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Anyone else into automatic wristwatches?

#222
mikeoso said:
Cripes, here I am 4 years later, and still just the same two Seikos...SRP637 and SKZ329. Prices on them have like tripled, though.

BTW...my SRP637 is losing a couple minutes a day, and Seiko wants $200 to clean and adjust. Anyone have better options?
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My dad told me that it was standard, before quartz era, for people to set their watches each morning before work. Often setting them fast a few minutes to compensate. I think even 2 minutes would have been considered on the Highly Accurate side to many people. Some people liked to keep their watches a little in advance anyway, so as never to be late.
 
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Fortunately, I can't find anything I want more than these two
 

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RedVee said:
The Seastar is in the hospital. :)
The guy doesn’t seem phased by the issues. I did discover that the watch was jammed at an indicated 10pm when scrolling the date to Tuesday. So I think that may be most of the problem. He will service the watch and says he can get a new date wheel for about $30 Aussie if it is needed.
I decided against a new crystal. It has a few light scratches that he will buff out, and another on the edge which will stay. I’m not interested making it look ‘brand new’, I want it working well and presenting well as a vintage watch that has been used.
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Well that was January. I just got off the phone with the watchmaker and I can have it back one day next week. He will put it back into the case on Monday and do a final check around and give me a call.
He doesn’t seem to phased about it, “just a service”. I hope that attitude is reflected when I pick it up. :)

He is semi retired now, I wish he had mentioned that when I took the watch in.

Anyway, wish me luck.
 
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The Maen Skymaster 38 has been on my wrist since receiving it a few weeks ago. At the name suggests its case is sized at 38mm x 12mm or so. The photo is on my 7-inch wrist.

The automatic movement is a Swiss ETA 2892-2 that has been very accurate and well within COSC parameters.

Loosely based on Type 20/21 series military chronographs, it's easily the most functional mechanical watch I have combining a rotating bezel with 12-hour markers for a second time zone and three sub-dials for sweep seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour counters. The 60-click bezel is also useful for elapsed time.

With 100m WR it is a light diver and chrono rolled into one. And well under a grand all in with US Customs duty from Stockholm. It was a Kickstarter project that took over a year to produce. But worth the wait.
 
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@marchone, that Maen looks really cool! I didn't know about that brand, but I like what I see on their site, and I'm pretty sure I would dig a Hudson 38 diver or the Greenwich 38 GMT with the red hour markers. Not sure I want to go as small as 38mm appearance-wise for a dive watch, but it helps keep the weight down.
 
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marchone said:
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The Maen Skymaster 38 has been on my wrist since receiving it a few weeks ago. At the name suggests its case is sized at 38mm x 12mm or so. The photo is on my 7-inch wrist.

The automatic movement is a Swiss ETA 2892-2 that has been very accurate and well within COSC parameters.

Loosely based on Type 20/21 series military chronographs, it's easily the most functional mechanical watch I have combining a rotating bezel with 12-hour markers for a second time zone and three sub-dials for sweep seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour counters. The 60-click bezel is also useful for elapsed time.

With 100m WR it is a light diver and chrono rolled into one. And well under a grand all in with US Customs duty from Stockholm. It was a Kickstarter project that took over a year to produce. But worth the wait.
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Very interesting.
Do you find the 1-12 bezel useful? It seems it could be an easy way for a 2nd location time. Potentially could still use it for diving if/when required.

Edit. I like those subdials. I can’t get my head around the 12/24 subdials - always seems like a waste of a spot to me.
 
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RedVee said:
Very interesting.
Do you find the 1-12 bezel useful? It seems it could be an easy way for a 2nd location time. Potentially could still use it for diving if/when required.

Edit. I like those subdials. I can’t get my head around the 12/24 subdials - always seems like a waste of a spot to me.
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It's the most useful mechanical watch I own. The 12-hour bezel is bidirectional and 60-clicks so it can be used as a countdown bezel. I'm a retired chef and for decades went back and forth between dive watches and chronos. This is the best of both worlds for me.
 
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