marrickvilleboy

@ Jktown

hope your grandfather taught you not to use your fingers when doing any work on movements.

actually....the correct term is to "release the power".

How to release the power is a little difficult to explain. Lets see if i can explain it to you all.

There are 2 main "wheels/gears" that move when you manual wind the watch, one is called the crown wheel and the other is called the ratchet wheel. The wheel that has very obvious protruding teeth is the ratchet wheel - it is also the closest to the stem.

if you look carefully at the ratchet wheel, you will see there is a component that we watchmakers call "click", the purpose of it is to hold the ratchet wheel and not let it slip - so when you wind the watch up it doesn't just release by itself.

Now, if you wind your watch via the crown you will see the ratchet wheel moves anti-clockwise, you will also notice that the "click" will engage then disengage, then engage then disengage, so on, so on as you keep winding. The key to the release of the power is to disengage the click from the ratchet wheel using a small pin/tooth pick and let the power run down by itself.

Hope this helps.

very clever indeed!!!

but stems cost $4...

=S

is it worth the trouble?

your guide could be a quick fix though! very good

Classic!

we've pulled out some old school models for this new site, bazz. Very nice photos!

Well, hope you guys can forgive my poor photography, I think my skills are getting worse and worse by the day =S

But I did get a shot of the "007" patterns on the dial.

Genuine Omega 007 Limited Edition? I will reveal later.

Here's some pictures.

Hope you guys like it! Because I love it.

this isn't funny!!

this is great newS!

congrats

hmmm trusty has take that one off now.

Soem of the dealers had a couple of XXL railmasters on sale- but due to having asian movements the subsecond had to be moved up closer to the center.

Some of the rep XXL had the "6" in full - and some had no "6" at all.

Maybe this one has been re-dialled? very strange indeed.

If it was vintage it would no be a co-axial works though!, that type of escarpment has only been in production the last few years, that there fore rules out the vintage years.

woah...i missed that!

I saw a very similar old vintage Railmaster with subseconds just like that one - but without the co-axial wording as we all know that co-axial is new technology.

[censored]....intriguing indeed - actually - [censored] i think we are looking at a REPLICA DIAL - the rep OMEGA RAILMASTER XXL has the subseconds higher than the Genuine - have a look at trusty's website for his version - very similar yeah? you be the judge.

hmmm...i think i better put down the kids collection of brain teasers....its getting ridiculous now.

don't worry - I will be back with more.

fine kenberg -

here's an easy one.

On top of a mountain sat a rooster, but strong wind is blowing north-eastly, so when the rooster laid an egg, which direction does the egg roll down the mountain?

hahhaha

kids play cornerstone..... I think i embarrassed myself by even posting that brain teaser.... well done mate

I hope this hasn't been done before but here goes -

John rode into town on Thursday, slept for 2 nights then rode out on Thursday - how is it possible?

Thats why I said its a vintage Omega Railmaster - I have seen one like that before.

I think the dial is from a vintage Omega railmaster.

well done yet again!

SO damn close to the genuine - the crown looks a little different but that would easily fool even the most intricate WIS.

wear it well!

thats made my day!

pretty lucky to get a box set for the limited version!

CoNGRATS!

I would say from the LINK series chronograph.

yeah definitely a rep. The TAG Heuer logo on the dial is the giveaway.

Also backcase and subdial are all very different, but the watch looks of good quality.

Thanks for the comments guys!

I had a chance to create one more and see if any of you guys would want it, but missed out on the last case and dial =(

anyway, here's one more picture - a close up, nice and big haha

Hold on, look at the bidding on the daytona, how can that happen ?

Pete

I think a reserve may have been set so one bidder can actually up the bidding price.

Looks very nice!

Is that an automatic movement?? Haven't heard of that one and the subdial spacing is quite different from autos I've seen.

its an ETA Quartz movement - same as the one they put in the TAG HEUER Quartz Chronograph. This is how it works:

the subdials run like this: 10 o'clock subdial counts hours; 2 o'clock subdial counts 1/10 of a second: 6 o'clock subdial is a running seconds.

the center hands run like this: hour hand per usual; minute hand per usual; primary center seconds hand counts seconds when stopwatch is in use; secondary center minute hand counts minutes when stopwatch is in use.

Altogther the watch has 7 hands. Hope this clears it up =)

Ok...so I had a chance to purchase some old TAG Heuer parts and I thought i would put together a nice watch, here's the result.

I picked up a Used case with dial, since being a watchmaker, I'm able to pick up parts cheaper, so i bought genuine Hour + Minute hands and also bought a ETA 251.262 movement which came with subseconds hands and 2 split timing hands (seconds and minutes)

So I put it all together and ordered a Rep bracelet to go with the case, the rep bracelet is from SILIX (thanks) it doesnt actually fit that well but i will get them to fit better when i have time to do them up.

What do you guys think?

picture of the watch in progress

end result

thanks for viewing!

@ Submariner

please have the insert epoxied on, this way, it won't happen again =S

Try contacting your dealer for a spare, the crap on egay aint very good.

don't bother Ken, he'll figure it out.