Re: [MBZ] OT Seiko 5 SNK809 one week update

[Peter Frederick via Mercedes]

If Timex had used standard plates and screws instead of rivets to hold the movements together so they could be serviced, they would have been the best watches made at that price point.  I have an automatic with a broken mainspring, which would not be a big deal on any other watch, and it's not repairable because the movement is riveted.


their secret was using very hard metal, reputedly high speed steel, instead of ruby for jewels.  They were hard enough to work like ruby, but don 't break on impact, and the watch I had has a Roskopf pin lever escapement that uses pointed pivots instead of the very thin ones on a standard movement.  You can indeed beat them up pretty bad and they keep going so long as the case stays dustproof.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Sent: Jul 26, 2016 10:20 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Cc: Mitch Haley
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Seiko 5 SNK809 one week update

On July 26, 2016 at 10:54 PM Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:


Tie it to your tar on the way to work. That oughtta charge it up right good.

Remember the 1970's Timex commercials?

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking"

I remember one where a mechanic broke the bracelet while mounting a tire, and didn't realize his lost Timex fell into the tire until it came back for  another new tire, with the still running self winding watch inside.

Mitch.

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