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Main Forums => General Discussion - Modern Watches => Topic started by: Cocas on August 28, 2016, 10:07:03 AM
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Throughout the years of watch collection, I have seen many uncommon watch in term of design, function, color, component, shape, material, price, history......etc.
Please show yours or share those you've encountered.
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I start mine first.
This is Cyma watch and Swiss made with Le Locle label.
Its hour and minute hands are non luminous and have 2 tones! I check many watches but as of now I couldn't find any hands like that.
The hand tips are special blue and the hand bodies are thin and gold colored that still no showing of oxidation after more than 2 decades.
To me, it is so special.
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This is Ball Mad Cow TMT. A special titanium watch with a mechanical thermometer.
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SEIKO Prospex with magnifying glass
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Seiko Marine Master 300m casing is monobloc.
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The touch active screen of a Tissot t-touch
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The Citizen electronic minute repeater watch.
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SEIKO Prospex with magnifying glass
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Hi @meoramri bro. Kindly share your magnifying glass Seiko reference number , I intend to buy one. Thanks.
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Its the SBDY001 - Seiko don't make them anymore unfortunately. However, there are some NOS example available on the web
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Granted that all good diver watches must have a unidirectional bezel. Granted that all good diver watches should have a luminous pip/pearl/marker at the 12 o'clock central. But for Tudor Pelagos, you could reset of the bezel pip back to 12 o'clock in complete darkness or with your eyes closed, as there would be a slight pressure resistance when the bezel goes a full circle. I tried that on Rollies, Seikos, etc and have yet to find the same feature on their diver watches.
It was also a tell-tale sign for people in the know to separate the genuine Pelagos from the replicas, as the replicas were replicated closely to the genuine yet were unable to have this feature. I've seen a replica being sold on Mdh (marketed as genuine), where the seller was letting go below the normal market price as he informed that his "genuine" watch was missing the box and papers and from checking, it really did look pretty close to the actual item (which I owned), but the bezel turn was simply like a normal diver watch. When I explained to the seller, only then did he revealed that he bought it very cheap but thought it was real, as he had previously compared it to an actual item in an AD. So beware of unscrupulous sellers selling replicas on Mdh sometimes...
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I always found the EcoZilla and its later replacement to be somewhat special in that it had the Eco-Drive technology that could ensure its tick-ability up to 6 months since a full charge. The fact that it was huge and later equipped with rapid descent alarm, depth gauge, crazy arse lume, etc made it stood out from the more common diver watches genre.
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G-Shock of course had a core technology in its shockability; but muscled further with ABC functions, wave-ceptor, and solar panels embedded in its dial, and the Rangeman stood out as a pretty special quartz watch.
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G-Shock of course had a core technology in its shockability; but muscled further with ABC functions, wave-ceptor, and solar panels embedded in its dial, and the Rangeman stood out as a pretty special quartz watch.
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Is there a special G-Shock model using carbon fiber as case material?
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Is there a special G-Shock model using carbon fiber as case material?
There are some Rangeman versions with carbon fibre straps. Case construction are still resin.
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BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oKjHaVAnIE4/VyrI3nUkDtI/AAAAAAAA-A8/6cfe4fLp70smtbVl0Bc1fCigv7pkeSOjQCLcB/s1600/IMG_6373.JPG)
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Hi Meor, I see your colourful Ball and raise you another Ball :Cheers:
Ball Genesis 125th Annniversary with its thickest tritium tubes todate. The 1mm bricks literally shine like torches in the dark. The Genesis is placed in my watch winder, and I could easily check the time in the dark now. Best "lume" ever! :mooning:
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Hi Meor, I see your colourful Ball and raise you another Ball :Cheers:
Ball Genesis 125th Annniversary with its thickest tritium tubes todate. The 1mm bricks literally shine like torches in the dark. The Genesis is placed in my watch winder, and I could easily check the time in the dark now. Best "lume" ever! :mooning:
Have seen this model in action - blinding bright :thumbsup:
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Granted that all good diver watches must have a unidirectional bezel. Granted that all good diver watches should have a luminous pip/pearl/marker at the 12 o'clock central. But for Tudor Pelagos, you could reset of the bezel pip back to 12 o'clock in complete darkness or with your eyes closed, as there would be a slight pressure resistance when the bezel goes a full circle. I tried that on Rollies, Seikos, etc and have yet to find the same feature on their diver watches.
