Chronographs without the pain in the wallet. Share your favorite non-luxury chronos

marco · Mar 16, 2020

JwRosenthal

Endless Summer ?

marco · Mar 16, 2020

This was my " at work" watch for ten years. It stood up well, super reliable and is hardly marked even though it was used in a harsh environment. All up a rugged piece of kit.
It is now the master watch that all others are set by and my only quartz.

0uss · Mar 16, 2020

Rodania - Landeron 48

Poljot - Cal. 3133 ( missing the inner bezel )

Cernos - Valjoux 7734 ( Gone and dearly missed 🙁 )

Seiko7A38 · Mar 18, 2020

I quite like these jazzy little pandas.

I had three of them already:

More than enough for anybody, really, but I could never resist a bargain, so I bought another last night.

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Cheap as chips and powered by Seiko 7A38, naturally.

Seiko7A38 · Mar 18, 2020

Well, not strictly true - its movement is actually (re)branded Shimauchi Ltd. V906, but we all know it's a thinly disguised 7A38.

As also used in my favourite non-Seiko branded 7A38 - and preferred alternative to the Omega Speedy Pro - the Yema Spationaute III Aragatz.

I don't think I've paid more than 400 Euros for any of the examples in my collection (including a good few NOS). The one above was $200 (from OfferUp in the States). I've probably got far more of these, than I should admit to on a public forum.

zoohannover · Mar 18, 2020

Roamer Stingray Chrono Diver with Valjoux 23

Seiko7A38 · Mar 18, 2020

This was another fairly recent addition to my collection - last September: An Orient J39 with the 1985 Indianapolis 500 logo on the dial.
Cost me a surprisingly little 5,500 Yen off Yahoo Japan:

I had to pay 6 times more (31,500 Yen) for its black dialed sibling, but still under £250 Quid. So not too expensive.

Side by side shot:

tikkathree · Mar 18, 2020

janice&fred

landeron pretty in pink 😁

7733 and 7734 watches - such an amazing range of dials! I did a similar thing several years ago and put three in the safe for my three grandsons.

tikkathree · Mar 18, 2020

allwoundup
Sobrinos y Cuervo powered by a Landeron 51; Unitas powered by a Venus 210; and, a Poljot 23 powered by an in-house 3133, which was supposedly derived from the Valjoux 7734. I have also included a photo of the Poljot 23 next to a Dueber Hampden wristwatch -- which is actually a Dueber Hampden lever set pocket watch movement placed into a "conversion" wristwatch kit popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Dueber Hampden was a Canton, Ohio watch and watch case maker that the government of the Soviet Union bought in the late 1920s. The USSR shipped all the factory equipment and parts and work in progress inventory to Moscow to create Watch Factory #1, and the beginning of the Soviet watch industry. Twenty DH watchmakers were contracted and moved to the USSR to teach watchmaking.

And the Poljot 3133s are amazing value. Frankly you can either live with the case size or you can't. You obviously do so better than did I.

tikkathree · Mar 18, 2020

pseikotick
Simpler times.

7T34? Okay, I'll get the camera, I have several of them. Compulsively.

Lacazema · Mar 18, 2020

My favorite watch I own.

Buran russian watch with a Poljot 3133 mouvement. Needs a service before I start wearing it again.

tikkathree · Mar 21, 2020

Seiko 7T34 reverse panda with double vision. This movement comes in oh, maybe three dozen different case/dial variants. Just dont ask me how I know.....

SpeedyPhill · Mar 23, 2020

As a reference photo-collage: Grey & Black dial Poljot " Flight " 3133 chronographs...
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SpeedyPhill · Mar 23, 2020

@pseikotick
Russian spaceflight-wise a Poljot 3133 chronograph with Cyrillic text dial :
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Although Cosmonauts mostly wore the military version with non-colored Air Force wings grey dial ( 2nd in top row )