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    Russian randomly: my watch journey

    Quote Originally Posted by skywatch View Post
    You're keeping this one I hope? I think you're one of the only other people on the forums I know of with one of the old GuBs in good condition. I only have one remaining of the three I once had (it's the Spezi Bison which was a bit too ugly to attract a buyer, but it had the best running movement of the three.).
    Quote Originally Posted by meijlinder View Post
    Iirc it went to our old feline friend (DA) but has now been moved on again
    Yes, Magnus is right, I no longer have the watch, she did indeed go to DA
    And I loved your GuBs, Robert. There are too few of them in good condition about.

    This has reminded me of how I got Miss G in the first place: in a forum swap on the old place.
    A member was regretting how the minimal Glashütte looked 'like a silver tattoo' on his wrist just as I moaned that the Explorer homage Smiths Everest made me look like a child trying on her dad's watch. I regret now that I didn't get a wrist shot, it really looked ridiculous!

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    Smiths Everest

    Nice watch though, particularly the stealth 'Everest' marking.
    Not a bit like the watch Edmund Hillary 'carried' up Everest, but an interesting pointer to a bit of history

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    What to do? Original vintage 36mm Air King? Too pricy
    Next attempt, the Zeno Explorer - 36mm and with a 70s AS 5206 auto movement. The Zex was another forum darling, and when they came back in stock in 2014, I pounced. This was a nope straight on opening the box

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    Zeno Explorer with Tudor Oyster Prince

    I'm not sure why, as it is a decent enough homage, with faithful rendition of the case lines, but it just doesn't do it for me.
    Perhaps the shininess of that bezel?

    Talking of Smiths, what a great company!
    At first glance the producer of staid gold watches handed out to long serving employees at retirement ceremonies, but producing a wide (if careful) range of watches through their history (see my Show off your Smiths thread on the other place)

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    this one's not mine. Pic and more info here: http://www.woundforlife.com/2015/09/...an-mt-everest/

    This one is, though!

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    Birthyear Smiths W10

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    The all important caseback with /67 year
    The Smiths factory at Bishops Cleeve in Gloucestershire was not far up the road from where I was born, so practically a birth*place* watch, too

    Here's the review of the Timefactors homage that got me in to this watch http://www.watcharama.com/smiths-military-prs-29/
    And an amusing article on British military watches from the Army Rumour Service https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/G10_Watches
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