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Have we already got a hand size chart? if not if people post what they know i will maintain one and up date 1 document , Movement Hour Min Second Sub dial remarks Eta 28xx 150 90 25 NA Asian 28xx copies should be the same Swiss 7750 200 120 26 20 A7750 @28800 has different sub dial size Swiss 6497/8 200 115 28 NA Same as seagull ST 3600/20 DG 2183 152 100 17 NA Should be the same for most of the DG series movement_hand_size.doc

It all depends on the asian used if it is an asian 2836/24 copy then the swap will be straight forward like for sale by Pure time here but if you chose the 2813 very cheep option then the swap will cost you more than you saved as you will need to get new hands and reposition the dial feet, even if you get a problematic asain 2836 a service will solve almost any problem. I am sure this is apparent to the older members, like toadtorrent bur the newer ones may be getting confused with the new asian 2836 ect.

Amasing, the 27 jewels decal, just astounding, i take my hat off to you sir

Welcome to RWG, spend your time reading before you spend your cash, Both will be well spent, You will find you are a bit in the minority here being a lady, I hope you enjoy your stay.

Well that is half a franken you have there any way, welcome to RWG, i take it you know what you are doing with all those bits so you will enjoy this place!

I posted my Blackbird to him for a relume the other week when i was out of country, i will keep you all informed

100% gen

This looks very good, i realy need to find some spare cash

Welcome, My advise is spend some time reading before you spend your cash!

I dont see a difference between this and the old one, and i was playing with mine today, oh mine does not have any rotor engraving, but appart from that, if they had reworked that movement it would put a wonderfull watch on a lot of wrists! They would have to prove that it was better though! Luciky mine still works great thank dog

Not sure what you are trying to say there Philip, I found this on the bay after i hade been looking for one for some time to save paying for the service of using some one elses, i have oftern recomended sellers here but have never had any thing to do with them save them providing me with a decent product at a decent price. if you notice there were more cons than pros!

That is quite nice!!!!

good test, i usualy use a 3m board and a 5 m pool and see how long i can sit on the bottom, if it survives that speed hitting the water then it will be fine for any thing i do

I good test, i have tested a SFSO in a steam room with out problems but it was not that cold to start with, a good follow up would be a drop of cold water on the crystal after taking it out of the heat, this would show condensation under the drop of water if any moisture had got inside. I would keep a case back opener and a tupperwear box full of silica jell sachets close at hand just in case.

BTW if people are going to bid on these on the bay it would be good to let people here know to save 2 members bidding againt each other and putting the price up unnesesarily

Wax eh i would have never though it, i would have thought white paint and then wipe off the exess but wax looks so much easyer.

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A while ago there was a lot of talk about cheep methods of timing your watches, and softwear and computer addons to make a sort of vibrograph (a thing that listens to and counts the tick tocks and them compares them to a standard and tells you lots of things) Well i saw from this German firm www.prelis.de this on the bay, it is quite a small little thing with quite a couple of wires to attach but seams to be quite usefull, I looked a a couple of other like this and this but the price i got this one for i could get 2 compared to the prices of the other ones, I think the others have a bit more funtioality and you can view them on screen but they are 70% more expencive even when you dont get them cheep on ebay. I paid the extra so that i got the atonic clock sync reciever and the USB interface to print out reports on my PC, what you get is some thing like this MEASURE REPORT ______________________________________ Rate [mm:ss.ff] -00:02.11 / 24h Drop: [ms] 001.83 ms Beats meas.: [/h]21599 / h Beats norm.: [/h]21600 / h Beats detect: Automatic Rate time: 0166.67 ms Date: 16-12-2008 18:10:06 Measure time: 002 min Device: CHR-7 Software version:29.10.08 f Oscillator: 16000685 Hz Device calibrated______________________________________ www.CHRONOSKOP.de You can tell a beat error and if it is running fast or slow with a visual display and it will average out the error the longer you kep the mesurement going for. I will say i have been playing with this all afternoon and it takes a bit of geting used to the sensitivity need to be played with a bit to get a happy medium and i have found far better results with the case back removed, i have mesured all most all of my watches today and as i know they all ran a bit fast as i like them that way i am happy to report that this device told me the same. I am doing a longer test on my railmast that i just messed up for the sake of experiment and i am going to try to get it back with in COSC timing, I will let you know how i get on. Pros and Cons Pros:- Cheep Small Can be battery powered for travel (not sure why i dont plan on regulating watches on my car, but i can if i want to) Easy to read and lots of info Cons:- very susseptable to local noice, cough and it will tell you. Not able to rotate the mic for different positions (i think technic lego may solve this though! Untidy with wires on the desk, (will post some photos later) If you dont have a slight grasp of german it may take you a couple of mins to work out what it is trying to tell you (even swithched to the english menu it has some german wording) PC interface gives me a black screan that i have to hilight the wording to read it (may be my settings though) It may tell you to too much if you dont know what you are doing or understand what your watch is doing Not exactly a finely finished product but functional. So it looks like it is working well, i will let you know more later when i have ran a longer un synced teast and them runn it again after a 12 hour sync with the atomic clock (I gave it the min sync of 1000 second but they recomend 12 hours) BTW i am no way connected with this firm! for all you rich kids you can get the top flight here for about 2k

Nice one

that makes sence i suppose with the movement holder, may also lend weight to the idea of the case being more 1:1 and able to take the gen movement, you would neem a spacer made up for whatever movement you used, does any one know if the stem hole on the 2678 sits closer to the dial than on a 2836 or 2824?

I think any competant watch smith could service this and solve the problem, at the worst case you could replace the st 26 with one from cousins

That is some collection you have there V, I love the 233 strap!

I have a vintage sandoz with out a quick set date, if i wanted to wear it i used to wait untill the right date came round !!!!

Send it back, definatley a problem i have not seen before, the ST 26 is normaly pretty good, if the rotor is turning fast the may not be winding the movement at all

Thought so, just looked sooo good, but could not be sure, i thought you had the 112 and your own radiomir, i was looking at the 118 thinking that is bloody good, i cant find a single fault, well now i know why.