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·I think it's not only nice, but necessary to have some russian and east german watches. If only to appreciate the quality and execution in Swiss and Japanese watches. 😉
What's The Longest Time You've Misplaced a Watch?
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JayBe
·Hah, true! Although those Raketa's do have quite solid movements inside. Copernicus even has the higher accuracy 2609NP movement with shock absorbers in the escape wheel jewels as well as in balance assembly! So there's some tank like quality in them 😁
It's true that they have the quality where it matters. I buy a lot of these old Russian watches and I keep joking that they will survive the nuclear holocaust. I have yet to find one that doesn't work, no matter how beat up they look on the outside. They are mostly even quite reasonably accurate, although I could bet that they have never received a service in the last 30 years+, amazing.
They lack of course the quality in the material and surface treatment of the dial, hands, markers and case...
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1956
·This is my Certina DS 5601 113:
It was the DS that sparked my interest in that particular line of watches and changed my collecting habits for good. It is in pretty good nick and has a bracelet in really great condition, something that is rather hard to find.
It has also been missing for about twenty months.
I must have spent days in total searching through all my belonging, two houses and a holiday cabin as well as my old office. I couldn't quite get to grips with the possibility that I could have lost it at work (during lockdown I went to my workplace only once), but as my initial theory of it lying on a shelf somewhere in my garage hadn't been proven during 2021, I was slowly getting to a point where I had mentally signed it off. Especially since the woman in charge of cleaning at my work pretty bluntly told me that they don't keep lost watches for a long time and they regularly throw some out. In December I took the step of buying a date version cousin (5801 113) to it to relive the romance...
Now I get to enjoy the pair of them 🥰
Last week I rediscovered the 5601 during a trip abroad; it lay in an inner pocket on a laptop briefcase I very rarely use, but have searched at least two times since I realised the watch had gone missing. Go figure.
Do you have a similar experience?
Always nice to know I’m not the only one.
8 months my Calatrava sat in a bag under a HiFi preamp I’d taken for repairs and couldn’t get back due to C-flu shutdowns. I too turned the house upside down even bought a metal detector. All because I thought my wife would accuse me os selling it. Even after getting the amp back it sat in the bag due to having to move other stuff so it was quite a shock to see the watch in its travel pouch lying under the amp!
Life’s like that!
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marcn
·Herregud!
Some context - For a year now:
1. I looked in all the obvious places (many, many times)
2. Then in all the dumbest places (many more times)
3. Then the “crazy closet” got tackled, in phases.
And in the end, how did this private mystery end? The damned thing was rolled up and stashed in A MASON JAR (what-the-actual-****?!?) on a shelf in the crazy closet.
No one has claimed responsibility, but I’m prepared to sign the truce papers. Now, it needs a spa visit and new crystal. I love this damned thing so much!
Some context - For a year now:
1. I looked in all the obvious places (many, many times)
2. Then in all the dumbest places (many more times)
3. Then the “crazy closet” got tackled, in phases.
And in the end, how did this private mystery end? The damned thing was rolled up and stashed in A MASON JAR (what-the-actual-****?!?) on a shelf in the crazy closet.
No one has claimed responsibility, but I’m prepared to sign the truce papers. Now, it needs a spa visit and new crystal. I love this damned thing so much!
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Hands90
·Lol, this is so hilarious. And true. Although I have never misplaced one for such a period I had to buy a replacement, I have misplaced a couple of times for just a few weeks. Most recent was my Aqua Terra. It's was wrapped in a cloth, back in a cupboard.
I guess if you really, really love the model you can put it away for a few years and then swap them.
Or 1 is a beater and 1 is a dress/special event watch.
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cicindela
··Steve @ ΩFThis was a mid 90s 16610 in beat up shape in around 2012-2013, it was a $3.5k watch give or take. I had a head only EXP2 polar I picked up for like $2k usd around that time, nobody cared about them and you could walk into an AD and get anything except a Daytona at list on the spot.
Edit: for those who don’t remember, this is a mint condition GMT that sold in late 2013 here for $5250
https://omegaforums.net/threads/rolex-gmt-master-ii-16710-coke-never-touched.7963/#post-95762
And this was what a CK2998 went for in the early days:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/fs-omega-2998-6-good-cond-working-perf.1225/
Times have changed but that was the era we lived in back not too long ago
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cicindela
··Steve @ ΩFYeah, I went through that all grey phase, now I’m going through the all “less” hair phase. 😜
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marcn
·Now, it needs a spa visit and new crystal.
Following up my own post.
I know many of you are already familiar with Paul’s Watch Repair, and I’ll just add my voice saying what a terrific gentleman he is. I brought the watch in yesterday, and it was ready today. The replacement crystal has a different profile than the original, but I absolutely love it. I couldn’t be happier, thus this post.
