tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18705495788385732942011-12-19T14:59:58.323-08:00"Timepiece Market Report" is a monthly article series on watches and the watch collecting hobby. All articles are copyrighted by the author. Links to the articles are allowed. Publishing, and redistributing the articles without the written consent of the author is prohibitited.Time Enthusiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12671834128870357378noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870549578838573294.post-32324898617824752152011-12-19T14:53:00.000-08:002011-12-19T14:59:58.339-08:00

I have been very busy at work and also with my rediscovered passion for cycling so not much time to write on this blog.I recently acquired a PRW-5100.This is the Japan only PRW-5100G-4. I will post a more detailed review later, but the first thing I did was to take off the Casio Strap and swap to a Seiko Z22 Rubber Strap (with careful cuts to the strap to make it fit):

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I have been silent for a while because I have been busy with this thing called "Work." Go figure.I received two new divers in one week.The first one I received was a Seiko SRP043K2. This Seiko is phenomenal IMHO. Runs within COSC specs, excellent looks, great visibility. The flat caseback makes it a joy to wear. The AR coating is very well done. The only thing it needs is a sapphire crystal.

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A while ago, I wrote an article about the Omega X-33 prices. You can find that article here. I have been watching the prices for these discontinued timepieces on both Ebay and also several watch forums. The prices are generally trending up.I just saw this one sell on Watch-U-Seek for around $2200. This is for a sample with excellent documentation, but no titanium bracelet. So here is my reality

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I recently received a Highgear Altis Titanium as a gift. I had also purchased an Altis Stainless Steel for myself and ended up keeping the Titanium as it was much lighter and more comfortable to wear.The strap sits great on the wrist. The watch is very legible and the display is highly customizable. The barometer trend graph is much more useful than my Casio PAW1500 and the readings seem to be

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This is the first anniversary for my Timex Solar Shock.I have to say, I am more than impressed with the accuracy of this watch.After one year, it is only seven seconds (+6 + 1 leap second adjustment) off the official US clock at time.gov.For $70, it seems like a very good buy.The detailed review is here:http://timereport.blogspot.com/2008/04/timex-solar-shock-ironman-50-lap.html

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So far the Promaster Sky is running about 0.1 seconds per day. Not bad for a quartz.I was hoping for better accuracy, but happy with what I have seen so far.

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This is my newest Citizen. Japan only Citizen Promaster Sky (PMK65-2211). Titanium case and band with Duratect coating, and a DLC bezel in a limited edition of 1000 per year. I believe this is due to the limited manufacturing numbers of the Diamond-Like-Carbon (DLC) coated bezel.There is also a version with an ordinary titanium bezel with the model number PMK65-2212.The BoxI purchased the watch

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This watch is a Timex Solar Shock Ironman 50 Lap. Since the timex website does such a poor job of listing its features, I will cover them here:Three separate time/date zones are accessible. These are cycled through by pressing the start/split button right underneath the dial of the watch. Each time zone is settable individually and completely arbitrarily. The helps in accommodating time zones

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I received my watch back from Citizen of America about 10 days after I sent it.Watch looks as good as new and the only mark indicating that the service is performed is a dot on the case back (engraved) before the serial number.Kudos to Citizen of America for taking a proactive stance in fixing this problem.

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It looks like there is a service action for the Skyhawk AT both in US and Japan. The problem is that the perpetual calendar will not update correctly after the year 2010.Citizen is performing a software update to fix the problem. I sent my watch in after contacting them and verifying that it is indeed affect by this recall.You can find more details at:1) http://forums.watchuseek.com/

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Quick update on the Skyhawk AT.1) The watch had difficulty adjusting to the daylight savings time change. It took another 24hrs after the change for the watch to automatically update the SMT setting.2) I managed to put a minor scratch on the mineral glass crystal right on top of 9PM. Barely visible, but I am still wondering why Chase-Durer can put a sapphire crystal on a similarly priced watch

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Another nice review posted about the Skyhawk here.

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After selling my Omega X-33 Gen 2, I immediately started missing it. The following monologue is my story of how I found, in my opinion of course, the ultimate pilot/traveller's watch.As every methodical watch collector does, I first started putting together a list of functions that I needed to have on my new timepiece:Chronograph: This comes in handy for lots of functions including time traveled,

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Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33 is an enigmatic Omega. There are several very good articles on this watch on the web:BSODMIKE's X-33 ReviewA Pilot's Perspective on the X-33And even the user manual for the X-33 is on-line thanks to Chuck Maddox.In a nutshell, the X-33 was designed as an addition to the venerable Omega Speedmaster Professional line with help and feedback from pilots and NASA

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"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. "Marcus AureliusI don't know what the right word is for those that share my affliction. I am a watchaholic. Hmm, that doesn't sound quite a right. I think the favorite term for people that have a serious watch collecting addiction is WIS for short. "Watch Idiot Savant" is the long form. We

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