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Mine is Seiko Sports 100 Chronograph purchased in 1985. Battery change every 3 years .  Just noticed i needed to advanve the date. | ||
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I think I bought this in the early '70s and actually wore it not long ago. Certainly not my everyday, though. John Camron Swayze was right!! I have a Zodiac I bought at the PX in Korea in 1966, still runs but haven't worn in years.  ________________________________ "Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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I bought an Omega Speedmaster back in the mid-70's. | |||
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Bought this Seiko Dive watch around 1977 when I started Assistant Instructing SCUBA. I've worn it daily since then.  | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
I bought an Omega Flightmaster in Chester, England, in February 1971. It cost me three months' pay. I've looked after it and had it serviced a few times, and it still looks very fine. It keeps excellent time, too, and is a real prize possession. Value now for the version I have hovers around the $8-9k mark. | |||
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Well, my father William, inventor of the View-Master, bought this Fortis in 1938. I had P. Sovich overhaul it and wear it about once a week.  | |||
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Inherited my grandfathers Rolex Oyster Perpetual date…from 1977   "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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I'm a piker. Picked up a Victorinox 24220 in New Orleans in 1993. It's been with me on every fun trip since then, though. The funny thing for me is that I got it long before going to planning school, but started seeing a lot of others just like it in that field of academia, among local government types that work with land, and among a fair few of the "on-the-ground" types working in land development and sales. | |||
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Sub Date 16800 I bought in 1982. Then in 2003 I got the YM, followed by the Daytona in 2004, but I foolishly sold it.  | |||
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I have a Seiko dive watch I bought in the fall of 1990. I still wear it on occasion. I have a Delma quarts dive watch I bought some time in the mid 80s. It needs to be restored and a battery. I do not think I have worn it in the last twenty years tho. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | |||
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Impressive. A real classic right there. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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Oldest bought new would be my trusty G-Shock rescue.  Oldest bought refurbished would be my Seiko 6309 Turtle.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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I have the same watch but with a black face. I purchased mine in 1986. I also have a 1970 Longines 3 register chronograph that I also purchased new. The pictured watch below is just like mine except mine still has the original SS bracelet. https://www.ebay.com/itm/27384...b5ffdf5246%7Ciid%3A1 | |||
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I have a slack handful of Seiko Sapphires, ranging in age from one year to four years old. Quartz (accurate), sapphire crystals (no scratches), stainless steel bands (no deterioration), date windows, large and visible numbers and hands. Tool watches. No old timey or expensive watches for me. I gave up the Rolex Explorer II and the series of Omega Seamasters that I lusted after and bought in my 40's and 50's. They were beautiful, and good watches, but why have an automatic? Why have a watch that needs an $800 service every four years? Why buy a watch and flash it in some working stiff's face, representing more money than they make in a month? Why worry about someone seeing it on me and then setting me up to steal it? The Seiko's I own cost $100 - $150 each and run impeccably. They don't look bad either. I can change the batteries myself, and if they break or stop working (none has) they are easy to replace. Not a good answer for the original question, which presumes watch-lovers have some old friends among their watch collections. I get that, and I love good watches to look at, but I have followed a different path and decided to pass them up. | |||
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| The Quiet Man |
Seiko SKX007 that I bought probably 1999. I hadn't been on the job long an wanted a watch I could beat up without feeling terrible about it. It's been beat to hell and back, never been serviced, and still runs within 20 seconds a day. I keep meaning to send it in to get it serviced and maybe a new bezel installed, but never get around to it. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
Caution MEGA-Thread drift!!!! Back in the 1950's when I was very young, we used to visit our rich aunt, who lived in Kensington in a VERY posh apartment. To escape the adults and their inane chattering I used to hole up in the corner with a black Viewmaster and around forty or more sets of reels about Canada and America and watch them over and over. They were REAL images, in 3D, and I was hooked forever on stereographic imagery and the way to capture it. Fast forward to 1974, when I opted out of the part of the INT CORPS I was in to specialise as an imagery analyst - a road that took me to the very top post as the British Army's senior IA and Chief Instructor at the school for the last five years of my 33-year service. In the drawer beside my desk, right now, I have that same Viewmaster and reels of images, as fresh as the day they were made, of a Canada and an America long gone, but alive in my imagination. If your dad was still around, I would have loved to have shaken him by the hand and thank him for the pleasure his invention gave me, and how I used the skills I developed from applying that interest in war and peace over the last 65 years of my life. Mr G - I salute you! | |||
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My story isn't nearly as much as fun as tac's, but I'll add to the "View-Master love" here. I spent uncountable hours with those! Skywag, I thank your father for that invention. What a wonderful device. Getting the thread back on track: I've got an early Seiko Kinetic, purchased in about 1997 or so, and a Seiko titanium chrono purchased shortly after. I'll get pics later on. I also have my grandfather's all-mechanical Bulova, but that doesn't count according to the thread title.  God bless America. | |||
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Tacfoley, (Sorry for continuing the mega thread-drift!!) Here is my father and me on Cooper Spur, Mt. Hood. He always wanted the View-Master to be a scientific device, and he spent 10 years flying from Portland to Stanford University once a month. Dr. Bassett dissected the human body and my father made 3D photos. Standford has digitized these and are in use in medical schools. The bodies were embalmed in formaldehyde. To keep the smell down they both smoked cigars.............and both died young men............probably from formaldehyde poisoning.  | |||
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Back to watches...................Here is the FOrtis I bought for myself.  | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
A few years back Mrs tac and I went looking for the View-Master museum - mentioned in the local guidebook for Portland attractions. Not only was it not there, but the people in the place had never heard of the device, or the museum. Should have expected it really, given the oddness of Portland these days...great shame though. I had brought along a few of my original 1940's reels for whoever might have been there to look at. Apologies for drifting, folks - Mr skywag has no other contact than here. | |||
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