Your Watch & Naim

Hi Bart,
Also 250 euros per , plastic watch - it is very expensive!
Just for your information,
According to online reports, there is evidence of material / paint leaking from the watch box on the wrist …

Quality = money

Here’s a pic. :scream:

Still my favourite!!


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Thanks for the recommendation Clive. A friend of mine has a Breitling watch and he recommended Russell to me. By non-invasive does this mean he will not be taking it apart and restoring it to keep accurate time? It was slow.

Cheers, Steve


Samıurai!

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What I meant was that he wouldn’t change the hands, remove any residual radium or tritium (like most Dirty Dozen series, it had passed through REME in its lifetime) or potentially even change the dial etc. He repaired the watch with a thorough clean and new balance spring. It’s now accurate to a minute or so per fortnight, which isn’t bad for a 78 year old watch. We had been told that if the watch were returned to Omega it would be restored to such an extent that it would lose much of its historical connection.

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Hope this is OK with @Richard.Dane but this is a quite brilliant piece of creativity.

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Wow… that’s indeed stunning. My watch. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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It’s fine here Geoff. Beautiful and very clever!

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Wonderful !

I wondered for just a moment if the camera was going to zoom out to reveal a moonswatch!! Thanks for posting Geoff - I could watch (no pun intended, honest!) that many times - amazing detail.

Peter

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It’s not that brilliant.

Take a close look and see if you can spot the schoolboy error. :scream_cat:

Hopefully this is allowed too.

Not actually a watch but, unlike the Omega one, I think this actually exists. The comet is cool.

Edit: It doesn’t seem to let me embed it

More schoolboy errors. :grinning:

If you are looking for errors then you are missing the point, and not winning any with the negativity.

35 million views in a month on YouTube indicates most people do think it’s brilliant.

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Do you want a clue?:nerd_face:

That’s great, especially the bouncing astronaut. If you are ever in Strasbourg, you must see the incredible atomic clock in the cathedral. It’s a truly amazing feat of horology and quite beautiful. This snap doesn’t start to do it justice.

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The video on Youtube is very impressive, amazing engineering.

And, they managed to get all the planets moving in the correct direction. :innocent:

The thing I found most amazing is that there is another box on the left that at the end of every year works out the dates of all the religious festivals and then transfers them to the main dial - so Easter, Candlemass, Advent and all the rest. It’s entirely mechanical and the whole thing is accurate to something like two seconds a year if I recall. There is even a mechanical rooster on the top that crows at noon, and various people who move across parts of the clock. Strasbourg is a lovely city and well worth a visit.

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Now imagine some of that in a hand-held watch! This is why I love watches and clocks so much – the combination of amazing engineering plus industrial design.

This Patek watch calculates the date of Easter every year, which is super hard to do mechanically AND on such a tiny scale. It’s the single-most complicated watch Patek has made I believe.

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