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Got this off WUS sale thread. I’m glad i got a second chance in owning it!
Lovely, what is it?
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Animal Mother wrote:
quincas wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:42 am Image
Got this off WUS sale thread. I’m glad i got a second chance in owning it!
Lovely, what is it?
It has bothered me that this has gone in answered for so long. It took me too much thinking to sort this one out. This is the Archetype One from the Silver Watch Company. https://www.silverwatchco.com/store/p3 ... Maxi_.html
Once I had the guess of the name silver, I tried silver watch in google and you know what? There are Watch cases made of the stuff. Good job in naming the company after something that won’t put you in search results guys. Silver watch company (a good guess), got me to where I needed to go.

I had previously tried searching based on the logo, but arrows as part of the logo for watches are pretty common as well (a British military thing I think). Anyway, there you go.
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IT'S HEREEEE!!!!!

No duty or tax either. So I definitely will never find a better deal than this for $849! It even has the original box and instructions which was never listed on the product page. Turns out when I bought it this watch was on sale for $1100 from $1450, but then the seller only charged me $1000, then I get 16% Cashback from the $1100 price LOL. Sure it's got a bunch of microscratches in areas, but it looks great overall. Now I have to wait until Christmas to open this :x

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That is a beauty [mention]AndroidIsAwesome[/mention]!

Congrats on a great deal.
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I love the Old Logos Grand Seikos. Awesome pick up!

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Sporkboy wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:26 am
Animal Mother wrote:
quincas wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:42 am Image
Got this off WUS sale thread. I’m glad i got a second chance in owning it!
Lovely, what is it?
It has bothered me that this has gone in answered for so long. It took me too much thinking to sort this one out. This is the Archetype One from the Silver Watch Company. https://www.silverwatchco.com/store/p3 ... Maxi_.html
Once I had the guess of the name silver, I tried silver watch in google and you know what? There are Watch cases made of the stuff. Good job in naming the company after something that won’t put you in search results guys. Silver watch company (a good guess), got me to where I needed to go.

I had previously tried searching based on the logo, but arrows as part of the logo for watches are pretty common as well (a British military thing I think). Anyway, there you go.
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Thank you pal. That was nice of you. It's a pretty thing, but with two divers arriving at some point this month I couldn't get another! :lol:
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AndroidIsAwesome wrote:IT'S HEREEEE!!!!!

No duty or tax either. So I definitely will never find a better deal than this for $849! It even has the original box and instructions which was never listed on the product page. Turns out when I bought it this watch was on sale for $1100 from $1450, but then the seller only charged me $1000, then I get 16% Cashback from the $1100 price LOL. Sure it's got a bunch of microscratches in areas, but it looks great overall. Now I have to wait until Christmas to open this :x

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Damn bro!!! What a score that was! That is an unbelievable deal on an amazing looking watch. Well done man, and at least Christmas isn't TOO far off.

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Dub Rubb wrote:
AndroidIsAwesome wrote:IT'S HEREEEE!!!!!

No duty or tax either. So I definitely will never find a better deal than this for $849! It even has the original box and instructions which was never listed on the product page. Turns out when I bought it this watch was on sale for $1100 from $1450, but then the seller only charged me $1000, then I get 16% Cashback from the $1100 price LOL. Sure it's got a bunch of microscratches in areas, but it looks great overall. Now I have to wait until Christmas to open this :x
Damn bro!!! What a score that was! That is an unbelievable deal on an amazing looking watch. Well done man, and at least Christmas isn't TOO far off.

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Haha thanks. One day I will own a spring drive model though. The snowflake is one of my Grails alongside an Omega seamaster
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yinzburgher wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:34 am Some of these are already shipped and delivered but I've been moving around and haven't caught up with them yet. I will soon. As I mentioned in the deals thread, I have a Seiko Presage SRPD37 "mockingbird" on the way from Macy's. After seeing a very nice pic from mplsabdullah, I realized I would really enjoy this on a more casual strap than the one provided. The just the right deal came around again. His pic below.

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I also scored a "refurbished" Timex Ironman Rugged T5K793 from ebay for $15. Another cheap digital to add to the rotation. I'm interested to see how I like the negative display on a Timex, which seem to be more legible than G-Shocks. Somehow I doubt it will be as legible as the pic below.

