Popular Post tortron Posted February 15 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 15 The band is the cheapest 0.001mm genuine leather over cardboard you can get out of China, so I will look at a nicer replacement. A stitched leather one is my usual preference, but a nato strap also looks nice on these I think, there were later black dial army issue ones that eventually came with those when they were invented. I have some info about the previous (who bought it new in 1948) owner that I will compile and post later on 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 love the gentle evidence of age on that dial. a watch of this style is something ive always got an eye peeled for. id better fix up the old seiko sportsmatic first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 8 hours ago, BlownCorona said: gentle evidence of age on that dial Yeah about that Turns out the crystal is slightly undersized and those marks are remains of the smoo that was holding it in. Most of it should clean off and I will reglue that dial. I have some new ones that don't fit, they want the edge reprofiled. (same with my other watches) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 I would probably keep my eye out for a smiths everest (what sir Ed used). A higher jewel count one will have less wear anyways. These pin pallet movements are known to be loud because each tick and tick is metal on metal lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlownCorona Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 dreamy, but i looked them up and found one for sale for over 5k usd?? i think i best stick to the $30 barn finds. Top of my list at at the moment is an enicar because i love the logo and i think the story behind their name is cool. their surname being Racine but another member of the family already used that for their watch brand so they just reversed it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 You will find them come up for a few quid from time to time on Ebay, theres some "speculators" that know what they have (and hope you don't) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Got this wee honey running within seconds over the last 3 days after a slight adjustment on the timing. What a joy. There's no way to adjust the seconds on something like this. Some watches you can "hack" and move the second hand back or wind the crown in a certain way and it pauses the hand. But with this you just set as close as possible, within a minute was about all that was expected apparently. Even the railroad grade pocket watches don't have that feature, apparently a second stopwatch was sometimes used for that. Higher grade pilots watches have the hacking button, but they everyman just lived with it 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Lost about 1 minute over a week, which is about as new for one of those, certainly pretty great now that it's 75 odd years old. Suits me, Just roll it forwards a minute at church on a sunday 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubastreet Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 My parents gave me this for my 21st It came with a card that says W.W.I MAJOR JENNINGS D.S.O. Google wasn't around when I got the watch, but now it is, so o know he was a surgeon. http://www.maltaramc.com/ramcoff/j/jenningsjw.html 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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