10 Watches You Will Want To Own!

[Throttle2]

Handsome looking Seikos there

[kobayashiGT]

What i am wearing today. (:

 

orient mako em65001bw

 

[Throttle2]

When I started to look into watches for collection, which just happen only recently, I also disdained the mechanical watch for their inaccuracy. The 1st two watches I bought were a Casio multi-band 6 radio receiver and Citizen eco drive, mainly for their technology. .

 

Just two weeks ago, I got an affordable Seiko mechanical watch, just to see what's the fuss about why collectors are into them. The watch was 6 seconds slow a day, and I couldn't accept it. After some internet research, I ended up opening the back cover and did my own regulation. Now it's two days since regulation, and my mechanical watch is only losing roughly 1.5 sec per 2 days (Grand Seiko or any COSC spec Swiss mechanical watches will find this hard to beat).

 

I'm happy now, and I think I found a new hobby to regulate affordable mechanical watches. Next investment will be a cheap china made timegrapher to help in my regulation for my future affordable mechanical watches.

Losing 1.5secs per 2 days base on what kind of timing equipment?

The marvel is to really keep that stability over long extended periods of time.

I have always said that Seikos are truly good fuss free basic movements, easy to service and repair.

At the peak, i owned more than 10 vintage seikos.

 

The true marvel is not just in its accuracy but also the robustness and intricacy and reliability of the movement and overall design.

[Ender]

Losing 1.5secs per 2 days base on what kind of timing equipment?

The marvel is to really keep that stability over long extended periods of time.

I have always said that Seikos are truly good fuss free basic movements, easy to service and repair.

At the peak, i owned more than 10 vintage seikos.

 

The true marvel is not just in its accuracy but also the robustness and intricacy and reliability of the movement and overall design.

 

I'm only into day 2 of the measurement. Will be tracking till one week,and then I'll see the cumulative errors.. Reference time is the atomic clock server at time.nist.gov . Every time I'm checking, I'll be syncing my PC to the time server. Since I'm eyeballing, the resolution will be poor, at 0.5 sec best.

 

If this is successful, I may get a couple of Seikos and Orient watch to 'regulate'.

[Throttle2]

 

I'm only into day 2 of the measurement. Will be tracking till one week,and then I'll see the cumulative errors.. Reference time is the atomic clock server at time.nist.gov . Every time I'm checking, I'll be syncing my PC to the time server. Since I'm eyeballing, the resolution will be poor, at 0.5 sec best.

 

If this is successful, I may get a couple of Seikos and Orient watch to 'regulate'.

You need to wear the watch over the course of the day as you would normally.

Movements and impact will "regulate" the watch too, heh he

[kobayashiGT]

 

I'm only into day 2 of the measurement. Will be tracking till one week,and then I'll see the cumulative errors.. Reference time is the atomic clock server at time.nist.gov . Every time I'm checking, I'll be syncing my PC to the time server. Since I'm eyeballing, the resolution will be poor, at 0.5 sec best.

 

If this is successful, I may get a couple of Seikos and Orient watch to 'regulate'.

 

I think the true beauty of a mechanical watch is like wine, some wine may turn bad. But good wine age well together with age. Watch lover like to hunt for those pieces that they can truly own for a long period of time and appreciate it time over time.

 

Just my 2cents worth of thoughts!

[Ender]

You need to wear the watch over the course of the day as you would normally.

Movements and impact will "regulate" the watch too, heh he

Hmm. That sound logical. The funny thing is I don't like to wear watch or any form of jewelry on my body. So that would be hard implement. I'm keeping it in a winder to keep the spring reasonably wound.

 

I think the true beauty of a mechanical watch is like wine, some wine may turn bad. But good wine age well together with age. Watch lover like to hunt for those pieces that they can truly own for a long period of time and appreciate it time over time.

 

Just my 2cents worth of thoughts!

I have much to learn from u guys on the appreciation of mechanical watches. Right now, all I can afford is just to play with seikos and orient.

