It looks like Tissot, at least at one point, offered a COSC certified quartz watch. Their website when listing their quartz watches just seems to show “Swiss quartz” and doesn’t say much more about the movement. Is the Gentleman Sport COSC certified? Or did they drop the HAQ thing?
Continue readingHAQ?
I have a Bulova JetStar and a Certina DS-2 Precidrive chronograph and they both keep time to with 1s between going in/out of Daylight Savings Time (the stupidest idea ever). Anyway, I was wondering if either of these watches are considered "HAQ&q…
Continue readingOld Citizen Technical Manual
Attached is a Citizen Technical Manual obtained from the Cousins UK web site, if memory serves.
My best guess at the date is 1985, from the last page:
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Continue readingThermocompensated chronograph function in a HAQ
One of my earliest posts to this forum asked, “Is chronograph of a HAQ necessarily also HAQ?”
Continue reading@gaijin replied that his X-33’s MET (mission elapsed timer) had not varied from the timekeeping of the watch for over 900 days.
@Tom-HK said, “Given that we assume a count correction application after a particular inhibition period, as being the TC method that ETA uses, I cannot…
Citizen A060 date change issue
Hello,
After much debate about buying a JDM watch from an overseas retailer (Gnomon Watches), I overcame my reluctance and purchased a Citizen “The Citizen” AQ4060-50E with the A060 movement. It came yesterday and I have been function testing it today…
Continue readingFinally, the Grand Seiko GS SBGP017G that belongs to me has arrived.
Ever since I gave up on an SBGP017 with not-so-good condition last time, I have always been obsessed with this watch. I can’t think of any other reason，I just simply want to own it. It has so many features that attract me: the specially adjusted 9F85 movement with an accuracy of ± 5 seconds, the light blue dial with rich texture, the blue second hand, the golden star, the blue GS logo, and the transparent case back. This might be the most beautiful quartz watch from GS. When I got this watch…
Continue readingFinally, the Grand Seiko GS SBGP017G that belongs to me has arrived.
Poll: should I stay or should I go now? You guys decide.
I don’t point out misconceptions about HAQ as part of some diabolical plan to make people lose face. I point them out so that the forum as a collective can come to a better shared understanding. But it seems my efforts are unappreciated. So I will hold a vote, so all the lurkers can speak their mind. Should I stay or should I go?
Continue readingConsidering the views in this forum, I will consider less than 50 total votes as a majority vote for option 4, which will have the same outcome as a majority vote…
OT: Confirmation that GPS spoofing affects time, not just location
From a paywalled WSJ article, key points:
"Pilots, aviation-industry officials and regulators said spoofed Global Positioning System signals are spreading beyond active conflict zones near Ukraine and the Middle East"
"Pilots have repo…
Continue readingGrand Seiko European Service Center question
Hello guys,
Today my GS SBGN003 started ticking at a two-second interval, so I guess the battery needs to be replaced soon. Since I am based in Poland I wanted to ask our European members, any experience with European authorized service centers? Any good/bad stories that you’d want to share? Any thoughts on the Grand Seiko Deutschland in particular? As this seems to be the default one for Poland (as per GS website).
Continue readingToday my GS SBGN003 started ticking at a two-second interval, so I guess the battery needs to be replaced soon. Since I am based in Poland I wanted to ask our European members, any experience with European authorized service centers? Any good/bad stories that you’d want to share? Any thoughts on the Grand Seiko Deutschland in particular? As this seems to be the default one for Poland (as per GS website).
Also, how do you go about…
A peek inside a PreciDrive movement
I got bored so I had a look inside my Tissot Seastar with F05.412 PreciDrive movement.
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