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Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« on: August 28, 2016, 10:07:03 AM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2016, 10:16:43 AM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2016, 10:27:30 AM »
This is Ball Mad Cow TMT. A special titanium watch with a mechanical thermometer.


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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2016, 10:59:17 AM »


SEIKO Prospex with magnifying glass


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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2016, 11:20:07 AM »
Seiko Marine Master 300m casing is monobloc.

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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2016, 01:47:25 PM »


The touch active screen of a Tissot t-touch


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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2016, 02:19:03 PM »
The Citizen electronic minute repeater watch.

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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2016, 06:13:47 AM »


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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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2016, 08:14:45 AM »
Its the SBDY001 - Seiko don't make them anymore unfortunately. However, there are some NOS example available on the web
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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2016, 08:51:22 AM »


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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2016, 09:09:26 AM »
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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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2016, 09:13:34 AM »
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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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2016, 10:39:42 AM »
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.



Is there a special G-Shock model using  carbon fiber as case material?

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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2016, 10:51:58 AM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2016, 11:12:47 AM »
BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.



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« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2016, 12:31:32 PM »
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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« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2016, 01:22:08 PM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2016, 01:30:53 PM »


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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2016, 01:46:40 PM »
BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.





Nice lume. Like a starry night sky. :thumbsup:

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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2016, 01:56:15 PM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2016, 01:58:14 PM »
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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« Reply #22 on: August 29, 2016, 02:06:38 PM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #23 on: August 29, 2016, 02:09:37 PM »
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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Re: Show your watch with speciality that is totally uncommon
« Reply #24 on: August 29, 2016, 02:16:21 PM »
Absolutely stunning!
BALL Engineer Hydrocarbon AeroGMT has a whopping 43 tritium tubes.