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What Is Seiko Kinetic Direct Drive? An Evolved Quartz Kinetic Movement; The Answer Is Here
We are lucky that Seiko spends as much time as they do in the lab dreaming up new movements. In fact, Seiko watches now come in at least five different movement flavors. You can get a traditional quartz movement, an automatic mechanical movement, a quartz Kinetic movement, a quartz Kinetic Direct Drive movement, and a quartz regulated Spring Drive mechanical movement. Seiko's dream seems to be combining the best of both worlds in terms of quartz and mechanical movements. Arguably the Spring Drive embodies this dream as it looks like an automatic mechanical movement, but has the accuracy of a quartz movement.Before coming out with the Spring Drive movement, Seiko created the Kinetic movement. The idea was simple. Take the rotor from an automatic mechanical movement, and instead of having it wind a main spring, have it charge a battery. This relieved the owner of ever having to replace the watch battery, and gave them the accuracy of a quartz movement. The Kinetic movement was very succe

Talking Watches: With Eric Ku
Eric Ku is one of the good guys. Actually, he's one of the best guys. Eric is a long-time vintage Rolex dealer of the highest order. He's the type of guy who can find you the $1,000,000 Albino 6263, the type of guy who can make a watch good with a simple blessing. Eric Ku is the type of guy who was talking about "RCO" Daytonas three years ago. Eric is the owner of VintageRolexForum, and dealer of watches at 10PastTen, but why he's here today in this series of videos about collectors has nothing to do with his profession, or even Rolex at all. No, Eric Ku, like Jean-Claude Biver, is a true lover of all watches, vintage and new, independent or not. Today we'll be running through some of his favorites, and show you the Submariner that started it all. This is Talking Watches with Eric Ku. 1959 LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm 1 OF 53 Eric's 1959 Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm is nothing short of amazing. His watch, which retains all original comp

Elgin Trench Watch with BRAND NEW Olive Webbing, 1918 STRONGHOLD Buckle ! ! !
Hey guys ! ! !There has been a lot of talk about Olive Drab Webbing Khaki Trench Watch Straps lately on a couple of forums.As you guys know I have a couple of VERY old originals.The webbing is trashed and unusable but the HARDWARE is where the true value lays.I do not know of anybody who is making replacement Olive Drab Webbing Straps for WWI Trench Watches.So.................if nothing is available and it can't be bought ............................DO IT FOR YOURSELF ! ! ! ! ! Today was one of those days for me !I taught myself how to fabricate brand new Olive Drab Webbing Trench Watch Straps while using the ORIGINAL 1918 Sterling Silver hardware.I have several old WWI olive drab straps laying around my shop that had seen better days so they were deconstructed in order to see how they were fabricated.No loss as they were completely unusable.The hardest part was finding the 14mm and 16mm Olive Drab Webbing ! ! ! ! ! You can't just go down to your corner store and pick some up (not tell

Thinking about getting my first AP
I've been toying with the idea of getting my first AP. I went to the boutique in Manhattan to try a couple on. To my surprise....the 41mm Royal Oak actually fit my wrists better than the 39mm one. I have pretty small wrists at 6.25 but I automatically assume the 39mm RO would fit me right away but boy was I wrong. The case and bracelet was very stiff and it kind of hung on the side of my wrists. The bracelet did not hug my wrists the way that I like. When I tried on the 41mm RO it actually fit a lot better. The bracelet was not as stiff and it actually hugged my wrists a lot better. Does anyone have the same experience when comparing the two different sizes? I'm looking to get a simple blue dial 15202 or 15300. Which do you guys prefer?

The Officine Panerai Logo..the True meaning by Eng. Mario Paci
The Logo OP represents the stylised beginning letters O and P of Officine Panerai name, but not only.Do you know which is the meaning of the two arrows, one towards up and one toward down? It’s very simple and intuitive. Officine Panerai, since the origins and up today, has been always specialist in manufacturing underwater products and landing aid systems.The firsts (wrist watches, compasses, depth-meters, tank level probes, mechanical timers for underwater mines and many others) were used under the sea.The seconds (Deck landing systems, Helipad lighting systems, Portable landing systems) were used on surface, for those arriving from the sky.The meaning of the two arrows: the one toward down shows the underwater products, the one toward up shows the products for who arrives from the sky.The OP Logo was born at the beginning of years ’80, designed by an Architectural Office of Florence and, in the first drafts, had a rounded form; Eng. Zei (CEO of Offcine Panerai since 1972