What watch do you wear?

Another Seiko 5 . . .

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Weak lume for a 5, but I like Art Deco.

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A regular rotation between a Rolex Sub date, GMTII, and TT Datejust, and an Omega Speedmaster Professional. I have a few other watches, vintage and otherwise, but these are the ones I wear all the time.
 
Question for all you guys with orange and black monsters. Just bought my first one about a month ago. I was lead to believe if you wore it for at least a week straight it would stay running for a week to 2 weeks approx. Mine will quit after 24 hours of none wear. Does this sound right to you? Thanks in advance, Steve.
 
glock45 said:
Question for all you guys with orange and black monsters. Just bought my first one about a month ago. I was lead to believe if you wore it for at least a week straight it would stay running for a week to 2 weeks approx. Mine will quit after 24 hours of none wear. Does this sound right to you? Thanks in advance, Steve.
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No auto that costs less than several thousand dollars will go a week without winding (rotor or stem). The Monster's power reserve is roughly 40 hours from a fully wound mainspring.
 
glock45 said:
Question for all you guys with orange and black monsters. Just bought my first one about a month ago. I was lead to believe if you wore it for at least a week straight it would stay running for a week to 2 weeks approx. Mine will quit after 24 hours of none wear. Does this sound right to you? Thanks in advance, Steve.
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38 - 40 hours is average. If you're only getting 24, there's something wrong with it. You can get mechanical watches that have a one week power reserve. It'll cost you about as much as a decent house though.
 
glock45 said:
Question for all you guys with orange and black monsters. Just bought my first one about a month ago. I was lead to believe if you wore it for at least a week straight it would stay running for a week to 2 weeks approx. Mine will quit after 24 hours of none wear. Does this sound right to you? Thanks in advance, Steve.
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Mechanical watches typically can run for about 40 hours on one full winding of the mainspring. An automatic watch must be worn in motion for 10 to 15 hours to give the watch a full wind. In motion means you have to get up off of that thing.

[video=youtube;DgukXPbGS1I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgukXPbGS1I[/video]

Some automatic watches have a power reserve indicator. Typically, they are very expensive watches. Orient makes a couple in the Monster's price range.

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There is a helpful mechanical watch FAQ here:

http://people.timezone.com/library/wwatchfaq/wwatchfaq631668591017665598
 
glock45 said:
Question for all you guys with orange and black monsters. Just bought my first one about a month ago. I was lead to believe if you wore it for at least a week straight it would stay running for a week to 2 weeks approx. Mine will quit after 24 hours of none wear. Does this sound right to you? Thanks in advance, Steve.
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I assume you are talking about the older Monsters with the 7S26 movement. I have owned approximately 10 different Seiko watches with that movement and my experience has been somewhat the same with all of them. I am in an office every day, not chopping cotton or anything like that. At my older job I would put my watch on about 8:30 in the morning, wear it until midnight or maybe 1:00 at night, take it off, then put it on the next morning. I am apparently not as active during the day as some people and sometimes after wearing the watch for 16 hours straight it would not be able to stay running for 8 hours until the next morning. If the watch was still running the next morning I would put it on and wear it another 16 hours. I figured that best case I might build up one hour of power reserve that first day. By the end of the week I might have built up 3 or 4 or 5 hours of power reserve, besides the 8 hours overnight, so if I took the watch off Friday night it might run for only about 12 hours or so. Most collectors that I talk to online don't have this problem so I figure they are more active during the day than I am. I have experienced this with numerous of my Seiko watches with the 7S26 movement. I have a pair of Seikos with the more expensive 6R15 movement and I don't have this problem with them. I have owned a number of watches with the Swiss ETA 2824 and 2892 movements and don't have a problem with any of them. But OTOH I have had similar problems with watches containing the Citizen Miyota movements. This just tells me that some watches build up power reserve faster than others while being worn. So it is entirely possible that you could wear your Monster all week, take it off Friday and it run less than the theoretical maximum power reserve of 40-44 hours, and there be nothing wrong with your watch. You could wear it all week, all weekend, and all the next week and then see how long it runs. Or you could put it on a mechanical winder until you think it is fully wound and see how long it will run. If it runs about 40 hours then there is nothing wrong with the watch.
 



Traser Aviator Jungmann with a Stingray leather strap. Despite the rock hard "pearls", the strap itself is very soft and supple, more so than the original black leather strap it came with.
 
Wow very cool watch and a good looking strap...well done!

Where I can get a strap like that? I had a link before of a knife supply co that used to sell
Unusual type of animal sking for knife work ( or what ever you want to do ) but lost the link...
 
M.TEX said:
Where I can get a strap like that?
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Assuming you mean stingray :)

You can look here, but probably not order

http://internationalwatchman.com/

A very old-fashioned site, you order by phone (preferred) or email and orders from outside the US pay by bank check or bank wire in US funds. That's not good for you in Brazil, unless you have a friend here to order for you and reship.

Hadley-Roma sold stingray men's straps, model MS826. Not in their latest catalog, but some dealers have old stock.

This guy sells stingray straps, probably the same ones Hadley-Roma rebranded:

http://www.strappedfortime.com/shop/item.aspx/stingray-watch-band-strap/215/
 
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