Hi
Erik from Norway. Been collecting watches since 2010 and just lately been turning towards Omega, more precisely vintage/NOS type watchco. With that said, i would also like a modern PO, but there is alot of interesting watches hoovering around with the same pricetag. Over to my current collection:
Watchco 166.0177 "SHOM" NOS. Nice rough diver, (typically 70's design = overdoing it). Changed the hands from the orange ploprof to the original black and white. The 1012-cal isnt exactly an horological orgasm, but all in all a cool watch.
Watchco NOS speedmaster. Difficult to label this with a ref-number. Its a bit frankensteins creation to say atleast. case is 145.022, dial is 35th com. panda, caliber 864 which basicly is a chronometer upgrade of 861. Nicely decorated as well. One of only 2 chronometer certified chronographs from back in the day. Other one is cal.1041. This movement came mostly in some limited edition 18k speedmasters. pretty rare movement. And ofcourse, display back.
Flightmaster 145.036. This is a beast. 5 crowns, 43mm and 7 hands that makes a super messy dial. Its a total mess. But i still love this watch. Cal.911 which is a sibling of 861. Bought this from watchco and i think the hands are original, but the color coded crowns have been changed. The caseback says 145.026 (transitional model inbetween 145.016 and 145.036) but i ordered an extract from the archives from bienne where it stated it was produced 1975, delivered to Ecuador. The watch is in desperate need of a service. Hoping i could fix that this fall.
Watchco Seamaster 300. Bought this some weeks ago. It is in stunning condition. With Omega now in the process of halting all watchpart deliveries except to AD's, these will become rarer and rarer. I figured i wanted to secure one before this happens.
Non-Omega wtches:
I bought this one when my oldest daughter was born (2012) and therefor i regard this one as a special one because of that. I absolutely love this watch. its boring as hell, but its just perfect at the same time. My Omegas has a lot more charm.
Ah jes, Citizen. Regarding the number of sold units, Citizen may be the biggest brand of them all. Once in a while brands one doesnt not mention when talking about high end watches does something just to provoke. Grand Seiko did this back in the 60's a much higher scale. Before entering the chronometer parcours in switzerland they just said, screw the cost, screw everything, lets just make the best watches around just to show the damn swiss that japanese watches where superior. The did screw the swiss and the chronometer competition threw out seiko because the just dominated. This Citizen has some of that blood running in its weins. retailing for ~1000usd (crazy for Citizen) you get a crazy Miyota movement (first time citizen has a miyota mvt even if they own miyota..) cal. 9010. Normally you think its a close relative to the 9015, but its not really. Its totally new mvt. Crazy decorated and the rotor looks like defying the laws of gravity when it just spins and spins just like the totem in the movie inception. Personally i think citizen had 2 key strategies in creating these watches (grand classic automatic). 1. Gain a stronger position in the North American watch market for automatics (this watch only distributed in S+N.America). 2. As ETA is slowing down delivery, Citizen might be the movement maker that can deliver same quality and same production numbers. For that to happen they need to prove a lot. And this is step one.
So this is my current collection, but there has been a lot of changes lately. But now im pretty happy with whereim at.
There you go, im looking forward to joining this forums, looks like theres a lot of skilled people here. as the years go by, i might be able to contribute myself
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