What time is it? Watches and horology

U mad bro?

No, I am quite calm. Thanks for asking.

new b-dial flieger:

Made by? Or am I missing something? Very nice indeed, love the crown.

It's unbranded - with a Seagull automatic movement (with hacking seconds...)
v v cheap (>£60) but MUCH better quality than I was expecting.
Rotor is a little noisy but other than that I can't fault it - keeping good time and will do till I can find a Laco 45mm B-dial flieger for not too many monies.

Is that one of those £60 Chinese jobbies from ebay? wangxiaohong522?

From a seller called Roling: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230929760103

I bought it partly just to see how a watch that size sat on my wrist and for something to practice taking apart/modding without worrying about ruining an expensive watch.

do you have thin wrists or normal or chunky? What size is it?

Gah I gave in to ........blah,blah............ ladies and chaps

well done mons hedge,very nice it looks too.

do you have thin wrists or normal or chunky? What size is it?

its 47mm (excluding crown) and I would say fairly thin wrists - about 7"

I used to have a U-Boat watch, it was ridiculous on my pathetic wrists. I also kept knocking it on door frames which annoyed me. Big watches >>>>>>>>>>>>

i would not want to scratch a u-boat...

its 47mm (excluding crown) and I would say fairly thin wrists - about 7"

From what I have read, my Air King at 32mm was regarded as unusually large when it was originally made in the 40s. It was designed to be oversized for pilots. Times have very much changed.

Watches are now LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! don't you know?

I'm just about to buy a Luminox (or something else ultra-lumed). I want mine to glow in the dark as well as be the size of a plate.

From what I have read, my Air King at 32mm was regarded as unusually large when it was originally made in the 40s. It was designed to be oversized for pilots. Times have very much changed.

Hmm - interesting, as the original flieger's were a massive 55mm: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f438/beobachtungsuhr-brief-explanation-650434.html

They were designed to be worn on the outside of the pilots (or navigators in the base of the beobachtungsuhr) flight jacket and oversized for legibility

I'm just about to buy a Luminox (or something else ultra-lumed). I want mine to glow in the dark as well as be the size of a plate.

Something similar (cheaper, quartz, but still...):
http://www.nitewatches.co.uk/shop/mx10/MX10-300TS

http://eibnek110.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/steinhart-nav-b-uhr-ii-vs-stowa-flieger.html

Want...

The internet lied to me :*(

Or I misunderstood it.

Or a combination of both exacerbated by ignorance.

http://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-watches/blog/more-pilots-choose-the-rolex-air-king.html

"The initial line developed specifically for pilots included the “Air-King,” “Air Tiger,” and “Air Giant.” Additionally, to make sure that pilots could easily read time, Wilsdorf created large watch faces that were 32 to 34 mm in diameter. While watches in today’s world can feature faces that are 44 mm in diameter, during the World War II period 32 mm was quite large and revolutionary."

Speaking of a navigator's watch, just picked up a Marathon; ordered it on the 13th and here this morning from Canada. Looking forward to it getting dark so I can see the tritium at its best.

PVD coating needs to be done to a particular quotient of Vickers (hardness of coating) for it to be effective and not all companies that offer PVD will offer this.

I'd put money on it being way above the value of the watch if we're talking say 50 Seiko pieces for a group buy even if the Seikos were originally £200 a pop. Manufacturers are doing it with thousands of pieces so they can offset the cost in the retail price. It's a pretty expensive process, not remotely like anodising for example. I'd be happy to be proved wrong though.

Here's my MWC beater with a Seiko N15 movement. Just back from being given nuclear lume, it now glows all night and even in dim light - spooky:

All the MWC's I like are quartz.

^ Burn him!

Oh dear god why?!

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