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Ichiro Chiba
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Semi retired businessman from Japan. Visited 80 countries and resided in 4. Watch collection > 100 pieces, including digital / quartz, new and old, but no PP/VC (edit ; deleted AP from here because I forgot that I do have one AP in my collection). I also need to mention that my watch hobby is in its “maintenance phase”, and that I am no longer in “collecting mode”.
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Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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Post #20 In-flight origami
One of my other hobbies is “inflight origami”. I started this about 6 years ago to keep myself calm on airplanes. It’s also effective in making the fl...
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Post #19 Seikosha mainspring pendulum clock
Bought this from an antique retailer for approx. US$40. Seikosha (精工舎), as most of you may know, is more or less the R&D and manufacturing root...
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Post #18 my Ricoh A580s
Ricoh is a Japanese company, that started as a manufacturer of photographic paper in 1936. It was a spin off from the Institute of Physical and Chemic...
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Post #17 Zenith El Primero
I bought this new in 1994 at a price of what was equivalent to US$2,200. I thought it was a great bargain compared to other watches considering the 36...
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Post #16 Melting gasket on my WRUW Orfina Porsche Design
I decided to take a look inside my Orfina Porsche Design Chronograph 1 only to discover that the gasket was “melting”, glistening and sticky. Now I’ve...
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Post #15 Calibration clock
I use this, Keiseeds P18-NTPLR of Kyoritsu Electronics (Osaka, Japan), to calibrate my watches. It displays the time picked up from internet time sign...
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Post #14 Vostok “Diver” watches
Buying Vostok and Slava watches during my stays in Moscow, Saint Petersburg etc. were not part of my watch collecting hobby. It was more like buying a...
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Post #13 TWEMCO clock
I’m a big fan of Hong Kong’s film director Wong Kar Wai and his films, that sometimes has scenes featuring clocks. Being easily influenced, I was once...
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Post #12 Royal watch ?
I acquired this piece in Amman, Jordan about 30 years ago. Because the watch with no “Longines” logo on it had a “Longines” strap on it I overlooked t...
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