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What Citizen do you have in the mail ? :)

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#1 ·
We have a Seiko post running so how about a Citizen one ?

This is rare for me but I have two Citizen in the post, they may both be dead but I live in hope :) i'm pretty sure that if parts/spares where more readily available I would have a lot more because Citizen quality and model range is superb imo.




 
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Very nice. I particularly like the Super Beat 10 text on the dial) I bought one of these some years ago that had a pretty rough case (there seems to be 3 or 4 case variations with this model) but had the good fortune of finding a much better (empty) case on YJ.

Just won this at an auction, is the bees knees of Citizen chronometers in my view.
It looks like its had a bit of a life, but haven't we all. its going to be my daily I think. ( with bit of a polish )
 
#234 · (Edited)
This arrived earlier this week I bought it back in July but had to leave it with Buyee until mid August. And it took a month to get here. I had nearly given up hope. Well worth the wait.





I have been after a Jet ever since I heard of them, such a cool name. Plus I've been looking for a scripted dial. So this killed two birds with one stone. Needs a service though.

I am fairly confident that it is legit, I would appreciate it if one of the experts here could confirm one way or another.

One question the bracelet says Schmieder on it which I assume is not original. I can't find anything about them online but does anyone know how to resize them? There are no obvious removable links.

 
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I have been having a 'tidy' over the last couple of weeks, discovering what I've got and starting to organise things more methodically. To date I have worked on the principles of 'don't throw anything away', and 'store it carefully'. I neglected the 'label things'.

Given I have been doing this since late 2011 this initiative has been rather 'fun'.

I re-discoverd a Citizen watch that came as part of an auction I bid on only to win the SEIKO (I suspect it would have been a 7Axx or maybe a 7548 as the tray that it was stored in had plenty of evidence of these) - this would have been back in 2013 or 2014.

I remember I took the back off - having learned this skill and having a suitable caseback knife and saw a clean movement. I would then have popped a battery in but found the seconds hand wasn't ticking.

Now, the old (or technically the younger) me would have proceeded to undo all of the screws and take the thing apart. And then almost certainly bin the lot, or just stick the parts in a drawer.

But the new (technically old, but wiser) me decided to leave it alone - it looked in lovely condition and whilst not really me, I did appreciate the beauty therein.

So, fast forward to Sunday (the 6th December, 2020) and I re-discover this watch




and the movement




so, I repeated history by popping a battery in (well, you never know!!), and this time took a jolly good look at the gear train under my microscope (when I last looked it was through a loupe).

And I could see life - that twitching as the rotor tries to pulse/turn and drive the gear train.

So, this time it was out with the screwdrivers and I stripped and cleaned the lovely movement. I didn't take many pictures






and here it is, rebuilt and running perfectly






the seconds hand hits the mark with the precision of a GS.
 
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