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21 hours ago, AndyHull said:

Keeping warm by the fireside tonight while a Baltic wind howls past the chimney, so what better than a little bit of Russian company. No, not the high octane fighting potato juice, just a bit of submarine themed Vostok 'Komandirskie'.

Beautiful dial! What could possibly be better than a Diesel Boat dial, eh?! ?

I will be searching eBay hoping to find one like yours.

Will covert my Generalskie into Komandirskie ?

 

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An HMT "Sandeep" joins me with a little light reading material by the fire today.

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The dial on this is particularly difficult to photograph. It is a rather pleasing bluish grey, but that doesn't really come across on the camera. Digital cameras for some reason seem to struggle with rendering blues accurately. This one is from 1995 which makes it one of the newest watches in the collection, and it actually still looks very fresh.

 

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This was going to be another "Timex Tuesday" watch, and then I thought I might make it in time for a "Timex Thursday" instead but it took a little more work than I expected, so I guess its a Timex Friday today - 1971 Timex Viscount (model 46660 3271). I lost count of the number of times I had this apart, but now its fully functional and clean as a whistle.

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On 12/14/2020 at 10:55 PM, AndyHull said:

I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can find a suitable dial for you. What size is it? Where are the dial feet positioned? Did you get the caliber running?

Not yet. I took it apart and the only thing kept me going is that it seems i am a very bad watchmaker so a little bit of practicing was just one step forward in the right direction. I cleaned the parts manually because they were very dirty and some of them are rusty too plus my ultrasonic does not work anymore and the national watch cleaner machine project has not even started yet (apart from buying a cable and a corc sheet). I got some green stuff here and there which reminds me the stuff u get when a battery is leaking. All in all i think a new dial would be a waste for this movement, but I am going to try to put it together anyway. Going to post about the result.

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Today's casual watch is a Elgin Automatic which I assume is from the 70's. I know very little about it. I won it in a Goodwill auction for around $38 and it showed up not only running but keeping impeccable time as well. It has an AS 1916 movement.

 

 

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I decided to give the elegant little "Crown Watch" "Ancre 15 Rubis" an airing today.

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This has a strange arrangement of "almost fixed lugs", in the sense that they have pins that roll, but are so tightly fitted that there is no way to remove them, so it requires a strap suited to fixed lugs.

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I can't remember what the caliber is, but for those who want to know, here is a picture of its beating mechanical heart.

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I would suggest it is probably from the 1940s or 1950s judging by the styling, but that is simply a guess, so possibly from the Bombay "Crown Watch" company, or.. possibly not.

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