Thread: TeakDOOR Horology Hounds

Originally Posted by Neverna

FFS. Another thread that appears to be mortally wounded.

Par the course these days am TD, I am afraid.

Originally Posted by Looper

I had forgotten where he got the green necklace from

I knocked off Rambo III yesty and he give the jade amulet away to a little Afghan bum-boy at the end of the movie after refusing at the start of the movie, without even explaining its precious provenance. Not sure about the wisdom of that.

Watched Rambo IV tonight and the tactical field watches were coming thick and fast

Rambo is rocking a Panerai Luminor Marina Militare

One of his sidekicks is rocking another ana-digi simlar to an Chronosport UDT but hard to make out.

I had to settle for more pedestrian horological thrills with the long awaited (4 days) arrival of my Seiko Flightmaster, so I took my Bulova Tank off after its trial run.

The Seiko Flightmaster is a quartz chronograph with the spinning 1/20th dial which scratches an itch.

It has a slide-rule (non-clicky) bezel (for crucial calculations in a flight emergency) which is kind of cool. I am a handful of years too young to have ever learned how to use a slide rule but this will be my impetus.

The red 1/20th and 1 second hands pop against the blue dial. It looks an almost blackish navy blue until the light catches it and it flashes a kind of electric blue like lightning in a stormy flight cloud

The 6 o-clock sub-dial has 2 hands so it is a 12 hour stop watch. This doubles the hand-spinning fun. The sub-dial minute advance in quartz increments (unlike the chronometer main dail minutes hand (makes me curious how they implemented that since quartz minutes are usually sweep hands) but the hour hand is a sweep hand.

When you reset after running the chroograph the seconds and 20ths sweep round to midnight in about 3-4 seconds

If the 6 o-clock sub-dial has not registsred 1 minute yet then it does nothing. But if one minute has notched up (and the hour hand has therefore sweep-advanced by a micron then the 6-oclock subdial has to reset which it does and whirly gig fashion with the minute had spinning round 12 times while the hour hand slowlay sweep round to midnight

You really need a video to do this justice



3:50 for the chronograph running

It was listed as used but is immaculate with tags still attached. Some links have been removed so somebody had it fitted and then seemingly did not wear it.

This Flightmaster is a minor neo-classic in the Seiko world as it went out of a production a few years ago so I am well stoked to get this mint example with box, tags, links and all the papers.

The tank watch sneaky peek at the palette fork has only aroused my horological hunger and I was lead into temptation once again by this sports watch which reveals the 3rd element in the holy trinity, the palette wheel itself

It is a chunky munky weighing in at 172g. I like to feel the gravitational heft of a steel sports watch

Lovely peely plastic

Mmmmmm...

Exhibition case-back - check.

Been gardening so my fingers are a bit grubby to be a watch you-tuber. Maybe I should get those gloves that they wear in their videos.

Nice solid milled deployant clasp, which is better than the pressed clasp on the dress watch that started this Bulova strip tease

The palette wheel is cool to watch as it clinks its way round with a kind of slow motion stroboscopic step

Fooking coonty getting this beast sized.

Ended up resorting to WD40 applied with a broken toothpick to the pins and a hammer to tap my manual pin pusher

The little twisty screw pin-pusher tool just shit itself with these welded in fookers

Got fed up with always forgetting to charge my smartwatch, because I'm not smart.

^Nice idea by Mondaine to model the face for one of their Swiss watches on the famous Swiss railway platform clocks

Love it

Despite having reservations about the practical sense and utility of mechanical chronographs when Quartz movements run rings round them in terms of tricks and functionality I could not resist the antiquated styling on this beauty

The Seagull 1963 is a modern recreation of the first Pilot's chronograph designed in China in the 1960s to equip the Chinese air force

It was seen at the time as a huge symbol of Chinese technical prestige. The Chinese had only just managed their own basic chronometer watch creation shortly beforehand

Peely plastic ceremony

Manual winding means there is no automatic weight to obscure the view of the gorgeous movement

Difficult to get a good view with the strap on

It comes with a leather dress strap and a combat Nato strap. I think the Nato looks more authentic.

21 Zuan (21 Jewels in Pinyin). Cool that the 30 minute chrono counter advances in steps instead of analogue i.e. when the second hand reaches 60 seconds the chrono 30 minute sub-dial jumps forward to 1 minute which I was not expecting.

It is more fun running the stop-watch with the rear view. You can see the arms swinging into place to engage the chronograph mechanism and the wheels connecting and then turning. Then when you stop, the wheels disengage but the chronograph mechanism stays ready. Then when you reset, the whole chronograph mechanism sits back and the timer hands snap back to midnight in a nano-second, just like the mechanical stop watches that PE teachers used in the 1970s.

Mechanical art.

Looper

Difficult to get a good view with the strap on

I see this thread is heading for the gutter yet again.

Originally Posted by Looper

Seagull 1963

Those seagul watches are known to have problems that will require a watchmaker to fix, they are Chinese after all. The biggest problem is the stem that holds the crown commonly will break. Be careful when you wind that watch.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ Nice, although i wouldn't say Cartier are cheap, it depends on what you buy

Translation: I'm richer than yao!

Originally Posted by bsnub

Those seagul watches are known to have problems that will require a watchmaker to fix

I shall give the chronograph a solid workout while it is in the money back guarantee phase and then put it on the light rotation duties becoming of its fragile Chinese technical provenance

Originally Posted by taxexile

I see this thread is heading for the gutter yet again

At TeakDOOR we may be in the gutter, but we are looking at the stars

Originally Posted by Looper

I knocked off Rambo III yesty and he give the jade amulet away to a little Afghan bum-boy at the end of the movie after refusing at the start of the movie, without even explaining its precious provenance. Not sure about the wisdom of that.

