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    I will miss the things, and I am grateful for the things. I hope someday we will see more things. Thank you, Alan!
    Too many watches, not enough wrists.

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    I think it works well when there's a break between posts. Kind of like TV series, the anticipation builds for next season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tribe125 View Post
    [LIST][*]. And then, after introductions, Ray Charles did just what a blind man might do in the circumstances - he asked if F.P. Journe would pass him his watch so that he could feel it... To this day, when signing off a completed watch, F.P. Journe closes his eyes and runs his fingers over it, in memory of Ray Charles. According to F.P. Journe, Ray Charles had two watches, a Patek Philippe Minute Repeater and an electronic watch that spoke the time. Journe found a speaking movement, for which he was going to make a case, but Ray Charles died.

    Wonderful.

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    • Richard Branson once sold an LP (Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan) to an IWL Moderator,
    Which one?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by geoffbot View Post
    Which one?!

    Well, me.

    I guess it was 1975, because that’s when the record was released. Branson began with a small record shop over a shoe shop in Oxford Street. At least, I remember it being a shoe shop, but could be corrected on that. He specialised in imports, and American records were often released earlier in America than the UK. If you were eager to get your hands on a new release, or something that wasn’t officially released in the UK, you went to Virgin over the shoe shop.

    The shop was small, with maybe only two people working in it, one of them Branson. The growth of the Virgin chain was meteoric, but that’s how he began, and his USP was imports. He wasn’t the only record shop selling imports, but I think he might have been the only specialist, and he did them cheaper than most. He was a good self-publicist, even then, and most people who bought the NME or Melody Maker would have known about him.

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    Cool!
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    More things! More things! More things!

    Take a break and rest your brain, and then find more things.
    Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tribe125 View Post
    Well, me.

    Branson began with a small record shop over a shoe shop in Oxford Street.....At least, I remember it being a shoe shop, but could be corrected on that....
    I remember looking for folk and “trad” records on my first trip to England in 1977. Brits I had met in Europe recommended a shop called Dobell’s. It was indeed a very cool store with an amazing selection, including many things not readily available in the U.S.


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    Famous place, Dobells, on Charing Cross Road. There were two shops originally, one jazz, one folk. Then the folk shop moved next door to the jazz shop. Visiting American musicians sometimes went to Dobells looking for rarities.

    I went there a few times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tribe125 View Post
    • Those who want to own a real rarity might like to track down a Moranbong. The name means ‘peony hill’, and the watch was a product of what may have been the only watch factory in North Korea. The watches were made on obsolete Swiss machinery, and were powered by a copy of a Swiss Sonceboz movement from the 1970s. And that’s almost as much as anyone knows, because the North Koreans won’t say anything about anything. The current state of the North Korean watch industry is unknown, but for many years Omega has made custom models for the North Korean government.
    (Posted about Moranbong a couple of minutes ago but I now see Alan's thing was probably based on the same NYT article).

    Quote Originally Posted by rodia77 View Post
    I've still much to figure out when it comes to watches and ethics but, unless there are some mitigating circumstances to find out about, that's a reason for me to discard the brand from any future considerations.
    I did a search hoping that at least that was history (not sure if that would be redeeming enough), but it seems it was going on until fairly recently:
    North Korea: Kim Watches Given To Top Brass
    N.Korean Regime Buys Scores of Swiss Watches
    Switzerland Bans Exports Of Watches To North Korea Much To Kim Jong-un’s Chagrin

    Wondering if Omega is the only offender.

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    It's been over a year since the last Five Things! More things! More things!
    Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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