Reply With QuoteLove the cream dial on that Superocean!!!
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Great watches there, mine says hello!Originally Posted by Gavbaz
Busy one for me these last few weeks. Had these 3 arrive.
Could call it a Breitling overdose!
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Love the cream dial on that Superocean!!!
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Stock photo, but tracking seems to have stopped at the Russian border. Hoping to show horological fun needn't be costly
I have an 18mm blue NATO waiting to receive it :)
Dave
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Thats a stunner!One of the great thrills of this forum is the discovery of brands that are held in esteem by people who know and love watches. I had never heard of Vostok before seeing how often the Amphibia appeared in people's "must collect" lists.
So, ordered one, since they were so cheap it wasn't worth not doing. It arrived today and took it off the plasticky/tinny bracelet I put it on a red leather NATO. Went for the blue zissou dial, and glad I did.
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Thanks. I haven't found myself wearing it much because the lugs are so narrow. 20mm straps are too thin in my opinion - on me at least. But it's far prettier and sturdier than you can reasonably expect a £50 watch to be.
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Just arrived and looking very good.
I really really like this and now I can say I have a collection of 3 watches plus a beater.
New arrival yesterday... please excuse the somewhat awful phone camera photo, but I absolutely love this watch. The dial is simply beautiful, and the overall look and feel belies the very very sensible price.
6309 7040
A new unplanned addition
Hi Burnhard. Can I ask where you purchased this from please? Looking to get one myself but unsure where to get it from?
How are you finding it - it's a lovely looking piece.
Hi Caveman, I lovin the Orient ray ii , the time keeping is amazing about +1 sec a day during the first week. the bracelet is so comfortable and the blue dial is really class.
Bought it of Serious watches, great to deal with and just 219 Euro. Amazing value.
Black Bay Dark...
love that, was tempted to get one when iwas at LHR but my current BBB was on wrist going no don't buy it keep meBlack Bay Dark...
Thank you - i might just have to stumble across their web site soon....
Congrats on the watch - I love it
With all the serious watches on the forum, you can lose sight of them being a bit of fun. Just a week from Russia to Liverpool and no import tax too. Almost indecent levels of fun for less than £60, although the cheap bracelet had to come straight off! Serious levels of robustness and WR too :)
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Rolex 15200
This just arrived. With a yellow dialled twin but my Breitling has disappeared straight off my wrist.
Absolutely in love with it.
New arrival today in response to a WTB. Steinhart OVR Mk1.
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@meijlinder a few pages back. that is a beautiful ORIS, such an underrated brand. my father loves them
Stunning images John. One has just been listed on e-bay, might keep an eye on it
New incoming today, I have never worked so hard to track down a watch, there were supposedly less than 100 made and only sold to the American market - a hens teeth of a watch.
Like all yellow and black watches it is known as the bumble bee.
Very nice. Classy watch....Rolex 15200
Chris
Are you calling me old?
Thanks!
I've put a watch on that too.... Purely out of interest! You were right though... that black dial is DEFINITELY nicer than the Mk2.Stunning images John. One has just been listed on e-bay, might keep an eye on it
Nice one! Is that the full set recreated now?
Beautiful. Where did you find it?Rolex 15200
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Yes it is. The Pepsi came on a rubber divers strap and I found a genuine OEM Orient Mako SS bracelet in Russia of all places and that arrived last week, but Orient use a different thinkness of spring pin on rubber and SS, so I am waiting for those pins to turn up. Hopefully then I can put the bracelet on the Pepsi and take a few images of the set and knock together a piece for WT.
The yellow came from a Calgary in Canada, so this is a real United Nations effort.
That's awesome. Did you get the bracelet and leather strap? Just love the legibility and stealthy looks. Any chance of a few first impressions or feedback? Congratulations Ben.Black Bay Dark...
"New incoming today, I have never worked so hard to track down a watch, there were supposedly less than 100 made and only sold to the American market - a hens teeth of a watch.
Like all yellow and black watches it is known as the bumble bee."
Wow, that looks good, have you got the full set now?, Photo imminent??
Thanks John, yes - see my post a few up (2077). I will knock something up for WT later in the week.Wow, that looks good, have you got the full set now?, Photo imminent??
Thanks, it was from Watchfinder in the end, the other half got a decent discount and extra year warranty so she was happy!
