What Watch Are You Wearing Today?

Rufus I've never seen a Vacheron pocket watch before what is its diameter? It's a lovely piece and from the oldest established watch makers in the world 1755 rising in value.

A recent acquisition a friend bought it and found it too heavy and passed it on. Quite a nice example for a Vostok with a decent deployment clasp unlike the usual tinfoil bracelet. Essentially a copy of a Blancpain diver but a bit cheaper. A friend took a couple of £40 Vostoks down to 150 metres for me on a diving excursion and they were perfectly ok on their return

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Manstein said:
Rufus I've never seen a Vacheron pocket watch before what is its diameter? It's a lovely piece and from the oldest established watch makers in the world 1755 rising in value.

A recent acquisition a friend bought it and found it too heavy and passed it on. Quite a nice example for a Vostok with a decent deployment clasp unlike the usual tinfoil bracelet. Essentially a copy of a Blancpain diver but a bit cheaper. A friend took a couple of £40 Vostoks down to 150 metres for me on a diving excursion and they were perfectly ok on their return

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Thanks. A VC pocket watch is not very common these days. It is just under 41 mm in diameter and it's a little under 7 mm thick including the crystal.

How well does the Vostok keep time? I have a manual wind one and it keeps lousy time. Your Vostok is much better looking than mine.
 
Rufus said:
Thanks. A VC pocket watch is not very common these days. It is just under 41 mm in diameter and it's a little under 7 mm thick including the crystal.

How well does the Vostok keep time? I have a manual wind one and it keeps lousy time. Your Vostok is much better looking than mine.
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Your Vacheron must have a movement adaptable for wrist or pocket settings and no date complication to ruin its perfect dial. I've several Vostoks and they all keep pretty good time but not had this long enough to judge. I must buy a timegrapher to check watches. Some interesting Vostok comments here...


 
Must be a professional diver (or exceptionally experienced); sports divers (ie BISAC or PADI) only go down to 30M (or are only insured to 30M). 150M is a very long way down if something goes wrong. When I did my sub aqua course many years ago, there was an instructor there that used to dive alone (a definite no-no) with 4 Nr Nitrox tanks/bottles strapped to his back and legs and went down to such depths (he thought of it as the ultimate diving experience!?). Not a good image for someone learning how to dive; but some of these clubs do attract; how shall we say, the more adventurous types! Many more experienced people than me on this forum that can elaborate more, if deemed appropriate.
 
whitesix said:
Must be a professional diver (or exceptionally experienced); sports divers (ie BISAC or PADI) only go down to 30M (or are only insured to 30M). 150M is a very long way down if something goes wrong. When I did my sub aqua course many years ago, there was an instructor there that used to dive alone (a definite no-no) with 4 Nr Nitrox tanks/bottles strapped to his back and legs and went down to such depths (he thought of it as the ultimate diving experience!?). Not a good image for someone learning how to dive; but some of these clubs do attract; how shall we say, the more adventurous types! Many more experienced people than me on this forum that can elaborate more, if deemed appropriate.
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Probably why I asked as I was the Captain on a saturation diving vessel for some years and thought 150m was deep. If I recall the maximum we reached was around 180m which is still a long way down by any standards. Used to take about a week to decompress from these sort of depths.

Still, if the watch survived 150m in whatever form then it is pretty damn waterproof.
 
The macho instructor I met when learning therefore must obviously have been spinning us a line; there is no way he would have been going down to such depths with just 4 bottles of Nitrox and as a leisure diver. As you quite rightly state SF, only for the seriously experienced and professionals.
 
whitesix said:
Do you know what they all mean Manstein? A bit like a manual Apple watch! But a beautiful watch nevertheless.
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HaHa The centre disc contains the chronograph functions and then the outer scales offer slide rule functions presumably as a navigation aid. Handy when your lost in fog near the Himalayas and your Sopwith Camel wont climb above 20,000 feet!! If I recall the manual is about a foot thick and you need a microscope to read it. Like most chronograph watches of this type they are a bit like Range Rovers only a tiny part of their abilities/functions are ever used.
 
The inner scale certainly has a Tachymeter scale that i can see - you measure how many seconds it takes to cover a set distance (usually one mile) and it tells you your speed in MPH.

Which is great if you happen to have an exact mile measured out..... otherwise totally useless today .... but it sure looks good

I think its a nod to the speed record attempts over the measured mile from yesteryear.

Lovely watch btw (y)
 
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