The OF Clubhouse Water Cooler

Just discussing it with family.

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"I still remember seeing Alien in Penang when Clohey came up to visit. Both of us grown men, military, not scared of anything, it's only a movie etc etc.

Never been so shit scared watching a movie in all my life, and nothing tops that ever since.

I would have taken DJ (@HIXTAR), but he was only about one so it could have turned him off space movies.
So that was a good decision hey ."

I won't be watching Romulus.

Not sure what is worse. Loosing the auction, or winning it only to get a part what does not fit as expected. Or is mislabeled.

Then there is the rebound bid. One then gets something that perhaps was not quite the same as the one that got away.

I forgot to bid on some parts and they did not sell. The relisting was 404. Then it showed up again a week later at a much lower starting bid. So I got it for half of what I was willing to pay.

Other times, the bidding gets fast and furious. Are they shill bids? It often seems I see the same items from the same sellers even after I missed out on it.

It is almost there to make one believe in predestination. To question the illusion of free will. Would the world be a different place if one did win the auction? It could change much how one does spend time and efforts. Even affect one's dreams (and Nightmares.)

My nefew just turned 21. My niece will be 16 next year. Where does the time go.

My dad will be 92 in May. He stopped driving at 90, otherwise active. Has me and mom to take him places. We still have his car, which he lets his grandson drive. I suspect the niece will have access to it as well when they come to visit. Currently they live on the other coast where they go to school.



I tell myself the other person overpaid. Lost out on some 681 calendar rings (the part that wears a lot.) I got the rest of the cal mechanism NOS parts and winding parts. Not the rings. They sold for quite a bit. Which did not surprise me.

I never had a chance on a half dozen or so Val-23 hammer springs. Those can list (unsold for years) at 60 each. The lot went for 210. If I had not bought a bunch of other parts at 2.50 to 30 each, I might have gone to 250.

More often I forget to bid. Then kick myself that the lot sold for less than I was willing.

I want to experiment more with 1340/1342 quartz caliber watches. These were selling for under 100. When I started watching, they go unsold for 150. Auction examples seem to trend in the 250 or so range. So there is definitely price creep in ratty parts watches. Of the 1970s quartz, this will be the easiest to maintain. I still think a modern microcontroller can replace the chip.

I am still bummed a 1342 movement missing the 8 pin chip went unsold, as the seller delisted it a day early. Then said they sold it, even though eBay said it was relisted, the relist was 404. It would have been perfect. The movement I do have is missing over 60$ in parts if bought NOS individually.

My consolation. Is that the purchaser will probably discover, that the omega they got, is not the one that collectors want. Or the repair will be more than the watch is worth. Even if they are going for the motor part, there is a good chance that part will be bad. Although these motors, are similar to the cpu cooling fan motors.

Sold some misc seiko parts, then got a seiko 5 for what I sold the parts for. Bad crystal though. NOS crystals seem to sell for more than the watch and are mostly overseas.

Some say the supply is more limited. (yet there are billions of watches in this world, and many millions can last 500 years or more.) What is limited are specific examples. Ironically which probably also number in the millions.

Dials (Dyals) seem to be what really makes a watch. That more than anything is what has limited numbers. A fair number of these were destroyed, as they only lasted 25 or 30 years. The materials being unstable. Now that they are twice that in age, there is an appreciation for the originality over the readability.