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    Something Olde . . .

    Finally made time to go through some of the stuff I have stored in my garage . . .

    . . . came across this

    My very first watch . . .

    . . . Reliance . . . 'waterproof, 7 jewels'



    Not sure when I got this, exactly --- circa 1970? . . . guessing a Christmas gift?

    Don't remember much about it . . . only that I wore it everyday --- 'till one day, it stopped. Then I stuck it in a jar, along with some other paper-stuff . . .

    . . . and just dragged it around with me . . . for the last five decades


    Doesn't look too bad, though, huh? --- 'specially for a kid's watch. Gonna try to get this relic repaired + running, again


    Groovy band, too . . .

    It's a replacement. I remember the original one was just a big/wide leather band, with a coupla snaps + a thin leather strap holding it on my arm

    . . . + hell-yeah, I'm keeping that!


    . . . + 'll go great with my car, too!




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    . . . and Something New

    Passed along my Sub . . .

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    . . . gonna give it away to My Boy, for his next birthday . . .
    . . . so I got me this, last week --- after a 6-week wait

    Omega Planet Ocean 600M Seamaster --- chronometer, this ('professional,' even --- whatever that means) . . . and, again, a co-ax. Steel + rubber, automatic, sweep-second + date, 60-minute + 12-hour registers, deployment clasp, display back; ref 215.32.46.51.01.001, ~$8400

    Thing is huge. I mean --- @44.5 mm . . . I can read this thing across the room --- + at night! . . . or 200m down (= divers' watch). And I really like the orange + black, too

    (Even ordered 2 extra bands --- before they go NLA)

    My new Every Day


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    Yeah stopped in the Omega store in Manhattan over the weekend. Salesman was wearing that same watch. Yes it’s huge. Looked at Speedmaster as possible gift for my son in future, but have read they bands scratch pretty easily and I’m a bit concerned RE water resistance on it. Beautiful watch though.

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    I love wristwatches!

    It looks like Omega is a popular brand on this thread -- here's mine:

    It's a Speedmaster made to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- has a titanium case, gold hands and markers. They made the dial out of black PVD and used a laser to remove material to make the various elements like the logo and sub-registers!
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    Dress to impress Swiss made Cookie Monster watch
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    ^^^^ now we’re talking!
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    No need for a photo here. On Tuesday I was scuba diving at Gaya Island in Borneo (now, there is a phrase one doesn't say every day!) and the divemaster pointed to the Rolex Sub on my wrist and asked what was it, some unusual type of dive computer? I replied it is called a "wristwatch", and I use it to see my dive time at a quick glance, far quicker than looking at my dive computer. He seemed befuddled. I wonder what percentage of Rolex Subs ever are taken to a water depth of more than a few feet in a backyard swimming pool? Very small, I suspect.
    Rich Spritz

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    made my day :-))

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    This watch marked the 20th anniversary of the launch of 73 RS in 1992 so around the same time I got my RS. These were made by Dr Georg Konradsheim’s watch company Motochron with the Carrera RS 300 km/h speedometer as dial:

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    Speedo from vendor Kark site for comparison:
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    My example is however a prototype of the watch that differed in some small details from those approved for final production. Details that evidently were important in getting Porsche AG’s approval to make the watches and it preceded Dr K getting rights to the Motochron name.

    Georg and I have corresponded about RS matters and my car over the years, he wrote to me confirm my particular watch is a prototype:
    ”Your watch is a very early prototype which should not have been sold… Therefore my initials GK on the dial before I got worldwide protection for “Motochron”, and I agreed with Porsche not to write “911” but the capacity of the engine. So you not only have a very early RS but a very early RS watch as well!“
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    This is one of the production versions I found on www for comparison showing the changes he refers to:
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    Not fancy expensive watches, just a quartz movement. I didn’t bother with the Motochron chrono version as have PP and AP RO Swiss watches that I wear quite often also seemed incongruous to have a chronograph with novelty 300 km/h dial. The quartz one is just a fun item that seemed more in keeping with idea of a speedometer dial.

    Steve
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    I remember those, almost ordered one.
    David

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