Rod
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Post by Rod on Jul 23, 2017 0:36:35 GMT -8
They don't come up that often, but two sold in the last week and there is another for sale now! Amazing to see and a great source of reference. Although the ones sold look to have sat in a sock draw most of their life, the one selling now is wearing its Wabi proudly, interesting that the lume dots on this one are quite large, maybe a genuine Pilot watch? I'd love to know more. This is mine and about as close as I'm ever going to get to the real thing.  This is the current watch for sale.  Hoping someone on this forum bought one of these! page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h273822612page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m210462089 |
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Adrian-VTA
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Post by Adrian-VTA on Jul 23, 2017 16:03:26 GMT -8
I see a lot of Radium.
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Post by estrickland on Jul 23, 2017 16:30:08 GMT -8
Very much doubt I'll ever add one of these - I have a hangup on war watches from (then) hostile powers.
Is that weird?
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Post by bbilford83 on Jul 23, 2017 19:11:11 GMT -8
Very much doubt I'll ever add one of these - I have a hangup on war watches from (then) hostile powers. Is that weird? Erik I have fought with that same issue quite often. One on side my grandfather earned two purple hearts dropping ordinance in flying fortresses over occupied France, and on the other both of my grandparents were Hungarian Jews interned in concentration or work camps (my grandmother was the only survivor of 11 siblings). I own quite a few WWII-era Seiko/Seikosha models though, often with militariana (ribbons, knives, pictures, etc.). I tell myself that unless I'm holding a timepiece that belonged to Himmler or Tojo, it's just an interesting piece of history that belonged to some poor terrified kid who was a pawn to madmen. I couldn't own any German piece that had Nazi iconography on it because of the ideology it inherently conveyed, though. Weird line to draw, maybe? |
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longbike
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Post by longbike on Jul 23, 2017 20:14:36 GMT -8
Aloha ,
Does anyone have a movement picture of more of them that you could send to me ?
Louis
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Post by meanoldmanning on Jul 23, 2017 20:14:40 GMT -8
Very much doubt I'll ever add one of these - I have a hangup on war watches from (then) hostile powers. Is that weird? I'm sort of with you on that. More specifically I have a hangup about battlefield pickups. Something just gives me the creeps about handling spoils of war, even if they were enemies at the time. |
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cd_god
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Post by cd_god on Jul 23, 2017 20:44:55 GMT -8
I have no problem if you were in the trenches and earned or owned it. Tag it and bag it. Don't put a Dragon sticker on your bike / car if you didn't ride it. Even if you rode it don't put a Dragon sticker on it if it wasn't the bike you did it on. Bad Karma. Faking the funk. Studio gangsta.    I never met Roger or his family and I don't brag that I did so I have no link to this one. Now if Hank shows up at work with the 62MAS or 6105 he bought at the PX when he shipped out and wants me to "hold on to it" to pass the history on to the next worthy vetted soul then so be it and I would be proud to do so.  |
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Rod
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Post by Rod on Jul 24, 2017 3:14:56 GMT -8
Aloha , Does anyone have a movement picture of more of them that you could send to me ? Louis Have a look at the auction links, there are lots of movement photo in them  |
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