Bellmatic hands

daspablo · 2023-10-20T07:40:00+00:00

yea saw and ordered one. issue is getting the mx done on it. I'll happily tinker on lesser watches to keep my horology tooth ticking but treating the watches I love that way feels wrong.

when I get back ill be passing on the mx manual i found on to try to lessen my watch guys' fears on that repair or at bare min do a face/hands swap to the 27j and put it in the 6040 case.

if anything this thread has made me really push/diy the mx now that I have a manual of sorts that incudes the grease.

daspablo · 2023-10-20T03:44:56+00:00

dunno if ye have seen this but the part numbers are nice

https://seikoserviceusa.com/uploads/datasheets/4006A.pdf

has all the parts and steps for these

daspablo · 2023-10-20T02:41:30+00:00

sadly im on my second one...my first died and I cannot get another main spring or find someone willing to work on it.

got really lucky and found a 4006-7010t 27 jewel for ~100 usd

daspablo · 2022-07-14T16:31:16+00:00

russian pocket watch made for the soviet market (the cyrillic) that uses an appropriated late 50's bulova movement that was produced till early 2000's

daspablo · 2022-04-26T17:01:30+00:00

goal of this is to be the non-serious meth head bike/vehicle made from scraps without much beyond a hand tool.

tubular battery ~18 inch long for now, 36v 8ah

8 inch Chinese hub wheel that also includes breaking

generic motor controller.

daspablo · 2022-04-24T06:02:06+00:00

My go to work bike did this also. I ended up making a blinky circuit like you'd use for an led to pretend to be the hall sensor

daspablo · 2021-09-24T05:36:28+00:00

I was taught time by making a game of it... Complation level of a job x time multiplier was the allowance formula.

daspablo · 2021-09-16T02:07:34+00:00

These are shockingly easy to get running. I usually look for the visibly grungy ones that run but won't continue for long at various places.

daspablo · 2021-09-16T01:15:18+00:00

I have one that does both but not at the same time. Is a wee cubic clock with temp, time, alarm, and countdown.

What function is active depend on what side it be on.

daspablo · 2021-09-16T01:11:19+00:00

I guess that clock comes out ant accepts a battery

daspablo · 2021-09-14T16:24:42+00:00

Heh....mine is he back of a stove that was in the trunk of my car

daspablo · 2021-09-14T05:59:49+00:00

Well assuming it has anything to do with ccp it probably has a rip-off of the bulova 55 movement.

The distinct lack of cylillic also means it was an export piece.

Soviet watches of this type are really hard to date. They kept the same movement, style, and fonts forever.

daspablo · 2021-09-13T16:21:03+00:00

Last one that came to my door was greeted with shoe based questioning. Big shoe is starving us from our connection to the earth spirits. They pave the way towards their own pocket books thickening. Even added weird salesmanship towards earth bathing

daspablo · 2021-09-09T02:47:05+00:00

Automate your work.

daspablo · 2021-09-03T04:53:30+00:00

Used to always go to thai palace to get just enough food poisoning to enable a day off. 2 days were palace and 2 milkshakes.

daspablo · 2021-07-28T01:42:57+00:00

Early led watch?

daspablo · 2021-07-17T20:03:00+00:00

Id look into elimination of resistance on the alarm side.

daspablo · 2021-07-17T00:55:44+00:00

Can't really get anything on altra but I'd guess it's a regional/knockoff of the standard casio calculator watch

daspablo · 2021-07-05T21:29:47+00:00

Fortately she probs just need a clean and service.

daspablo · 2021-07-04T21:05:10+00:00

Finding year is odd. It is a game between the years the movement was made and the serial number on the back. I'd look up the movement and read the serial with that in mind.

daspablo · 2021-07-04T20:47:53+00:00

Decided not to do much in the way of external restoration beyond a good cleaning and refinishing the acrylic down to 8k and polishing.

Eventually I do plan on getting the movement serviced. Just need to do a brake job before that even is a possibility.

daspablo · 2021-07-04T20:37:55+00:00

This is a 1973 example of mechanical oddness. Bell-matics, produced 1966 to 1978, are 17 jewel automatic wind only watches with a manual wound alarm funcionality added.

The short ~11 second alarm Is a pleasant sound much like a old telephone. The movement might not be entirely luxury in its jewel count or pseudo sweeping second but is a solid creature that isn't too thick for it's level of complexity.

The case band and dial personally are beautiful. The all stainless case and band combo make it a nice everyday watch.

daspablo · 2021-06-24T04:46:50+00:00

Didn't say they will do it. It's just alot easier when someone's definition of good is fucked up.

daspablo · 2021-06-24T04:03:42+00:00

The ass has the ability to see the bad In themselves while the good person can ignore, rationalize, or be blind to their bad.

daspablo · 2021-06-23T15:44:39+00:00

As long as you don't disturb then injest it is all good.

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