Watcheden's Speedmaster Moon

[Greystash]

I'll post pics later.

Mine should be arriving early next week. Look forward to your pictures.

EDIT: Coeuss has your also got the quality engraved writing in the clasp?

Edited September 19, 2009 by Greystash

[mudfish]

ordered mine 2 days ago... ill post pics when it gets here...

[Coeuss]

Can someone who's bought one of these, for the love of god, please confirm where the running (ok, 'ticking') secs is located

TIA

running (ticking) seconds located at 6 Oclock

[Coeuss]

Mine should be arriving early next week. Look forward to your pictures.

EDIT: Coeuss has your also got the quality engraved writing in the clasp?

It Does.

[Coeuss]

Pics as promised

moonie 1.bmp

moonie 2.bmp

moonie 3.bmp

moonie 4.bmp

moonie 5.bmp

moonie 6.bmp

[Greystash]

Pics as promised

Nice one Coeuss. How good is that for the price? Looking forward to receiving mine.

[Coeuss]

OK

So can I get an expert to chime in here. Anyway to replace the Japanese Quartz movement with an automatic one. On this particular model the 30 minute counter at 3 is the 12 counter, 12 hour counter at 6 is the second hand counter, and ordinary seconds at 9 is the 30 minute counter. Just wondering if possible. Probably not but who cares. For 88 bucks you had better order quickly before they are all gone.

Edited September 19, 2009 by Coeuss

[Demsey]

Good looking watch. Good value for the money, but this;

On this particular model the 30 minute counter at 3 is the 12 counter, 12 hour counter at 6 is the second hand counter, and ordinary seconds at 9 is the 30 minute counter.

is the deal breaker for me. I have faith the newly configured 7750 will be used in the Moonie. When? Doesn't matter. I missed the first runs w/domed plexi way back when. It's been five years waiting since. Patience like an oyster. Patience pays in passing zones and 'replica'.

[docdoc]

Coeuss, the envraging on the claps doesn't look very deep, is it indeed ?

Edited September 20, 2009 by docdoc

[arniezac]

Coeuss, the envraging on the claps doesn't look very deep, is it indeed ?

Mine arrived today and I can confirm that the engraving is quite shallow, its crisp but no more than a few thou deep.

However, this watch represents excellent value. For what I paid, its really very good.

The end links are a bit rough underneath but who's gonna see it. The strap is not stiff at all and its well polished.

Again, its an absolute bargain with the $20 discount that Watcheden are offering at the moment.

Even if its only used to pratice decasing or removing hands its worth it.

Congrats to the OP for discovering this little gem

[robbnj]

And this is the quartz model? Damn, I got the one with the fat crown, no accent in tachymetre, but it has the domed crystal.

'Looks like I may be getting in touch with Sarah for a special order. It seems no one on any board can help me with a crown/stem mod.

Dang...

Mine arrived today and I can confirm that the engraving is quite shallow, its crisp but no more than a few thou deep.

However, this watch represents excellent value. For what I paid, its really very good.

The end links are a bit rough underneath but who's gonna see it. The strap is not stiff at all and its well polished.

Again, its an absolute bargain with the $20 discount that Watcheden are offering at the moment.

Even if its only used to pratice decasing or removing hands its worth it.

Congrats to the OP for discovering this little gem

[mudfish]

OK, I'm an idiot, and I just got mine... Now as i look at; what do the subdials do? I probably should have known this before I ordered this, but at $88 I didn't want to miss out...

I know the dial at 6 is the seconds, but what about 3 and 9?

Edited September 26, 2009 by mudfish

[robbnj]

3 rotates once every 12 hours. 9 rotates 1 click for every minute the chrono is running.

Does yours have he thin crown like the one in my previous post?

[mudfish]

3 rotates once every 12 hours. 9 rotates 1 click for every minute the chrono is running.

Does yours have he thin crown like the one in my previous post?

yea, mine is identical to the one above... I wish I could take pics like that...

