Which Watch Have You Got Coming In The Mail ? Show Us !!!

[JohnD]

Well lots of spares/parts watches, one of which has a working Junghans 600 movement in it which will furnish a replacement circuit block for the Matthey Doret mention a few posts above. The only complete watch is this jump minute hand Timex Q quartz one, which may or may not be running (sort of Schrödinger's watch).....

 

Edited May 7, 2020 by JohnD

[FLwatchguy73]

Just won an auction for this sexy beast, another Art Deco watch. It's a Gotham, probably from the mid 30's but I still have yet to identify the movement. I thought at first glance it was an FHF movement, but I'm beginning to think it's an in-house movement. If anyone knows, please let me know. Love the 2 tone case with enamel inlay and the swinging "Drivers" lugs. Only thing it seems to need is a seconds hand. Flawless otherwise.

[FLwatchguy73]

2 hours ago, JohnD said:

Well lots of spares/parts watches, one of which has a working Junghans 600 movement in it which will furnish a replacement circuit block for the Matthey Doret mention a few posts above. The only complete watch is this jump minute hand Timex Q quartz one, which may or may not be running (sort of Schrödinger's watch).....

 

Those jump minute quartz's are weird but awesome! I have 2 identical ones. The ticks are quite loud and alarming in a quiet room.

[AndyHull]

An early  Dundee Timex M22 - probably late fifties, maybe up to around 1964. The plating looks somewhat worn, but  the hairspring looks concentric. That rubber gasket is probably the texture of graphite by now.

[jdrichard]

16 hours ago, AndyHull said:

That is a really tidy looking watch. Very nice, especially when you consider its age. Produced some time around 1914 if my quick interwebz search of the serial number is correct.

Thanks, this could be my full time wearing watch....need to get myself a nerd vest:)

[HSL]

16 hours ago, AndyHull said:

That is a really tidy looking watch. Very nice, especially when you consider its age. Produced some time around 1914 if my quick interwebz search of the serial number is correct.

That is a real jem for sure..
A nice place to find data about the pocketwatch can be found here..

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/2347227

[jdrichard]

2 hours ago, HSL said:

That is a real jem for sure..
A nice place to find data about the pocketwatch can be found here..

https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/hamilton/2347227

Thanks...coming in the mail Friday I hope:)

[AndyHull]

A steal at 0.99p plus p&p

Needs a crystal, and probably some work to clean up the keyless work.. and of course a service.

[AndyHull]

Alwyn Day Date.

Listings says automatic.

Gut feeling says maybe not. 
Picture says seller was probably stoned, or maybe they need to speak to their optician.

Price says what the heck, its worth a gamble.

Edited May 12, 2020 by AndyHull

[AndyHull]

Something from Germany not far from the Swiss border on its way today.

Slightly scruffy, and in need of some TLC, this has one of Kienzle's pin lever movements in it, maybe this one.

The missing lume and slight deformation on the hour hand suggests this has been taken a part and worked on at some stage.
Exactly which pin lever is in it is not clear from the sellers pictures, so I'll have to wait and see.

The hammer fell at the 404 mark, so it just squeezed into the club.

[SCOTTY]

KING TURTLE !!!

 

 

[JohnD]

15 minutes ago, SCOTTY said:

KING TURTLE !!!

 

 

That's a f'king big watch

[JohnD]

My hybrid electromechanical collection grows....Just pulled the trigger on this Luch 3055..

 

[AndyHull]

Another "no user serviceable parts inside" Swatch challenge from the penny lots on ebay is heading my way, to provide some lockdown entertainment.

[AndyHull]

On 5/13/2020 at 11:57 AM, JohnD said:

That's a f'king big watch

Its also a f'king cracking watch.

[AndyHull]

The Timex Biq Q minute ticker arrived.

It would work, if I had the small part that the pusher presses on that links to the spring contacts on the circuit board.

I suspect I can 3d print something, or file one from a small piece of aluminium, but this process would be much easier if I knew what the original looked like, and what material it was made from. If it was plastic, I can 3d print it, but if it was metal, and needs to be conductive, then I will have to do some filing.

Does anybody have an example they can show me pictures of?

[Marc]

1 hour ago, AndyHull said:

Does anybody have an example they can show me pictures of?

@AndyHull I will try and get some pics of mine tomorrow

[AndyHull]

8 minutes ago, Marc said:

@AndyHull I will try and get some pics of mine tomorrow

Thanks. Much appreciated.

[Jimg1969]

Got this coming.

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[JohnD]

5 minutes ago, Jimg1969 said:

Got this coming.

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Interesting... What movement does it have?

[Jimg1969]

Note sure yet, caravelle is a Bulova so possibly a Japan quartz. Here is the back.

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[Jimg1969]

Been finding a few deals on the poshmark app. Just got this pulsar along with two other accutrons for 15.00 threw a nato strap on and a new battery and was in business.

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[Jimg1969]

This was only $20 and was new. Had a nice ss bracelet with solid end links but someone had removed many links and I had to replace it with this strap.

 

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[Marc]

15 hours ago, Marc said:

I will try and get some pics of mine tomorrow

@AndyHull pics as promised.

There is a brass clip that snaps onto the plastic spacer to almost bridge between the movement and the pusher. Pushing the pusher completes the bridge, presumably shorting the contact out to the case.

When I opened mine up there was a second brass clip just rattling around loose which I am struggling to find an appropriate location for. It looks as though it may be to provide a better contact between the case and the pusher outer, or it may be that pusher presses it against the other brass clip, but I can't see how it fits at all.

[FLwatchguy73]

It seems I accidentally won this pocket watch. i had my eye on this open balance pocket watch with a mother of pearl case back. I set up a bid snipe on my app for it and then a couple days later I removed it from my watch list because I changed my mind. However, I forgot about the snipe and a day later I got an alert that I had won. hopefully there is nothing broken on the inside. It's being sold as non running, fingers crossed it just needs a cleaning.The mother of pearl case back has a large chunk missing near the crown, not sure what I can do to repair that. I'll keep everyone in the loop as I go through it. It was cheap enough that if I get it running, I may repair the original with epoxy putty, make a mold of it and the cast a new one with a mother of pearl epoxy. May be a fun project.