What's the most unusual watch you've had.

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by T5AUS

Another box lot find, what looked like an ordinary Victorian pocket watch turns out to be one of the earliest digital watches around C1890. It's had a rough life (especially the dial) but it will be brought back to original condition eventually

That's just awesome! Do you have a pic of the movement as well???

[T5AUS]

Originally Posted by Paulie

That's just awesome! Do you have a pic of the movement as well???

I am away from my den at the moment Paulie so will organise a photo of the movement when I get back tonight.

[problmchylde]

I got these naked CASIOs.......

[Alcan]

Originally Posted by T5AUS

Thats a lump Al, there seem to be a lot of unusual Soviet watches getting around now, how does this one rate in comparison with the Rolex subs, both in work (ie depth) and also collectability/rarity.

It's definitely a lump, weighs about as much as a Honda Civic!

There are lots of modern reproduction (fake) Soviet dive watches out there now, but this one's original, shows wear on the edges of the case. My watchmaker, an older European guy, said it's typical older Soviet technology, essentially a basic Russian pocket watch movement in a case that'd stop a cruise missile, hence the seconds subdial at 9:00 or 180 away from the crown.

No depth rating but the crystal is 4 mm thick and it's gasket is worthy of a windshield gasket on any newer car. Pricewise, I think I paid around $175 or so, pretty reasonable. I bought it because it's so....... umm....... big!

I got into a Russian watch jag for a while, came up with this one too. 1917 Moser. Had the movement overhauled but left the case and enameled dial original. The Czar didn't make it through the Revolution, but this watch did.





All in all though, I think you have us all beat hands down for unusual with some of what you've been posting here!

[T5AUS]

that is some thick glass Al, and such a weight, not your average scuba divers watch then? I think one could end up a little off keel swiming the horizontal with that monster straped to your arm. I guess it's more for the guy in the huge suit on the end of a wire, it helps to get him down quick too !!
Amazing, must get one

[Alcan]

Originally Posted by T5AUS

Another box lot find, what looked like an ordinary Victorian pocket watch turns out to be one of the earliest digital watches around C1890. It's had a rough life (especially the dial) but it will be brought back to original condition eventually

Now that's an unusual watch! Very cool. Please post before and after pix when it's done.

Where do you find this stuff, estate auctions and such?

[T5AUS]

Originally Posted by Alcan

Now that's an unusual watch! Very cool. Please post before and after pix when it's done.

Where do you find this stuff, estate auctions and such?

A scavenger from way back, I am always buying at auctions, markets, boot & Antique fairs, dealers etc., still have not found my vintage Rolex sub or seadweller yet, but I feel I am getting close,....here boy, HERE BOY !!!,

[Alcan]

Originally Posted by T5AUS

still have not found my vintage Rolex sub or seadweller yet, but I feel I am getting close,....here boy, HERE BOY !!!,

You're not likely to. Mike here has every one ever made!

[triton]

this is a picture of my most unusual watch

[Andad]

Originally Posted by problmchylde

Ok Phil.......you win.....

Sir James is a close second.

[Andad]

Time, videos, mp3's, slide shows, excel graphs, word docs (with zoom) etc.

[T5AUS]

Originally Posted by directioneng

Time, videos, mp3's, slide shows, excel graphs, word docs (with zoom) etc.

Hey, thats pretty neat Eddie, this was just fiction in the Dandare comics of only a decade or two ago (or is it three or four )

[Andad]

Originally Posted by T5AUS

Hey, thats pretty neat Eddie, this was just fiction in the Dandare comics of only a decade or two ago (or is it three or four )

Ha Ha Phil,

We listened to Dandare (pilot of the future) in Aberdeen on Radio Luxemborgh when I was little, around 1953.
It was scary stuff especially the intro music. Sort of Dr. whoish.

[T5AUS]

Originally Posted by directioneng

Ha Ha Phil,

We listened to Dandare (pilot of the future) in Aberdeen on Radio Luxemborgh when I was little, around 1953.
It was scary stuff especially the intro music. Sort of Dr. whoish.

Good old radio Luxemburg, I remember it well, the only "pop music" station of that era! It was on long wave and used to frustratingly fade out at crucial points of the program, FM and the pirate radio stations changed all that. Yes, I think I have to accept, it was a lot more than a couple of decades ago