He says: " I want to compliment Rolex because it is a easy sitting duck for verbal abuse of many streamers"
you can see here the old movements versus new, if anything for years and years rolex was never improving, now that it has, they get c…
Continue readingRecently there were a couple of threads about buying a secondhand rolex or vintage one.
I preferred buy-in a new stainless steel rolex DJ with papers and the receipt of the London shop (paying just a small premium compared to the AD price, because the…
Continue readingthe first time I saw one was on the Zeno deep diver 500m watch
(click to expand if you wish), it is impossible to measure 100m ( to read the speed in Km/h) speed if you cannot 0 the moment you start the 100m.
I have seen others though (cannot remember the brands) after this
in the case of the Zeno, well, probably they repurposed a case which was meant for…
Why would a watch without a chrono function have a tachymeter bezel?
I have been thinking to buy a timegrapher, but I am not a professional watchmaker (not even an amateur watchmaker), I am just a guy with a moderate passion for watches with a moderate number of watches under his belt (or on his wrists).
That's it…
Continue readingThe watch looked pretty sleek for its age.
Upon returning home I researched this watch (I didn’t know anything about it) and found out that there were many fakes which had been made over the years. Upon further investigation (I have brought it to a reputable watchmaker who thought the watch was original and in his words ” I didn’t know that they could have faked a brand as…
My experiences with buying vintage (relatively) watches, Hits & Misses (!!!)
NO politics please?
This is a true question not intended to linger on the reasons of the crisis but purely on the effects on our finances.
Have you, at this point, started thinking to modify your spending habits because of the current crises?
Of cou…
Continue readingI am in this like any other person, I think, but I was reflecting upon the fact that there must be many more watches around for each category of the aforementioned " job , hobby and character description" than there are people doing any of t…
Continue readingI am thinking about this red star watch, while I was researching it I came across the watch that it probably was based upon (loosely)
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Continue readingWile browsing the production of this Russian company CCCP, I came across a model Gurevich, which is the twin brother of the Steinhart aviation series.
there are some differences.
The front of the case seem to have screws as opposed to bolts and the c…
Continue readingJust bought a datejust smooth bezel ( but apparently the matter involves also the fluted version). I am very happy with it a none of this that you are about to read would make me like the watch any less
BUT
When trying it on ( and I did try on the o…
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