[vmgotit]

Have to agree with @chillwill120. Vintage 7548, Seiko 7C46, Grand Seiko 8F, 9F. Vance.

 

[brandon\]

I didn’t know Bulova used that movement elsewhere. I’m still hoping for a Lunar Pilot for us tiny wrist folks. I hear the “new” version is only 1mm smaller or something like that.

They used it in the Sea King.

 

[Ian Davies]

Casio Tough Solar and Citizen Eco-Drive, none of the fluctuating time of automatics or the servicing costs further down the line.

 

[Cdavis0590]

They used it in the Sea King.

That’s a cool watch, not as cool as the lunar in my opinion. Still massive though. Is that movement super chunky or something?

 

[dfwcowboy]

Citizen A060. Accoutrements include HAQ, perpetual calendar, solar, jumping hour quickset.

 

[brandon\]

That’s a cool watch, not as cool as the lunar in my opinion. Still massive though. Is that movement super chunky or something?

It fills the case....

 

[Moonshine Runner]

ETA 251.262
27 jewels
Function: hours, minutes, seconds and date, chronograph with stop second and minute from center, totalizer for 1/10 second at 2:00 o'clock, totalizer for hours at 10:00 o'clock and small permanent second at 6:00 o'clock
Functions (chronograph): Add and Split

 

[brandon\]

I also dig the Fine Timepiece Solutions Ameriquartz movements. Nothing special from a performance or feature standpoint. It's just cool seeing these movements being assembled in the United States - Arizona. They import parts from Titan in India. Again, there is nothing intrinsically impressive about these. It's just that these represent an effort to start making watches and movements in the US again.

 

[appophylite]

The Tag Heuer Calibre S movement.

Prior to owning one, I had little enthusiasm for quartz movements because there was nothing inherently that stood out for me amongst analog quartz movements. Sure I could spring for HAQ, but I wasn't that bothered. Seiko Spring Drive intrigued me but the prices were a bit out of reach and none of the watch designs spoke to me.

My parents gifted me a Calbre S Carrera that they got a great deal on (Wholesale from Sam's Club). What I loved about it is its a five hand watch where the central three hands tell the standard time and the two retrograde hands are used to tell the two digits of the date. Because it has a perpetual calendar programmed in, it can keep track of leap years and adjust for February and between months with 30 and months with 31 days so you really only have to reset this watch if it loses its memory during a battery change. BUT all 5 hands play double time - in chronograph mode, the same three main hands now tell you seconds, minutes and hours, and the two retrograde hands will stop to tell you 1/10 and 1/100 of a second, AND the chrongraph can keep running in the background as you swap back to normal time mode so each hand is keeping track of two states at once at all times.

Not the prettiest movement, but IMO, quite interesting from an horology perspective.

 

[brandon\]

The Tag Heuer Calibre S movement.

Prior to owning one, I had little enthusiasm for quartz movements because there was nothing inherently that stood out for me amongst analog quartz movements. Sure I could spring for HAQ, but I wasn't that bothered. Seiko Spring Drive intrigued me but the prices were a bit out of reach and none of the watch designs spoke to me.

My parents gifted me a Calbre S Carrera that they got a great deal on (Wholesale from Sam's Club). What I loved about it is its a five hand watch where the central three hands tell the standard time and the two retrograde hands are used to tell the two digits of the date. Because it has a perpetual calendar programmed in, it can keep track of leap years and adjust for February and between months with 30 and months with 31 days so you really only have to reset this watch if it loses its memory during a battery change. BUT all 5 hands play double time - in chronograph mode, the same three main hands now tell you seconds, minutes and hours, and the two retrograde hands will stop to tell you 1/10 and 1/100 of a second, AND the chrongraph can keep running in the background as you swap back to normal time mode so each hand is keeping track of two states at once at all times.

Not the prettiest movement, but IMO, quite interesting from an horology perspective.

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I think Victorinox used that same movement, albeit, much later on.

 

[ccmjd]

I'm rather partial to the Seiko 7T86 movement that powers this SPC123 Perpetual Calendar/Chronograph.

There's a lotta bang for the buck here...

 

[Twowheelsandwatches]

 

[nachob]

I think one of the coolest is the Seiko 7A28 which incorporates 15 jewels mechanical with a quarts drives. It can be maintained and very impressive by combining the best of both worlds.

 

[jcp123]

Any EcoDrive, TBH.

I’m also rather fond of the Bulovas with the 262kz movements. It’s a crying shame they aren’t HAQ, but it’s really nice to look at anyway.

 

[SixtyLion]

Citizen Eco-Drive H100 and H145.

 

[ZDan]

They need to put this out in a smaller size! I'd gladly pay the $$$$ for 1/1000ths resolution and 1/100ths hyper-spinny dial, but 47mm is a bit much for my skinny wrist...

For me, timing cars at the track, I wanted minimum 1/20s resolution. I picked up a Seiko with the 7T92, and actually another 7T92 is on the way from Japan as well...
Probably will give up one of them to get a 7t52 that at least gives 1/100ths.

If there's a Bulova chrono that does even 1/100ths that's closer to 40mm lemme know!

I'm digging the Bulova 1/1000th chrono movement. This is the movement that should have gone into the Lunar Pilot. Here's my reasons:

(I have not owned the Lunar Pilot. But I have owned a model with the same movement.)

It has two modes. Time keeping and chrono. The pusher at 8:00 switches the modes. In time keeping mode, you get that glorious smooth sweep of the second hand. This hampers the readiness of the chrono. You have to switch modes and wait for the second hand to sweep to 12:00 at an accelerated speed. But how many of us need to time something at the drop of a dime? And in chrono mode, the second hand "ticks". I say ticks because it goes at 1 beat per second. But it is a smooth, controlled tick. The subdial at 12:00 has two hands that track 1/10th and 1/100th of a second. That means the 1/10th hand spins once per second and the 1/100th spins at 10 TIMES PER SECOND! It looks like it's going to take off. Furthermore, it times up to 12 hours and down to a resolution of 1/1000th of a second. There a lot of digital watches don't go down to 1/1000th second. But this does it in analog form. Realistically, there is nothing that needs to be timed to that resolution on a device controlled by a human hand and eye. But it's still a cool bit of tech.

 

[Eric_M]

Grand Seiko 9F GMT for its awesome accuracy and traveler GMT function. Omega 1538 for its grab and go convenience and time zone function.

 

[Elkins45]

The Bulova 262 kHz and the Certina Precidrive have both impressed me.

 

[appophylite]

I think Victorinox used that same movement, albeit, much later on.

It makes me SOOO happy that that movement (or even a variant of it) got second life! And That Victorinox, IMO is a much better dial look than the Tag Carrera

 

[CADirk]

The Seiko 7N43 is a bit of a favorite for me as well.
I've had one since 1992, and it's still running at +4 seconds a month.

The 7C46 (quartz tunas) are also pretty good and the Citizen U680 has some pretty neat functions.