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Ok, so no reason to get excited, this arrived in yesterday's post, that's right folks, I've decided to take a walk on the wild side and buy a Voyager. Unfortunately it's not the much sort after AS 1876 version and to be honest I mostly bought it because I thought I would get a bracelet for my Stratojet F, alas that turned out not to be so.
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As you can see it's a bog standard Voyager, with an ETA 2788 movement, only slightly remarkable in that there is no Rado cal 2794 stamp. It's visible on the example below that was made 6 months later and they've had to move the RADO stamp back about 4mm to accommodate it.
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Although this bracelet is similar in appearance to the Stratojet bracelet, as you can see on Brad's example below, my bracelet doesn't have the same end links and the links are smaller with no sign of the angled facets present on Brad's. It's made for 20mm lugs and although I could grind the ends down to suit my Sratojet F as it's not really the correct bracelet anyway, I think I might just as well leave it on the Voyager for now. I can keep searching for a Stratojet F bracelet, you would think there should be some spares around given the number of Stratojet F's with damaged crystals out there.
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Brad's Stratojet.
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As I said, no reason to get excited, the crystal has some heavy scratches that need sanding and polishing and the brushing isn't perfect but it's not so bad that I can't live with it. On the plus side it's a very comfortable watch / bracelet combo to wear and since I wound and set it at lunchtime yesterday, it's running within +/- 2 sec, so I'm well pleased with that.
Thus.jpg
As you can see it's a bog standard Voyager, with an ETA 2788 movement, only slightly remarkable in that there is no Rado cal 2794 stamp. It's visible on the example below that was made 6 months later and they've had to move the RADO stamp back about 4mm to accommodate it.
Screen Shot 2019-11-14 at 2.41.08 PM.jpg.
Mvt2.jpg
Although this bracelet is similar in appearance to the Stratojet bracelet, as you can see on Brad's example below, my bracelet doesn't have the same end links and the links are smaller with no sign of the angled facets present on Brad's. It's made for 20mm lugs and although I could grind the ends down to suit my Sratojet F as it's not really the correct bracelet anyway, I think I might just as well leave it on the Voyager for now. I can keep searching for a Stratojet F bracelet, you would think there should be some spares around given the number of Stratojet F's with damaged crystals out there.
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20191114_125333.jpg
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20191114_124233 (1).jpg
Brad's Stratojet.
Brad's.jpg
As I said, no reason to get excited, the crystal has some heavy scratches that need sanding and polishing and the brushing isn't perfect but it's not so bad that I can't live with it. On the plus side it's a very comfortable watch / bracelet combo to wear and since I wound and set it at lunchtime yesterday, it's running within +/- 2 sec, so I'm well pleased with that.
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