Janek Sarnowski

I thought that my growing camera collection could be quite an addition to the Radi in the pics.Whether I was right or not is for you to judge The pics below were born to try out my new glass - Carl Zeiss 135mm f:3.5 and from what I can see it stands up to the name 1 2 - The Janekmod brothers 3 4 5 6 7

Thanks JKay ; ) I thought that my growing camera collection could be quite an addition to the Radi in the pics.Whether I was right or not is for you to judge The pics below were born to try out my new glass - Carl Zeiss 135mm f:3.5 and from what I can see it stands up to the name 1 2 - The Janekmod brothers 3 4 5 6 7 As usual i'd be grateful for any opinions on both the pics and the watch itself

It's my take on the 3646 with a bit of a twist - the markers are black.It looks quite awesome with the sandwich dial ; ) The watch is running a Molly 3602 and features a strap by BlueRadish from HF. Pics are taken with some of it's bigger cousins ; ) What does the community think?

I often find many broken/damaged watches for pennys around car boot sales.It's a shame for them to end up in the bin,so I usually buy them. I've cleaned and oiled some of the movements here - few of them do not work (Rotary has a broken balance spoke, Oris - I didn't have time to look into what's wrong with it and the Cortebert,simply because i've never taken a bumper apart before and this one might be just to fancy for me to start learning on ) .I didn't clean any of the outside plates, since i don't know what to use in order to preserve the rhodium plating on the plates. These watches, even though tired by life can tick again or at least please the eye: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 This one is not saved from scrap, i did however want to take a pic of it,just for fun ; ) Enjoy and let me know what you think ; ) If anyone wants full resolution pics, let me know ; )

I'm still experimenting, looking for the right approach to macro photography. I'd be grateful for any opinions : ) 1 2 3 4 5 6

Just how i like it ; ) I like the blacks dominating in my photos.That's just how I am

Let the experimentation begin 1 2 3 4

It certainly looks like an St-16, which is very Miyota-ish. If it winds in both directions and the movement hacks when you pull the crown out, it's an st-16.Otherwise, it's probably some miyota. Here's a pic of the ST-16 in a Sea Gull watch: Edit: although, thinking about it, i don't think i've ever seen an st-16 with a 24 hour complication. It might be something by BWAF (Beijing watch factory).Unless someone modded the st-16 as the case is with e.g.st-25.

the first one has a sea gull st-16 movement - it's actually very good and pretty damn sturdy.

Its nice to see that you went with the white markers on the dial, the fake aged yellow ones just don't look right. Nice project you have there : )

Personally,i think it might be worth about 50 bucks. But what's the point of keeping this kind of junk in your house?I'll take it off your hands, i'll even be graceful enough to pay the PP :tu: :tu: Seriously now, i think the vintage Rolex Chronos are the best looking watches ever made and i will stand with this opinion. However, parts like hands or dial can significantly change the price if they're not original. Don't get me wrong, it's still worth a bloody bomb,even if it was "tweaked" in its day Congrats on the great piece again.Personally I would keep it and pass it on to the "offsprings", but it's your call (-;

It was hand-made by my mate on one of the Polish watch forums (-;

I do It might not be with the spirit of "perfect reps looking like gens",but i'd like to put all the things i like from subs over the years into one watch.If it doesn't work - it doesn't.However, i do feel that for me it might just cut it (-;

I used cotton buds soaked in acetone and a toothpick to remove smaller prints. The black paint is intact. However, i know that some dials have a thinner coating of paint, and once you put acetone on them, you strip them to bare metal - as the case is with newer MQJ dials. I have another dial exactly like the one in the pictures above and i'd gladly swap it for a rep Sub dial

And whats the fun in that? I dont want it to be a perfect rep, i want it to be my own hommage to Rolex.

You got me wrong, man (-; The sterile mod is just for now, since the dial had a different logo on it. What I was planning on doing was getting a 5513 dial and hands, changing the glass to plexi and leaving it at that - no sterilisation (-; Btw. It's running a 21j Dixmont Guangzhou.

It's a temporary build, im trying to find a vintage dial (gen or rep) to go with my student budget :mrgreen: This is what i'll be going for: Picture borrowed of Altec from chinawatches.pl The dial was sterilised with Acetone. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Any advice on where to acquire a rep/gen dial like this? Plus what do you think about the current mod? Lemme know

Why hello there friends, I recently acquired a set of NOS parts for an Omega De Ville Quartz and i'll be trying to get it fully working. That's what i was given: It's pretty much the whole set without the crown,stem,seconds hand and most importantly the movement. Since the item is still in the post, I can't get the ref. number of the case. Since I can fashion out a stem and a crown from within my widespread collection of vintage parts, i'll be having problems finding the movement and the seconds hand. I can assume that the watch used to run on the Omega cal. 1420. Do any of you, experienced Omega chaps know where i can source the movement (or unbranded ecquivalent)/suplement movement and the seconds hand? I would be most grateful for any help : ) Cheers in advance, J.

I'm quite a controversial photographer.I like to have pictures that "punch the viewer in the face with colours" in the first milisecond that he looks at my pics.Thats just the way i am (-;

Some new pics (-; I was trying out some new lenses, so i can't really recall which one took which photo Possible suspects : Mamiya/Sekor 50mm f:2, Helios 44m-4 58mm f:2.8,Helios 135mm f:2.8,Cosinon 135mm f:2.8 :wink: Tell me what you think (-:

Unfortunatelly,all of my other cameras are film.I do have a crappy camera in my phone though. This is the cam with a 3x teleconverter on (for smaller macro e.g. watch crown or the seiko caseback) And this is with the telecoverter off,for some really extreme macro. Looks bizarre,doesn't it?

the s 5800.The lens stuck onto it is a helios 44m 58mm lens.For the pics which need to capture bigger stuff (the seiko watchback) I've also screwed on a 3x teleconverter (-;

Some new pics,processed to look like HDR. The movements on the pictures are: Sea Gull ST-25,France Ebauches 140-c i Seiko 6619.

Thanks, Tim (-;