That is feckin hideous.
Itās got itās own escape pod strapped on the side!
Looks more like a holder for a cyanide capsule, for when it all gets too much and you realise what a hideous watch you have bought !
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It was about Ā£90. Most of it is an Amphibian 150, but custom hands, dial and bezel.
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Lot of good-taste envy going-on in this thread. Sad.
Bargain! And that does explain why thereās nothing like it out there. āAgent Orangeā cost Ā£87 ex-display. Big budget stuff for meā¦ 
Continued its travels and headed North to Erlanger, North Kentucky and then on to Birmingham, not Alabama but Birmingham UK. Now in my grubby little mitts.
RRP of $525, actual cost including postage and import duties Ā£115, 3 year International guarantee, watch tags and instruction booklet and a stated accuracy of +/- 10 seconds a year.
Only one problem, itās a bit blingy for me, I donāt know whether I like it and having scrawny wrists at 42mm it looks rather big. Well you canāt have everything I suppose.
Err, pics please.
Also info on where you ordered it from would be good 
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Just had a letter from Christopher Ward and amongst the marketing yak, is a code for Ā£100 off >Ā£500 purchases in case anyone is interested: 100SUN18 - valid 'til June 30th.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/WATCHES-HALF-PRICE?_trksid=p2047675.l2563
Arrived totally unmarked and in pristine condition.
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Very 1970s.
You havenāt seen me dance. 
Tuning fork goodness
If thatās a modern bulova it uses their precisionist / āsuper crystalā whatever itās called to give you a hi-beat / spring drive like second hand sweep.
I have a modern bulova and although the styling is a bit fussy the sweep on the second had is something marvelous to behold. Eats batteries faster than penances vibrator though.
My daily wearer is an apple watch - itās just too useful to not wear now, especially as Iāve become a bit of a gym bunny after a health wake up call. Iāll wear my Seiko OM if iām going swimming though and iāve a couple of low rent āgoing outā watches (Armani, Parnis, Bulova ) and sentimental fake Monaco I bought in Thailand when I was young and stupid.
Must say Iām liking the vostok amphibians in this thread but my current object of wrist lust is the new Tudot BB GMT, unliikely iāll ever scrape together the necessary unallocated funds to afford it given all the other stuff I want / need / have to pay but itās nice to dream.
Yep, itās an accutron 11, basically a modified precisionist, a tad less accurate but this saves on battery life. Youāre right the second hand sweeps like a quality mechanical jobby. As I said a bit blingy for me but it oozes a good quality feel about it. The precisionists by the nature of the gubbins inside need a much bigger case, scrawny wrists prohibit the purchase of such an accurate timekeeper.
Like some of Bulovaās efforts, really fancy an original Spaceview if I ever have the Ā£Ā£ to spare.
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Dropped the Mark XII in at Heptinstalls the other day. Got a call yesterday with the estimate. The description of the work required was all quite long and involved; it would have been much faster to say āitās shaggedā.
Still, the estimate was a lot lower than even a basic service had I sent it back to IWC, so Iām looking forward to getting it sorted even though I hardly wear a watch at all these days.
Yes, thatās nice.
not the rumored 10k euro nice thoughā¦
Thatāll be me out then !