Arrivals, What Did You Buy Recently?(Watches)

ghce

Smiths, Everest, Deluxe and Astrals generally go for silly money but they are a nice refined movement, Smiths did themselves no favours with there pocket watch range which just cheapened their image, its nice to see however that collectors have seen past that.
They did a good job trading on the whole everest, first to the top with Sir Edmund Hillary, just a shame that the company went by the wayside.
The Smiths watch company is a good website for these as you probably know. https://www.smithswatches.com/collections/all

Alex Cheers

Since beginning of these week I'm wearing my newest arrival, my new to me Speedmaster Professional 105.012-65, produced in June 1966. This reference is THE Moonwatch to me and I'm absolutely over the moon with this watch 🥰😁 I still remember when I got into watches (=Speedmasters) I made a note on a Speedmaster overview that I printed out, that I want to own this reference hopefully one day and early this week that day has come

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Pascal S

I'm trying to save for something in particular, so I can't be distracted. Well, that's the theory. Sometimes, the itch becomes unbearable, and I need to get myself a little something to make me happy without depleting the watch fund too much.

Over the last couple of years, I've bought a couple of Lemania stopwatches, one for EUR 40.00 on a local online marketplace, and the second one for GBP 23.00 on eBay. Honestly, I thought the latter would never be beat in terms of bargain. Well I was wrong.

Here is what the princely sum of EUR 11.53 got me on eBay last week...

ghce

Just bought at auction and picked up tonight.

Running order but date not changing correctly with misalignment.

You can see that someone has worked on it in the past, a less knowledgeable watchmaker, who has put the separate minute chapter ring in the wrong place with the PM script being at 34 minutes rather than the correct 28 minute mark.

It also has an aftermarket replacement crown, non Roamer but luckily I have a spare correct OEM one which I will liberate from the above posts stainless MST437 with a gold plate (GP) crown and have ordered some correct OEM Roamer Stainless crowns in for the Stainless Roamer MST437 above, so with a bit of mix and match it all works out perfectly, sometimes the universe is kind!

Has an interesting presentation and date inscription on the back so I should be able to trace the original owners details which always makes for an interesting exercise in working out the provenance of the watch.

Thats the 4th Roamer MST437 I have bought in less than 3 weeks!

Roamer MST437 in GP

ghce

It looks nicer in the flesh, the dial is 100% perfect as is often the case with these waterproof mono cases.

I have quite a few of these MST437 watches now, about 20 and none of them have the same Dial though this one is close to another recent purchase but none are identical, it's quite bizarre, Roamer must have employed a man to make sure no two dials would ever be the same.

Not sure if its an original OEM crystal but it will polish to new looking however I have already ordered a replacement Sternkreux ( non OEM ) crystal should it require it and these are the exact profile of the original OEM Roamer lenses.

The back needs a little straightening but nothing major, the worst feature is the damage to the lugs where an expander end links have worn into them, can't do much about that however with a proper strap, polished or new lens and a cleaned case I have always found that the lug damage is blended out by the eye.