Evolution of a watch freak :)

[TAG Heuer]

Just like maybe many of you, I'm was already in an early stage started collecting watches. This went on and off sometimes with  a number of years that I have not even looked at them. The result was often that the watches also quickly disappeared from the scene and other interests got the upper hand.

 

 Now years later I noticed that the watch virus began to itch.  Fortunately, there is now internet and that used to be different in the old days😁 and now the search for watches was a lot easier. I then came also for the first time in contact with a Dutch forum and later also international fora. Here I got the first impressions in the rep scene and saw what a beautiful watches  members had. Not long after that I bought my first rep. I just can't remember wich one that was😬

 

 Anyhow, I was completely "hooked". Over the past few years I bought, sold and even exchanged watches.   Then came the moment the watch boxes were pretty full and that I realized that not every  watch the appreciation got what it deserved, so I decided to sell my watches and spent the money to buy high end reps . I was pretty impressed by the watches built by Kilowattore, Tripdog, BabaNJ etc. Many of you have probably already heard and possibly seen all of their work . Now that I decided to upgrade to high end reps I could fit my collection in a single box😁

 

 However, I began to wonder how I could justify it for myself to spend several hundreds of dollars on high end watches, while still being Replica's (no offense). I then took a completely different path in terms of watches and have sold almost all of my watches again and started a new search. Only this time for gen watches. Also there is a world of choices, but some with a very sturdy price tag. It had to remain credible for me though, so I created for myself a maximum budget to keep it somewhat affordable🤔

 

After a long search I came across the Junghans and Glycine brand. Junghans is a brand which is especially known to the older members and a little forgotten. Too bad because they make really good and reliable watches in Germany. Glycine is Swiss watch company, but I had not yet heard of it.

 

Glycine is a watch manufacturer which was founded in 1914, and is based in Bienne, Switzerland. The brand is famous for its Airman-line, a collection of GMT watches with 24-hour indication which debuted in 1953. This was primarily a benefit of both military and commercial pilots. The Airman was worn during the Vietnam war by many pilots of the United States air force.

 

The Junghans factory was founded in 1861. The factory was initially specialized in the production of individual watch parts, but it soon became the recognized craftsmanship and produced complete watches . In 1866, Junghans produced there first watch
The logo with the 8-pointed star was first registered in 1890 and is still the Junghans trademark. Recently, Junghans is saved by an investor who  wanted to keep the brand  alive.  The investor has made sure that the factory can remain open and that beautiful new Junghans watches can be produced with style and quality that are very important for Junghans.

The Meister series is by Junghans again revived and in my opinion they have done that really well . It is a nod to the past of fast cars and cockpit instruments.

 

Here are my two recently purchased Junghans watches:

 

Junghans Meister Telemeter Cal. J.880.3, which is based on an ETA 2892 with a Dubois Depraz 2030 chonograph module.

 

CASE: Stainless Steel

MOVEMENT: J880.3 (ETA 2892 w/ Dubois Depraz 2030) features 45-jewels, hacking, 40hr power reserve and a frequency of 28,800bph.

DIAL: Black with light circular brushing, which gives it a “metallic” feel

LENS: Acrylic with Sicralan

STRAP: Stainless Steel

WATER RESISTANCE: 30M

DIMENSIONS: 40.8 x 45.4mm

THICKNESS: 12.6mm

LUG WIDTH: 21mm

CROWN: 6mm

 

Junghans Meister Driver.

 

Tech Specs from Junghans

Movement: J815.1 hand-winding movement with small second at 6 o’clock (Basic calibre ETA 7001 Peseux)

Finishing: Rhodium plating, blued screws, engraved Junghans logo on the wheel train bridge, bridges with stripe finishing

Case: Stainless steel Ø 37.7 mm, height 7.3 mm, domed hard plexi-glass with SICRALAN coating, 5-times screwed back with mineral crystal

Dial/hands: Polished lacquer dial with “sunburst” effect finish, dial markings and hands with environmentally-friendly Super Luminova luminous substance

Strap: Calfskin strap with stainless steel buckle

Water resistance: Up to 3 bar

 

 

Glycine Airman 18 World Timer GMT

 

Specs

Movement: Sellita SW300-1 based movement 28800 42-hour power reserve hand-winding compatible Hacking second

Case material: Stainless steel

Crystal: Sapphire

Caseback: Sapphire

Date display

Bidirectional rotating bezel with screw-down lock at 4 o'clock

Lumed hands and markers

12-hour sweep hour hand

Case diameter: 39 mm

Case thickness: 10.25 mm

Lug width: 20 mm

Lug-to-lug: 46.5 mm

Water resistance: 200 m (660 ft)

 

Thank you for watching

 

[Mike on a bike]

A similar story for my self , loved watches bought low end gens then found this place bought reps learned a lot started buying better gens but not like a new Rolex why would I had a ton of them in rep form. So now once in while I buy a rep and mostly buy gens and am at the point I really can not even remember exactly what I have anymore. I give them away to mates and forget , misplace them around the house and in some cases put them away safely and forget where........................ It is rather exciting when they pop up after a 5-6 month visit to another dimension that I am sure excises in my house and it's like getting a new watch to wear! I unfortunately never sold everything off like you so it is costly. I also have the quartz graveyard shelf where they go when the batteries die one day I will get around to powering them up. (said that last year also) No hurry there are others.............

 

PS like all your watch choices sharp straps also!

[TAG Heuer]

Well, Mike, that's an interesting story. I am very curious about your collection now and your graveyard shelf.😁 I have three women at home and when I spend too much on watches, they also want to buy more shoes and clothes😉 and that is costly🤣

 

This way I can justify my hobby a bit.👍

[automatico]

"...I decided to sell my watches and spent the money to buy high end reps."

 

I always owned and worked on genuine watches up until most of the swiss watch companies cut parts off to supply houses or made them very difficult to get.  Since I have quite a few watches and do my own work the 'No Parts For You' situation really turned me off to genuine watches.

So here I am.

 

 

[Mike on a bike]

Tag my legendary poor camera skills LOL keeps from posting pics but if I get some time I''ll try to take an inventory, lord knows I'll miss some.............

 

First I have to get a raffle going have a few donation and a couple of nice watches to put out for the guys.

 

Short list, latest Gens are a Ball and a Seiko SARX055 a long w/ a stunning quartz panda from https://www.jomashop.com/bruno-magli-watch-14-181081-sa.html

 

Bullshit brand but the dial is stunning dirt cheap!