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I am new to the interrest of collecting watches. It is only a couple of months old hobby. But I am going "all in" and have in the last month bought about 8 watches, and have a collection of now 11 watches, and love the vintage mechanical watches

 

These are my watches

- Omega Pocketwatch 1916 (inherited from great-great-grandfather)

- Elgin 1917 pocketwatch

- Hamilton 1920 pocetwatch

- Longines with sub-second 1948

- Omega Seamaster 1955 

- Omega Seamaster 1956

- Omega Seamster Automatic 1973

- Urika (japanese wristwatch from early 1970)

- Certina DS Spel (gift from my parents)

- Seiko SNK809 (ok, this is new - but mechanical automatic)

- FitBit Charge activity-"band" (gift from my wife to get me in shape)

 

The Elgin is not working, but this is a project I was thinking about doing myself. 

 

I love the increasing knowledge of watches, about all the gears, and how they interact with each other to make it work like it does. It is absolutely amazing to think about a watch that is 100 years old - you just wind it up - and it runs like it was bought yesterday. It is not much in todays world that you can do the same with. 

 

Ha det bra. :-)

(Bye bye)

 

- Tore

 

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A warm welcome to the forum Tore, and thank you for the comprehensive introduction. That is an excellent selection of watches you have managed to acquire, Will on the forum will be most impressed. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future. :)

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Hi. All of these are in daily usage in rotation

 

- Longines with sub-second 1948

- Omega Seamaster 1955 

- Omega Seamaster 1956

- Omega Seamster Automatic 1973

- Urika (japanese wristwatch from early 1970)

- Certina DS Spel (gift from my parents)

- FitBit Charge activity-"band" (gift from my wife to get me in shape)

 

The Urika is increasing by about 10 mins/day but the others keeps time good.

 

I'll post some pictures of them later today. :-)

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The Urika is increasing by about 10 mins/day

Maybe it is time to service it...check for magnetism, jewels with caked oil, and hairspring for shorts (either magnetic, oil or simply kinks)! :)

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Here are the pics of some of my watches (at least the interesting ones). I have some problems setting the size in the post, so sorry about a couple of the large images...
 
Omega 1916
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Elgin 1917
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Hamilton 1920
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Longines 1948
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Omega Seamaster 1955
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Omega Seamaster 1956 - "Bullseye"
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Omega Seamaster Automatic 1973
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Urika (early 1970)
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Thank you!

 

I love the vintage models where there are some "wear and tear", like the Seamaster '55 i have with some nice patina to the dial. I love to think about a watch that is 60 years old, that is still working and keeping time nicely, and wondering about all it has been through. :-)

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I love the collection Tore and the choice. With time it can only grow! :)

 

Cheers,

 

Bob

 

PS. I have a feeling that Urika has a Seiko movement inside...the design is reminiscent of their models of the time. May be easy to fix and parts may be plenty....keep us posted!

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