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Just a quick post to let you guys know I'm finally back on Finnish soil after being marooned overseas for three months due to Covid-19. Have I missed anything?

Very cool - something seems extra great about bare feet or flip flops at midnight too. Chef's kiss. It makes me think how people further north (or south) must have made sense of the world in a very different way from near the equator. An imagined deity from near the arctic circle would be viewed as quite the ass clown down by the equator, or vice versa.

A glass of Linie Aquavits is on the way to you, I gave the cask a slap on the ass, and sent it back to Norway again (To the uninitiated, it's a drink that they send to Australia to mature in the cask and then it goes back again)

My 'ono' meter is strong with this one... There are some guys on this forum that would kill for lume like that though!

Per Rolex lore, this was the very last dial Jean-Phillipe the typesetter produced before being thrown out the door. He had a nasty habit of sneaking a sip of the devil's brew between dial batches and his typesetting suffered. Before long it became all too obvious when he messed up the spacing of the "o" in "chronometer" one time too many. "OUT!" shrieked Hans Wildorf, and Jean-Phillipe was left with no other employment prospects than carving lawn ornaments.

I just hate driving out of town for 2 hours, but on this occasion, it paid dividends. I finally got an answer to my movement regulation problem & discovered something interesting about the Wyler brand and of the different automatic mechanism they patented. I was happy to see that this 90 + gentleman is still with us and of the conversation we had. In particular I was blown away with his story of what I mentioned in my previous post of his most challenging experience while learning his art, that his master gave him a hair spring that was twisted and made up like into a ball. His mission to pass was to get it straight, reshape it and get it working again. He had to replace it in the balance wheel and Collette and get it right with the screwed in balance weights. He then had to set it in beat getting it half way between the banking pins and got it accurate to almost chronometer level. That is BRAIN SURGERY of the trade area. It would not pay for anyone to do this today, as it would cost a fortune, but good skill developing. By the way for those are not teetotallers, I would try a sip of Strega Liqueur especially for the winter months as it is a good pick-me-up. Disclaimer I have no vested interest in this . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strega_(liqueur)

Beater GMT today. So much inaccurate with it: HEV placement, black not blue (Omega only made blue in this model) poor finishing between the lugs, milky domed crystal etc, but I love it for its faults l

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