Tunturi from arctic circle

Hi everybody,

I am Tony, 50-something and long time watch enthusiast. I've mostly been involved with Seikos since 70's and my current collection consists of about 40 Seikos and ~30 other watches. I have never been keen to spend lots of money on a watch so most of mine are vintage or affordable ones. Some of the vintages are appreciating nowadays though as old Seiko divers and chronos are getting more and more popular. Should have bought more of them old Seiko divers and chronos back when they were considered trash ;)

I bought my first "rep" in 1985 from 5th av in NYC. It was a heavy "gold" Rolex but with quartz movement. Looked cool at the time but by todays standards it probably was horrible ;) Sadly I gave it away few years later to a friend who died in mc accident a year later. :(

So, couple of months ago I accidently stumbled into reps again and was amazed how good they are today. I have couple of parts piles on route (Rolex sub and IWC) which I will assemble with ETA 2836-2 and 2892-A2 movements and see how they feel on my wrist. I plan to order a factory made rep soon also to see how they feel and work. :cool: Haven't been able to decide which one quite yet but the Chinese new year gives me little time to make up my mind so no problem there.

My skill level at the moment is: I can take apart and assemble watches but haven't tried movement clean/oil service yet. I do have most of the tools required and a good library of books on the subject but haven't had the courage to try it yet. I do have about 10 extra Seiko 6309 -movements which I start to practice with so that day wll come at some point. But, meanwhile I plan only to buy reps which use ETA based movements as those I can change by myself if they give me trouble. There is no watchmakers where I live who will touch reps so its too much of a risk to buy ones with actual clone movements. The fact that I don't like see through casebacks help me but also limit my choice.

Happy to be here and I have learned a lot already by reading the stuff on the forum. :cool:


Regards,

Tony

@Tunturi73



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Great job on your write up of introducing yourself.

Welcome to RG. Your skill level is better than mine. I can wind them ok, with some instruction. :undecided:

Hi and welcome to RG. Well done and interesting intro.

Hi and thanks for the welcome. Been busy reading the forums.

My first parts pile (the sub) is in the country but the tracking hasn't updated for several days (weekend might have something to do with it). Knock on wood - hope the customs doesn't take a peek into the box ;) I have a nice gen 2836-2 waiting for it, hope they get the parts delivered soon. Not sure if I have long enough stem in my parts bins though, have ordered more but they haven't arrived yet. The quality of the parts remains to be seen, bought them before discovering rep-forums. :rolleyes:

Wish me luck!

Back to reading...

Update: forum admin has changed my username as there was a problem with what I originally wanted (username I chose caused registration failure) and had to choose an alternative (Tunturi). They kindly fixed the problem and changed my username to Toni. Thank you for that. Cannot edit the original thread subject so Tunturi remains there.

Another update: my Sub parts kit arrived. :) Have been examining it and this far I am quite happy. Have no experience with subs but I feel it will do just fine for me. I was wondering if anybody could say which factory made it but maybe I'll make a new thread on that matter.