Watches

Inherited from my Opa whose memorial service I'm attending today. Has kind of an old man vibe to it, but I think it looks really sharp.

It was absolutely filthy when I got it. I spent about two hours de-gunking it, and what I assume is gold plating on the bracelet has almost entirely worn off. But I've enjoyed wearing it the last couple days. 🙂

Timex Expedition Field Mini(26mm) TW4B12000JT on kid.

Seiko SBPK003 solar quartz GMT on dad.

Seiko SNK807K2 didn't last 2 week on kiddos wrist.

Just got it in! I had to sign up for a drawing as they were only going to sell a limited amount of them (not sure how many, but a different method than the past NASA editions). I was selected and just got it in today. Super cool!

Two of the watches – NASA-issued Omega Speedmasters – have been on the Moon, while the other has stayed on the ground like a loser.

“See, you need an odd number (of watches) in case there is a discrepancy so you can sort out which one is what,” he explained in an interview posted to his website.

Freshly serviced and ready for summer.

This is my great grandfather's Elgin pocketwatch circa 1917. My dad gave it to me when I took an interest in watch repair and I repaired this from a slightly rusted and non-working state to at the very least able to run, but the time keeping is not great. It is losing ~50s a day, amplitude is 310*, and beat error is 5.5. I'm not at the point where I feel comfortable messing with the balance and regulating the pocket watch. I am just happy that it runs. I don't have a before picture, but I cleaned up a lot of green rust from part of the dial and case where there was a crack in the crystal and water must have gotten in. I replaced the mainspring because it was domed like an ice cream cone and gave all the parts a nice cleaning and lubricating.

He did serve in WWI in the 307th, but I lean towards thinking that this was waiting for him at home because the condition it was in was pretty good given the age. I also have his WWI map which he did have with him while he was in France, and I display together with the pocketwatch.

Just got this bad boy! New summer watch

I prefer that this GS still has a Seiko branding. It was dropped from the later iterations.

From losing 60 seconds daily, to +3s daily and smooth, closely spaced, solid near horizontal line/graph.

Local watchmaker took a day to service. Far cry from 3 months and having it sent back to Seiko Japan, when I approached local distributor a decade back.

At the request of the mod, now with more domed face action. Just came home from the shop today after a full movement service, gasket replacement, pressure test and hand polish of the case. $350 service on a watch purchased for $275 and worn daily for two years in a heavy industrial job.

If you can’t tell, I highly recommend glycine as an entry level tool watch.

Got myself Seiko 5 field watch as a starter, the cheapest automatic. Thought I would be ok with minute numbers being bigger than hour numbers but no. Everytime I looked, had to do some mental gymnastics for a second. After a month of this decided to switch it to no numbers at all. Today received the dial, switched it over. Omg, this is so much easier to read.

I love the design of this watch, and would love to buy one but can't seem to find this exact model still for sale anywhere. In particular the dial texture and color look great with the bright white hands.

Just bought this ol' Cheapo for $8 without a band. I had a 22mm laying around so I cut it down to fit until the 18mm I ordered cam. Does anyone know anything about this thing? It's a Automatic and seems to keep decent time but, I don't know anything about it

Got this nearly 3 years ago and it’s been a reliable companion. The most legible watch I’ve ever owned and as big as I can get away with! Highly recommend this if you’re after a no-frills sport watch

This was my first ana-digi watch that I bought in 2014. It's titanium, so very lightweight, and synchronizes the time every night. My only issue with the watch is the light only really shines on the hands, not the digital display.

Watch bracelet resizing tool finally arrived, managed to right size without losing a (oh-so-teeny-fiddly) collar.

Still getting used to additional substancial weight on wrists.