[kobayashiGT]

Hmm. That sound logical. The funny thing is I don't like to wear watch or any form of jewelry on my body. So that would be hard implement. I'm keeping it in a winder to keep the spring reasonably wound.

I have much to learn from u guys on the appreciation of mechanical watches. Right now, all I can afford is just to play with seikos and orient.

 

@ender I same level as you. Seiko and orient level now. But we have to start somewhere to appreciate this piece of marvel. I am getting my first swiss watch maybe at June.

 

I am getting a Tudor Pelagos. (:

[1fast1]

When I started to look into watches for collection, which just happen only recently, I also disdained the mechanical watch for their inaccuracy. The 1st two watches I bought were a Casio multi-band 6 radio receiver and Citizen eco drive, mainly for their technology. .

 

Just two weeks ago, I got an affordable Seiko mechanical watch, just to see what's the fuss about why collectors are into them. The watch was 6 seconds slow a day, and I couldn't accept it. After some internet research, I ended up opening the back cover and did my own regulation. Now it's two days since regulation, and my mechanical watch is only losing roughly 1.5 sec per 2 days (Grand Seiko or any COSC spec Swiss mechanical watches will find this hard to beat).

 

I'm happy now, and I think I found a new hobby to regulate affordable mechanical watches. Next investment will be a cheap china made timegrapher to help in my regulation for my future affordable mechanical watches.

Just a word of advice: never attempt to regulate a new watch within the first 6 months of ownership or even the first year if you can wait that long. The simple fact of the matter is that every automatic watch has a "settling in" period where the lubricating oils have to flow to the right nooks and crannies and everything has to mesh in together. After that, you may find the watch spontaneously becomes more accurate. *Then* you can open it up to make your fine adjustments.

 

I learnt this the hard way, when I had my first Orient regulated by the official agent (Big Time) within a month or so of ownership. They actually sent it all the way back to Japan. Before the regulation, it was running at +12s/day. Immediately after the regulation, it seemed to be running at -1s/day, but that got worse and worse, and now it's something like -10s/day at least. If I'd left it alone, it would've been running much better now, but I was rushed into doing it within the year's warranty period.

 

Also, take heed of Throttle2's advice - mechanical watches are notoriously variable based on position relative to gravity, and somewhat variable depending on temperature and physical shocks that are a part and parcel of daily wrist-wear. The only exception to this are the hugely expensive temperature compensated gyrotourbillons like the ones from JLC or Richard Mille. So you can only achieve a proper assessment of a watch's true accuracy by putting it in different positions (crown up, crown down, face up, face down) and with adequate wrist time.

 

And a timegrapher is essential if you want to do self-regulation. I've been toying with getting one myself to complement my watch repair kit, but I've always been leery of destroying the waterproof seal and admitting dust into the interior of the watch. If you want to do it properly, you really should have a clean room environment and take great precautions with the seal. Ideally, the O-ring seal should be changed whenever you open a watch and you should get a full pressure test done (air pressure testers are also available for sale online).

Edited April 4, 2014 by Turboflat4

[Throttle2]

if you own seikos and most other less expensive auto watches, its good to get hold of caseback opener and loupe and some simple tools to do simple home repairs.

 

i can do simple oiling and regulation and within minutes. thats why i love Seiko vintage watches.

super hardy! i still have leftovers of fat divervspringbars and rubber case gaskets for Seiko 6105 and 6309s!

Edited April 4, 2014 by Throttle2

[Ender]

Just a word of advice: never attempt to regulate a new watch within the first 6 months of ownership or even the first year if you can wait that long. The simple fact of the matter is that every automatic watch has a "settling in" period where the lubricating oils have to flow to the right nooks and crannies and everything has to mesh in together. After that, you may find the watch spontaneously becomes more accurate. *Then* you can open it up to make your fine adjustments.

 

I learnt this the hard way, when I had my first Orient regulated by the official agent (Big Time) within a month or so of ownership. They actually sent it all the way back to Japan. Before the regulation, it was running at +12s/day. Immediately after the regulation, it seemed to be running at -1s/day, but that got worse and worse, and now it's something like -10s/day at least. If I'd left it alone, it would've been running much better now, but I was rushed into doing it within the year's warranty period.

