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Thanks! That Catorex was in a box of spare parts I bought. It's been fun working on it. https://youtu.be/ANlKeCbhpD8?t=2014 (Catorex at 33:34)
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These all interested me relatively recently as design studies more so than collectibles. If I was a collector I would want Accutrons (Spaceview old and new), HP1 and other electronic and digital classics. If I had kept every digital watch I've ever owned I'd have a few more boxes, but they all die, which is why in the end if you're going to buy watch boxes it makes more sense to fill them with mechanical watches 😀
In the youtube watchmakers community there's a "tradition" of not showing your face - just your hands. I personally found that very uninteresting because it was clear to me that a major part of the reason everyone was doing it was so it was easy to narrate with a voice over, hide all of their mistakes in editing, and not worry about lip sync. That's why I made my own watchmaking channel on which I do everything and narrate in realtime. Unfortunately I have no idea what I'm doing on the watchmaking side, but the videos are very real and as you can see I don't hide my mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OaAgcaWE7w
(I apologize for the spammy link - I can't figure out how to insert a YouTube link without WC making it into a full column-width image link.)
No, WR is super important. But 5 meters is fine for most people! All watches have to be water resistant or humidity and sweat will ruin them, especially vintage watches. I made a video about how to waterproof a vintage watch in case anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/yXJ3gxjNnU8
@surferjohn I didn't know what a Panerai was when I bought that (1999?). It just looked like a wall-clock for the wrist and I wanted it! 😀
I got it in Switzerland. Here's the link to the auction. https://www.ricardo.ch/fr/a/seiko-vintage-edelstahl-uhrenarmband-1189988968/
End links were correct when I got it so I think it may have been made for Bell-Matic.
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