Incoming… what do you have? (Vol. 3)
Discussion
Sporky said:
I can't tell if the date wheel is green or black, but it's close enough that it looks OK. Might be two weeks for this one - from previous experience the seller is very quick, but these are only just out on sale.
You are rigjt looks like the date wheel is black. Still better than white.
Sporky said:
BrokenSkunk said:
I'm breaking my rule about not buying Quartz:
That looks brilliant. So angular and slabby.
Edited by redrabbit on Tuesday 26th March 08:27
InformationSuperHighway said:
Congrats! Do you have much purchase history with the AD?
I'm on the list for this exact model with 1 previous purchase (Air King) so hoping it will be soon. 2 months so far so and i'm not in any rush.
Thank you! This was my first time using this AD, but we got on well and spent a while speaking about the other watches in my collection, travels, holidays and the SA’s impending wedding. I'm on the list for this exact model with 1 previous purchase (Air King) so hoping it will be soon. 2 months so far so and i'm not in any rush.
I got the regular comment of “you should have brought your other watches with us to build your profile”, but when I told them there was no chance I was going to start buying Grand Seiko’s from them and that my relationship with both London stores were more important…. I think they got the hint.
Nonetheless, I feel it was quite lucky, but now they have a new spender in their store. (Albeit I won’t be purchasing watches for the sake of it!).
redrabbit said:
Sporky said:
BrokenSkunk said:
I'm breaking my rule about not buying Quartz:
That looks brilliant. So angular and slabby.Although I think that you and I have similar taste Red, I too used to have a S3, although mine was a red Turbo Esprit - seriously cool cars. Only the Skunk get's more attention than the S3. Round here no one ever lets you out of a junction, until you got behind the wheel of a Guigario Esprit and then no one ever made you wait!
Back to the watch. This one came from Omega Forums. I think the seller is in Norway. I actually saw one of these around 18 months ago in a jewellers shop window in the local shopping arcade. I liked it, but walked away becuase: quartz. I think it was up for £680, which at the time I thought was expensive for a quartz watch.
A week or so later I did my homework. It's a mid 70's watch. It has the 1310 movement, that's the one that came straight after the Beta-21 in my Electroquartz (that still doesn't work). Old enough and cool enough to make an exception for. So I popped back in to town and predictably the watch was gone. I've been keeping an eye out for one ever since. I should have bought the Southampton watch, I've paid €875 for this one.
Anyway, this one is called the Mariner 1 and hails from 1976. It is sort of based on the Quartz Omega Marine Chronometer, (below) which had the crazy accurate & expensive 2.4MHz 1511 movement (later models had the smaller 1516). Based on the looks, sort of similar name. But much more affordable - If you could call a mid 70's Omega quartz watch "affordable".
Edited by BrokenSkunk on Tuesday 26th March 17:41
liner33 said:
Just bought a blue face Sinn U1 . Had the black face for a while but fell in love with the blue a while back was just waiting on one coming up used at the right price and it did
Black one will be for sale shortly so if anyone is after a tegimented U1 drop me a line
Thank goodness it isn’t a tegimented SDR….Black one will be for sale shortly so if anyone is after a tegimented U1 drop me a line
(I’ve always fancied the idea of the red hands on the blue dial…)
Just bought this as a 1st foray into proper watches, have always loved Omega, have a Moonswatch but time to be a grown up.
This will no doubt divide opinion but I think it's stunning, and pretty damn rare (maybe for a reason
). £11k new in ~2017 but I've picked up an almost as new condition one with box and papers for a very small fraction of that.
Actually get my hands on it in a couple weeks and can't wait!
This will no doubt divide opinion but I think it's stunning, and pretty damn rare (maybe for a reason
). £11k new in ~2017 but I've picked up an almost as new condition one with box and papers for a very small fraction of that.Actually get my hands on it in a couple weeks and can't wait!
squareflops said:
The current mainstay of the 'collection'
Within there is my newly acquired 'mid-size' Seiko diver 6458-600A; tiny compared to everything else pictured. Made (probably) same month and year as I was born which is a nice to have
That yellow starburst dial on the chrono is strangely alluring!Within there is my newly acquired 'mid-size' Seiko diver 6458-600A; tiny compared to everything else pictured. Made (probably) same month and year as I was born which is a nice to have
Can’t help but notice all your bezels are ‘zeroed’ at 8… any reason? What am I missing? 😀
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