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路Maybe it's an age thing but I love the quirkiness of tuning fork watches aka hummers: not just the humming sound, not just the hypnotic sweep second hand gliding around its sweep, not just the technological bypass, the evolutionary dead end.
It's a fact though that the options for fixing a dead hummer or getting one serviced are not so handy. Rather like getting repairs carried out to a mechanical film camera: when you find a reliable techie you learn to cherish his skills and patience. The flipside of course being that a dead hummer is often dead beyond economic repair and whether you own it or aspire so to do, the question of "good money after bad" ultimately crops up in a way that it wouldn't for a mechanical watch.
I have two Omega hummers and there's often a temptation to pick up another. Last week I actually had a bright idea for which I need to thank this lovely forum where I'd browsed my way through a long-running post "Let's see your NOS watches" or New Old Stock watches.
NOS watches eh? Let's check EBay......... woweee! New Old Stock Tuning Fork watches signed as Solvil et Titus and actually built of surplus to requirement Omega parts, check here https://ebay.us/m/agfCet which is when one thing leads to another and it doesn't take a man very long to find a really good reason to buy a watch! Yikes!!
There's a website ='https://www.retro-watches.co.uk and it turns out that my new good friend operates from about seven miles away from me! Was this purchase made in heaven or what? (Thank goodness for me that Omega aren't just down the road in this way! 馃槄
Will I wear this watch? Of course I will. Will I not buy any more hummers? Are you kidding?
It's a fact though that the options for fixing a dead hummer or getting one serviced are not so handy. Rather like getting repairs carried out to a mechanical film camera: when you find a reliable techie you learn to cherish his skills and patience. The flipside of course being that a dead hummer is often dead beyond economic repair and whether you own it or aspire so to do, the question of "good money after bad" ultimately crops up in a way that it wouldn't for a mechanical watch.
I have two Omega hummers and there's often a temptation to pick up another. Last week I actually had a bright idea for which I need to thank this lovely forum where I'd browsed my way through a long-running post "Let's see your NOS watches" or New Old Stock watches.
NOS watches eh? Let's check EBay......... woweee! New Old Stock Tuning Fork watches signed as Solvil et Titus and actually built of surplus to requirement Omega parts, check here https://ebay.us/m/agfCet which is when one thing leads to another and it doesn't take a man very long to find a really good reason to buy a watch! Yikes!!
There's a website ='https://www.retro-watches.co.uk and it turns out that my new good friend operates from about seven miles away from me! Was this purchase made in heaven or what? (Thank goodness for me that Omega aren't just down the road in this way! 馃槄
Will I wear this watch? Of course I will. Will I not buy any more hummers? Are you kidding?
