Is the movement in this current 36mm a miyota 9015?
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.
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 ?
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Looking good in its Native environment
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Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
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.
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.
With so much fiction and friction... that's so true
Its a Suede Vintage handmade (Crazy Cow)
https://www.finwatchstraps.com/colle...r-watch-straps
Start 2019 with a banging watch
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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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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!
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
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
Received mine via SC. Popped on a cheap rivet bracelet I've got, used the original end links.
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".