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Subject: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 05:08 PM

For all you watch friends, today it is an Elgin bw Raymond 1944 lever set 21 jeweled rr grade
And you?

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 06:38 PM

beautiful - at least a collection of pocket watches will not take over your whole house like a collection of grandfather clocks would!

sandra

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From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:02 PM

Mine's a Superdry watch in lurid green with a rubber strap bearing a big logo. I love it. My daughter bought it me for Christmas. The watch and I are inseparable. Sorry...

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:26 PM

PM me your address and I will give you a real watch us Liverpool fans have to stick together

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:29 PM

Sandra that BW raymond is what I am carrying. Mine is gold however

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:43 PM

You can buy a rather beautiful Liverpool FC 125 Year Anniversary Chronographic Watch on the LFC website, Dan. Only one hundred and seventy five quid. Sheesh...

I can't wear watches with metal straps, Dan, and a metal buckle mustn't touch my skin. Even some fabric straps are metallised I've discovered to my cost. Call me Mr Softy...

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 07:54 PM

I am think pocket watch bro can you carry one of those

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 08:14 PM

I walk round half-naked most of the year and never wear real jackets, so I'm bereft of suitable pocketry I fear.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 08:17 PM

Ok bro ... :)

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 08:45 PM

I'm a very plain man, Dan. I never wear socks, a real jacket or a tie. All my shirts are floral, some loudly so, and are all short-sleeved. In winter I wear a gilet on top and when it gets cold I just whack my waterproof on. I never wear any jewellery and have no piercings. I never, ever wear anything scented and won't use scented soap. I have no trousers with a crease and wear shorts for 12 months of the year indoors and nine months of the year outdoors. I can't bear shoes and I always wear sandals outdoors and bare feet indoors. But I eat meat. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 10:08 PM

Lol sound like me exactly

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 10:12 PM

Some boring watch facts
A high end Rolex watch is considered acceptable if it loses 2-4 seconds per day

A modern quartz watch will lose approx 1.3 sec per week

A sixy year old Hamilton 992b pocket watch tuned by a master watchmaker will lose 1.4 sec in a month or two ... My 1953 Hamiltion 992b has been running two months and never reset as it is more accurate than any quartz I own

How they use to make things in this country ... not anymore for sure

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 10:14 PM

probably not just the US but most European countries also ... made things by skilled workers who took great pride in their abilities and their engineering ... now everything is china made

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 10:22 PM

The micro regulator on the Hamilton 992b can adjust time to a small fraction of a second. Just use a tiny screwdriver and tune it in and then see what happens. It will run months and lose a sec or two at most. They are adjusted for six full positions. If I had to go to war
One of these old watches would be with me. Collectors consider them the finest of all pocket watches and the last to be made sadly

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Raggytash
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 11:23 PM

Haven't worn one for nearly 40 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Feb 18 - 03:12 AM

I was going to wear the one you sent me this morning, Dan! But in the end went for my Timex Expedition.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 20 Feb 18 - 10:26 PM

Today it is my 1972 Omega Seamaster in a steel case 24 Jeweled

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 07:04 AM

Late coming to this one, Dan. My Elgin and Hamilton occupy pride of place in my house. Many thanks again and take the best care.
Best as always from Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 08:18 AM

Bunn Special for me today - yeah!

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 21 Feb 18 - 08:18 PM

Bunn is awesome   I am carrying today a Longines size 16 1901 Railroad grade 17 Jewel ... beautiful clean movement perfect dial original case

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From: gillymor
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 08:06 AM

Here's what I'm strapping on today, just don't ask me the time between about 6:30 P.M. to 6:30 A.M. EST.
Just kidding, Dan, I've got on a scratched-up, paint-splattered Timex Expedition, my work watch.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 11:14 AM

That's interesting about the accuracy of your old watch, olddude.

My husband's pride and joy are two old "Viennese regulators" which keep amazingly accurate time. He winds them every Saturday and announces that they are perfectly on time.

Unf'ly if I don't have my glasses on, I can't read them. The hands are too fancy and they blur.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 12:59 PM

The micro regulator on the Hamilton 992b can adjust time to a small fraction of a second.

