New watch day

Neil

UnclePsychosis said:

Actually, seeing as the watch nerds are liable to be in the house- any recommendations for (automatic) aviation style watches of similar quality/value/price to the SKX range?

As appealing as the SKX013 and SKX007 are I've always been more drawn to aviator style watches y'see... 

In my collection I've a got a NOS German Laco aviator in the box complete with spare strap.

They are great value for money and a proper aviation watch company with a history rather than some of the wannabee's around. 

UnclePsychosis

That Laco is nice. Will check them out.

My main problem seems to be that my wrists are relatively small (42mm is really pushing it) and I also seem to have expensive taste---every time I see "the one" its guaranteed to cost £4k :-D

Kittyfrisk

^ 42mm is my max diameter too. Not a fan of frying pan flyers, I tend to prefer divers & military styles & chrono's.
These are as close as I get to Aviations, a Pulsar quartz (shock, horror) and an old Ollech & Wajs hand winding Selectron (although not marked as such).

Neil

Kittyfrisk said:

^ 42mm is my max diameter too. Not a fan of frying pan flyers, I tend to prefer divers & military styles & chrono's.
These are as close as I get to Aviations, a Pulsar quartz (shock, horror) and an old Ollech & Wajs hand winding Selectron (although not marked as such).

That O& W is nice. 

I'm more of a dive and chronograph collector too. 

A made a crappy site a while back about my Omega Speedmaster collection...

http://www.freewebs.com/neil271052

Kittyfrisk

Neil said:

Kittyfrisk said:

^ 42mm is my max diameter too. Not a fan of frying pan flyers, I tend to prefer divers & military styles & chrono's.
These are as close as I get to Aviations, a Pulsar quartz (shock, horror) and an old Ollech & Wajs hand winding Selectron (although not marked as such).

That O& W is nice. 

I'm more of a dive and chronograph collector too. 

A made a crappy site a while back about my Omega Speedmaster collection...

http://www.freewebs.com/neil271052

Nice Omega collection and I'm very impressed that you knew the legendary Chuck Maddox.
Do you by any chance have any association with Chronomaster Watches??

Neil

Kittyfrisk said:

Neil said:

Kittyfrisk said:

^ 42mm is my max diameter too. Not a fan of frying pan flyers, I tend to prefer divers & military styles & chrono's.
These are as close as I get to Aviations, a Pulsar quartz (shock, horror) and an old Ollech & Wajs hand winding Selectron (although not marked as such).

That O& W is nice. 

I'm more of a dive and chronograph collector too. 

A made a crappy site a while back about my Omega Speedmaster collection...

http://www.freewebs.com/neil271052

Nice Omega collection and I'm very impressed that you knew the legendary Chuck Maddox.
Do you by any chance have any association with Chronomaster Watches??

No, that's a different Neil. 

Kittyfrisk

^ That's a relief, I'd be embarrassed talking about my random group of rag tag watches with a professional seller  

Neil

Kittyfrisk said:

^ That's a relief, I'd be embarrassed talking about my random group of rag tag watches with a professional seller  

Professional sellers sometimes know less than us talented amateurs. 

thermionic

This thing is scarily accurate. I set the time to my phone a week ago and now it’s less than half a minute off. I’ve adjusted it now because by chance the second hand was within a second or two of the seconds on my phone - we’ll see where it is in a week.

Neil

thermionic said:

This thing is scarily accurate. I set the time to my phone a week ago and now it’s less than half a minute off. I’ve adjusted it now because by chance the second hand was within a second or two of the seconds on my phone - we’ll see where it is in a week.

Wow! That is very unusual for a 7S26 movement!

The normal accepted maximum variation is +/- 30 seconds per day.

Are Seiko using the 6R15 in their 007's nowadays?

thermionic

I think I'm just lucky. My Sea Urchin was on about +3-4 seconds a day for the first six months, then settled down to about -15-20 seconds.

Kittyfrisk

Out of curiosity I synched my Orange Monster 7s26 on the 20th.
It wasn't possible to get an exact time synch as it's not hackable as you know, but I noted it was +20 seconds ahead of real time (computer).
6 days later, it is within 5 seconds ± 2, so has lost 15 seconds or so in that period.
It used to be much more accurate until I dropped it about 6 months ago, now it runs slightly slow & it has never been serviced, only worn.
It appears that Seiko were typically modest about the performance of the movement 

Neil

Kittyfrisk said:

Out of curiosity I synched my Orange Monster 7s26 on the 20th.
It wasn't possible to get an exact time synch as it's not hackable as you know, but I noted it was +20 seconds ahead of real time (computer).
6 days later, it is within 5 seconds ± 2, so has lost 15 seconds or so in that period.
It used to be much more accurate until I dropped it about 6 months ago, now it runs slightly slow & it has never been serviced, only worn.
It appears that Seiko were typically modest about the performance of the movement 

They are a cheap movement and all vary so much which is why they give that broad spectrum of accuracy.

One 7s26 of mine I've has a while gains a minute or two over a week.

It's due a service and I enquired with a very good chap I know. Unfortunately the cost is almost that of a new watch so I'd rather buy a new one.. 

Whereas you think nothing of spending £150 servicing an old Omega it's a different value proposition on a cheaper Seiko. 

dbphoto

I think a 007 is next on my list as I seem to have developed a liking for Seiko and now have 4 of them, all Japanese:



With this modified Sea Urchin being the latest addition:

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