Ultimately the rate of auto-winding will, as you suspect, depend how active you are. The movements in these watches self-wind somewhat less efficiently than those of, for example, Seiko, and so the advice about hand-winding seems sensible.
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Winding the watch, either by wearing it or manually winding it, when the power reserve is full does not diminish the power reserve. If it did, automatic watches would be effectively unusable unless their user was able to remain still all day!
It's a very beautiful watch. Congratulations!
True that.But still it would have been better than now. I got a Kailash last week tho.
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It looks just like a real HMT to me except for the missing model name. I will be interested to learn more from those who know as I don't know why neither of these watches carries a name.
I agree that Janata and Pilot would be in any list of the most iconic HMTs.
Great choice of automatics just now, including several of NASS range, Rajat and Kanchan Supreme, and others, for those of you in India!
And it's not just the automatics. There is a better range of manual winds than of late! Get in there, guys!
I am sure they are finding unsold stock in many of their locations across the country. They are also probably assembling watches out of unused parts...watch out for some potentially interesting variations!
Unfortunately HMT will not transact with anyone outside India. In fact they won't even communicate with people outside India, if my experience was typical.
If you have family or friends in India who may be able to buy on your behalf, now looks like a reasonably good time to encourage them to do so, due to the number of watches currently available. Nobody knows what else is left.
On the other hand, with an estimated 110 million watches made, you will probably always be able to find a secondhand one.
If you have family or friends in India who may be able to buy on your behalf, now looks like a reasonably good time to encourage them to do so, due to the number of watches currently available. Nobody knows what else is left.
On the other hand, with an estimated 110 million watches made, you will probably always be able to find a secondhand one
.The most likely reason would be a depleted battery. Have you changed it?
I can't comment on its authenticity as I'm not at all familiar with this model except to say that most fakes of HMT quartz watches look a lot less like HMTs than this does.
I can't comment on its authenticity as I'm not at all familiar with this model except to say that most fakes of HMT quartz watches look a lot less like HMTs than this does.
My Roman watch is sick
Dear friends, please help me in knowing whether this hmt Roman is a genuine piece or franken. Also the problem it has.
Some two years back one gentleman had put it for sale on olx and i took it as i was desperately looking for this model
Since then it was working fine. Everything including sub-dials & moon-phase indicator
But from the past two months it is slowing down. I can see seconds hand ticking properly but actual time going out of sync
What could be the reason? Advice whether should i go to a watch repairer? Any hmt watch repair expert in your opinion?
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You did a great job with the video; very well done. It is a shame there are so few extant films and photos of the factories at work in circulation.
And the group you feature is in fact a somewhat international one, just for the record.
And the group you feature is in fact a somewhat international one, just for the record
.For the past two days, I've been wearing this Rajat (caseback indicates 1979, which seems about right). Because it's the only working watch I have with this movement (my only other fully running HMT auto has the 8205 movement) and because it doesn't seem too easy to find early Rajats from here in the UK, I wear it very seldom and baby it a lot. I don't even bother to set the day, in order that I don't wear anything out by jigging the hands around. (The day is non-quickset on this movement).
I do find this particular dial to possess a great combination of beauty and absolute practicality. The thick lined indices and hands stand out with notable clarity from the silver dial. The case shape looks a little curious until you are used to it, but it's distinctive and wears well for me with my little 6.5 inch wrist!
I am very fond of this little watch. The more I think about it, I find these and several other HMT autos even more distinct from contemporary watches made by Citizen than some of the iconic manual wind HMTs.
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I do find this particular dial to possess a great combination of beauty and absolute practicality. The thick lined indices and hands stand out with notable clarity from the silver dial. The case shape looks a little curious until you are used to it, but it's distinctive and wears well for me with my little 6.5 inch wrist!
I am very fond of this little watch. The more I think about it, I find these and several other HMT autos even more distinct from contemporary watches made by Citizen than some of the iconic manual wind HMTs.
Yes! It is a very beautiful Jawahar. I'm unclear about whether its Janata-type case is original to it (I know that the Nishat, for example, is found and was presumably made in both Janata-type and Jawahar-type cases).
Hari, Sir,
I was intrigued by your comment from 2013 re the comparative availability of hand and auto-wind Allwyns. I have several nice hand-wound Allwyns (all somewhat crippled by being fitted with very narrow crowns that would be more acceptable on autowinders), but I haven't yet picked up an auto Allwyn. I have seen very few of their autos for sale online compared with the large number of hand-winders.
Thank-you for all your HMT posts over the years. I have learnt a great deal from them
I was intrigued by your comment from 2013 re the comparative availability of hand and auto-wind Allwyns. I have several nice hand-wound Allwyns (all somewhat crippled by being fitted with very narrow crowns that would be more acceptable on autowinders), but I haven't yet picked up an auto Allwyn. I have seen very few of their autos for sale online compared with the large number of hand-winders.
Thank-you for all your HMT posts over the years. I have learnt a great deal from them
Dave, the movements were licensed from Seiko. I have not taken the caseback off these watches, but from what I could see from other's pictures on the www, the movements have ALLWYN on them.
Actually these are my first ALLWYN purchases, I usually look for new or NOS examples and these are the first I found in the condition that I like. Also their handwinders are pretty uncommon, the automatics being more widely available.
BTW, your Avinash appears to be legitimate
Best
Hari
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