Absolutely, Dan - I've tweaked the addjustment on the one I bought from you a tiny bit & it keeps pace with the quartz jobs.

I did have a bit of 'fun' making a screwdriver small enough out of a medium-sized sewing needle, tho......

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 01:07 PM

My two windups are my father's mid-50's Longines which I just got back from being cleaned and rated and my grandfather's 1964 Elgin. Both are classic wristwatches. People constantly ask where I got them.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 22 Feb 18 - 05:16 PM

It is amazing how accurate these old things are.today it’s a 992b,one of twelve I own I got carried away ??

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Feb 18 - 10:33 AM

The News Scientist I am reading reckons if you put an atomic clock that is good for 1 second in 32 billion years, at the top of Mondane (a mountain in France) it runs 84 nanosecond slower** per year. Presumably compared to seas level (whatever that is).

So you live longer at the top of mountains, or because there is so little to do it seems longer still.

**Einstein & his relatives predicted it. Something to do with Earth's radii & spin.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 12:15 AM

Today it is a Hamilton 18 size 940 RR 21 Jeweled

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From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 02:49 AM

mine is red

cost about 1.3 cups of coffee, was repaired by Timpsons in Sidmouth, and I have had to stitch the rubber strap. And it keeps excelent time. They don't sell the model in shops any more - would you ditch such a gem?

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 06:18 PM

1960,s Mickey mouse

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 07:19 PM

I've just bought an outdoor/indoor thermometer from Lidl that sets itself automatically to an atomic clock in Frankfurt that is accurate to one second in a million years. It has two alarms, it does max/min, degrees F or degrees C at your whim, and it came with alkaline batteries for both the indoor base unit and the outdoor sensor.


It cost £6.99.

,

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: EBarnacle
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 11:51 PM

Ah, but how will it look on your wrist or in your hand when you pull it from your pocket?

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Feb 18 - 06:36 AM

A thermometer would look HOT.



I'll get my overcoat................

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 26 Feb 18 - 01:01 PM

If ya buy 21 or 30 of them you could trade for a 992b hamilton :)

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 27 Feb 18 - 04:32 PM

Longines 1936 pocket watch size 12

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From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Feb 18 - 07:43 PM

Ladies' wrist watch, with gold and silver (plated?!) link strap, Lorus, battery watch. Bought in Jersey for £20 25 years ago. Still going strong with a new battery every couple of years or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 05:29 PM

1935 Hamilton wrist watch today

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 11:47 PM

Not wearing it, but in my possession is a very pretty ladies' fob watch, gold (probably plated) with a feathery scrolled design on the face, and no brand name. The gold case is beautifully chased......I believe it dates from 1890-1910 or so. It was my paternal grandmother's, and is a very pretty thing.

Also in my possession is a photograph taken in 1890 of my maternal grandmother Edith aged about three when she and her family migrated from New Zealand to Oz. Edith is sitting on her father's knee and standing just behind him is his wife, a formidable woman if ever I saw one (never met her, she died many years before I was ever thought of), corseted to within an inch of her life, and draped across her stately bosom is a chain attached to a fob watch.

So I have a watch from one side of my family, and a photograph showing how it would have been worn by a woman, from the other side of the family.

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: olddude
Date: 05 Mar 18 - 11:29 AM

Wonderful Jennie that makes me smile
today I am carrying a civil war waltham that was carried by a soldier. Made in 1860 and still keeping time

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Mar 18 - 11:55 AM

I am thinking on my o-o-o-ld CASIO tonight...
As the mountains rise up underneath the dew
On the old Lost Lake trail it lies
From my bed tonight beside old Willow Slue

I am thinking how the wild hares start at its song
Every Oh-Six Hundred I had set it true
When I lost it unawares on my Summer midnight trek
And it disappeared from my life without a clue

I am thinking on my o-o-o-ld CASIO tonight...
It lives on in my memory in brightest hue
And yon morn when I awake at Oh-Six Hundred yet again
Thanks to my CASIO so ne-e-e-e-w-w-w

Subject: RE: BS: Todays timepiece
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Mar 18 - 11:48 PM

If your watch could only talk, Dan, what a tale it could tell! Do you know which side it came from?