Russian randomly: my watch journey

[OhDark30]

You're keeping this one I hope? I think you're one of the only other people on the forums I know of with one of the old GuBs in good condition. I only have one remaining of the three I once had (it's the Spezi Bison which was a bit too ugly to attract a buyer, but it had the best running movement of the three.).

Iirc it went to our old feline friend (DA) but has now been moved on again

Yes, Magnus is right, I no longer have the watch, she did indeed go to DA
And I loved your GuBs, Robert. There are too few of them in good condition about.

This has reminded me of how I got Miss G in the first place: in a forum swap on the old place.
A member was regretting how the minimal Glashütte looked 'like a silver tattoo' on his wrist just as I moaned that the Explorer homage Smiths Everest made me look like a child trying on her dad's watch. I regret now that I didn't get a wrist shot, it really looked ridiculous!

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Smiths Everest

Nice watch though, particularly the stealth 'Everest' marking.
Not a bit like the watch Edmund Hillary 'carried' up Everest, but an interesting pointer to a bit of history

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What to do? Original vintage 36mm Air King? Too pricy
Next attempt, the Zeno Explorer - 36mm and with a 70s AS 5206 auto movement. The Zex was another forum darling, and when they came back in stock in 2014, I pounced. This was a nope straight on opening the box

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Zeno Explorer with Tudor Oyster Prince

I'm not sure why, as it is a decent enough homage, with faithful rendition of the case lines, but it just doesn't do it for me.
Perhaps the shininess of that bezel?

Talking of Smiths, what a great company!
At first glance the producer of staid gold watches handed out to long serving employees at retirement ceremonies, but producing a wide (if careful) range of watches through their history (see my Show off your Smiths thread on the other place)

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this one's not mine. Pic and more info here: http://www.woundforlife.com/2015/09/...an-mt-everest/

This one is, though!

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Birthyear Smiths W10

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The all important caseback with /67 year
The Smiths factory at Bishops Cleeve in Gloucestershire was not far up the road from where I was born, so practically a birth*place* watch, too

Here's the review of the Timefactors homage that got me in to this watch http://www.watcharama.com/smiths-military-prs-29/
And an amusing article on British military watches from the Army Rumour Service https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/G10_Watches