutes but just pressing it doesn't do anything.

Any bright ideas?

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