[kwkarth]

I want a Top Gun DoppelChronograph real bad.

 

[drewjp]

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I want a Top Gun DoppelChronograph real bad.

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I'm saving up for a Mark XVI right now. Almost there!
 

 

[mralexosborn]

Thanks ianmedium for the website link. 

 

[bhd812]

I am thinking at the end of this year maybe early next year i sell the Rolex, Breitling, and Zenith and buy a Patek 5167. I want to move up a bit but not so sure if i want to rid my wrist of three awesome watches for one watch i never seen in life yet..ugh
 
This summer my goal is to see a 5167!!

 

[ianmedium]

Thanks ianmedium for the website link. 

No worries, vintage watches are wonderful!

Not sure if this has been shown here before, it has done the rounds on the watch forums and is a great video on watch collecting. If you are British you will recognize the celebs, if not then the two actors, Felicity Kendell and Trevor Eve are much loved and very famous actors in the UK.

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrO1fx7l0Yc&feature=player_embedded/VIDEO]

 

[musicman59]

This is the one in my sights next.... Breitling Bentley GMT

 

[kwkarth]

I enjoyed that programme very much, thanks!
 
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from: ianmedium

No worries, vintage watches are wonderful!

Not sure if this has been shown here before, it has done the rounds on the watch forums and is a great video on watch collecting. If you are British you will recognize the celebs, if not then the two actors, Felicity Kendell and Trevor Eve are much loved and very famous actors in the UK.

 

[bhd812]

that was the best 30mins of video on watches i seen! thanks

 

[ianmedium]

Hey guys.
Am on my iPad at the moment but I posted the link on my MacBook Pro but on the pad I can't see the link! Is it still there? If not I will re post it!

 

[kwkarth]

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Hey guys.
Am on my iPad at the moment but I posted the link on my MacBook Pro but on the pad I can't see the link! Is it still there? If not I will re post it!

Yup, it's still there.
 
 

 

[ianmedium]

Great! Thanks Kevin, it must be an iPad thing then!
I have watched This programme so many times, I love it when the guy says about how he knows it is platinum and does not care if anyone else does not, shows a real collector. Would love to see Henry Dent Brocklehurst collection the next time I am in the UK. Will see if I can find some more videos, I know there are a few more I have seen that might be of interest!

You can find Tom bolts site here if you want to buy that Sultans Daytona, it is still for sale!

http://www.watchguru.com/WatchGuru

 

[Phos]

I find Seiko to be a hard brand to research, they have a bunch of regional exclusive things that you can get in other countries, then they have the spring drive watches which they're weird about for some reason.  No particular reason for bringing this up, just because. 
 
I think what me and a lot of other people who post in threads like this away from quartz watches is the stepping motor.  These little stepping motors practically seem like an afterthought.  Technically, as long as it has 60 steps or a ratio to it via gearing or whatnot, it doesn't affect accuracy.  Come to think of it, I think most stepping motors have 240 positions, so there's probably a 4:1 gear between the motor and the face.  Probably the most immediate turn off is how the second hand never seems to land right on the dot.  Technically there's no benefit to it landing on the dot, but it it is so obviously meant to do so that it bugs me. 
 
These stepping motors also tend to make sound.  some make a "chock" sound, others make a "snik" sound, but if I can hear it with my shoulder relaxed an my elbow at 90 degrees, its too loud.  I had a Seiko with their kinetic movement, which was even worse.  Like an automatic, it uses motion to power itself, it uses it to charge a battery.  This gizmo made a surprising amount of noise. 
 
There's also a certain disingenuousness to an electronic device that it imitating a mechanical one.  come on, you couldn't come up with a creative way to use electricity to rotate a pointer?  No one has even bothered trying to come up with a way to make it happen smoothy*?  I'd probably use a contained magnetic field and a voice coil like device to make a circular motion, kind of like a hard drive arm.  It could maybe even be switched every pulse.  Come to think of it, a magnetic actuator would make a heck or a retrograde pointer. 
 
*The spring drive is more machine than man now more mechanical than quartz. 

 

[Uncle Erik]

Phos, if you want a smoothly sweeping second hand, buy an old Accutron. One with a tuning fork. The 214 models are collectible and increasing in value, but the 218 models are often affordable. They're tough as nails and have a lot of personality, too.

 

[happybuns]

 

[DaBomb77766]

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Very nice.
 
Quick question, guys - is it possible to, at a reasonable price, replace the glass crystal in a watch like mine (the Seiko I posted earlier) with a nicer one made of, say, sapphire?  Mine has some scratches in it that are rather distressing...