Ikea watch

Here you are a very nice watch I bought years ago :)
It's from IKEA, a real must have for few Euros.
A good watch to remember the 80s Watches from the rap players! 

watches4sell

I'm trying to sell some of my watches. I bought some watch lots from ebay and other places just for one or two pieces of the lot. I don't want to keep that watches so I will try to sell them to be able to spend more money in new purchases... I know I won't become rich spending all the money on more watches, but for sure I will have more watches on my collection :)

Here you are the 1st post of my other blog:

Hi!This new blog will be used to show some of the watches I have on sale. I'm selling some of my watches through several webs.I'm trying to guide my collection to water related watches, so I have to sell some of the watches I have to be able to buy more of them. Let's see if I'm able to have 2 blogs :)

And here you are the url http://watches4sell.blogspot.com/

Casio G-Shock swimming pool shots

After a long weekend here you are two underwater pictures of my DW-5900. 
A very nice Casio G-Shock, that has all the needed functions except the light. Yes! this G doesn't has any light. It is the 1st multi dial G but it's dark in the night. Not a problem for these swimming pool shots.

LCD inverted dial

Anyone interested on inverting dials?
I did my first test using an old Casio A158w.
It is quite easy, just disassembly the module, remove the polarized layer at the front of the LCD screen and stick a new polarized layer turned 90 degrees.
I bought the layers in ebay for few USD.
A very easy mod to start. The next one will be to add oil to a watch, my first hydro!

Vostok Komandirskie

I'm checking the old posts of the blog and it seems I've never posted any picture of my Vostok watch!
It is a franken-watch. It is an automatic Vostok Komandirskie but the case is not from this watch.
Someone during the watch live changed the original chrome plated case to this gold plated one. The case was gold plated nut now it is only plated in few areas, most of the case has the base metal. That metal is polished and gives a quite good finish.
The movement is the "standard" and nearly unbreakable 2416 b. Very nice movement, maybe not so accurate, but maybe the hardest automatic watch  movement.

Dirtiest Casio G-Shock

See what I found on a Casio G-Shock I get from an ebay auction. 
I thought it was impossible to have so much dirt on a single watch! Did the previous owner ever cleaned the watch? I don't thin so :(

Is a Jump hour a digital watch?

Another digital watch? 
It is a digital watch since the time is given by digits but it doesn't have LCD or LED screen. Does it have battery? NO! It is a hand wind movement!
So, a digital hand wind watch and Swiss made. What else?
This kind of watches are known as "jump hour". Lucerne has a lot of nice jump hour watches but several brands did these special digital watches "some" years ago..
I'm waiting for 2 more Lucerne jump hour watches from an ebay auction. I will show them here as soon as they arrive.

Seiko and Casio news

Bad and good news this weekend. First of all bad news :(
The rubber band o my Alba diving watch was broken while sleeping. Too old rubber. I know it will be nearly impossible to find a new original band for this watch.
Now the good news. I've won a Casio Marlin W 400 on ebay. Now I have to wait some days to see how is the swordfish. I hope a little clean will be enough to have a real Marlin (screw down back) on may wrist.

Alba Seiko under water

My Alba-Seiko watch passed the first "dive" on the swimming pool :)
The watch reached the Xtreme depth of 1.7m without problems. 
I hope to test the watch soon on a real dive.