asmo Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Could one of you fine people explain this terminology to me ? I see it around the place as i spend hours deciding what next to buy and i have no idea of its relevance. Thanks !! JD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMK000 Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Hacking = Seconds hand stops when crown is fully pulled out in order to set up time. No hacking = Lack of the above function. Most of the automatic watches have hacking mechanism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HaloArchive Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 It means that the one that is hacking, when put near a computer, will hack it and give it a virus and, vice-versa for non-hacking. Jay-Kay. Hacking means the seconds stop when time-set is engaged and vice-versa for non-hacking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Unless you are out to replicate a vintage down to this level, SuperRep, don't worry about it. It is not even tell-- unless you are setting the time, of say a vintage Rolex rep, in public, in front of a Rolex EXPERT as an example. Here on these forums, it is more of a "vintage" movement thing. (i.e. OLD Submariners up until about ~1974~ were NON-hacking.) The most common movements found in our Reps: ETA 2836, 2824, 7750, 6497, Asian 21Js are hacking. Surprisingly, most (modern) Seiko divers are still NON-hacking, the 7S25, 7S26 work horse movements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmo Posted January 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Brilliant Thanks all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Unless you are out to replicate a vintage down to this level, SuperRep, don't worry about it. It is not even tell-- unless you are setting the time, of say a vintage Rolex rep, in public, in front of a Rolex EXPERT as an example. Here on these forums, it is more of a "vintage" movement thing. (i.e. OLD Submariners up until about ~1974~ were NON-hacking.) The most common movements found in our Reps: ETA 2836, 2824, 7750, 6497, Asian 21Js are hacking. Surprisingly, most (modern) Seiko divers are still NON-hacking, the 7S25, 7S26 work horse movements. I disabled the hack on my vintage project Sub Not for accuracy to gen, of course, but because the movement kept stopping under impacts, so I figured the easiest thing to do was to bend the hack lever away from the balance wheel so it just wouldn't touch it at all Problem solved, and, as an added bonus, the movement is now more historically accurate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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