Another 6139-6002 beauty.
Just the leather strap and the dark grey fabric strap. First impressions are great since picking it up. I've previously owned the Black Bay Blue and Black and this feels very different. Love the red accents on the dial and bezel and the finishing is excellent.
I bought it with the intention of using it as my knock around watch but am starting to wonder if it is too nice for that!
K34
Third incoming Seiko this week. Very pleased with it SBDX001 :)
Nicely done Ken! Well worth the trouble...and probably my fav of the colour-ways you have collected. TNew incoming today, I have never worked so hard to track down a watch, there were supposedly less than 100 made and only sold to the American market - a hens teeth of a watch.
Like all yellow and black watches it is known as the bumble bee.
You would have thought that something that was mostly yellow with just a few bits of black would be called The Ripe Banana.
It is a little odd given that bumble bees are black and yellow stripes and I have yet to see that on a watch - now there's a challenge. It just seems any watch with a yellow and black combo like Orient, Seiko, Breitling etc get called bumble bee by the folks who own and discuss such things. Manky Banana just doesn't have the same ring about it.
Interestly, in most photos the dial looks a flat yellow, but in fact in strong light it has a lovely texture with machine patterned lines running from the centre outwards and it takes on more of a gold colour. I tried to capture this with my high tech £1.59 bit of kit.
I've a Bulova Accutron II incoming after seeing one in another thread yesterday. My first of that brand and and interesting smooth-sweeping second hand quartz.
I'm supposed to be culling. But it's not happening. ;)
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Youve gone Seiko crazy ;)
It's just a matter of time...
...and on top it's a lovely colour on the dial. Looks great, but personally I would source a better bezel for it. There are many good looking parts to mod it. There was a thread about these. OK, those bezels cost as much as the watch, but well worth IMO.
With all the serious watches on the forum, you can lose sight of them being a bit of fun. Just a week from Russia to Liverpool and no import tax too. Almost indecent levels of fun for less than £60, although the cheap bracelet had to come straight off! Serious levels of robustness and WR too :)
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Oh well done! Like hens' teeth.
I would have thought there were more than 100 made but stand to be corrected. As far as I know they were an Amazon.com special edition.
I agree Mark, see the attached:
http://wornandwound.com/orient-marks...iversary-mako/
I personally don't see how Orient could make so few without it being a big limited edition. The article makes reference to previous limited sales but doesn't give numbers. Mine was originally purchased in 2011 so is clearly nothing to do with the limited release in the W&W article. I got mine from Calgary, Canada.
All that to one side, they are extremely difficult to find and forums like watchuseek has plenty of WTBs if you search it.
I don't think anyone knows how many, but it isn't a lot.
Ah, the fact that there have been (at least) two special/limited edition releases of the yellow Mako had passed me by; I was only aware of the one in 2011. It's a shame the 2014 anniversary yellow Mako described in the W&W article didn't have some text on the dial or back to differentiate it from the 2011 Amazon-only (I thought it was Amazon-only, anyway) yellow Mako.
Thanks for that link.
The W&W article describes the model number as: FEM65001YW whereas mine begins with a C as can be seen on the hang tag.
This article further confuses things:
https://yeomanseiko.com/2011/02/18/u...tional-models/
So who knows.
Ken
As I recall, the very first letter of the Orient model number can be disregarded in terms of identifying the model. Thus a watch designated as FEMnnnnnxx is physically identical to a CEMnnnnnxx, where nnnnn and xx are the same (as in your 2011 watch and the W&W 2014 limited edition).The W&W article describes the model number as: FEM65001YW whereas mine begins with a C as can be seen on the hang tag.
This article further confuses things:
https://yeomanseiko.com/2011/02/18/u...tional-models/
So who knows.
Ken
This means two things:
(1) The 2011 and 2014 yellow special/limited editions were absolutely identical.
(2) I have forgotten what the first letter signifies. ;-) I think the first letter might be target market but I'm not sure/can't remember. Possibly C is international and F is USA... or something like that.
I do love the dial colour, although I'm trying not to look at the slightly industrial Lume application on the hands :)
The bezel is a simple friction affair, but I rather like the originality of it. It's a lot of fun
Dave
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New arrival this morning...
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looks ace, strap does go really well with it, is it standard leather or a exotic animal?
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