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Barking mad
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderSundowners..
Coffee..
calm before the storm!
Coffee..
calm before the storm!
WRUW Today?
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Spruce
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanWhat a beautiful sharkfin case, congratulations!
Wishing you all a great week-end - I'll be wearing my Longines Ultra-Chron ref. 8455, sold in Hong Kong in 1973.
I’m a fan of Longines generally and Ultra Chrons in particular (as well as Admirals and Conquests). I’m always impressed by the dials which, for fifty year old watches, always look pristine
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Lou P
··YaY!
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·Nice weekend! One of this two
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peatnick
·Sixties Saturday
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HamDoctor
·I’m a fan of Longines generally and Ultra Chrons in particular (as well as Admirals and Conquests). I’m always impressed by the dials which, for fifty year old watches, always look pristine
I always enjoy seeing yours 😀
For me, it's the Ultra-Chrons that are my favorites, they were technically so impressive for their time ... the 431 was the last mechanical movement to be on par with a newer technology (the Bulova Accutrons, which were accurate to +/- 2s/d) when it was introduced in 1967. Sure, it was a brief moment in the sun, before Quartz movements came up, but still...
A new Ultra-Chron was guaranteed to be accurate to one minute a month. That's more finely regulated than basically anything else in its time, an IWC was between +0 to +5 secs a day, a Grand Seiko Special (6155/6156) was +/- 3s/d ... (Okay, the VFA 6180 would have been even more finely tuned than that, but this is hardly a watch you would just walk into a store and buy.) The Ultra-Chrons had beautiful movements, as well. I'll add a shot below of the 6651 movement that is in the watch I'm wearing today.
Now, if there were more non-date Ultra-Chron versions about ... and if the movement had hacking (which is my only "major" complaint, more of a niggle, really).
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mswilks
·1988.
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BAJJ
·I haven’t been here in awhile.
The last two days have seemed like time stood still 🤔.
Wore this one as my mom had her last breath on Tuesday. She lived a long and beautiful life.
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Mach
·Happy Saturday!
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Walrus
·Been wearing my mini bond happily and without notice as usually until two people at work called it out as an omega. I was kinda shocked I don’t wear watches for attention. My collection is still out of reach so I have few options but I became a bit flummoxed and tried to explain it’s just a midsize model nothing really special I don’t know why I get like that
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Deafboy
··His Holiness Puer SurdusBulova Astronaut with the fabulous Accutron movement.
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