Gave the Buddhist amulet to a Muslim kid, modern day Rambo wouldn't make such a woke mistake these days.

Originally Posted by Neverna

FFS. Another thread that appears to be mortally wounded.

What do you mean?
Seems to be ticking over nicely!

My everyday watch is a Casio world time analog/digital display watch.

My keepers are both getting on to 100-years old - I hope I am as handsome when I hit my 90s in fifteen years.

Longines Cal 9.47N mechanical tank watch that was my everyday watch in the 1980s - a gift from a maiden aunt.

An Illinois mechanical watch that I received from the family I worked for in the 1980s - likely to be the only gold watch (albeit white gold-filled) I ever get.

^Lovely heritage horology there Mudcat

I like the dinky little seconds sub-dials on both of them



There is something special about a time-piece that has been ticking for nearly a century

I was captivated by this chronograph when I clocked it on Youtube and it had to be mine. Behold the Bulova Precisionist 1/1000 of a second chronograph

Bulova was a famed time-keeping provider for NASA and the Precisionist uses a 3 pronged quartz crystal fork instead of the usual 2 pronged fork and it vibrates at 262,144 Hz (10^18) instead of the usual 32,768* Hz (10^15) This allows it to be more accurate than the regular quartz

Beast weighs in at 209 grams

It is used but mint condition and the seller put clingfilm on the dial so I did not miss out on the peely plastic ceremony!

Nice milled clasp

It solves one of my bugbears about Chronos in that the main dial second hand is usually reserved for timing. This watch has an extra button bottom left that lets you switch the Chronograph on and off. When it is turned off the second hand sweeps swiftly round until it finds the current correct time then it slows down to normal sweep speed. Then switch chrono on and the hand sweeps swiftly to midnight for timing duties. Great design idea.

But it is not just any sweep. It is a super smooth sweep of 16 beats per second. Much smoother then even a high quality Swiss mechanical at 8 beats or a regular mechanical at 6 beats. You have to see it to appreciate how smooth it is.

The Chronograph is a cracker with a dual dial at 12 that does 1/10 (hand spins at 10 Hz) and 1/100 seconds (hand spins at dazzling 100 Hz)

The dial at 6 oclock does the 1/1000. A register measures the time and when you stop the stopwatch the hand flicks to the 1/1000 measurement

In regular watch mode the seconds hand is smooth. In Chrono mode the second hand advances in hybrid steps that are ticks but with a smooth sweep advance between ticks



The problem with the Precisionist range is that many of them are quite ugly, like this angular model

But I think the curvaceous 96B260 is an exception


*The ticking movement you see on a regular quartz watch is achieved by stepping down the initial quartz crystal frequency signal in binary steps through 15 sequential logic gates to reduce the tick frequency from 2^15 (32,768) to 2^0 (1) to get 1 tick per second

Here you go Loops, a few from over the years buried away in a draw...

I have a Longines Zulu Time, a GMT watch, as my every day wear. It's the smaller sized one with 24h bezel that rotates both ways. I'm happy with it.

Originally Posted by Troy

that rotates both ways

many swingers here with a lotta time on their hands. My dad's fine Lomgines didn't survey one of my nutty washers

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Here you go Loops, a few from over the years buried away in a draw...

Nice pocket watch, Joe

I had my eye on one of them last month but I let it slip past.

I am guessing that might be a century old.


I acquired my own first ever vintage watch last week...

This is Bulova's famous homage to (AKA blatant rip off of) Iceman's Rolex Day Date from the 1970s

It is a collectable watch in its own right these days with a beautiful Swiss ETA 2834-2 movement, as used in the genuine Rolex stablemate Tudor of the same vintage, with a high beat 28800 sweep

This watch was first purchased in 1973 the year I started school.

It is funny to imagine that it has been on a mysterious journey of ownership and adventures as I made my own way through life

Superb condition

Vintage watches are especially mesmerising since they have been measuring the passage of time on their journey through time into your possession

Originally Posted by Troy

I have a Longines Zulu Time

Nice watch Troy. Don't be shy with a photo.

Originally Posted by Looper

It is funny to imagine that it has been on a mysterious journey of ownership and adventures as I made my own way through life

What a dizzying thought, it must be something very special with that watch.

^^

Phone pic so not sure how that will work.

I ordered the leather strap but have to wait for my next uk trip to pick it up.

This is my first decent mechanical watch. The others are quartz, which keep better time. I have a Tag Heur from the mid 90's given to me by a Chinese Malay girlfriend, but it needs repairing. Is it worth it? Sentimental value, yea!
I also have a Tissot with 1/10 second timer from my wife, which I recently serviced for 250euros. It is quite thick and heavy, but several female colleagues love it.

Wife, of course, beats me hands down with a rose faced dateadjust I gave her for as a birthday present. I couldn't find it anywhere in Europe at the time, had one in UK. I mean just one, so very pleased with that.

I'll take some pics with my dslr, but all are difficult due to reflections. I need my lightbox.

^Very handsome watch, Troy

I like the retro field watch numerals. Will look special in the dark when they are lumed up.

You will not have any trouble getting hold of that crown.

Originally Posted by Troy

I ordered the leather strap but have to wait for my next uk trip to pick it up.

It looks quite befitting its stainless steel bracelet with the semi-polished links

The GMT Zulu hand is quite distinctive with its pointy arrowhead.

Originally Posted by Troy

Wife, of course, beats me hands down with a rose faced dateadjust

You will be elevating the net worth of my humble horology thread if you can post a pic of your wife's rosy Rolex

Very nice Troy!

Bit quirky..