{"id":895,"date":"2010-08-26T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:19:46","slug":"daves-home-for-wayward-wristwatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Dave’s Home for Wayward Wristwatches"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/a>Picked up two new-to-me watches, one is a fine, high beat Waltham, hand wound watch:<\/p>\n

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It is a surprisingly clean watch, with a 8 bps movement (28,800 BPH) that keeps great time.\u00a0 I have not even polished the crystal.\u00a0 Just removed some dirt and put it on a metal bracelet.<\/p>\n

My second find (which was free, since I am a ‘good’ customer) is a Seiko Quartz watch from 1990.\u00a0 It was in pretty sorry shape when I got it:<\/p>\n

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Pretty sad looking for a watch which probably cost about $100 new, just 20 years ago!\u00a0 Well, here is where Brasso and some hard work come into play!<\/p>\n

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After about 10 minutes of polishing and cleaning, this is the result.\u00a0 There are still a few scratches, and there are a few small cracks, but now it is a usable watch again.\u00a0 It also has a stainless steel case, so it is a perfect replacement for my base metal Timex beater.\u00a0 It will be a beater, but what a beater.\u00a0 Super clean design for the face and hands, with Day and Date, and best of all, it is a Seiko.<\/p>\n

In case you were wondering, “Home for Wayward Wristwatches” was not my idea, I have to thank Ricky Lee<\/a> on the Poor Man’s Watch Forum<\/a>.\u00a0 He did inspire me to rescue some really trashed watches.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picked up two new-to-me watches, one is a fine, high beat Waltham, hand wound watch: It is a surprisingly clean watch, with a 8 bps movement (28,800 BPH) that keeps great time.\u00a0 I have not even polished the crystal.\u00a0 Just removed some dirt and put it on a metal bracelet. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/watches.cyberphreak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}