It was also a tell-tale sign for people in the know to separate the genuine Pelagos from the replicas, as the replicas were replicated closely to the genuine yet were unable to have this feature. I've seen a replica being sold on Mdh (marketed as genuine), where the seller was letting go below the normal market price as he informed that his "genuine" watch was missing the box and papers and from checking, it really did look pretty close to the actual item (which I owned), but the bezel turn was simply like a normal diver watch. When I explained to the seller, only then did he revealed that he bought it very cheap but thought it was real, as he had previously compared it to an actual item in an AD. So beware of unscrupulous sellers selling replicas on Mdh sometimes...
Thanks for the info bro. Never aware this feature on my Tudor Pelagos. :Cheers:
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BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oKjHaVAnIE4/VyrI3nUkDtI/AAAAAAAA-A8/6cfe4fLp70smtbVl0Bc1fCigv7pkeSOjQCLcB/s1600/IMG_6373.JPG)
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Nice lume. Like a starry night sky. :thumbsup:
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Thanks for the info bro. Never aware this feature on my Tudor Pelagos. :Cheers:
You're welcome, bro. It was a little known fact and I always almost wow other WIS during meet-ups with the bezel trick :thumbsup:
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Have seen this model in action - blinding bright :thumbsup:
Hi Meor, yes, it's blindingly bright. Liked your starry and colourful Ball too. Thank goodness you only have 1 such series, otherwise my statement would come out all wrong.
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Have seen this model in action - blinding bright :thumbsup:
Hi Meor, yes, it's blindingly bright. Liked your starry and colourful Ball too. Thank goodness you only have 1 such series, otherwise my statement would come out all wrong.
:Laughing_on_floor:
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And that was why I have always flipped my Ball watches such that I only have 1 piece at any given time. You would not catch me hanging on my Balls at the same time, all pun intended :Jumping: :Jumping:
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Absolutely stunning!
BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oKjHaVAnIE4/VyrI3nUkDtI/AAAAAAAA-A8/6cfe4fLp70smtbVl0Bc1fCigv7pkeSOjQCLcB/s1600/IMG_6373.JPG)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gTUPIkbmBbo/Vuu2AAuLaOI/AAAAAAAA9eM/nSXEXXqyJMU_xSzSptxe704tYVx3lb1iw/s1600/Ball-engineer-hydrocarbon-aero-gmt-watch-lume-shot-2.jpg)
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A special red and maroon color dial Rolex Cellini. Seldom see a red color dial watch nowadays.
Its dial dark maroon color is fading from outer to the center of the watch dial.
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The first orange lume watch for Seiko.
SRP741 4R36-04V0
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The first orange lume watch for Seiko.
Pretty interesting. Does it last long, Cocas?
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The first orange lume watch for Seiko.
Pretty interesting. Does it last long, Cocas?
Hi @D'Andy Bro. It's normal Seiko 5 Sports lume , not as lasting as MM300,Sumo,& Monster. But I still can see the faded lume after 8 hrs in pitch dark.
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Thats quite nice actually haha
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Laco 1925 Squad Atacama “Ninja” Reference 861632 - note the alignment of the numbers on the bezel - instead of clockwise, it is counter-clockwise - a countdown timer
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Swatch Sistem 51. Totally sealed off casing automatic watch, you cannot adjust it's accuracy, you cannot service/repair it.
Good piece or bad piece?!? You buy it at your own luck. :Laughing_on_floor:
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Seiko Marine Master 300m casing is monobloc.
I just discovered another special feature from MM 300 .
Its bezel clicking sounds for 0.5 second and full second are distinctively different. It's a short and low tone sound "di" for half second click, and a louder sound "da" for full second click.
I couldn't find this feature in Seiko 5, sports, monsters, and sumo bezel.
