12-28-2016, 09:33 AM
My Tissot does the second hand thing too, it syncs up with some of the second tick marks but others land at the halfway point.
Lauren got me a watch repair toolkit for Christmas, so I've got a $15 bid sitting on a pretty banged up old Seiko Sportmatic of unknown vintage. The dial says 17 jewels but the description says its a quartz so I'm not even sure what kind of movement it is, but it doesn't really matter for my purposes.
If I win it I'll use my dremel to polish it and strip the rest of the gold plating off the case, I'll blunder my way through replacing the broken crown, and maybe drop a new crystal in it and stick a new band on it, particularly if it's a 22mm because I already have an extra leather stray in that size. If someone outbids me I'll go for something else but similar, the one I bid on has some non-polishable cosmetic damage on the lower left prong of the case I didn't notice before.
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Lauren got me a watch repair toolkit for Christmas, so I've got a $15 bid sitting on a pretty banged up old Seiko Sportmatic of unknown vintage. The dial says 17 jewels but the description says its a quartz so I'm not even sure what kind of movement it is, but it doesn't really matter for my purposes.
If I win it I'll use my dremel to polish it and strip the rest of the gold plating off the case, I'll blunder my way through replacing the broken crown, and maybe drop a new crystal in it and stick a new band on it, particularly if it's a 22mm because I already have an extra leather stray in that size. If someone outbids me I'll go for something else but similar, the one I bid on has some non-polishable cosmetic damage on the lower left prong of the case I didn't notice before.
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