 

Also, take heed of Throttle2's advice - mechanical watches are notoriously variable based on position relative to gravity, and somewhat variable depending on temperature and physical shocks that are a part and parcel of daily wrist-wear. The only exception to this are the hugely expensive temperature compensated gyrotourbillons like the ones from JLC or Richard Mille. So you can only achieve a proper assessment of a watch's true accuracy by putting it in different positions (crown up, crown down, face up, face down) and with adequate wrist time.

 

And a timegrapher is essential if you want to do self-regulation. I've been toying with getting one myself to complement my watch repair kit, but I've always been leery of destroying the waterproof seal and admitting dust into the interior of the watch. If you want to do it properly, you really should have a clean room environment and take great precautions with the seal. Ideally, the O-ring seal should be changed whenever you open a watch and you should get a full pressure test done (air pressure testers are also available for sale online).

Advice came too late . Within a few days of owning the seiko, I had it opened and regulated. But I'll take note of the advice till my next Orient arrival. I'll leave it for awhile before I begin to think of tinkering with it, i.e if it's way off like more than+-10 sec .

 

Great tips on the sealing, but something I'm not ready or is beyond my capability to comply But since my purchase will be limited to affordable seikos, I'll just make do with what most watch makers in singapore do. And I just regrease the O-ring with KY jelly.

 

Take a look at Ebay if thinking to get a timegrapher one of these days. A china make one is only around $200, and getting good review from watch forums,

http://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/Mechanical-Watch-Timing-Machine-Multifunction-Timegrapher-No-1000-/201062090007?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item2ed03c0517&_uhb=1

 

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f6/watch-timing-machine-multifunction-timegrapher-1000-ace-timer-403482.html

if you own seikos and most other less expensive auto watches, its good to get hold of caseback opener and loupe and some simple tools to do simple home repairs.

 

i can do simple oiling and regulation and within minutes. thats why i love Seiko vintage watches.

super hardy! i still have leftovers of fat divervspringbars and rubber case gaskets for Seiko 6105 and 6309s!

A good watch toolkit is handy. One of my best investment too. WIll get the loupe soon.

[Throttle2]

Seikos and basic auto movements and generally all ETA , you can self regulate.

 

Rolex, dont try.

[kobayashiGT]

Anyone here wanna start a Basic watch class for all the watch lover? hahha... I can be the organiser. (:

[Ender]

Seikos and basic auto movements and generally all ETA , you can self regulate.

 

Rolex, dont try.

Don't think I can afford a Rolex to try.. Just the seikos will do. May look into china made mechanicals for fun.

[Damienic]

For me (not in particular order):

 

1. Rolex GMT Master II 2013

2. Rolex Daytona 2013

3. AP Royal Oak Offshore "Volcano"

4. Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional

5. Omega Planet Ocean 600M

6. IWC Ingeniuer Chronograph Racer

7. IWC Portuguese 7 days reserve

8.A Lange & Sohne 1815 Chronograph

9.Jaeger Le Coultre Master Chronograph

10.Patek Philippe Aquanaut

 

 

[kobayashiGT]

For me (not in particular order):

 

1. Rolex GMT Master II 2013

2. Rolex Daytona 2013

3. AP Royal Oak Offshore "Volcano"

4. Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional

5. Omega Planet Ocean 600M

6. IWC Ingeniuer Chronograph Racer

7. IWC Portuguese 7 days reserve

8.A Lange & Sohne 1815 Chronograph

9.Jaeger Le Coultre Master Chronograph

10.Patek Philippe Aquanaut

 

 

 

The daytona you refering is this???

[Damienic]

 

The daytona you refering is this???

Yes! Wah, you already owned one? Envy....

[kobayashiGT]

Yes! Wah, you already owned one? Envy....

 

Hahha. I wish arh. Daytona too ex for me liao leh. I am aiming at a tudor now. I recently saw this tudor submariner snowflake at Chrono24. Super nice. Worn by french military.