The VSF Submariners Thread

[HS1356]

It wasn’t Tesco. It was probably from a fake watch dealer. A trusted dealer or TD. Take your pick…

Ahh thanks for that mate … Instead of being a **** you could just ignore the message. I didn’t realise TD’s would sell watch parts, thought they only sold complete watches.

 

[GGEuroHEADSHOT]

Ahh thanks for that mate … Instead of being a **** you could just ignore the message. I didn’t realise TD’s would sell watch parts, thought they only sold complete watches.

 

[vh997tt]

Just pulled my trigger on a 116610LN from Puretime.

Which batch to look for?

 

[wisedennis]

Here is my understanding:

Let's take a VSF employee, lets called her Xi.

Xi arrives at work and gets ready for her shift. She goes over to area where they keep the big boxes of parts and grabs some trays of bits and goes back to her work station.
She got a tray with 100 pips, a tray with 20 cases, a box with 12 S19 movements, a box with 100 dials and a box with 1000's of hands..
Xi builds some watches before lunch. and couple more after. She has run out of cases so she goes to collect some more. While she was away busy, some new cases arrrived, these new ones had S39 on the rehaut. they just got put in the ame box as the S19's. Xi cares not.
Xi grabs some more cases with S39 and continues to make more watches with the parts she has on her desk.

Later, a forumite who does not understand how it works gets all confused becuase he thinks a case with S39 should have the new or old style pip or this or that. But there was never any rule about how case goes with the old style or the new better 3d hands in the first place. Xi was just one of a team of emplyeees throwing whatches together with whatever the boss has put in the parts bins from wherever he has managed to score parts form wherever has not been shut down by the cops.

Maybe im wrong, and the R&D team sat around the board meeting table brainstorming at VSF have strict rules about what parts go with which edition of serial number, and a system like the Porsche factory, with specific parts arriving at each workstation and marrying up with each car on the line on time delivered by robots who keep track on the supply and build process with help from a huge live database computer.. etc.

Xi would never work in the factory though

 

[rockdaytona]

Vsf Starbucks is way nicer than I expected

 

[gkardag]

Vsf Starbucks is way nicer than I expected

wow indeed very nice! what about the bezel color ?

 

[rockdaytona]

wow indeed very nice! what about the bezel color ?

Looks great to me

 

[Goldsimba1989]

Waiting for my new Hulk. QC accepted

 

[Perpetual]

Waiting for my new Hulk. QC accepted

Ahh K25 serial! Xi must have pieced this one together perfectly

Congratulations looks great!

 

[Goldsimba1989]

Xi told me S39 comes after Q39
No idea...
Xi can tell me anything

 

[Goldsimba1989]

Xi told me S39 comes after Q39
No idea...
Xi can tell me anything

 

[Perpetual]

Here's my S39 Serial! XI did say I have the updated pip

 

[Goldsimba1989]

I am really confused why does everyone’s VSF start with Q and my serial start with a K ???

Hope it is a VSF

 

[Goldsimba1989]

Doesn’t the Pip on mine look a bit to yellowish?

 

[vh997tt]

Hi!

Just got my QCs, little worried about the SEL gap? Whats your opinion? This is a S39..

 

[Fervid]

Those SEL's are fine

 

[GrandmasterChime]

There's a whole lot of analysis paralysis going on in this thread

 

[leo6929]

What SEL gap?...

 

[bmwGSA]

I bought a 114060 VSF this month (NEW K25 batch with the VS3130 movement) from Eric @ geektime. he's not an TD here but anyway...

It had a problem were every couple of hours it would just stop working even with a full power reserve. I had to shake it with force to get it to start working again. Multiple people told me they had the same issue with their NEW VSF subs. Wondering if it could be the result of the post-raid factory making movements that are not as reliable as they once were. It could just be debris clogging things up. Maybe I'm just 1/100 this happened too but I honestly doubt it

Cosmetically the watch is stunning

I sent it for a service

Here's a picture of the watch for anyone interested:

I have the K25 114060 coming in mail. Possibly can report back but where were you reading about the issues?

 

[Goldsimba1989]

Have had a VSF K25 for 2 week and no issue yet. Winding is quite, watch in running precise and smooth. Took it swimming a few times seems water pRoof. So no Problems yet … but not really a long study ^^