Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

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Phew been busy at work so not as active here lately but also been busy hitting the watch hobby crack pipe!

I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the Uncle Seiko tropic strap for the 6105. It's the perfect fit in terms of keeping homage to the original style while adding the strength and security I was looking for. Here are some pics, side by sides and a golden hour shot of the 6105!



Uncle Seiko tropic on the right vs. vintage tropic on the left:





US on the right, vintage on the left:









So far it's pretty comfy and breaking in more every time I wear it! Definitely a great purchase.

I also got the chance to time the NE15 movement that was swapped into Perfect Samurai. I wish I could have gotten a good benchmark from the stock 4R before I sent it off, but got about a days' worth of data:



From experience in the past, the 4Rs I've owned settle in nicely from -0.5sec to -8ishsec per day but do seem to prefer to rest at a certain position or they lose more than that. This one was a little fast out of the box.

It took a while for the NE15 to settle in but from what I can tell once it gets charged up it seems to keep excellent time! It does seem to have less positional variance as advertised but it does prefer to be diagonal on the winder, dial up or worn for best timekeeping:





Averaging about -6ish sec/day including its time to get fully charged, but when it's fully charged it seems to be more like -2 sec/day. Not bad!

I did also get a chance though to time the power reserve on both movements. The 4R in project Two Tone made it almost exactly 41 hours on a full charge which seems to be within specs. The NE15 however made it 54 hours! Definitely better than advertised and a noticeable improvement over the 4R

So would I do the movement swap all over again knowing all of this? Yeah it was worth the experiment! The extra power reserve and precision at multiple positions is definitely really nice. Do you need to do it on an OEM 4R watch? No you probably don't. It would make more sense if you're looking to upgrade a 7S26 in like an SKX to spend another $60 for the NE15 over a 4R if you wanted to go "all out".

Here's another shot from our sunny Easter weekend!



Lastly I've got another mod project on the way apparently since I just won an eBay auction on this awesome patina'd SKX009, so stay tuned for the next one! Yes it's a disease. I'll probably flip this one sooner as opposed to later though, just temporarily rolling over equity / profit from my flips into the next one!



Slowly building the IG empire, about 320 followers in less than a month! I'm sure if I was a half naked attention whore Instagram model it would go quicker But I've had a few big names like Isofrane straps, Raymond Weil, Aquadive, Brown Safe, CrystalTimes and some big watch bloggers follow me so that's pretty cool!

Dave: You should post up a review of that shiny new Astron!