This thread is about the appreciation of beads, Rolex watches and Tudor, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine bead bracelet, Tudor or Rolex watch, clock, or other timepiece.
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First for steel cases digital.
Look up astrolabe, astronomy, planesphere watches. Here is a good example, click around in the suggestions for others
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Second for fuck troll OPs.
Third. Beadfaggotry needs to go
Quartz watches have an integrated circuit that counts the pulses from the quartz crystals digitally. Every 32768 pulses*, the circuit sends a pulse to a stepper motor. A stepper motor is a device that uses an electromagnet and a permanent magnet to create motion. This in turn drives the hands.
High-end quartz watches I'd s broad term, but high-accuracy quartz, which is a subset, uses either thermocompensation or high-frequency crystals to keep more accurate time.
Your description of how the weather crystal itself with is not quite right. You could look up how crystal oscillators work.
*Not actually true
This OP gets my approval.
>vacheron
lel such a dumb company. just buy a patek
reminder
>High-end quartz watches I'd s broad term, but high-accuracy quartz, which is a subset, uses either thermocompensation or high-frequency crystals to keep more accurate time.
You are so active again.
Did you break up with the teen slut?
Agreed and that's a really really nice watch.
Neat. The dial side of the movement must be ridiculously complicated though.
This would be cool if it was mechanical.
You fucking nigger.
Should I cop a GoPro, stick my fake Tudor on one of those big balloon things and make the FTIS (first Tudor in space)?
balloons can't got to space
How do I convince he USAF to take me to space in a U2?
What?
It won't go to space, but I think you should do it anyway.
FFTIS you mean.
U2s can't got to space
kek
Time to take a seagull to space
If it doesn't fall apart, will people run around and try to buy that model?
Can you still buy V2 rockets?
>Time to take a seagull to space
t. literally learned that watches exist yesterday from his favorite rapper
kill yourself, my man!
no germany can't into space anymore
>t. poorfag
Reminder that I repair my own watches and you don't. I'm literally better than 90% of /wt/, so if by chance you see me irl and recognize me (the guy with the immaculate taste in vintage watches) you can do yourself a favor and suck my dick, maybe among all the genetic information you'll swallow there will be some of my horological talent that you obviously GRAVELY need. Kid.
>Reminder that I repair my own watches and you don't.
I replaced the mainspring on my Vostok SE020, so I think I should get a pass. Kek.
Did you apply breaking grease?
imagine being this upset (and ill-informed about watches)
lol
>mainspring
Didn't have to, the replacement came greased. I confirmed that the replacement did not have the overbanking issues the original did on my timegrapher afterwards.
I should clarify I replaced the entire barrel assembly, not just the mainspring.
>I replaced the entire barrel assembly
Oh right, the thing a Soviet Army armorer is expected to do in an outpost if Afghanistan.
Guys, are there any watches with some kind of astronomy/cosmology heritage/history? Not astronautics like the moonwatch and similar.
Well when the barrel and mainspring are $5 to replace entirely, I don't see much sense is trying to keep the original barrel, especially as it had likely been damaged by several days of operation without enough braking grease.
Look at in this very thread.
Calm down, kid.
>entire barrel assembly
>Servicing a watch
>>Servicing a watch
What would Omega do if you sent one of the Digital Speedmasters to them for a service do you think?
How often would I have to service a MOTFM with daily use?
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>What would Omega do if you sent one of the Digital Speedmasters to them for a service do you think?
Every five years or so.
thanks user
kek, come at me watchmakeranon :3
You don't service a digital watch desu.
You just replace things that get broken if the watch is good enough and if the parts are produced.
Only thing I can think of that people might replace is the lcd display.
That being said Omega wouldnt do shit if you sent one of those there.
>mfw spring drive IS a quartz movement
why do GS fanbois always lie and say that spring drive is automatic movement?
QUARTZ Oscilator, IL, Coil.
It's that simple, it absolutely is a quartz movement -- but the homosexual GS cuckolds will do verbal gymnastics for days to convince the general public otherwise
it's very sad.
>You don't service a digital watch desu.
Exactly. The "SD is mechanical" are the Young-Earth creationists of horology. They're fucking retarded, but you can't convince them otherwise. They'll occasionally throw some pseudo-scientific fallacy at you and then declare themselves victor of the argument.
that stupid anchor's destroyed the lower left lug, and he has 2 cancerous skin masses that I can see.
we need our own mod here to ban anyone who promotes, posts or wears GS.
agreed, they're the flat-earthers of horology, the ultimate shitposters.
>we need our own mod here to ban anyone who promotes, posts or wears GS.
What are you trying to imply?
Alright who's going
"Automatic" despite what certain marketing efforts might suggest, means the watch is recharged by the motion of the wearer's arm. Most (not all) spring drive watches are automatic.
(You)
>What are you trying to imply?
Too much money for such a short course.
Yes, that's a nice looking Timex bro.
GS is fine, it's the delusional troglodytes who refuse to accept that SD is quartz are the ones who need to be murdered in the streets.
this will be really interesting and educational, I wish lived anywhere near Toronto or was a torontian
thx plox
quartz, flatearther.
BINGO
>GS is fine, it's the delusional troglodytes who refuse to accept that SD is quartz are the ones who need to be murdered in the streets.
Well they do it in New York too
Yes. It's an automatic quartz movement. This isn't hard. Just like there are plenty of battery-powered hairspring-regulated watches.
This but unironically
Hsny classes travel - I've seen them in NY, Miami, and LA, to name just a few.
This.
>"Automatic" despite what certain marketing efforts might suggest, means the watch is recharged by the motion of the wearer's arm. Most (not all) spring drive watches are automatic.
Is this where Tudor get their case inspiration from?
> Spring drive is a perpetual quartz watch.
it's a quartz movement. enough with the semantics ira.
I suppose if clarity and precision mean nothing to you it's just a quartz movement.
Why are you feeding obvious bait (You)s?
He's trying out honesty for once.
Can you?
B U R N
probably desu
POST WRIST GAME
those wrist game dubs
>tfw no watch enthusiast gang to take group wrist game shots with.
What watches are highly legible to the point where passing strangers can tell the time?
Kind of like pilot watches.
Rolex
I'm into techwear/cyberpunk style. Which watch is suitable for me?
the only acceptable piece in that group is the ALS.
I'd shun you you all and call security if that was "my group".