ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Jan 6, 2019 18:17:21 GMT -8
At that price it is not to bad, like you I very seldom use the chrono function, I think it is just one of those "must have" items, like a CD player in the car - even if you never use it!
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Jan 6, 2019 17:54:29 GMT -8
That is not an impressive sweep movement very irregular and jerky, you say it is a cheap watch, I can't find the same model as yours the only mechanical chronograph I could find is the Dakar Rally that costs AU$969.00 and that is with 30% off, not inexpensive in my opinion. I would rather go with this one, with a hand wind ST1908 movement for AU$300.00 I have thought of buying one just to pull down and see how it all works, even beat up Swiss chronos still seem to attract a premium, to rich for my diet. If it doesn't improve its performance I would certainly be returning it before the return period ends.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 31, 2018 21:49:45 GMT -8
Kicked the can!
Thanks for a great Forum!
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 31, 2018 18:13:48 GMT -8
A very tasteful Seiko, Happy Birthday Nick! Though I fear the warranty period may be very short.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 31, 2018 18:05:44 GMT -8
Looks like I'm the first cab off the rank, Happy New Year to everyone and hope it brings you what you desire! Now to the business in hand. Beautiful Downtown Kogan, The Pub, the Folex and on the far right the fuel bowsers. The Folex The Folex and the White Rock Cafe, our local postal agency, and that my friends is the sum total of Kogan's commercial hub.
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Post by ausimax on Dec 31, 2018 14:07:20 GMT -8
Looks like I'm the first cab off the rank, Happy New Year to everyone and hope it brings you what you desire! Now to the business in hand. Beautiful Downtown Kogan, The Pub, the Folex and on the far right the fuel bowsers. The Folex The Folex and the White Rock Cafe, our local postal agency, and that my friends is the sum total of Kogan's commercial hub.
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Post by ausimax on Dec 22, 2018 21:46:07 GMT -8
An update to the story, the watch turned out to be one of my favorites, took it off yesterday for the first time since I got it going, next twist to the story, amongst the batch I posted of in what's coming in the mail was a nice Orient quartz dress watch, shoved in a battery and no go, so I started to pull it down and discovered it was riddled with battery acid, cleaned it up and thought it may work, however when I tested the coil it was dead, end of that idea.
About this time I discovered that it was the same calibre as the movement from the diver, I knew it worked and the parts from this one I needed were OK so some transplants were made and the new Orient lives again.
How things work out, I spent 2.5 years looking for a donor for the diver without any joy, then a Month after I modded it and got it going one turns up.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 22, 2018 4:59:35 GMT -8
Yesterdays Mail, Batch of 50+ watches, mainly quartz though 8 mechanical all running, including the mandatory Rolly knock off, still more to come, seller forgot 1 bag when he packed them, something to keep me busy for a week or so! Which one is the Folex? These often have decent Chinese ST16 movements; good for fixing up other watches. Forth from the left bottom row, Rolex Oyster Perpetual Daytona, no doubt they do a great job of copying these, only thing that convinces me that it is a fake is that the pushers don't do anything, checking one of the features that give away the fakes is supposed to be the fluid motion of the second hand, and this one is equal to the real thing it is also a hacking movement, haven't had a look inside yet, don't have a tool to undo the roley case back, actually I was expecting to find a cheap quartz chrono movement.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 21, 2018 16:56:13 GMT -8
Yesterdays Mail, Batch of 50+ watches, mainly quartz though 8 mechanical all running, including the mandatory Rolly knock off, still more to come, seller forgot 1 bag when he packed them, something to keep me busy for a week or so!
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Dec 12, 2018 16:41:04 GMT -8
Italian design with a Japanese heart Had to raise a return. Arrived with an OS10 movement instead of the 3U62 Seller won't refund return postage. Cheating fecker! If you paid with PayPal you may be able to get a refund on the return postage, worth checking out!
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Nov 13, 2018 17:16:30 GMT -8
I had to vote for both, I have a deep fascination of mechanical watches and prefer them to work on, on the other hand I almost always wear a quartz, I like the grab and go simplicity of the quartz, I think of wearing a mechanical and the thought of getting it going, setting the time and calendar and I grab a quartz.
Another aspect who today can afford a (new) mechanical chronograph? I know I can't but I can have a choice of different styles of chrono in quartz, and you can purchase one for less than $10.
