Show us your "Hummers"

And her "twin" 😎

Nice piece. Actually, a fine pair.

Posted this in what did you buy recently but to an appreciative audience here is my latest acquisition.
A running, very very clean Megasonic 720hz.
Really pleased!!

Do wall clocks get let in here? My SmithS humming wall clock, like being back at school in the 1970's! 😗

Please show the movement.

It's a Jeco Japanese tuning fork movement.
There is more info towards the bottom of this page https://www.electric-clocks.co.uk/smiths/sm-mvmnts.htm

Scooped this up on the bay the other day. Sent it off to be serviced. Needs a replacement bezel.

Well, my Megasonic finally arrived.
Complete, working, apparently original also with the original tapered 1237 bracelet. Just a very clean piece.
Now to start working on the Speedsonic pursuit. 😎
In the meantime I’m going to enjoy this one though.

These blue dials on Omega & Tissot hummers are lovely!

Here's my 1972 Accutron

Agreed! I too need to see sunlight 😁 I love winter but really hate polar night and short days.

Constellation 198.765 (with mismatched and incorrect end-links for a brick bracelet if you look closely...)

Wow, nice catch!

L.

Thx Lionello. Pretty happy with it

Dear All,

Here my recent acquisition, an Omega f300Hz Geneve from early seventies.

The watch is in good shape .. a bit of polywatch on the crystal, a bit of cleaning of the case .. a rubber gasket totally melted inside the back (!?) that required some cleaning and needs to be replaced, a little discoloration between indexes 4 and 5 and that’s it for the aesthetical side.

Regarding the functioning : when I received it, it was working correctly (unlike my other f300 DeVille of last year), after 15 days monitoring, it showed a shifting ahead of 2.67sec/day.

This is comfortably within COSC values, but is far from the original Omega specs (15sec deviation per month). Thus I dared an adjustment on the bobbins, one notch in the right direction .. and to my ashtonishment the watch is now showing zero deviation for the last three days … !!!
Whether it shall continue to perform like that is another question ! Time will tell.


When on the subject of accuracy : I was never interested in quartz watches, have a couple .. a Seiko, a swatch .. but lately, because of the Accutron movements and the f300Hz movements I became curious about the HAQ. I learned that in the seventies several brands produced very very accurate movements … ie Junghans or Citizen 4 mega. These watches were capable of 5spy (5 second per year) deviation ! Amazing ! The above mentioned watches are not anymore to be found. Then I discovered that the Omega Seamaster200 equipped by the quartz movement 1441 was capable of 10spy .. I am since looking to find one such watch for a decent cost.

Meanwhile in the today production there is the Certina DS2 Precidrive that is given for 10spy. I bought one out of curiosity, and indeed it is amazingly accurate … over a period of 2 months that watch is 1 second ahead … ! Too bad the watch is not very sexy, no charm ..

Thank you for your attention,

Nice piece. That’s come up a treat.

198.001 with Uncle Seiko flat link 19mm

Very clean sample of Geneve. Beautiful dial!

Ref. 198.030