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A Quick Look at the Seagull 1963 42mm
A little while back on worn&wound we took a look at the Seagull 1963 chronograph (if you don’t recall or missed that one, click here and then come back, we’ll wait). The Seagull 1963 is a faithful representation of column-wheel chronograph watches manufactured in the 1960’s for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. The hand wound movement contained inside was developed in 1961 for this program and is based upon the Venus 175. The Tianjin Watch Factory built and delivered 1400 of these watches to the Chinese Air Force in 1963, hence the re-issue’s name. The watch came in at 38mm with 18mm lugs which was perhaps bordering on large for the 1960’s but is clearly small(ish) by today’s standards. The Seagull brand has now given those who prefer a bit more wrist presence a 42mm version of the 1963.While the size was boosted to 42mm, the movement was not changed. It is the same as in the 38mm version of the watch: a hand-wind, column wheel chrono

New Watch Book:"Elgin Trench Watches of The Great War" by Stan Czubernat
Hey guys!I am very proud to announce that my book "Elgin Trench Watches of The Great War" is going to be available around year's end.This has been a 4+ year project that has honestly been one of the great joys of my life.I get to talk about watches, write about watches and work on watches all day long, I consider myself to be very fortunate in that respect, I absolutely love what I do for a living!Very early on in my watch career the Elgin National Watch Company struck a cord with me.But, very little solid information was out there when it came to their very early wrist watches.............the trench watches.Being me, I simply had to know everything there was to know about Elgin Trench Watches!Very long and detailed forum posts about Elgin Trench Watches that I wrote started to add up after awhile, and when you put that information together it started to look like a book.So that's exactly what I did after a few more years of hardcore research, I wrote a book about Elgin Trench Watches

How flexible are Nautilus bracelets?
I'm looking a couple of Nautilus models and wondering how flexible the bracelets are?Do they wear and sit on the wrist similar to the AP RO bracelet where due to the tighter integrated design of the links there is only so much flex and movement of the links at the ends near the lugs, i.e. it will only form a curve to a certain size/degree? This would be as opposed to say an Oyster bracelet which has full range of movement between each link if you see what I mean.Are there any smaller wristed folks out there who can comment on how the Nautilus bracelet fits them?Thanks :)

WG or Plat DD 36?
Probably going to pull the trigger soon on a 118239 or a 118206 either in addition to my 18038 or in lieu of it. Will be pre-owned. Price difference depending on the dial is about 25-30% for the platinum. I know this isn't an investment, but if I'm going into this arena, want to make sure I make a good buy.Love the fluted bezel on the WG, but love the subtle sheen of Plat. Anyone wanna share thoughts?Also, trying to do the Tahitian MOP. Is that popular?P.S. Does fluted bezel make watch look bigger on wrist? I can rock a 36 but I don't want to worry about it looking diminutive.

SD43 Helium Valve Question???
On the Rolex website, there is a picture of the SD43 with a helium bubble seeping out from the escapement valve - nothing wrong with that, it actually looks quite cool.However, I also noticed, the picture seems to show another gas bubble seeping out of the case back!Is this correct?Would gas escape from both the escapement valve AND the case back?If so, what's the point of the escapement valve in the first place if gas can escape through the case back anyway?Any thoughts...???