Off Topic - Wrist Watches (pics)

[DeaconKC]

I just used to hate when my high school football coach said he needed a sundial for my sprints.....

[MTCSS]

A watch waterproof to 300 meters? Whats the point? The submarines I was stationed on in the Navy rarely exceeded 300 meters!

[muggsy]

Sewer pipe sailor, huh. I thought you joined the Navy to see the world. I joined the Navy to ride the waves.

[CJB]

There are 1000m and 3000m dive watches. 300M is rather middle of the road.

[Bawanna]

Does anybody really know what time it is. Does anybody really care. (With apologies to Chicago.)

Sort of like apologizing to a septic tank ain't it. Nothin in Illinois will be better after an apology.

Glad ole Abe ain't around to see his old stomping grounds these days.

[CJB]

Well even ol' Abe knew if you dance in a pile o' manure, yer bound to get some on ya. Just sayin'!

And he didn't need no wrist watch to know the simple truths of life. Truths like ya better lock up the Supreme Court and throw you habias corpus in order to getcher way. Smart man.

[olympicmotorcars]

I know the NA grid is 117vAC plus or minus 10 percent as an absolute for customer voltage on biphased installs, but.... have no idea what the allowable bias is for 3phase. I imagine that for delta service, you've got to have the same plus or minus 10 percent on at least two of the legs, but no idea on the 208v side. For wye.... who knows.

We spec our eqipment to run from 105 to 128 vAC - the allowable maximum deviation. To tell the truth... some issues at the low end of things, sometimes our stuff just doesn't want to start, though once started it will keep running down into the 90vAC range. I think the boys who tested it just turned a variac down to see if it would run at 105v, and it did, so they called it good to go, never having to actually do a startup.

I understood about five, er, two, or ....... O.K. make that zero words in those two paragraphs.

[Bawanna]

You an me both brutha. Like they talk in a foreign language.

[Jozimoto]

Had a Casio G Shock .......... Not dog proof still ran but wasn't worth fixin'.

[CJB]

Means that the juice at the wall socket in yer home has a bit of given n' take. Folks what invent stuff to run from elcticity know this and shoot for a happy medium.

[olympicmotorcars]

Means that the juice at the wall socket in yer home has a bit of given n' take. Folks what invent stuff to run from elcticity know this and shoot for a happy medium.

Now that I understood. I speak fluent southern red-neck.

[Bawanna]

When I used to do remodels and ran into those scary wall sockets that the sparky said was turned off but found out he lied they all felt about the same to me. And I didn't like it. I hate being shocked worse than anything.

[CJB]

Wait till u been hit by lightning..... three times for me!

[Bawanna]

Wait till u been hit by lightning..... three times for me!

That explains a lot! Thanks.

[CJB]

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Thought I'd revive this thread.... shamelessly at that.

This watch started life as an $80 Seiko Diver (SKX009J to be exact). They go anyplace from $140 to about $200 on Amazon and such, and from grey market. However, if you have a connection with Japan, you can get it for the Japanese street price (typically 30 percent off "list"). With the exchange being very nice right now, its about $80.

So what to do with an $80 run of the mill, cookie cutter type watch? You personalize it!

I got the watch sent in from a guy in Tokyo with EMS service (three days from Tokyo to Florida swampland!)

Sent the watch out to another guy in Rhode Island for disassembly.

At my instruction, he sent the case of the watch over to the UK, where yet another guy machined the case and machined a "shroud" ring for it. The case had about half its metal removed, was drilled for screw that fit in blind holes, and had its springbar holes drilled completely through (no more blind holes for those).

Then the case was sent back to the guy in RI.

In the meantime, another guy in Hong Kong provided the high dome sapphire crystal, dial and hands, and custom crown, sending them to the man in RI.

And in the other meantime, a guy in Osaka provided the insert for the bezel, made from engraved stainless steel, given a DLC finish like Kahr's and numerals filled into the engraving. (don't mind the dirty 11 minute marker, thats my finger grime from bezel gasket grease).

And yet another guy, someplace here in the USA, made a custom rotating bezel out of statinless steel.

Everything got back to the man in RI (or me) and he sent the watch back, where I put the bezel and insert in, and affixed the bracelet, which I got from China. BTW, those are first rate bracelets, solid links, solid endlinks, screw in adjustable links, and frankly, the clasp is sturdier than that on my Rolex Submariner.

So there ya have it. This has been in the works for the last three months, waiting about five weeks for the trip across the pond and back.

And.... don't mind the grime, dust, etc... in the pictures. I literally had just snapped the bezel on, tightened the shroud screws and put on the bracelet. I gave it a quick wipe and took the pictures.