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Incoming 1980s/90s project watch. It began life exploring the depths of the sea. More recently, it has lounged in a junk drawer. It should be fun getting it spiffed up and running.

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HISTORY: TAG Heuer Formula 1 (Part One: 1987-1996)

Inspired by my new Formula 1, I decided to start a new series today. In this series I will be looking at the history of TAG Heuer models,...
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wristwatchb said:
Incoming 1980s/90s project watch. It began life exploring the depths of the sea. More recently, it has lounged in a junk drawer. It should be fun getting it spiffed up and running.

tagheuerenthusiast.blogspot.com

HISTORY: TAG Heuer Formula 1 (Part One: 1987-1996)

Inspired by my new Formula 1, I decided to start a new series today. In this series I will be looking at the history of TAG Heuer models,...
tagheuerenthusiast.blogspot.com tagheuerenthusiast.blogspot.com

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Good golly. First step, dishwasher.
 
OK.. The Ulysse Nardin Freak was a watch I drooled over for the pure Horological Beauty of the complication...

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for A tad over $77K in this iteration and Mucho Mas for others it was never going to happen. So Along comes a company called CIGA Design, out of China, and it set the Swiss Watch makers Hair on fire by winning the GPHG Gran Prix D Horolgerie de Geneve in 2021 with this...

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Then said Hold my Rice Wine and designed this...

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Winning more Award and making Swiss Chocolate and Watches Melt with envy. So recently the Cypher was introduced and it has all the earmarks of the UN Freak. So it was a must have and not even a 10th the PRice

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I Just got it today and it is #21 off the Assembly line, and I LOVE IT. The dial absorbs almost all the light ( similar to @NurseDave 's watch ). Telling time is a Cypher or Code and it is fantastic. Say what you want but the Chinese watches from CIGA design and many of the watches coming from China are giving the Swiss a run for the money. Not to mention some of the parts in your most prestigious brands are coming from the far east. Remember to be "Swiss Made" it only has to be 51% parts from Switzerland and 100% assembled in Switzerland.

Very Happy with this one!
 
heysi said:
Oh....I will restart the Watch Game just to weigh in on this one......just watch me (see what I did there?)
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Be very, very careful I will have my hand on the band button and the anti-tortilla chip button throughout the entire watch game if you can’t appreciate the horological and the technical engineering that it takes to create this complication then your words are hollow and useless🤪😂
 
Yeah, if you pissed me off, I hit that button and Lawrence Welk music is piped to your home your bathroom and your workplace oh, and your car
 
Strop Dragging said:
Wow - amazing job! Just gorgeous!
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Thanks! The restoration was a splurge since I was very close to my Bride's dear uncle (the original owner), and it was manufactured in my birth year. A few years ago, I reached out to an older gentleman in my hometown that very likely owned the jewelry store where this watch was purchased new in 1961. He gave me a rundown on this particular model, called "His Excellency," along with other information on the vintage (U.S.) Bulova brand. That makes the watch even more special to me. It feels like a piece of history on my wrist, and it reminds me of a man that I greatly loved and admired.

All the credit for the restoration goes to Mr. Bob Ridley, CW21 at Watchmaker's International. He is a super nice guy, and he does amazing work. He also performed a spa treatment on my Bride's Omega Constellation and made her decades-old watch look like new. Highly recommend his services. It would be an honor for me to spend a day with him sometime in his workshop just quietly observing his work.
 
wristwatchb said:
Thanks! The restoration was a splurge since I was very close to my Bride's dear uncle (the original owner), and it was manufactured in my birth year. A few years ago, I reached out to an older gentleman in my hometown that very likely owned the jewelry store where this watch was purchased new in 1961. He gave me a rundown on this particular model, called "His Excellency," along with other information on the vintage (U.S.) Bulova brand. That makes the watch even more special to me. It feels like a piece of history on my wrist, and it reminds me of a man that I greatly loved and admired.

All the credit for the restoration goes to Mr. Bob Ridley, CW21 at Watchmaker's International. He is a super nice guy, and he does amazing work. He also performed a spa treatment on my Bride's Omega Constellation and made her decades-old watch look like new. Highly recommend his services. It would be an honor for me to spend a day with him sometime in his workshop just quietly observing his work.
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Couldn't love that more. Beautiful.
 
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