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Well done !
WHO loves Certinas ?
Well done !
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·In my - not so long - experience, I think you should buy the whole thing, and not try to find end links separately. I was looking for this exact bracelet for a while and i found a lot - with and without endlinks )- but never did i see just the end links.
There a a few bracelet for sale, but that's pretty expensive, around 4/500€ minimum.
good luck with your hunt !
actually there's another solution. Bracelets on their own (with endlinks) can be very expensive as you're not the only one looking for these. What I did when looking for a GF for my DS1 was buying a whole watch with the GF bracelet (for 550 if i remember correctly), then i kept the bracelet and sold the head only (for 150/200). So the bracelet cost me about 400, which I think is a fair price if you don't have connections or know the Certina underworld like some people (me not included) in the forum lol
Last thing >> be sure to check and ask for the length of the bracelet. They rarely have all the links (if they do it'll be more expensive) and if they don't say that the bracelet is for a XX inches/cm wrist, it might mean that the bracelet is rather small...so be carefull.
My wrist is 18.5cm, the one I bought fit just perfect (in mean perfect : 0.2cm less would'"nt have worked). I actually consider myself lucky since the guy who sold it to me said it was fine for 19cm wrist...
Consider yourself warned.
Bye !
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·Hello, can enybody deliver more info about certina ph 100 m cal 750 with a steel bracelet! I don’t know the real price of this watch and i am not shure if it is the original bracelet! The guy whant’s around 250€ and i am not shure if to pool the triger! Thank you and best regards!
I'll let experts answers fully, but IMHO i think 250 is quite a good price, as this watch is rather rare on the market, even more with the original bracelet.
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Virgil01
·I'll let experts answers fully, but IMHO i think 250 is quite a good price, as this watch is rather rare on the market, even more with the original bracelet.
Thank you and best regards,
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·Feeling red hot today
Certina DS 2 red dial on original 6025 jubilee bracelet. One of my personal favs
Also waiting impatiently for my last purchase to come out of the watchmaker : a 1960 manual wound DS1 with black dial (that was hard to find...) and golden patinaed dauphine hands...can't wait to share it with you 🤪. ....only problem is i have to wait until at least october 🥱
Certina DS 2 red dial on original 6025 jubilee bracelet. One of my personal favs
Also waiting impatiently for my last purchase to come out of the watchmaker : a 1960 manual wound DS1 with black dial (that was hard to find...) and golden patinaed dauphine hands...can't wait to share it with you 🤪. ....only problem is i have to wait until at least october 🥱
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·Hi guys, i have a few questions for the certina community 😀
I've been browsing the internet and found something quite intriguing : a blue dial DS 1...(pictures below)
That got me thinking and some questions popped out. Hope you can help me out with your knowledge. you'll see there are many sub questions to my questions ahahah
>>> In my opinion (and as i write these lines I'm now 100% sure) it's a complete fake one and here's three reasons why.
First of all...i've never ever seen a blue dialed ds1.
To me the only DS1 dials seem to be :
- white/grey/silver/champagne (i don't if these 4 exist, maybe with the age it's just the same one ^^)
- pie pan (date and no date)
- black...in my personal opinion the nicest dial...except maybe the no date pie pan (I've only seen black dial on manual ones...does anybody know if it does exist on automatic ??)
Second : The movement :
We can see 25-65 on the movement, which is a no date automatic movement : contradictory. Which also got me thinking about something funny : how can it have a date number (27) on the date window since it should be a no date hence have no date wheel ??
Third : the DS writing on the dial
The DS writing is quite different from my own DS and all the ones i've seen. The S in particular is completely different (sorry I have trouble explaining it in english lol)
Anyway the conclusion is quite obvious. 100% fake >> actually I should say "Fake and Wrong dial"
Can you spot other signs of a fake dial ?? (the hour markers maybe ?)
Also : is this what one might call a Frankenwatch ?
I'm sorry if my explanations might seem trivial to the real watch experts here. I just find it quite satisfying been able to spot fake watches on a brand you actually love (OK, this one was quite obvious) 😀
I'm still very new to the vintage world, which is for the time being only limited to certina to me, and the learning is definitly the best part.
only thing i can say though is...they should have made it in blue ahahah (a nicer blue than this one though)
(sorry if my english is not the best 😜)
I've been browsing the internet and found something quite intriguing : a blue dial DS 1...(pictures below)
That got me thinking and some questions popped out. Hope you can help me out with your knowledge. you'll see there are many sub questions to my questions ahahah
>>> In my opinion (and as i write these lines I'm now 100% sure) it's a complete fake one and here's three reasons why.
First of all...i've never ever seen a blue dialed ds1.
To me the only DS1 dials seem to be :
- white/grey/silver/champagne (i don't if these 4 exist, maybe with the age it's just the same one ^^)
- pie pan (date and no date)
- black...in my personal opinion the nicest dial...except maybe the no date pie pan (I've only seen black dial on manual ones...does anybody know if it does exist on automatic ??)
