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  1. Seiko Aeromaster today Old crystal [emoji85] Replacement Verlux crystal [emoji106]
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  2. I've been a longtime fan of the Rado Captain Cook and regretted selling my mark 1, the mark 2 doesn't really float my boat but this came by at the right price.....with an original crystal no less... problem with these watches is that the aftermarket bezel usually messed up the function of the internal bezel...this one is ok. Original hands as well! Anilv
    2 points
  3. One can never have too many tools. I can always find an excuse to get something else too. Just wish the account dashboard on the Cousins website didn't have a 'total amount spent on orders' displayed so prominently!
    2 points
  4. If a company has problems with sales and as a result cash flow problems normally they reduce costs, reduce their products prices or find new markets. However for ETA (Swatch Group) their only solution is unbelievably to hike up their prices. Why ? well this is parts of an article from this month,s BHI mag. that explains their tale of woe. In 2002 COMCO/Weko ruled that if ETA (part of the Swatch group) wanted to withdraw supply of movements and parts it would be an abuse of it,s market dominance. It then took 10 years to finally agree a gradual reduction of third party supples & by 2016/17 it was authorised to deliver no more than 65% 2009-2011 average production. This agreement also bound ETA not to sell to new customers. However with the decline of Swiss sales in general ETA have found themselves with cash flow issues. It therefore is in a dilemma it can not sell to new markets so it needed to sell more units & to achieve this it was going to flood the market reduced price units. COMCO/Weko was then again approached because companies such as Breitling, Sellita, Felsa & Vaucher have re-tooled to manufacture their own movements. Ronda have invested 25 million francs. Technotime’s (who supplied 100,000 balance springs to the industry in 2016) sales director Sebastien Gigonales stated “you can not take legal action to reduce deliveries, call for alternative solutions then change your position according to market conditions”. COMCO/Weko agreed with this and stated on 26th October it would not entertain the application by Swatch to increase it,s upper limit of delivery of movements. The board at Swatch is therefore in trouble it has dug itself a hole with what seems no way out. It is hoping to resolve its cash flow issue by a massive price hike of movements & parts. Swatch has certainly taken steps to protect its business,but its actions have left it alienated and wrong - footed by a fed up horological community . Little solace,perhaps,the old saying: “Be careful what you wish for,you might just get it”
    1 point
  5. Neither. The guy who started it all was Polish. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/80-years-x-acto-has-been-cutting-edge-edge-cutting-180950050/
    1 point
  6. Hi Andy, I've just joined this forum and am also from the Cotswolds! Cheers Paul
    1 point
  7. Not impossible but it is in a hell of a mess. Just be careful you don't break it, your going to need a lot of patience. Good luck.
    1 point
  8. I bought an Ascot watch with altimeter from an Aldi store in Sydney for about $60 around 2005. In April 2007 my watchband broke so l emailed Kripple in Austria asking whether they could send me a new band and l would pay with Visa. Instead they sent me a new watch, arriving about 4 days later!!! ..... including about $40 in stamps. Amazing service! The display on this watch is now failing so it has lasted nearly 10 years!
    1 point
  9. I finally received everything I need to be able to clean a watch movement, so I carefully stripped down at home my first watch movement and cleaned it in my new US cleaner in my new wire baskets with my new waterless cleaners. After cleaning and rinsing the movement I set myself up to put it back together. The first thing I wanted to do was grease the main spring and reinstall it in the barrel. It was at this point that I realised none of my 11 main spring winders was the correct size for this watches barrel. Looks like another order to cousins will be happening this week to buy one of the few burgeon winders I currently don't own. Is it just me that feels I'm always missing an essential tool, or do others just starting out feel this too?
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  11. Wow , nothing like a new crystal to make a watch look spiffy...
    1 point
  12. Your advice will come in handy for others with the same problem, so your time was not totally wasted.
    1 point
  13. Always the right for me.
    1 point
  14. Never used any, any marks were removed using rodico. Used an old pair of gloves working with clocks with large springs.
    1 point
  15. if you don't have have " acid hands" some sensitivity is lost with gloves or cots. vinn
    1 point
  16. The top name was my wifes' grandfather, and we believe it was given to him by a very dear 'lady friend' but know no more. It was given to my wife when she was young, in a wooden box, to play with. wooden box turned out to be an 1820's solid mahogany apprentice chest worth about £300-400!
    1 point
  17. You'll been impressed with these latest 4r's coming from Seiko. Very accurate movements. Sent from my SM-T585 using Tapatalk
    1 point
  18. Who wants to shop at Aldi when there's a Costco nearby for great savings
    1 point
  19. Dear Canthus, The dial washer's purpose in life is to ensure that it meshes with the driving wheel correctly. The reason a dial washer is used is to reduce thickness of the overall movement. On some watches where a plate is used to retain the date driving stuff, this plate is used to ensure that the hour wheel is held in place correctly... hence no dial washer. Recent Seikos are a good example of this. Generally if theres nothing holding the hour wheel in place then a dial washer is required. Note a dial washer is fitted convex side down (against the hour wheel). HTH Anil
    1 point
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