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[LardAbove]

So then..... After just over a week with my CCCP wrist tickker 😁👍

I'm not doing much, I'd say - given that it's new to me - I have been critical over hourly sync and having no real idea of the ratio of thumb wheel winding-to-automatic self winding required...

I give it about 7 or 8 turns each morning, the mech feels resistant at around that 🤔

Lost perhaps a minute 🚀💞

LardAbove 🚴

 

[MrGrumpy]

Bought an unofficial quick fit strap for my Fenix 6 and had nomissues, although I don't actually wear it that often.

Well bought a couple of EBay , £6 a pop . Quite happy with them ! See how long they last ! Official one is £35 !!!

 

[Drago]

£35 is impossible to justify to anyone other than Garmin shareholders.

 

[EltonFrog]

£35 is impossible to justify to anyone other than Garmin shareholders.

Try buying a new strap for a Yeager Reverso. Four hundred quid!

 

[Time Waster]

Well bought a couple of EBay , £6 a pop . Quite happy with them ! See how long they last ! Official one is £35 !!!

I bought a yooside off amazon. Secure enough but the strap swivelled on the pin and rubbed the watch body so I got a notocity one off amazon. This Notocity one is very good. I find the nylon bands so much more comfortable than the silicone ones that can cause skin issues if it gets wet and sweaty plus made worse by hot weather I found.

Notocity has steel for the hard bits not plastic and so far has been very solid Ordered march 23rd this year. It cost £21 but is £16 now.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Found these at work. They must be twenty years old:

 

[Time Waster]

Today has been a watch day. I have never hjad a truly heirloom watch The most expensive was a half price Tissot bought in a closing down sale for £165!! The most expensive watch I have bought until my £329 Garmin 6. That Tissot barely lasted a year. I have had a £150 seiko and it has recently been revived (solar watch that was kept in the drawer, all I needed to do was put it in the window for 2 weeks and it has beeen running ok).

Today I was in a local shop that I suddenly noticed that behind the counter was a sign saying £5.95 for replacement strap and the same for a replaced battery. Cue me going home and digging out my venerable Casio DW-290.. Nothing speciall but it was a leaving present for my first job after university. 3 months there on placement and I got a 200m casio divers watch. 30 years old!!.

The guy struggled but he told me to come back in half an hour he would google it. Turns out you just need to stick a paperclip into this slot near an "AC" on the innards and pivoting a contact onto the watch. It worked an I got a working DW-290. I then realised the holding loop on the replacement strap I had put on it 20 years ago had lost its end retaining loop. I realised that I used to use an elastic band wrapped a few times around it back in theday. This time I went back and bought a replacement resin / plastic strap. It is now on my wrist. I wonder if it makes me look like a certain well known leading man who starred in the first of a series of action movies wearing this exact same model of casio? Does anyone have a clue what the film and the actor was called??

When I went back to collect it the guy in ths shop said that when he looked online the websites said it was an old Casio model and is now called a vintage watch.

Makes me wonder what happened to my first digital? The classic casio 50m WR 4 button cheapo that only had time, alarm and stopwatch. I think it was the one that the Taliban and other islamic terrorists used as timers for IEDs because they were so cheap and reliable.

 

[Time Waster]

Before I got my DW-290 fettled I had been looking online for a decent casio daily runner for work site (no smartwatches allowed). Nothing expensive. IMHO Casio strenght is decent digiatl watches at modest prices.

So does anyone have a recommendation for a good Casio watch? Reliable and modest in price are the key criteria rather than flashy or high function. I am not into the bright colours or gold coloured metal ones. Just something decent and honest but won't break the bank.

 

[Psamathe]

Since retiring (20+ years) ago I hadn't worn a watch but a few months ago I started using one I had from pre-retiring as out for walks too often I was still going after dark across the fields ... poor planing and fed-up with keeping getting phone out of pocket.

Took it in to the manufacturer's own outlet (Tag Heuer) and they couldn't work out why the dial went up to 10 not 12. They couldn't get their heads round it, 'cos watches go to 12 not 10! Good watch though

Going back to one I had years ago was actually 2nd attempt, as I initially purchased a top of the line Garmin watch. But after a couple of month it went back to Garmin for a full refund as it was just ... load of rubbish. Nothing more than a toy, data it "measured" was often wildly out.

Ian

 

[Reynard]

That looks like a watch yotties might use @Psamathe, as the tracks count backwards. Which is kind of handy when you have to do penalty turns if you cross the start line too soon. The name "searacer" is also a bit of a giveaway...

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

It's a timer for yacht races. Yachts like to get a running start so try to cross the start line at full speed. The countdown to the start begins 10 minutes before.

@Reynard beat me to it.

 

[Psamathe]

That looks like a watch yotties might use @Psamathe, as the tracks count backwards. Which is kind of handy when you have to do penalty turns if you cross the start line too soon. The name "searacer" is also a bit of a giveaway...

It's mainly a start countdown warning (10 or 6), preparatory (5 or 3). Does some weird stuff around when the countdown is close to the preparatory where the start button resets to the appropriate preparatory time in case you were early or late on the warning signal. Then after start time switches into count up mode as on many of the offshore races you end-up logging and radioing in your own times.

Though I did find it amusing that the manufacturer couldn't understand how to read is 'cos "but there are 2 x 12 hours in a day".

Ian

 

[Time Waster]

I've been having a bit of a fun time trying to geet two old casios fettled. The mission impossible DW-290 is up and running but my casino royale AE1200 silver case and stainless steel bracelt watch is kind of annoyingly resistant to getting the adjustment links to remain intact.

The innards are falling out no matter what I do. Well, not completely true as I notiiced that the other adjustable links were closer toegether on the inner inside parts on the ones that did not fall apart. So a cloth covered set of pliers used to pinch them together resulted in the link bending in a way not intended. I managed to get the innards back in and one is staying in now but the link does not pivot against the one next to it. So Now it is a bit ruiined.

I did however see the same watch in Argos for £19.99 whereas Casio sells it for £60 and Argos says it was a 1/3rd off at their sale price. So contemplating a new one and using the links I take off to reeplace the ones on my old one. Cheaper than actually trying to buy a new strap or even just the new links. Seriously, I found the links costing more than £20 with delivery included.

 

[Time Waster]

Well I saw Argos had the Casio Royale for £19.99 so I got a second one. Then I went to town adjusting it but this time with the correct mix of odd and even adjustable links on the right side of the watch face. Good form is to have the higher number on the 12 side of the strap apparently.

Then I took my old one and took out the two dodgy links I could not get to stay in place. I took the ones I took off the new one and replaced the old strap links. I now have two watches that should have good links and be weareable. This was a bit extravagent but it is cheaper to buy a second watch and use the extra links to get the old one right than buy links online!!

So this leads me to a question. One too many watches? OR the older one to mod? You can buy tints for the screen and even steel cases to replace the silver plastic ones. Would you?