Reply With QuoteThis has been my exact same experience. I guess it's a problem with this batch as a few people have now mentioned it. I'm hoping it will improve and that, in the meantime, I'm not mashing the thread :(Originally Posted by greenandblack
Is the movement in this current 36mm a miyota 9015?
This has been my exact same experience. I guess it's a problem with this batch as a few people have now mentioned it. I'm hoping it will improve and that, in the meantime, I'm not mashing the thread :(
Yes
Note that Eddie has said that the next iteration will be the no-Date 9039
Thank you. I thought one of them would be going once I'd tried the smaller size, but the original works very well (for me) as a very legible everyday knockabout watch, and the 36mm has a very vintage vibe about it, more so if I can find a strap that suits and certainly if on a suitable (20>16mm, rivetted) bracelet.
F.T.F.A.
Ive just ordered one of these from Finwatchstraps
No problem and perfectly normal, I have more than one Watch with the 9015 movements and they all screw down in exactly the same way.
Thanks. That's good to hear, in a way ...
Nowt wrong with the hands. I have 4 of Eddie's creations, all different, even the two Everests have a different feel and character when compared side by side, and I wouldn't label any as best.
Very nice picture, in particular the Everest 36mm !
An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
Come to think of it so do ETA 2824-2 movements at least in my experience.
Some day I plan to have my 36mm re-lumed that colour!An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
I'd buy that ... really like the dial, particularly the logo design, size, and location, which is the best I have seen yet. It looks much better without "Sheffield" or "England" underneath the word Smiths (less cluttered, cleaner look). The font size is still very legible, without being overpowering. This is the logo design that I'd like to see from now on (on the white Everest, and second production run of the black). I think you've got the hour hand and the second hand bang on as well (especially the lollipop size and position, and the counterweight). Maybe do the word "Everest" in the same colour as the logo ?An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
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Looking good in its Native environment
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This is lovely!! Spot on for me as well.An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
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This has addressed the two issues that has stopped me buying the 36mm - the oversized 'SMITHS' logo and the second hand 'lollipop' placement issue. Good work! Now, the 'Everest' text in a darkish red...An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
The length of the hands here are spot on - very, very nice. Second hand 'lollipop' placement just perfect. And I like the other logo, more subtle - really nice.An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
Personally I don't go for the faux patina look - but I could live with that, if the hands and logo where as here.
Would be interessing to see a version without the Mercedes Benz logo in the hour hands of the timepiece - I think it would actually look more clean.
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And another real watch
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Agreed. It does look lovely.
Prob with the faux lume is that it can look OK in mockups, but crap in really life
Just my 0.02 secs
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Base camp zeroLooking good in its Native environment
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I'm about 150km away atmBase camp zero
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Really... that's very cool... It really is in it's native surroundings
That's rightReally... that's very cool... It really is in it's native surroundings
We love a few facts on tz
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
With so much fiction and friction... that's so true
Boudhanath Stupa?
Boooooooom
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That look's almost perfect. My only suggestion would be to increase the length of the shaft of the second hand counterweight by 1-2mm, it looks slightly stubby atm.An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
Lovely stuff - it's such a beautiful country, though I've not been since the quake a few years back.Boooooooom
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Now that looks interesting, can you let me know which strap that is please?Ive just ordered one of these from Finwatchstraps
Many thanks
Sean
Its a Suede Vintage handmade (Crazy Cow)
https://www.finwatchstraps.com/colle...r-watch-straps
Wooooaaahhhhh!! cracking strap
Darn you Valorum !! That looks so awesomely good I have just purchased the same strap for my 36mm Everest.
Thanks for sharing. I'm gunna feel like Ernest Hemingway with that one on. :)
Start 2019 with a banging watch
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Me too:Start 2019 with a banging watch
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And I can’t see me needing to buying another watch this year tbh...
(Other than one of Ewan’s Newmark 6BB’s!)
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Thank you Velorum.
Sean
It certainly is a splendid way to start the new year!
It certainly is a splendid way to start the new year!
Lookin' good!Any news re that bracelet? I contacted the seller about the price via eBay and their website but no reply yet.
I am expecting the bracelet to arrive tomorrow or Thursday.
The seller is sticking to their original statement that the bracelets on eBay and their website are different!
Found this old fake solid link Rolex bracelet a mate bought me when he went to Vietnam some years back. Fits perfectly my PRS25 36mm using the Smith's end links. It's actually not bad at all and will save marking the original.
Still on the original bracelet.
I did try a solid Jubilee but the end links were just a ba’ hair out for an easy fit. I may try a dremel on them in a while.
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Have you got a shot of the head and end links as a matter of interest?
There you go.....
Need to loosen it slightly 👍
I agree. I have a Seiko SUMO (the movement is 6R15) and it happens the same thing. Was my first serious watch, so I went to forums to see if it was a problem but it happen to be just the way this watch’s crown works.
This is my first post in the forum. I am in love with 36mm Everest but I didn’t get it in december. So, here I am, reading and waiting for january 15th to come. Hope I can get one!
(Sorry about my spelling... I’m spanish, english is not my mother tongue)
Happy new year!
Looks good Rod, thanks
It would be nice if the counterpoise dot sat directly over the Merc triangle but if not possible then this looks like another winner Mr Platts.An aged version could work, maybe, if you need to order lots of the new movements for the light dialled version and need another variant.
That Smith's logo with the aged lume and a bracelet tapering from 20mm to 16mm would really make me want one, I'd say that it would be one of the best early explorer homages out there
Welcome to the forum! And I’m sorry for you - I was lucky enough to get mine before Christmas, and the wait still felt like eternity! Definitely worth it though.
Eddie, you mentioned in the ‘polar’ version of the PRS25 thread you will be changing the hand set dimensions on further Black models... if that after the first batch you received before Christmas or after the first longer run you have order (I assume that was 300?)
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...=1#post4983037
This will be when I place the next order.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Received mine via SC. Popped on a cheap rivet bracelet I've got, used the original end links.
Well that looks like it works great ... so the obvious question, where did you get the cheap rivet bracelet from ? :)Received mine via SC. Popped on a cheap rivet bracelet I've got, used the original end links.
Great pic as well - really demonstrates what a fabulous little watch this is.
Looks great but how do you remove links?
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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