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    Went American earlier today, watch and car, on the way to the grocery store for fixin's for a hamburger cookout.

    Watch is a 1918 Hamilton with 992 movement.

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    The 992 was Hamilton's bread and butter mvmt in all its versions and was a really great mvmt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noelekal View Post
    Went American earlier today, watch and car, on the way to the grocery store for fixin's for a hamburger cookout.

    Watch is a 1918 Hamilton with 992 movement.

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    The Hamilton 992 is a classic railroad pocket watch.
    Just about everybody who collects railroad watches has one.
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    Stirring up the watch pot here.


    I don't like quartz watches. Don't even ask about "smart" watches.

    While a few live here in the "Home For Wayward Watches" I'm not fond of date features or day/date features either.


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    Am fond of the lone quartz watch on the place, 'cause I'm fond of the gal who gave it to me. I'm also intensely sentimental. Back in the day I was dabbling in vintage watches and persisted in wearing the few I had on a regular basis. My wife and I went to Europe and the single watch I wore on the trip ran amok while we were there.

    So, when I was going to the UK the next year she took me to the airport. As we were parting she presented me with this quartz Seiko saying that she didn't want me to have a occurrence of what happened to me the previous year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noelekal View Post
    Stirring up the watch pot here.
    Nope, sorry. Here you have to show a photo of a Rolex to get someone to go ape.
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    I just love that I can use the same watch scuba diving, traveling and going to a nice dinner.
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    [QUOTE=Otto;1962416]Nope, sorry. Here you have to show a photo of a Rolex to get someone to go ape.
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    I have a watch similar to that. Certainly not a rolex however. Does that count?
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    Today it's one of the most accurate mechanical watches on hand here, a 1962 Longines with the most excellent 30L movement.


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    It's a base 17 jewel mvmt with 18,000 VPH. It's pretty pedestrian. They did make numerous versions of that mvmt some that were certified chronometers so it depends which version you have.

    Of course it can still run very accurately no matter the version.

    During that period there were a bunch of outfits making some really upgraded mvmts.
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    Yea, well, it happened again, got a fantastic deal on this Panerai Luminor Marina 8 Days - 300 meter water resistant, beautiful piece.

    8 Day Power Reserve - wind it every Sunday! lol

    I was unsure of Panerai, but having this on the wrist, really is a beautiful piece, next one will be an older reference with a Blue "Sandwich" dial.

    This is reference 510, early versions of this watch had the coveted "sandwich" dial, and this replaces the Panerai 111 I believe.

    These watches were once upon a time developed for the Italian Navy, specifically for their divers, and very early Panerai's had Rolex movements and shared the "Oyster" case. The "Luminor" is no joke, in the dark (or underwater) you could light a room up it's so bright.

    Either way, beautiful, completely different style watch.

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    It's a solid watch. It's too big for my small wrists but you can't go wrong with it.
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