Let's see your watches

[Chrisj]

Here is my Grandfathers pocket watch and original box,the pictures are not very good as my brother has sent them from the USA as I gave it to him as he all ways wanted it and I just had it in the safe and I am not that interested in it but would never sell it as it was Granddads

 

[Inca]

Very nice Chris, a gold full hunter, very nice indeed.

 

[TonySTS]

Here are mine - all get worn but now I often just have my Fitbit on.

A lot of the time they live in here

 

[Inca]

That Cartier is stunning and my wife would swoon over the Omega.

 

[Chrisj]

Very nice Chris, a gold full hunter, very nice indeed.

Thank I did not know what it was, when I was a child sometimes Granddad would show it to me, he was a Carpenter Joiner and worked at the Langham hotel opposite Broadcasting house for the BBC for the last 32 years of his working life. I don’t remember see him wear the watch it was all ways kept safe he lived until he was 96 . As said my brother was after it so gave it to him when my uncle gave it to me I ask Mum (as it was her fathers watch) if she thought I should let my brother have it , so now it lives in Florida USA .
.

 

[Pete]

I really fancy one of these Titoni watches.

 

[2506sendero]

Needs a good old service

Do you service watches for other people please?

 

[yowji]

Seiko mini turtle. Took me a year to hunt down a minty used one. Small enough not to get in the way. Unfortunate that Seiko prices sky rocket.

 

[Serengwali]

And here’s todays selection, a Christoper Ward Regulator

 

[Tinkicker]

Do you service watches for other people please?

No and with good reason.
Been busy all day with stuff I would have done over the weekend, but going to Whitby on a bike ride with some old mates tomorrow. So everything has to be done today in a rush.. Put a small rip in my shorts doing the chores, more of which later.

Stripped, cleaned and partially reassembled an old Oris 401 movement last week, found I had five minutes to spare this afternoon, and thought I'd drop the balance in, stick it on my timegrapher and see how it performed....

Ruined the hairspring rendering the movement a spare parts only movement.

Lack of experience led to this.

Mistake one. Never do anything to a watch when you are time pressured.

Mistake two. Never do anything to a watch when you feel under pressure or frustrated.

Mistake three. Never do anything to a watch when the first two above, makes you neglect to prepare yourself, your tools and your work area.

Result. Working on a cluttered worktop, in a very hot conservatory, rushing to get the job done and feeling frustrated. Where's my favourite curved tweezers? Sod it, I'll use the straight ones.
Balance dropped from tweezers because they were the wrong ones, dropped into my lap and of course, sods law dictated it would fall into the 1" rip in my shorts. The hairspring tangled in the fibres of the tear and could not be disentangled without mangling it.

Until I have the correct amount of experience, the correct working conditions and the correct equipment I would never even consider working on anyone else's watches.

 

[Nick Marshall]

Into german watches at present. Was Sinn. But now a couple of Damasko.

 

[Nick Marshall]

Just purchased this on a watch forum.
Been after one for a year.

it’s a Muhle Glashutte SAR.

 

[Nick Marshall]

Here are a few pictures of some watches owned over the last couple of years.
I wish I had kept a few more.

But they might turn up again on the watch forum.

 

[Inca]

I like the 3/4 Kinetics with their synchronised second hands, well done. I also like the clean lines of the Damasko Pilot’s watch, very nice indeed

 

[Chrisj]

Here are a few pictures of some watches owned over the last couple of years.
I wish I had kept a few more.

But they might turn up again on the watch forum.

Lovely collection of watches Thank you for sharing them

 

[2506sendero]

Here are a few pictures of some watches owned over the last couple of years.
I wish I had kept a few more.

But they might turn up again on the watch forum.

Fantastic collection - a Sinn is a grail watch for me

 

[Johnbaz]

My two most recent buys, The Laco A type arrived today, The Seiko is due tomorrow..

The Laco pics are stock pics from the WWW but the watch is identical..

The Seiko Chrono..

The Seiko is coming on the brown leather strap but the Seiko bracelet is also coming with it


John

 

[Willz22]

This is the only watch i own

 

[Daztilley]

Daily - SEIKO kinetic diver

 

[Inca]

Beautiful watch @Daztilley, looks like how a dive watch should look.