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That’s a pretty funky panerai!

How could you?

https://i.postimg.cc/XNHkYf83/SM-hands.jpg

You'll be changing the bezel for one that works in water next. Then where would we be?

Good to see you about.

Actually, one of the very very few modern watches I'd seriously consider buying is made by them:

https://i.postimg.cc/13K3Cwm0/b5a9cbcc8b0d6f4bf7013f3acd5a9ce6.jpg
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Well, I just started the day wearing a beautiful but non functioning watch. The intention was to wear it for a day and see how it feels. I gave up by about ten and, like the watch, I wasn't even...

Bloody Hell! Ten years? that's almost a decade!

OK, those are all quite cool, especially the last one - although setting the time on it would be an interesting challenge, while the idea of it telling the wrong time would do my head in.

I'm sure we shall and any time you want to meet to drink something somewhere, then give me a shout.

I bet I can get it apart... It's getting it together again you should be worrying about. ...

A friend sent me a link to this:

https://www.gq.com/story/do-you-need-to-set-the-time-on-your-watch

GQ article.

On the one hand, it's perfectly true that anyone wearing a mechanical watch...

I remembered 35mm, but apparently 34.5mm:

https://i.postimg.cc/rs3K3KMs/IMG-1049.jpg

There's no crown on the side as it's set from the back.

If I'm honest, the only reason I remembered the name is because of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series! Harrison was a big Esperanto fan and dosed his books with Esperanto - as a pathetic...

It wouldn't hurt to start here:

https://www.omegawatches.com/vintage-watches

But unless you want to pay top dollar for vintage watches, I'd start off with something from the Geneva line for...

The nice lady who owns them is very clear that they are plump ponies who don’t get pudding. However, I let most of the grass in that bit of garden grow long. They love it as they keep their field...

I started this off in the new purchases thread, but what I want to say about it seems to have inflated a bit for reasons that should become clear, so here goes:

First a bit of historical...

Carrying on a theme:

https://i.postimg.cc/HshSqvf4/ABC1-C5-F0-CCB8-4516-B3-BE-E467-C56017-F9.jpg

It’s almost tomorrow, but this has been making me happy today.

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The thing is that it was far from seminal. There were few people putting such posh movements into wristlets at that period, but that shape of the watch had been slowly evolving since the first world...

Apparently there are currently nine million, eight hundred and sixty eight thousand, three hundred and seven people playing FPL.
My game week position?


9,565,474

I”m so very proud. Doubly...

Damn! I’d even poked around his website and wondered if it was a nom de montre. The wrong way round then. I had a dig looking for the designer of the ref 96 as I knew it couldn’t be a Borgel...

Morning all. It's been a while, but now having retired a little bit, which appears to be more work than I expected, I'm back to dragging watches off the bottom of the sticky sole of ebay.

Like...

And gives me an intense deja vu - where the hell is that borrowed from?

I know I don't post much these days, but I read a fair bit and I'm shocked and saddened to hear of Mark's sudden passing. He's a man who could see beauty, interest and value everywhere, from a...

Sorry I didn't get this done yesterday - my MIL's best friend is in hospital and I've been promoted to taxi diving duties... As such, I haven't got time to do my usual splurge, so here's a link:
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Just picked this up:

https://i.postimg.cc/25VJ9wFF/lip.jpg

I'll have a go at explaining why yet another small rusty watch is quite exciting later...

Just thought I'd share this mild disaster area:

https://i.postimg.cc/JzcdzJxm/seiko23.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155654297731

Now I confess that even by my low standards, this doesn't...

I reckon it's probably 1890 - 1920, simply because that style of pocket altitude / barometers all seem to come from that period, as such I reckon that the lovechild would too. It's very cool though!