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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
The sapphire crystals are hard to damage. I believe the Eco Drive is quartz driven by a photo cell charged batterymore like a Seiko kinetic than an automatic (mechanical/springs/gears/escapement). Citizen still makes battery powered quartz watches and I believe some mechanical watches as well.
Nice watch :thumbup:
I keep thinking I'll pick up and mod a monster -- but I just never get around to it.
Thanks. If you do decide to I can highly recommend IWW. They did the work on mine and I'm very happy with the results.
Yup, there are a bunch. The 007's are really good and use Seiko's "old reliable" 7s26 movement. Their more expensive automatics use the more recent 6R15 movement which hand winds and hacks (you can stop and set the second hand). Then there are the Grand Seikos and Spring Drives . . .I can give up on the chrono, and I never realized how many automatic Seikos there are, the selection at chronograph.com is entirely overwhelming.
What a coincidence...I made a trade (here at BF) for a Zodiac V Wolf (blue face, 300m) dive watch a couple days ago that I'm waiting delivery on.:thumbup:.A Zodiac maybe?
They had a good rep, haven't kept up with them in the last few years though.
Automatics are good, IF you wear 'em all the time and aren't too hard-core about 100% accuracy.I'm liking them both... Comes down to classic vs somewhat modern, it seems.
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I think I'm falling for the 007 model, though it seems that there are a handful of strap/bracelet versions- anything I should be aware of other than the difference in appearance? some are MUCH more expensive than others, even inside the SS bracelet category. There is a 007 with bracelet available for $173 & $278.. plus the range in the middle.
I'm looking at chronograph.com if anyone wants to give me direct comparisons.
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