Off Topic - Wrist Watches (pics)

**DavidS** · 10-11-2014, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by DavidS

Same here. I had (still have) a Seiko in the 70's but the Navy wouldn't let us wear radium dials on the sub. Never put one back on.

Found it!

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**jocko** · 10-11-2014, 05:31 PM

my sub has never stopped running, nor my daytona, or gmt. send ur rolex to NY direct to Rolex to get serviced and u will getit done right. These local Rolex or any watch boutique are just not equipmened like the service centers are. I have had a GMT Rolex for 30 years, been to factory twice for service, no complaints from ol jocko. Irecently bought from a widow a 1947 Rolex that has not run in 40 years, so she said. Sentit back to Rolex and it came back complelty service (inside) along with a nice video of the movement before and after, pretty cool. I am a watch snob CJB .Rolex though is really at the bottom of my watch peaces though, but overall it demands respect as most people wold take a Rolex over a Patek watch ay day whih is insane if u actually know timepeaces... Just sayin

**CJB** · 10-11-2014, 06:29 PM

More watch porn - the Seiko Sumo.

Jocko, its been to Rolex in NY I think... four times. Once, during a handgun safety class, I noticed it was actually running backwards! Brought it to the local Rolex jeweler (high end hotiy toity place) and the old German (or Swiss) watchmaker jus said "ziss isz eempozzible!" So I dug into my jeans pocket and pulled out the Sub, and showed it to him, to which he just repeated "mein gott mein gott" over and over for a while. Rolex (NY) said the escapement thingy had been fubar'd. Funny, they was the last folks in there, and the folks before that, and that. That one cost me well over $1000 to service in the mid-1990's. Jocko - I got it as a gift, and that gift has cost me probably $3500 in service so far.

This time out... next time out... needs a complete overhaul, plus a new stem tube in the case, and a new crystal, as the one on it is really bad lookin. The bracelet is missin' parts, and I was last wearin it with a zip tie to keep it together. Did I say I'm rather rough on watches?

On the other hand... woot! I've got a nice Seiko Sumo thats about +3sec/day, and a lowly Seiko SKX thats -6s/day, no matter what I do with it or how its positioned at nite.

However, you'll be on the top of the list to contact BEFORE I send it out....just to keep me on the right track with it.

**yqtszhj** · 10-11-2014, 06:45 PM

The Seiko are nice. Wife bought me this one in 1988. We didn't have much money but she saved her pennies for it. It still runs amazingly. It runs for about 5 years on the same battery if you get a fresh one and over a year it will keep time within 1 second.

**CJB** · 10-11-2014, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by DavidS

Found it!

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This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch. This watch. (holds it up, long pause) This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

**GLOCKROCKER** · 10-11-2014, 08:07 PM

Awesome! One of my favorite movies. If I had been little Butch I would have probably said, "Thats OK man, you can keep it!"

**Bawanna** · 10-11-2014, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by b4uqzme

I wore it for years and it ran fine. It's one of those shaky watches that winds itself when you wear it. When I quit wearing it though, it ran down. Now I'd have to shake it for about a month to get it running again.

You make me chuckle. I went to a hob-nobby party once in a jacket that I bought at a thrift store for 75 cents. Just for the satisfaction of it. Kinda sick ain't I?

Oh man! I've done that. Did you take it back and donate it the next day. My son did the same thing for a school dance. The leaf don't fall far from the acorn, tree fall from......he is his fathers son, whoever he may be.