[Greystash]

Hey guy, I've been pretty busy this week. My quartz Speedy arrived a few days ago. It's exactly the same as described in the original pictures.

I'm very happy with it, and for the money it's a wonderful wrist watch.

My large Tachy hand was resetting at the 58sec mark when it arrived. But of course when you unscrew and pull the crown you can advance the Tachy hand by pushing the start/stop button. In fact you can have the Tachy hand start and reset to wherever you want. All I had to do was pull out the crown and push the stop/start button twice to advance the hand to the 60sec mark and screw the crown back in. Problem solved.

I would admit it does make me want to own a gen though.

[arniezac]

The hands on the sub-dials on mine do the following :-

Dial @ 9 is a minute counter for the stopwatch which sweeps round as the stopwatch is running in the same way as the main minute hand sweeps round the dial. 1 hour per revolution

Dial @ 6 is a running second hand which ticks 1 revolution per minute.

Dial @ 3 is a running hour counter for the main time. 1 revolution every 24 hours.

These are the functions of the hands, not what is printed on the dial.

Hope this helps.

Have a good weekend all

Arniezac.

[docblackrock]

Can someone confirm the actual case size inc. crown.

[arniezac]

Can someone confirm the actual case size inc. crown.

On mine the case diameter including crown measure 43.5mm.

Doc, or anyone else for that matter, if you need any other dimensions just ask, its no trouble.

[Nate2046]

My large Tachy hand was resetting at the 58sec mark when it arrived. But of course when you unscrew and pull the crown you can advance the Tachy hand by pushing the start/stop button. In fact you can have the Tachy hand start and reset to wherever you want. All I had to do was pull out the crown and push the stop/start button twice to advance the hand to the 60sec mark and screw the crown back in. Problem solved.

Man, I can not thank you enough for that post! I was so disappointed when I opened mine up last night and found the hand in the same position as yours. I immediately sent out an e-mail enquiring about a return/exchange and woke up this morning thinking maybe it would be easier to go to a jeweler and have him remove/replace the hand in the proper position. Thanks for saving me the hassle and embarassment.

On a side note, does anybody have a pic of a speedy on a brown leather strap? I'm not that thrilled with the bracelet this came on and am debating between a black pilot style strap and a dark brown vintage/oiled type of strap. Any thoughts?

[mudfish]

Man, I can not thank you enough for that post! I was so disappointed when I opened mine up last night and found the hand in the same position as yours. I immediately sent out an e-mail enquiring about a return/exchange and woke up this morning thinking maybe it would be easier to go to a jeweler and have him remove/replace the hand in the proper position. Thanks for saving me the hassle and embarassment.

On a side note, does anybody have a pic of a speedy on a brown leather strap? I'm not that thrilled with the bracelet this came on and am debating between a black pilot style strap and a dark brown vintage/oiled type of strap. Any thoughts?

I was wondering the same thing... I have a 24mm distressed leather strap that I have on a non-working PAM, and I would love to squeeze it on...

[Greystash]

Man, I can not thank you enough for that post!

You're very welcome Nate2046 I

[Coeuss]

Did you guys notice the Lume on this thing? I noticed at 5am after waking up on the couch that I could actually see the time on the speedmaster. Pleasant surprise to me. Lume wasnt bad at all

[mudfish]

here is a quick wrist shot with with a brown leather strap... it's 24 mm, so it's squeezed on there... looks great, I plan on buying a custom Gorilla strap from Bo soon...

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Edited September 27, 2009 by mudfish

[Nate2046]

here is a quick wrist shot with with a brown leather strap... it's 24 mm, so it's squeezed on there... looks great, I plan on buying a custom Gorilla strap from Bo soon...

Agreed, that does look really good. I think I'm going to look for something somewhat similar. Thanks for the pic.

[docdoc]

Ok… so I received mine today but cannot figure out how to resize the bracelet

I see there are tiny screws but they doesn't seems to unscrew. Do I miis something here ?

thanks for the help…

dumb… I found out there are not screws

Edited September 30, 2009 by docdoc