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• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 9 hours

  

  Yep, figured.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 19 hours

  

  Just making sure... you’re not trying to quick-set the date with the hour hand in the top half of the dial, are you...?

  (For the benefit of anyone reading who isn’t aware... the date change mechanism is often engaged between roughly 9pm and 3am so trying to quickset the date with the hour hand in the top half of the dial risks damaging the movement.)

  (Also, re advancing the date manually - I tend to do this every time I set the date. If you quick-set the date to the day before the current date, then advance the time until it clicks over to the right date, you know that the watch is set to AM. Or PM if you keep advancing the time, of course. This prevents having the date change at midday by accident.)

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 2 hours

  

  Dunk it! Dunk it!

  Seriously though, blimey. Wonderful watch.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 5 hours

  

  Meant to say, I like your attempt to DIY a cyclops bubble like on the new ones.

  I really do dig the newest model. Must resist.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Tea shot wins the week for me. Heat & steam is supposed to not be great for watch seals in general though. Just saying. Also FYI Seiko manuals recommend not running even certified divers’ watches under the tap as the pressure in one spot can defeat the seals. Rinsing them off in a bowl of water is the preferred method.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Now THAT is a divers’ watch.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 19 hours

  

  I like steel watches on bracelets. A good bracelet adds a lot for me. But yes, it’s available on a rubber strap as well or easily swapped to leather or a nato or whatever.

• Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 23 hours

  

  doing rufty tufty stuff

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 1 hour

  

  I’m not a 300M hater by the way. I really like the current model, apart from it being too thick and having such a fussy bracelet design. And I dig the skeleton hands (unlike many people).

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 days, 1 hour

  

  Just how ugly it is, I think. Plus that, as a manually operated valve, it’s an inferior solution to the Rolex design (or the Seiko solution of superior sealing to keep the helium out in the first place).

  It doesn’t really bother me, personally, and yeah, it is definitely a signature of the 300M. As is the scalloped bezel that’s unnecessarily difficult to operate. ;)