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Seiko SRP313 Dracula Monster also incoming. I had always thought about buying either this of a gen 2 orange monster. Not sure it was the best decision to pay up for this one but I think I got an OK deal bc someone replaced the crystal with sapphire w/ a purple AR coating, which has a scratch. I can always replace that with different sapphire or go back to Hardlex if I want. Still, I paid twice what these things cost a number of years back. :roll:

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And lastly, someone over on WUS was nice enough to give a heads up that Halios had some unclaimed bronze Seaforths. So I immediately sent an email and the owner got back to me right away. Although I think it will be about a week until this ships. I went for the fume grey dial rather than blue or green bc in addition to the great pics I've seen of the brand new ones, I think this dial variant will also look best after the case has oxidized and developed some patina. I hope so anyway.

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Now to think of four that I'm willing to sell. 😔
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I'm guessing I still have to wait a few more days until my bronze Seaforth ships from Halios. But the other three orders have arrived. The green "**** Time" dial is a freakin' stunner and as expected I don't really want anything to do with the strap. Gotta find something more casual and comfortable to pair with it. The Dracula Monster and I are already making plans to spend the rest of our lives together. :D I was still a little unsure about my decision until I tried this on......but I think I done good. And lastly my Timex Ironman Rugged looks a whole lot like an Easy Reader. :? I was really excited to snag an Ironman for $15 so I'm pretty disappointed the wrong watch showed up. I'll send a message tonight and see how the seller responds but I'm not entirely optimistic that I'll ever see the correct watch. 🤞And on a different topic, after 8 weeks staying in a hotel it was nice to get a one week break and even get back to my place for a little. But now its back to hotel life for another 6 weeks. :| It's not terrible it's just......on my mind I guess....
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Animal Mother wrote:
Sporkboy wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:26 am
Animal Mother wrote:
Lovely, what is it?
It has bothered me that this has gone in answered for so long. It took me too much thinking to sort this one out. This is the Archetype One from the Silver Watch Company. https://www.silverwatchco.com/store/p3 ... Maxi_.html
Once I had the guess of the name silver, I tried silver watch in google and you know what? There are Watch cases made of the stuff. Good job in naming the company after something that won’t put you in search results guys. Silver watch company (a good guess), got me to where I needed to go.

I had previously tried searching based on the logo, but arrows as part of the logo for watches are pretty common as well (a British military thing I think). Anyway, there you go.
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Thank you pal. That was nice of you. It's a pretty thing, but with two divers arriving at some point this month I couldn't get another! :lol:
To be honest, I sorted out this mystery for my own pleasure of solving it. However, you are very welcome.
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Sporkboy wrote: To be honest, I sorted out this mystery for my own pleasure of solving it. However, you are very welcome.
Thanks for answering for me sporkboy!

Its a very nice watch to wear. Slim and light. Surprising wearable for 7.25” wrist.

Its sort of related to Manchester Watch Works. They cancelled their most recent model - with lollipop hands - due to price increment of the Miyota 9 series.

What i wore today; similar but larger at 42mm (vs 39.5mm)

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The $3.33 Raketa Big Zero is in! Purchased in a 6 watch/$20 eBay grab bag. Three of the watches are running... this isn’t one of them[emoji53] The dial/movement is loose, probably a missing retaining ring. The movement seems to be wound tight, but it does set time.

The case has a lot of little dings, but the brass isn’t showing through anywhere. The crystal appears to be original. There are no deep scratches, so polywatch should revive it nicely.

It is going to take a little effort to get this one going again. Overall it is a old watch and I look forward to restoring this to working condition and putting this beauty back into service.
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OK, the movement wasn’t budging. I am not to the point where I am servicing movements yet, so it gets bagged for another time. I am no expert, but I think the hairspring is toast.
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I had another movement that was in the same family, only with a day/date complication. I removed that and when I removed the seconds hand, the hand came, but the barrel held tight to the pinion.

Luckily the watch had a huge crystal that could handle the extra pinion length. That means that the hands are away from the dial and there is no seconds hand at the moment. Just realized I had a spare handset for this movement ::facepalm::

There was a screw that held the movement to the case that was loose, so that was an easy fix to get the movement to stop moving around. I will need to order a couple of spare movements and wait for them to arrive before I can call this done, but I am enjoying it for now.
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Both finally arrived today. I'm digging them.

Except for the pins/collar from the bracelet. I truly hate it. Decided to give up trying to adjust it myself and just put a strap on it for now. :?

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whoagorgeous wrote:Both finally arrived today. I'm digging them.

Except for the pins/collar from the bracelet. I truly hate it. Decided to give up trying to adjust it myself and just put a strap on it for now. :?

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I've only just seen the C65 Trident GMT and I'm determined to get that next. Love the look. Yours looks great too.

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