Second : The movement :
We can see 25-65 on the movement, which is a no date automatic movement : contradictory. Which also got me thinking about something funny : how can it have a date number (27) on the date window since it should be a no date hence have no date wheel ??
Third : the DS writing on the dial
The DS writing is quite different from my own DS and all the ones i've seen. The S in particular is completely different (sorry I have trouble explaining it in english lol)
Anyway the conclusion is quite obvious. 100% fake >> actually I should say "Fake and Wrong dial"
Can you spot other signs of a fake dial ?? (the hour markers maybe ?)
Also : is this what one might call a Frankenwatch ?
I'm sorry if my explanations might seem trivial to the real watch experts here. I just find it quite satisfying been able to spot fake watches on a brand you actually love (OK, this one was quite obvious) 😀
I'm still very new to the vintage world, which is for the time being only limited to certina to me, and the learning is definitly the best part.
only thing i can say though is...they should have made it in blue ahahah (a nicer blue than this one though)
(sorry if my english is not the best 😜)
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·Hi guys, i have a few questions for the certina community 😀
My first DS (left) actually is a (obvious!) Frankenwatch with a blue dial - weird, but rather nice-looking on the wrist.
The watch on the right is what I guess was closest to blue, a dark grey dial with a blueish tint.
I saw the auction where you found this a few weeks back, and didn't even notice the missing 1 on the rotor - good catch!
I'll add that the hands don't look like DS hands to me, but more like what would be on a DS-2, an early 70s New Art or even an Eterna 3000 or 3003.
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·I've been after a vintage diver for some time, and managed to land this 113.
I'm considering having the hands re-lumed (in a pale yellow) when it gets serviced. Would be happy to hear opinions on that.
I'm considering having the hands re-lumed (in a pale yellow) when it gets serviced. Would be happy to hear opinions on that.
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·I've been after a vintage diver for some time, and managed to land this 113.
I'm considering having the hands re-lumed (with a pale yellow) when it gets serviced. Would be happy to hear any opinions on that, as I've not yet requested that sort of thing.
It's gorgeous.. I love, love, love that dial font! I think if it were mine, I'd leave it well alone as I think the lume looks great👍
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·It's gorgeous.. I love, love, love that dial font! I think if it were mine, I'd leave it well alone as I think the lume looks great👍
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·Thanks. The numerals are interesting and they are gilt -- so they catch the light. It might not be clear in the photos, but the lume on the minute hand has either lost a piece or turned black, so I'm leaning toward having something done to address that.
I really love those numerals, I never understand why they don't go to the trouble of matching things like the date and bezel fonts??
It looks like a bit of the lume has dropped out, if you get a sense that it's unstable and more is likely to drop out, it can be stabilized using binder (or the like) from behind, and if the hole in the lume bothers you, it can be filled with matching lume, or, both hands could be relumed from scratch to match..😉
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Errol_V
·Certina's are a good option for getting a well-made Swiss watch at an affordable price. I own one, but seldom wear.
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·Feeling red hot today
Certina DS 2 red dial on original 6025 jubilee bracelet. One of my personal favs
Also waiting impatiently for my last purchase to come out of the watchmaker : a 1957 manual wound DS1 with black dial (that was hard to find...) and golden patinaed dauphine hands...can't wait to share it with you 🤪. ....only problem is i have to wait until at least october 🥱
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·New arrival: Bristol 230 with a lovely dial but the plated case kind of bums me out. Oh well, it was cheap...
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·While far from being an expert, I think you're absolutely right - there probably and regrettably never were DS's made with a true blue dial.
My first DS (left) actually is a (obvious!) Frankenwatch with a blue dial - weird, but rather nice-looking on the wrist.
The watch on the right is what I guess was closest to blue, a dark grey dial with a blueish tint.
I saw the auction where you found this a few weeks back, and didn't even notice the missing 1 on the rotor - good catch!
I'll add that the hands don't look like DS hands to me, but more like what would be on a DS-2, an early 70s New Art or even an Eterna 3000 or 3003.
Hey @philby i wanna open up that debate one again
As you can see I just saw two other disturbing vintage DS 1 on various selling website
1. A black Dial automatic DS
I emphasize one the "automatic" 'cause as I said before, I haven't seen any black dial auto, only manual.
I also think it's a franken :
a. Black dial automatic, never seen that
b. the writing "certina", "automatic" and "DS" are very poor
c. The most obvious : the awful "Swiss Made" at the wrong place, and also not aligned from one side to another
2. Another Blue Dial DS (manual w date)
appart from the fact that blue dials seem not to exist, that one was a bit trickier.
No obvious thing like wrong movement or awful "swiss made"
the "certina" writing seems legit, "
swiss made" is ok
The only thing that makes me almost 100% sure it's a franken is the "DS" on the dial, particularly the "S" than ends up in a weird way.
What about you guys, did you find any other indications that it's a fake ? Or are you gonna blow my mind and tell me these are legit
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Eve
·This thread needs a bump.. 😉
This beauty arrived yesterday 🥰
This beauty arrived yesterday 🥰
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·One of my favourite DS 😀
