It's here! My vintage Orient diver!

[ezcheese]

Hey Jamie, my bezel works.

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[T.R.]

Derek - that is seriously Cool.

[tazman64]

congrats on your new orient diver, thats a realy cool looking diver. enjoy!!! steve

[Jamie]

Kiss my big white hairy Ar$e

Nice D mine is still sitting on the desk after stopping midday on Monday.

Shoot a couple shots of the movement and psot em up.

[River Rat]

Congrats on the Orient diver.

[BSears]

love it. super sweet snag - where did you find that? oh, and yes, let's see that movement, D

[Brian D]

Awesome looking Orient D .

[ezcheese]

I popped off the case back earlier but haven't taken any pics yet. There was a ton of grease on one of the rotor wheels, I dabbed it with some rodico and got most of it off. The seller stated that the watch was recently serviced and the timegrapher shows that it is running very stable with little beat error, but it's running hella-slow. Gonna regulate it tomorrow.

Brad, I got it on ebay from the Philippines for ~$50.

[randyswagon]

. . . I like that model, a shit-load!!!! Hmmm, I thought Jamie had the only one in captivity????

[BSears]

Brad, I got it on ebay from the Philippines for ~$50.

damn, D, nice

[Jamie]

All the ones I have seen have come out of The Philipenes and Thailand.

[demer03]

It's an Orient review!

[BSears]

Hey Derek or Jamie, what's the model name/number on this one?

[ezcheese]

I'm not sure what mine is called. It has 3 stars and "SK" on the dial.

[ezcheese]

So, I popped the caseback of again today to have another look. The movement is quite loaded down with grease. I re-read the listing on ebay and apparently, it wasn't the movement that was recently serviced, but the case was just cleaned up.

I wanted to pop the movement out of the case and throw the case into the ultrasonic cleaner, but I couldn't figure out how to release the crown on this one. There is no obvious crown screw, nor a release button. I popped the rotor off and started to take the top assembly off, thinking that maybe the crown release lever may be underneath, but I decided not to tackle too much with this one right now. I used some rodico where I could to absorb as much spare grease as possible for now.

with the rotor and three screws removed from the autowind bridge:

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The rotor has some rust. A few rounds in the ultrasonic cleaner cleaned it up quite a bit, although it still looks rough.

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Timegrapher results after regulation:

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You may remember that initially it was running at about -60 seconds per day. I am gonna time it on the wrist for a few days and see if it will settle in a little more.

Before popping the caseback on, I greased up the gasket, but when I tried to get it back in, I noticed it's a little too small. I don't like these flat gaskets anyway, so I will be ordering an O-ring for this one.

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[Jamie]

From what I know they went by the name King Diver.

Derek when mine was opened in Sydney he also mentioned that it was a different construction than normal but I cant remember exactly how so.

There are a few on the bay today D you got a deal!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-70S-ORIENT- ... 5107wt_713
http://cgi.ebay.com/HUGE-VINTAGE-ORIENT ... 2922wt_930
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Vintage-Orient ... 3694wt_930

[BSears]

From what I know they went by the name King Diver.

Derek when mine was opened in Sydney he also mentioned that it was a different construction than normal but I cant remember exactly how so.

There are a few on the bay today D you got a deal!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-70S-ORIENT- ... 5107wt_713
http://cgi.ebay.com/HUGE-VINTAGE-ORIENT ... 2922wt_930
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Vintage-Orient ... 3694wt_930

I saw a few of those, esp that last one, this afternoon. Just about pulled the trigger but held off. I'd like to see a few more models in this line up first.

[ezcheese]

Cool. It looks like there are quite a few versions out there.

[Bradley_Goodchil]

I'm not sure what mine is called. It has 3 stars and "SK" on the dial.

Tri Star Super King

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[gonzomantis]

I'm not sure what mine is called. It has 3 stars and "SK" on the dial.

Tri Star Super King

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I'm sure this will be welcome news, as he has been kept awake for 10 years waiting for the answer.

[Steve O.]

Sure that he's enjoying it ten years down the road...

[dnslater]

First you bump an 8 year old thread... and now a 10 year old thread?

[mattcantwin]

Enough of this already, get out of the car!

[ChuckW]

[snootydog]