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Travellers whom had utilised Swiss railways would have seen Mondaine clocks peppered all over its railway stations, and the second hand typically complete the 60 second round in 58 seconds, with the additional 2 seconds used for syncing all the clocks to exact time vide an electronic pulse. Therefore, the second hand would looked as though it had stopped for 2 seconds before the minute hand moved. And due to the quicken second hand revolution, it looked as though it was an automatic movement rather than the typical tick-tock-tick-tock quartz movement. For the Stop2Go watches, Mondaine created a one-of-a-kind caliber in order to emulate the Stop2Go clocks that it was famed for. You won't find any other watches with such an interesting function elsewhere.
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Travellers whom had utilised Swiss railways would have seen Mondaine clocks peppered all over its railway stations, and the second hand typically complete the 60 second round in 58 seconds, with the additional 2 seconds used for syncing all the clocks to exact time vide an electronic pulse. Therefore, the second hand would looked as though it had stopped for 2 seconds before the minute hand moved. And due to the quicken second hand revolution, it looked as though it was an automatic movement rather than the typical tick-tock-tick-tock quartz movement. For the Stop2Go watches, Mondaine created a one-of-a-kind caliber in order to emulate the Stop2Go clocks that it was famed for. You won't find any other watches with such an interesting function elsewhere.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sgdGaOisEcE/V9VapBq-ZkI/AAAAAAAAIh0/1B1Dr9LFI50CP3-Qgrwfm__Ge3RYuQAzQCEw/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-09-11%2Bat%2B6.41.52%2BPM.png)
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Very nice! The stopping of 2 seconds before reaching full minute is unique with practical function. :thumbsup:
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Actual working watch used as cufflink
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Seiko de zucca
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This is Seiko kinetic watch but it is not a normal kinetic watch.
It's Direct Drive!
Other than the rotor turning inside the watch, by turning crown clockwise, the kinetic battery can get charged too.
What best is while you are turning the crown, the power reserve indicator (the little red pointer is moving upwards).
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Note the circular buttons on the center of the links. By just pressing any of the buttons, the link associated with the button pressed will disengage. a very unique way of resizing the bracelet. This is the reason why IWC bracelets are so expensive as each link comes with a unique locking mechanism
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Seiko de zucca
wow,i can relate to this watch :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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A chronograph that never stop
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The Omega Constellation "griffes" or claws were originally designed to keep the crystal aligned and fix into the case. But now became a famous iconic decorative design for Omega Constellation "Manhattan these days.
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One more special about Omega Constellation is that its designer and inventor-Carol, she is so young and so beautiful. :laugh:
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Aero watch world timers with multiple display of different time zones at once
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This EPOS has the infamous "frog leg" lugs!
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This EPOS has the infamous "frog leg" lugs!
:Laughing_on_floor: Patek Philippe calls them wing lugs
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This Vulcain alarm watch, also known as Golden Voice, has the logo served as Alarm pointer as well. The whole inner dial can turn to allow the Vulcain logo "V" tip pointing to the right alarm set-off time.
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This is Rolex 15505, it's gold coated casing.
At first I thought it is another fake Rolex when first looking at it without much drilling down the history.
Rolex does not have this kind of casing now.
The gold coated layer trimmed can be easily seen at the case back.
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The automatic watch with subsecond. Second hand movement look so smooth like a sweeping hand! :thumbsup:
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My 70's Squale "Rambo" Compass watch. It's quartz movement with a real millitary style (it can be placed on top of the map with transparent case) magnetic compass.
Not only the watch is Swiss Made, the compass is Swiss Made too.
Almost forgot to mention, the compass is lume too.
(Someone crazily tested the watch and compass for 10bar water test. It passed! https://www.fh24.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=121 ).
Still clueless why it got the name as "Rambo".
Here are pictures
Enjoy.
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More compass watch photos.
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Our first designed in Malaysia watch that is a hit at few watch forums internationally.
It's an automatic GMT watch but with thickness less than 10mm.
It got a sapphire dial and the beautiful reflection is almost at par with Rolex Cellini dial.
(http://www.malaysiawatchforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17357.0;attach=10531;image)
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Crown on the left aka destro.
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Inside Ming is no ordinary air. It's Nitrogen. This is to eliminate the oxigen and water vapor particles to ensure no oxidisation inside the watch.
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Porcelain dial watch. Seiko Arita!
(https://www.malaysiawatchforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17239.0;attach=13807;image)