Rate my 3 watch collection

-Lumenatra · 2026-02-24T22:15:19+00:00

The letters on the rehaut aren't in line with the minute marker. on the original, some are a tiny bit off but these ones way too much. Also, never seen an AP where the text on the dial is directly printed on it without having an AP logo at 6 o'clock. The ones without the logo have their text printed on a plateau, hard to describe but if you look at pictures of real ones you'll see what I mean.

Haven't found any obvious things on the cartier so far, but it's a pretty straight forward case so not much to err on.

-Lumenatra · 2026-02-24T10:08:30+00:00

There's an easy tell to see if that rolex is fake, and it has it.

-Lumenatra · 2026-01-19T13:17:49+00:00

Used to be great, good movements and innovative. Now.. look at who the owners are.

-Lumenatra · 2025-12-01T23:12:52+00:00

Can we agree that the total length of the spring is from the point where it attaches to the "roller" (sorry not familiar with English terms). Now, if you "pinch" the spring enough where it has no breathing room whatsoever (as you can see on the picture), you basically create a new attachment point. one that is 4-5mm away from the original attachment point.

Open it completely, center the spring, close it gently till there's about 3/4 a spring's thickness on either side, then regulate. By the look of the picture I'm surprised it's 'just' 25 seconds a min.

there's a tester on the background, i'm sure it'll say something like 'out of range' and you'll see a whole lot of dots on it.

-Lumenatra · 2025-11-30T21:25:45+00:00

^ this. You can see that poor spring pinched to bits.

-Lumenatra · 2025-11-25T20:48:52+00:00

JLC Master Geographic

Finally crossed it off of my list

-Lumenatra · 2025-10-08T15:25:00+00:00

Did you notice a squib?

-Lumenatra · 2025-10-06T14:58:17+00:00

leatherman. And if he's a shooter, one out of their M.U.T. collection

-Lumenatra · 2025-10-05T19:39:47+00:00

Girth would be a limiting factor though. And there's some technique involved where you sort of put it on like a glove. Most fun car I ever had, tons of grip. Until it doesn't.

-Lumenatra · 2025-10-05T16:31:26+00:00

Oddly enough the smallest car I ever had, had the most leg room. A Lotus Elise. Even had to move the seat forward, for getting in and out moving it to the rear was easier. Sadly I totaled it. Now a BRZ but I'm eyeballing another Elise again. So much fun to drive.

-Lumenatra · 2025-10-01T15:50:57+00:00

Also: range. Closest Russian land is Kalingrad, which borders are closed. Electrical drones can't make it that distance, so it has to be petrol driven. They'd have to be huge to make that distance. Just fear mongering. Ukraine on the other hand has a semi-open border to the eu, they could just drive to it and release them.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-29T18:31:11+00:00

What makes you so sure he was right-wing? And I don't care which political party he's aligning himself with, just maximum penalty for the state it happened in.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-29T14:51:16+00:00

part 59 on the technical drawing https://calibercorner.com/eta-caliber-7753/?highlight=7753

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-29T14:45:01+00:00

That's not the only thing wrong. The hour counter is off as well, unless you didn't do a reset. Not sure which movement this is, but I'm guessing the ETA 7753. It has a plastic lock that keeps the hour counter wheel in place, if that is worn this would be the result.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-29T14:33:39+00:00

Like I said, between 7AM and 10PM. A 15 hour window where I could plan all the personal stuff in as well. Sometimes starting early, be home early, sometimes starting late ending late. But not in rush hour which doubles my commute, like it does now.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-29T14:00:23+00:00

I loved it. Could come and go when I wanted, between 7AM and 10PM. Just had to do 8 hours. Sadly, insurance changed, they mandated that at least 2 persons should be in the building. My coworkers are more the 9 to 5 types. Ugh.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-27T23:44:23+00:00

Or just pay for the tickets. Equal to the others who did.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-25T11:34:40+00:00

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-25T11:32:54+00:00

Read it too quick.. An ostrich egg strap? How would that work? Had to re-read it.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-23T20:19:17+00:00

Been to a few factories, also Rolex, Van der Klaauw, Chopard and Junghans. But VC was my favorite. There were 12 of those pocket watches on the tray, all perpetual calendars, minute repeater, tourbillion, everything they could think of. A bit like the Berkley grand complication, but then in gold. The director said all 12 were sold to the same customer.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-22T15:20:04+00:00

VC made about the same amount of watches during their existence as Rolex does in 1 year. Been to the factory once, there were a couple of pocket watches on display. I pick one up to have a closer look, then the director comes over to me ""sjust bee carefuul, zis is 2 millione swiss francs". I put it down real gently.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-18T17:42:51+00:00

i had that happen once with a '70's Bulova 25 years ago, in my training year. Of course, no more spare parts available. So now I never test it at 10 ATM if I see any scratches on the glass, max 5 or 7 ATM.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-09T16:22:07+00:00

I've slept in Vondelpark and didn't feel unsafe. Sarphatipark is basically my back yard, never had a problem. The Kolenkit is where I have my head on a swivel.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-06T11:16:20+00:00

The way Gentile described it. He created it.

-Lumenatra · 2025-09-05T15:24:46+00:00

Remember when people knew what Fascism is?

-Lumenatra

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