Vulgar display backs

[h0b0]

I love a display back but can't help but feel this one misses the mark

[lostkiwi]

Link?

[Hoofy]

Well, at least the circuit board is orange.

[soad]

lostkiwi said:

Link?

Google invicta 14676.

[lostkiwi]

soad said:

lostkiwi said:

Link?

Google invicta 14676.

There was no pic on the OP when I put the comment.

[SirSquidalot]

That is incredible

[Hoofy]

NeMiSiS said:

I had to google the watch as I quite like it.

It clearly shows the power reserve of the watch, when the battery starts to sweat it's time to change it, and when the guy in the 'heel bar' says what battery is in it, do you know?

You can simply show him...genius if you ask me.

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

[Adrian W]

Hoofy said:

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

I thought they use a hammer

[Hoofy]

Adrian W said:

Hoofy said:

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

I thought they use a hammer

In fairness to Timpsons, for battery changes they are someone I'd rely on as it's an easy, convenient process and you get the battery for life thing.

[Variomatic]

Hoofy said:

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

Which in most cases narrows it down to a choice of two possible cells (high or low drain, different chemistries, not good at each other's jobs), which they then guess from :P

[Hoofy]

Variomatic said:

Hoofy said:

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

Which in most cases narrows it down to a choice of two possible cells (high or low drain, different chemistries, not good at each other's jobs), which they then guess from :P

If they got the wrong one, what would happen?

[Variomatic]

Depends which way they go wrong.

A low drain used in some chronos / alarms etc will usually just give a short life if you use the extra functions. A high drain used in a low drain application (most "normal" movements and some chronos) can (perversely) give a short life or can end up doing the eaty-leaky thing to the circuit board.

It's a bit like using a "leisure" battery in your car or the other way - they'll work but you won't get best performance and may be creating problems down the line.

[Hoofy]

Ouch.

[Variomatic]

Hoofy said:

Ouch.

Nah, it's all good really - I get a lot of easy, profitable, movement changes thanks to wrong-battery-leakage

[13m]

Hoofy said:

NeMiSiS said:

I had to google the watch as I quite like it.

It clearly shows the power reserve of the watch, when the battery starts to sweat it's time to change it, and when the guy in the 'heel bar' says what battery is in it, do you know?

You can simply show him...genius if you ask me.

In fairness to Timpsons, they just take the battery out and find the replacement on their measuring tool.

Wouldn't know. I take all my watch and shoe repairs to a watchmaker.

[Variomatic]

13m said:

Wouldn't know. I take all my watch and shoe repairs to a watchmaker.

I'm actually thinking of getting a key cutting machine on the basis that Timpsons have forever linked the two in so many people's minds, and how hard can it be?

Unlike Timpsons, if I do, it will be in an entirely different room from any watches with a corridor in between to avoid metal dust problems!

[13m]

Variomatic said:

13m said:

Wouldn't know. I take all my watch and shoe repairs to a watchmaker.

I'm actually thinking of getting a key cutting machine on the basis that Timpsons have forever linked the two in so many people's minds, and how hard can it be?

Unlike Timpsons, if I do, it will be in an entirely different room from any watches with a corridor in between to avoid metal dust problems!

Are you a bit grumpy and an ex-prisoner? You'll need to be if you're going to give your customers the full Timpson experience.

[Variomatic]

13m said:

Are you a bit grumpy and an ex-prisoner? You'll need to be if you're going to give your customers the full Timpson experience.

I can do grumpy on demand as long as they don't expect me to keep it up for long - that really gets my goat. And I guess I could get myself arrested for something if that's what the customers really want

[Jimmy Recard]

Timpsons? To rely on?

They wanted £96 to do the battery on my 1982 Omega Constellation. They said it needs a special tool to remove the caseback

Oh, and it would take 4-6 weeks

[Variomatic]

Jimmy Recard said:

Timpsons? To rely on?

They wanted £96 to do the battery on my 1982 Omega Constellation. They said it needs a special tool to remove the caseback

Well, it does. Depending on the exact case it should either be a case knife or a back wrench not a steak knife or monkey wrench