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路Here's mine. After popping a couple $15 balls from ebay, I found these at Dollar Tree. Work just as well 馃榿
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woodwkr2
路And what's that just to the right of your horrible purple monster?
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路First for normal assembly work, I use a 4X loupe that is a flip down lens on my reading glasses. For most finer tasks, I use a 10X eye loupe on a wire that wraps around my head, and for very detailed work, I use this:
I replied to the post above showing the view through the loupe as it shows the big problem with cheap loupes - spherical aberration. You can see that the center of the viewing area is very clear, but the outside edge is distorted. This will cause eye fatigue and headaches when using a loupe for a longer period of time. An aplanatic loupe will be as clear on the edges of the field as it is in the middle, and will greatly reduce eye strain and fatigue.
Cheers, Al
Looks like a 4-5 power will do fine for me then. I just want to be able to go to a show and look at a dial or serial number and make sure it is what the person says it is. I will have to try the both eyes open thing. I looked through a loupe one time and closed my other eye like I was looking through a gun scope. Bad idea I take it.
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路It's my Horween project on a Benrus Type 1. Made the strap from an old baseball glove. Saying it was a bitch would be putting it lightly. Watch came from the Canton Flea Market in Texas a few years ago. Bought it and a nice Marathon both attached to the original Vietnam strap. $200 for the pair. You should have seen the money fly from my wallet. Still have the original strap.
Funny story: I sold the quartz Marathon on line for $200. I had to replace the battery and forgot to put the oring back in place. When I snapped the back in place with my press, it made a HUGE snap. Knocked off all the tritium tubes from the hands and dial 馃う. Glued them all back in place as best I could, replaced the oring and snapped back much better. Sold on ebay with full disclosure 馃槵
Funny story: I sold the quartz Marathon on line for $200. I had to replace the battery and forgot to put the oring back in place. When I snapped the back in place with my press, it made a HUGE snap. Knocked off all the tritium tubes from the hands and dial 馃う. Glued them all back in place as best I could, replaced the oring and snapped back much better. Sold on ebay with full disclosure 馃槵
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路It's my Horween project on a Benrus Type 1. Made the strap from an old baseball glove. Saying it was a bitch would be putting it lightly. Watch came from the Canton Flea Market in Texas a few years ago. Bought it and a nice Marathon both attached to the original Vietnam strap. $200 for the pair. You should have seen the money fly from my wallet. Still have the original strap.
Funny story: I sold the quartz Marathon on line for $200. I had to replace the battery and forgot to put the oring back in place. When I snapped the back in place with my press, it made a HUGE snap. Knocked off all the tritium tubes from the hands and dial 馃う. Glued them all back in place as best I could, replaced the oring and snapped back much better. Sold on ebay with full disclosure 馃槵
That is funny. Presses are sometimes bad
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路It's my Horween project on a Benrus Type 1. Made the strap from an old baseball glove. Saying it was a bitch would be putting it lightly. Watch came from the Canton Flea Market in Texas a few years ago. Bought it and a nice Marathon both attached to the original Vietnam strap. $200 for the pair. You should have seen the money fly from my wallet. Still have the original strap.
Funny story: I sold the quartz Marathon on line for $200. I had to replace the battery and forgot to put the oring back in place. When I snapped the back in place with my press, it made a HUGE snap. Knocked off all the tritium tubes from the hands and dial 馃う. Glued them all back in place as best I could, replaced the oring and snapped back much better. Sold on ebay with full disclosure 馃槵
That is awesome. I don't have the heart to cut up any of my old gloves, but if one ever truly disintegrates, I'll be sure to let it live on like yours. Sweet Benrus too!
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路$5 all day long at local flea markets. Baseball gloves are VERY tough. Thinning out the ends to lay over was no small task. FILTHY inside. Funky stuffing everywhere. Just gross. I have my old Nokona that my dad bought me used from a garage sale next door back in the early '70s. With that glove I was king of the world. Still pull it out and sniff it from time to time to remind me of my childhood馃榾 (my glove, that is)
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MrE
路I'm all about the gadgets! Just out of interest, has anyone tried this one?
http://www.loupesystem.com/
http://www.loupesystem.com/
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路Just pulled the trigger on a 4x Asco from Ofrei. Using a cheap BL 2.5x now.
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路I'm all about the gadgets! Just out of interest, has anyone tried this one?
http://www.loupesystem.com/
Yes. In short, phenomenal. It's a game changer.
I really have to hide my CC when I'm in a few glasses of bourbon or scotch.
When the PP loupes arrive, I'll post a comparison.
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路Hello everyone.
Not sure if I am allowed to post here, so if this is somehow against the forum rules or practice, please feel free to delete this post and accept my apologies.
I have been a watch collector for over 30 years now, and I started making loupes almost by accident, after having searched high and low for a loupe with uncompromising optical quality to look at my own watch collection. I never found one (despite having bought high end ones from Leica, Contax Zeiss, etc.), and so I finally ended up making one for myself on my kitchen table with some old camera optics from the '80s! Some friends asked me for one as well, a small series of them was made with those old optics, and then during Baselworld 2012 demand exploded... hence Loupe System.
