Rediscovered Tri-compax

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I just got my Tri-Compax back after getting it serviced. Now I could use some advice on appropriate straps and where to get them.
 
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BTW can you post some pics of the watch after service?
 
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Oh my bad 😲 , then She certainly has a talent for peeling critters.
 
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I do wish it had been better adjusted. It is now gaining over 20 seconds per day. It was running about 10 seconds slow after I wound it for the first time in 30 years before having it serviced.
 
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I take it that's a good thing.

It's a Speedmaster reference. Everyone wants those bezels with the dot over the level of the 90 instead of alongside of the 90.

Nice watch.
 
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Thank you. And thanks for explaining the "dot over 90" reference. I would have never figured that out.
 
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I'll have to check the bezel on my father's Speedmaster. He recently had his 60's vintage Omega overhauled in Switzerland.
 
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I'll have to check the bezel on my father's Speedmaster. He recently had his 60's vintage Omega overhauled in Switzerland.

If Bienne did it, they probably replaced the bezel with the newer version with the dot next to 90.
 
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I checked, and he's still got the "dot over 90" version.
 
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I do wish it had been better adjusted. It is now gaining over 20 seconds per day. It was running about 10 seconds slow after I wound it for the first time in 30 years before having it serviced.

That's actually not bad at all for a non-chronometer rated movement. It isn't a quartz watch. That's just the way mechanical watches are.
 
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That's actually not bad at all for a non-chronometer rated movement. It isn't a quartz watch. That's just the way mechanical watches are.
Really? I guess I have been spoiled by the performance of my 40-yr-old Sinn that is currently losing no more than 3 seconds/day. My father's Speedmaster is even more accurate.
 
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If my Tri-Compax is consistently losing 20 seconds/day, couldn't it have been better adjusted? If it were wandering (alternately gaining and losing) I could understand that that is due to inherent inaccuracy within the movement.
 
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Not that it really matters, but I meant to say that my Tri-Compax is gaining (not losing) twenty seconds/day.
 
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