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This is my "budget" Silix build. Specs: Case: Silix reshaped, drilled and tapped Bezel: Silix reshaped Bezel insert: Tiger Concept aged Crown: Athaya 8mm Dial: HR relumed and textured Hands: Minute and Hour (HR) aged and polished, Second (OnlinestoreHK) painted Movement: 2824 clone TY2130 (Cousins UK) Plexi: Sternkreuz 30.6 HW Bracelet: Gen 7206 Rivet All work by me. Maybe a contender in the "budget" category :-)

Talked with my daughter today on the sat Phone and she Said she wanted to join this forum and i Said you sure ??? We all a bunch of old guys who like watches and talk about economics boobs and cars its not for you hahahaha But she love watches dont know jack about Them but love Them So this is a Warning to all of you out there if you see me Being a **** and sending you Warnings through pm's when you reply to my daughters topic that you do know i fly with bombs for a living right ?? So dont get Any funky ideas Enough [censored] Hope you all will welcome my daughter with her stupid questions and take good care of her If not Just know im

Tissot Sea-Touch. The dealer very kindly swapped the bright orange strap for a black one FOC, orange watch + orange strap = too orange for me!

That's what these are for: But I guess someone used this instead:

I've always read better to use too little oil rather than too much...and have tried to practice that but there is an art to it....Not just dumping it on, more isn't always better.

Just dumping oil in the mechanism???

freedom

It´s definitely the A7750 decorated to look as a P9000 with a fake escapement wheel. Here 2 pics of the "composite" titanium one:

Print looks fuzzy and the 12 o'clock triangle looks off-center, but that could be a function of the low quality image. How in the world did you make this?! Was this machined or did you start with a pre-made dial? Do you have a printing pad?

All hail the plexi!

Lie inconsistently and elaborately. Much more fun that way.

I can understand. In my case, I can work on them but they will not sell parts so I cut them off at the knees. I'll never buy another new one unless it is 25 cents on the retail dollar or less and if it was a gold prez, I would have to think looong and hard about it. I might buy a good used late model if it was cheap enough...a few hundred bucks. Last one I bought was in May 2009...new leftover 14010M AK for $1200. Well...not really a leftover, it was a 25 year award watch (engraved on the back) that was refused. I have a few genuine quick set models laying around (3035/3135) and a couple cal 3130 AK but am afraid to wear one because it might 'blow up' and need parts leaving me out of luck. Had a chance to sell a 15053 a while back and the guy wanted me to guarantee it for a year. I said "Ha, Ha, I might guarantee it to still be a watch but that's about it." No way. I have enough parts left to keep my vintage junk and Frankensteins running so I still wear one now and then.

Just remember Daddy's Ten Rules of Dating: · Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up. · Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them. · Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will use my nail gun to fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist. · Rule Four: I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate. When it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you. · Rule Five: It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: "early". · Rule Six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry. · Rule Seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car? · Rule Eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to compel my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka -- zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better. · Rule Nine: Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless God of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me. · Rule Ten: Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car -- there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

When I first set eyes on the classic lines of the IWC 3714, I knew at that very moment it was the grail piece for me. The size of the timepiece strikes the balance of being