I will be glad to answer any questions you may have about our loupes or what you can do with them.
Not sure if I am allowed to post here, so if this is somehow against the forum rules or practice, please feel free to delete this post and accept my apologies.
I have been a watch collector for over 30 years now, and I started making loupes almost by accident, after having searched high and low for a loupe with uncompromising optical quality to look at my own watch collection. I never found one (despite having bought high end ones from Leica, Contax Zeiss, etc.), and so I finally ended up making one for myself on my kitchen table with some old camera optics from the '80s! Some friends asked me for one as well, a small series of them was made with those old optics, and then during Baselworld 2012 demand exploded... hence Loupe System.
I will be glad to answer any questions you may have about our loupes or what you can do with them.
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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerThere seems to be some bias against stereo eye loupes here, which I don't think there's a good reason for. I understand that there's no question that pros are better than armatures, one eye or both. But there's no question that estimating depth with both eyes are better than just one eye, so if someone is good with one eye, then with both eye they wouldn't be worse off.
No bias here TNTwatch. I think the part you are missing is that there isn't any real "estimating depth" that happens when I am working. Being a pro or hobbyist isn't about one being necessarily better than the other, but unless you have spent hour after hour every day, week after week, year after year, you don't fully appreciate how work is done using a loupe and the tools I use for hours every single day. The tweezers, screwdriver, oilers, etc. become extensions of my hands, like they have been there all my life, and the loupe is just an extension of my eyes. I don't even think about depth let alone have to estimate it.
Probably the best analogy for people who haven't done this for years is like when you learn to drive - at first you have to think about every single little move you make, and you are aware of it all - that is the point that most hobbyist watchmakers never really get past, simply because of experience and time working, not really because of skill. In a 1 week period I'll service more watches than a typical hobbyist will do in 2 years. When you have spent years doing this, it's like driving for someone who has been behind the wheel for decades - you don't really even think about the mechanics of how to drive, it just "happens" when you get behind the wheel.
Actually many watchmakers working in Swiss factories use stereo eye loupes similar to the type that surgeons use.
I'm not sure what watch factories you have been through, but I have been through a few (PP, AP, VC, JLC, Blancpain, Chopard and some independent shops) and I have never seen a watchmaker use a surgical style double loupe. These loupes are designed to be used at distances that simply don't work for watchmaking. A proper watchmaking bench is much higher than a normal workbench, and is designed to bring the work very close to you, so these loupes simply don't work for an actual watchmaker. They might have a use on the production floor where parts are made maybe (again I have never seen them used), but these people are not watchmakers.
Cheers, Al
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路Hello everyone.
Not sure if I am allowed to post here, so if this is somehow against the forum rules or practice, please feel free to delete this post and accept my apologies.
I have been a watch collector for over 30 years now, and I started making loupes almost by accident, after having searched high and low for a loupe with uncompromising optical quality to look at my own watch collection. I never found one (despite having bought high end ones from Leica, Contax Zeiss, etc.), and so I finally ended up making one for myself on my kitchen table with some old camera optics from the '80s! Some friends asked me for one as well, a small series of them was made with those old optics, and then during Baselworld 2012 demand exploded... hence Loupe System.
I will be glad to answer any questions you may have about our loupes or what you can do with them.
Thanks.
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路i used a 6x when generally shopping for watches
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路$5 all day long at local flea markets. Baseball gloves are VERY tough. Thinning out the ends to lay over was no small task. FILTHY inside. Funky stuffing everywhere. Just gross. I have my old Nokona that my dad bought me used from a garage sale next door back in the early '70s. With that glove I was king of the world. Still pull it out and sniff it from time to time to remind me of my childhood馃榾 (my glove, that is)
I don't think I could do that to my baseball gloves, as it's about as old as I am.
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MrE
路Wow, good info there @Loupe System , thanks! And welcome to the forum!
Don't be shy, feel free to share some of your collection with us!
Oh and *cough* Omegaforum discount *cough* 馃槈
Don't be shy, feel free to share some of your collection with us!
Oh and *cough* Omegaforum discount *cough* 馃槈
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路Well, if you insist... 馃榿
Latest purchase was a Ressence Type 3 - a very, very cool watch!
http://instagram.com/p/v3bAGaLG6e/
Currently, though, I am wearing an MB&F HM4 Double Trouble - probably my favorite watch in the collection.
http://instagram.com/p/ypiXVRLG7K/?modal=true
Latest purchase was a Ressence Type 3 - a very, very cool watch!
http://instagram.com/p/v3bAGaLG6e/
Currently, though, I am wearing an MB&F HM4 Double Trouble - probably my favorite watch in the collection.
http://instagram.com/p/ypiXVRLG7K/?modal=true
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路That type 3 is very cool
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