What Watch Are You Wearing Today?

If you venture to London the muggers know exactly what a sub is... Along with every other desirable watch. They pull up on a moped and invite you to gift them your watch or they'll cut your arm off with a machete. I've heard stories of people getting seriously injured fighting back and in once case the stolen watch had great sentimental value so the victim put up posters in the area it was stolen claiming he'd lost it and would pay above market value to whoever found it, a futile attempt to buy it back from the thieves.

London, what a dump

 
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wayne_m said:
Oo no, I can't do that. The patina is prized on a watch. I never liked my Brass Razors to have patina though and always polished them to a mirror shine. In a watch you polish value out, not in.
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hahahaha that’s where we differ my friend
i never buy a watch thinking of resale value but hey your probably right lol
 
Todays watch is the Vostok Europe Expedition North Pole. This is a beast of a watch. It has the Seiko NH35A movement so is bomb proof and just works. The movement is so much better than the Selita in the Christopher Ward and also the Glycine. My latest Glycine has developed Rotor helicopter syndrome. The Rotor spins like buggery when I try to hand wind it. It is the reversing wheels hat need cleaning and lubricating. Common in that movement and the Selita.
It isn't worth the £150 to get it done. A quick shame and it's off and running and I can put up with the Rotor when setting it.
 

That is a known issue with the ETA2824/Sellita SW200... Although technically capable of manual winding they should never actually be hand wound if at all possible... The ratchet wheel cannot handle it and shears teeth.



Best to shake them awake, winding via the rotor is much gentler on the gears than hand winding Strangely this issue is present on all the Swiss movements but not the 'A2824' Chinese clone of this movement, go figure
 
Trouble is though some of those movements wind the movement whilst setting the hands. The Glycine does. Not certain about the CW's. Great if you wear a watch daily or put them on a winder, that's debatable whether that is healthy for a watch anyway, depends which school of thought you believe.
 
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