Any watch lovers here????

I had the TV on this morning while I was making breakfast and a PGA pre-game show came on. During that show I saw a commercial for this watch:

I kinda like it (Omega fanboy here).

 

That just reminds me I need to send mine back in to get fixed and serviced.

 

Dave, your post a while back about looking like a homeless person while looking at (and wearing) a Rolex reminded me of my last visit to an Omega Boutique (Roseville, CA). This was last December. I walked in and started looking at the watches on display.

"Can I help you sir?"

"No. I'm just looking."

"Have you ever bought an Omega watch before?" (I can't really blame them for this question because they are in the middle of a huge mall and must get many lookie-loos who have no idea what these watches sell for)

I pull up the sleeve of my sweatshirt and show her my titanium on leather Speedmaster.

"That's a very nice watch! What else would you like to see? Let me give you my card and a new Omega catalog. Is there anything that I can help you with today? Would you like a handie right now? (okay, that last part isn't true )

 

If all that green was red, i could get into that...

 

Where you sending yours? Mine also needs to be fixed and serviced.
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Haven't worn a watch regularly for over ten years. You guys sucked me in with this thread. I'm still a auto mechanic but have a bit cleaner wrenchin job now, and having a watch on all day helps keep me on task.

My issue is I have expensive taste and like high quality stuff, on a mechanics budget.

SNK809 on a Barton Jetson Nato. Small for my wrist but makes for a nice working with your hands in tight spots watch. Have a double dome Sapphire crystal on the way from crystal times. Bought a press and tool set and Im going to try swapping myself.

If that goes well then next on list is a 007-009 to mod out with crystal, bezel, hands and maybe a face. Anyone have a beater 007-9 they want to sell cheap? Seems like a waste to by a whole new one just to swap stuff out.

 

I'm thinking a bastardized 007 with a 009 bezel and something like seiko 5 hands on a nato.

Curse you f@ckers and your seiko speak!

 

Now now, little buddy.

Just think of how many Seiko's you can own for the price of one Panerai? You could wear a different Seiko every day for a month...

 

Thinking of using this stuff.

Bezel insert, will be on stock polished bezel though.
www.dlwwatches.com/collections/ceramic-bezel-inserts/products/ceramic-insert-007-sub-vintage-black-mk2
Or this one, I keep flipping
https://www.dlwwatches.com/collections/ceramic-bezel-inserts/products/ceramic-insert-007-smp

Hands, white hour, red minute to tie in with the red triangle on bezel. and silver with red tip second.
https://www.dlwwatches.com/collections/hands/products/hands-mercedes?variant=32692421958

Chapter ring
www.dlwwatches.com/collections/chapter-rings/products/c-r-skx007-matt-silver-w-markers

Already ordered this crystal CT037cis for sloped bezel inserts.

www. crystaltimes.net/shop/all/modern-divers/ct037/

We'll see how it goes, going to order stuff here and there and find the combo I really like then order the watch last.

Basically want to build this, but with minute markers on chapter ring and red minute hand.

 

And damn you all for giving me another hobby I cant afford.

 

Looks like someone chamfered the lugs on that case as well. Looks good. I have that bezel and crystal in my dresser. Just waiting to get the motivation to install them.

 

Damn, I really like that. How much is a build like that worth ? Is it hard do the work yourself ?

 

I really like that build to boot. I got a older Seiko SNK007 just to try a couple years ago and its one of my favorites. You can't find them cheap anymore.

Turbotech, would you be willing to build another if yours works out.

That look is awesome.

 

Replacing the bezel takes a pocket knife and thin double sided tape (if you're cheap and don't buy a precut jobber). Super easy.

Replacing the crystal requires a press (only $15ish on amazon) and some tools to get the case back off (another $15ish on amazon), but is otherwise super easy as well.

My only gripe with the sub-style bezel and domed crystal is that they don't line up. There's a small lip where the ID of the bezel meets the crystal. I'm used to it now, but my OCD was flaring up when I first realized it. Maybe I need a new bezel to match the insert/crystal combination.

 

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Bought this cheap Invicta on prime day and at first was disappointed cause I get like it was too small when I opened the box but was pleasantly pleased once I put it on my wrist. Not bad for $47. (It's the automatic version vs the quartz one). They have another that's like 48mm but I feel like that may be too big. I like something in the 42-44mm. I have a Hamilton Khaki King that's roughly this size.

 

I have a Seiko monster that's midly modded. I've been meaning to change the face and likely will as that's the watch that the movement stopped working. I can buy a new watch for the movement for $60. Need a new chapter ring for like $12 and if I'm feeling crazy get sapphire glass for it too. I'll have to get a pic of it as it sits.