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Post by ausimax on Nov 10, 2018 20:03:19 GMT -8
I think you may have a lot more skill in that department than me, I am a rank amateur with the lathe. Don't cut yourself short, man. Some of the trickiest stuff in machining is holding the work. Small, thin and round is not easy to do without distorting the part. Looks like yours stayed round and flat. You must be doing something right! 👍😎 Took a lot of trial and error, not real hard to get the OD & ID right, but parting off from the stock is the hairy bit, couldn't risk being too accurate or it could buckle so it ended up about 1.5mm thick, tried grinding it down by hand on an emery stone and diamond plate, but that was just too long winded for me, so back to the lathe, the original stock was still chucked up that was a bonus, I turned a step on it to allow a friction fit of the ring, and tried to face it off. No a great success, as soon as you started to cut the heat expanded the ring and it came asunder, I couldn't make a tighter fit for fear of deforming the ring during fitting or removing, so the next option was Super Glue, stuck it on with that and it worked a treat, then I only had to try and dissolve the glue with Acetone and work it off with a razor blade.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Nov 9, 2018 17:28:53 GMT -8
Just finished Modding it!
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Post by ausimax on Nov 9, 2018 17:22:08 GMT -8
Any restore that involves a lathe is good stuff in my book! I think you may have a lot more skill in that department than me, I am a rank amateur with the lathe.
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Post by ausimax on Nov 9, 2018 17:19:53 GMT -8
And that, Max, is what it’s all about! Great rescue... My thoughts exactly, nothing special as watches go, it it just one of those bugs that bite you and you just have to scratch the itch, my next problem is how I am going to get it off my wrist!
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Post by ausimax on Nov 8, 2018 21:50:19 GMT -8
About 2 years ago I picked up an Orient Quartz diver in a batch I bought, it was pretty beat up but was running but you could not set the time. Investigation revealed that the yoke was bent and would not engage the pinion, as was expected trying to straighten the yoke resulted in it breaking. I spent the intervening time trying to find parts, or a donor with no success to all intents and purposes the watch model did not exist, Boley has no listing for it nor did anywhere else I tried, so I decided to Mod it to take a modern quartz movement. First was to find a movement that would fit and day/date features that would fit the dial, I finally settled on a Hattori VX43MH2, the next problem is that the new movement in much thinner than the original and when fitted to the dial the stem would not line up. My answer was to machine a spacer with ID 25.5mm OD 27.6mm and 0.6mm thick, I tried in aluminium first and almost made it but the material was to soft to stand the pressure of the chuck and collapsed, Its not easy to work this fine on a 7” x 12” lathe. So I had to resort to turning it out of steel and that was successful, the next obstacle was the dial leg location, wouldn’t line up with the holes in the movement, so I had to remove one leg and notched the movement to take the other leg to help resist the dial rotating and the fixed it with dial adhesive dots. As with every thing else about this watch I could not find a new crystal that would fit so I had to polish the old one up as much as possible, couldn’t get rid of the crazing it is to deep, however in normal sight it is barely noticeable. A few creative ides for movement retaining rings and it all came together, no collectors must have, but a nice beater. And the mandatory wrist shot!
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Nov 6, 2018 17:27:15 GMT -8
Can't give much consoling advice, been there, done that, usually it happens on the thing you really want, you have what you think is a "killer" bid and in the last 2 seconds some B@$%@rd snipes you, and if it is on ebay you are only ever done by a dollar, what if I had bid another $5 or another $10 and so the self recriminations go on and you never know the answer.
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ausimax
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Post by ausimax on Oct 23, 2018 19:24:36 GMT -8
I have it's Cousin a 8229-602A. Unfortunately not a goer, seems to have a dead coil.
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Post by ausimax on Oct 18, 2018 3:50:15 GMT -8
The 7L22 appears in the JDM catalogs from 2004 Vol.1 to 2009 Vol.1, so your example would be from 2006. Thanks for that, I figured it would be from 2006, they must have made a large production run as they are still selling this exact model new out of Singapore.
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Post by ausimax on Oct 17, 2018 22:35:32 GMT -8
Congratulations, nice catch and it looks like it is in very good condition. I think that you may still have to replace the cap as these will often appear to work ok but just can not hold a charge for a few days. The 7L22 is a nice movement and I like the mechanical feel to the pushers on these. Yes I would not be surprised if the cap needed replacing, I expected it would, will see how it holds out after being worn for a few days. From the condition of the watch not even scuffing on the clasp I think it was one of those watches, worn for a few days then placed in a drawer and ignored, and when the time came that they wanted to wear it it was empty and thrown back in the drawer and forgotten. Do you know the production times of the 7L22 movements? This one has a 63xxx serial #, but every where I have checked for parts they are listed as obsolete. Yes the pusher feel is good, checking the service sheets I see they use hearts on the pinions to zero the hands which seem unusual on a quartz.
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