Titoni 14K like new

This is by far one of my nicest restored Titoni 14K Cosmo King. It took almost 3 months and a high cost..... This is a 14K solid gold rim Titoni. The engine was fully overhauled and cleaned. The original white coloured dial has numerous dark spots and the wording also faded extensively.... The dial was sent for restoration and the end result is a shinning silver grey dial that proclaims the glory of Cosmo King. The crystal and the crown were replaced with original Titoni spare. The bracelet is a 14K two tones with the original Titoni buckle. After spending almost the same amount of buying a new Titoni Cosmo King... here we have a fully restored vintage Titoni Cosmo King 14K with a movement that will be kept going for another 50 years maybe.... 

Mickey Mouse

Remember the tune from my black and white TV set back in 1970's.... M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E .... Yeap the icon of my childhood and so many other kids of different generation....

This watch is actually purchased by my wife.... This is actually a Seiko made mickey mouse watch with model no: 5000-7000. It was made in 1973 by Seiko Suwa factory. This Mickey Mouse watch uses 50C movement.50C is a manual winding 17 jewels that is still running strong and keeping good time now. All part of this watch is of original except the band is an aftermarket.

The back case showing the model number and all parts of the case is made of stainless steel.

 

This watch is feature in page 167 of The Seiko Book

 

The Seiko watch company stopped producing seiko Mickey Mouse watches in the 1980's. This has made the seiko disney watches highly collectible.  

Starry starry night 满天星

一生燦烂。。。唯独满天星。。。

This is my small collection of watches with so-called full diamond dial..... is it real diamond??? Nah, a lot of this is either crystal, Cubic Zirconia or maybe just glass or even plastic.... but they are sparkling beautiful.... Some of the full diamond watches cost a lot... but for me is not the value of the stones or crystal... is the amount of time involved in crafting the dial, the bezel and sometime the bracelet too.... It is in a way a form of art. 

Titoni Cosmo King

Rolex Replica Custom Made

This is a Rolex Replica using a 21 jewels ETA movement.... It comes with sapphire glass. This is actually an educational piece made by local watchmaker and jeweler.... It is more of a sentimental value to me....

Bulova Super Seville Day Date

This is initially a plain silver dial used watch that I picked up in an auction site. After receiving it and safe kept it for a year or so, I noticed the dial has worn off with time. Luckily, my watchmaker friend  found a piece of Bulova full diamond dial in Singapore... we noticed that the dial is with yellow gold colour base and is usually more suitable for two tones or gold watch.... After much discussion, we adopted the put it in and see what happens sort of attitude.... Here is the outcome and is surprisingly acceptable... ohhhh we also changed the 3 hands from steel to gold colour to match the dial. Beside we replaced the old stainless steel rim to a diamond with sapphire bezel to make it more appearing. The next step will probably be changing the glass into a sapphire crystal.....

Inital look

Reconditioned look

MORE TO COME.... TO BE CONTINUED.........

Grand Seiko 5646-7000

This is one of my 56GS. It was produced in early 1970's in Suwa Seikosha. The 56GS marked the era of mass production with the aid of robotic automated process. There are also concept of standardization of design and movement. Therefore the 56GS shared identical movement with King Seiko, and Lordmatics. However the GS movement had a better finish and was tweaked to GS standard accuracy.

What I like about this watch is the slightly widebody stainless steel case. Also the hour, minute and second hands are slim and quite characteristic in matching the white plain dial. The only downside of this particular watch is the aging stain at the 3 o'clock... nevertheless it is still a magnificent time piece. 

The5646A is a 25 jewels adjusted to 5 positions day-date movement with an amplitude of 28,800 beats per hour.

This is an all original watch... seeing is believing and one will never know how beautiful a GS is without holding it............ After the 56GS.... Grand Seiko perished for a while and Seiko putting all emphasis on Quart watches.... It was almost 20 years before Seiko reintroduce the best of its time pieces; the Grand Seiko range of mechanical watches..... 

Citizen automatic chronograph

These watches are produced during the early 1970's as a countermeasure to the Seiko bullhead chronograph. The 8110s are also nicknamed Citizen bullhead. 8110 is equipped with a 23 jewels automatic with quick set day-date function. It is also a flyback chronograph with 2 subdials (30 minutes and 12 hours).  With crown signed 'CTZ" and 2 push buttons on the 12 o'clock position of the watch. These chronographs are actually value for money comparing to Seiko bullhead and their Swiss counterparts like Omega and Tag Heuer of the same era. 

Exacron Chronograph; Valjoux 7734

Here is my first 7734 acquired through ebay bidding. This watch is in mint condition with the original dial and stainless steel case and bracelet intact. Valjoux 7734 is a manual winding 17 jewels swiss made mechanism. The only different between valjoux 7733 and 7734 is that the 7734 has a date function. I am trying to find more information on the manufacturer Exacron at the moment.... Anyone with more info can kindly email or drop me a message, thanks.

"Houston I just saw a rabbit flying by...": Omega Speedmaster Professional

That is what Neil Armstrong going to say if the Chinese Fairytale comes alive in the moon..... So we won't have the fancy saying of "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." In Chinese fairytale... there are a man "Wu Gang", a goddess Chang-e and a jade rabbit with a tree on the moon.... Neil Armstrong and his crew as well as those NASA engineers and scientists at their Houston base would collapse with disbelieve!!!!

Why talking about Neil Armstrong???? Well this is the first watch wore on the moon by mankind.... Whether Aliens wear any watches? 

Omega Speedmaster Professional "Moon watch"

I purchased this watch from a friend's shop as second hand. I am never a big fan of Omega to start with... and Speedmaster is the only model I am willing to pay for. Prior to this I have another Speedmaster automatic. This watch is equipped with the omega cal.1861 movement. Omega Speedmaster professional used Cal.861 movement until 1996. The 18 jewels rhodium plated cal 1861 is based on Lemania 1873 movement and has a vibration rate of 21,600 vph. The most beautiful part of this watch is its caseback which has the words "Flight Qualified by NASA for All Manned Space Missions" and "The First Watch Worn on the Moon".