NOTE: we had some technical difficulties here and experienced some bleed through with our audio - so sometimes you may catch a faint echo noise - we're so sorry. It really shouldn't impact your listening experience but we just wanted to let you know that we were aware of it.

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Kaz opens with an apology for insinuating a conspiracy against the TBWS Instagram...

Then we continue with our affordable vintage watch talk with brief discussion of Kaz's Omega Seamaster 30 (1962 - 286 Cal) and Mike's Vostok Amphibia.

Afterwards the team sinks their teeth into the topic further by recommending first time vintage watch purchases for the discerning (but broke as hell) watch snob: The Seiko World Time and the Raketa Perpetual Calendar.

In the process of talking about the pieces we chose, we discuss methods of buying vintage and doing your best to research everything sufficiently.

Things we considered when picking our choices:

-Conversation/cool factor

-Price (obviously)

-Rarity

-Risk factor

Kaz and Mike also reminiscence about the first time they ever talked about watches... the scariest day of Mike's life. Also, Talkboys, Pogs, and the Jackie Chan Richard Mille inevitably come up as talking points for some reason.

Plus Mike talks about NAWCC! (not the NAACP like Kaz though)

PLEASE NOTE: We curse - a lot.

Show Notes:

Kaz's Omega Seamaster 30:

https://instagram.com/p/BLIy5f7hsj4/

Mike's Vostok Amphibia:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKtA8_ajwWX/

Seiko 6117-6410 Navigator Timer (this is a cool write up about the watch with picutres):

http://thewatchspotblog.com/?p=219

Raketa Perpetual Calendar (scroll down for a great write up on this watch - unlike the piece I'm talking about in the episode, the one in this link uses English and not Russian):

http://www.timezone.com/2002/09/17/russian-watches-mechanical-alarm-perpetual-calendar-1998/

The Raketa Mike asked me about (the one he sent me a picture of):

http://m.ebay.com/itm/152241777196?_mwBanner=1#vi__app-cvip-panel

Raketa Perpetual Calendar Movement:

http://s612.photobucket.com/user/sarmala1979/media/r2.jpg.html

Raketa Copernic:

Black- http://www.ussrtime.com/cgi-bin/details.pl?id=0131

Silver- http://www.ussrtime.com/cgi-bin/details.pl?id=0209

Oak and Oscar:

http://www.oakandoscar.com/#overview

Email: TBWS.Contact@gmail,com

IG: @twobrokewatchsnobs

Music by Jahzzar courtesy of the Free Music Archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/)