Rediscovered Tri-compax

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·Apr 24, 2013

Thanks, Jamey.

 

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·Jun 27, 2013

I just got my Tri-Compax back after getting it serviced. Now I could use some advice on appropriate straps and where to get them.

 

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·Jun 27, 2013·Ash @ ΩF

There's a guy we really like called Kelaran, he does amazing things with freshly peeled gators, crocs and lizards.

http://stores.ebay.com/KELARAN-USA

 

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·Jun 27, 2013·Ash @ ΩF

BTW can you post some pics of the watch after service?

 

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·Jun 27, 2013

dsio

There's a guy we really like called Kelaran

pssst - it's a lady.

 

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·Jun 27, 2013·Ash @ ΩF

Oh my bad 😲 , then She certainly has a talent for peeling critters.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

Here are some pictures of my recently serviced Tri-Compax.

 

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ulackfocus

·Jun 29, 2013

Dot over 90! 🤩

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

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Dot over 90! 🤩

I take it that's a good thing.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

I do wish it had been better adjusted. It is now gaining over 20 seconds per day. It was running about 10 seconds slow after I wound it for the first time in 30 years before having it serviced.

 

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ulackfocus

·Jun 29, 2013

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I take it that's a good thing.

It's a Speedmaster reference. Everyone wants those bezels with the dot over the level of the 90 instead of alongside of the 90.

Nice watch.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

Thank you. And thanks for explaining the "dot over 90" reference. I would have never figured that out.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

I'll have to check the bezel on my father's Speedmaster. He recently had his 60's vintage Omega overhauled in Switzerland.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

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I'll have to check the bezel on my father's Speedmaster. He recently had his 60's vintage Omega overhauled in Switzerland.

If Bienne did it, they probably replaced the bezel with the newer version with the dot next to 90.

 

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·Jun 29, 2013

I checked, and he's still got the "dot over 90" version.

 

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ulackfocus

·Jun 29, 2013

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I checked, and he's still got the "dot over 90" version.

Excellent!

 

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·Jun 30, 2013

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I do wish it had been better adjusted. It is now gaining over 20 seconds per day. It was running about 10 seconds slow after I wound it for the first time in 30 years before having it serviced.

That's actually not bad at all for a non-chronometer rated movement. It isn't a quartz watch. That's just the way mechanical watches are.

 

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·Jul 3, 2013

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That's actually not bad at all for a non-chronometer rated movement. It isn't a quartz watch. That's just the way mechanical watches are.

Really? I guess I have been spoiled by the performance of my 40-yr-old Sinn that is currently losing no more than 3 seconds/day. My father's Speedmaster is even more accurate.

 

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·Jul 3, 2013

If my Tri-Compax is consistently losing 20 seconds/day, couldn't it have been better adjusted? If it were wandering (alternately gaining and losing) I could understand that that is due to inherent inaccuracy within the movement.

 

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·Jul 3, 2013

Not that it really matters, but I meant to say that my Tri-Compax is gaining (not losing) twenty seconds/day.