Pugwash

Here's what should happen: Someone has an idea like this and, instead of suggesting it, they just do it. Start a thread and say "I think the best Sub for $100 is the Noobmariner. For $250, I think you should get ... etc." I know this would be valuable today because when I did it 3 years ago (in the post that coined the term Noobmariner, in fact) it was widely commented on and discussed. My post is out of date: Do a new one. You'll be respected by your peers if you do.

He's an Elephant Bull Seal called Minazo. He died in 2005. http://www.karlson.ru/lj/minazo.html No, he's not mine; I have a pet shrimp called Shrimpy, though.

That's because it's not just Tritium. That dial is reacting the exact same way as my 1986 Speedmaster dial, only brighter from pure darkness. Tritium paint is sometimes half luminous, half phosphorescent. When the tritium expires, you can sometimes get a glow on the regular luminous parts. Try shining a UV light at it and photographing it. If that dial glows from straight darkness without charging, it's Tritium paint, and in this case it's over 10-year old tritium paint by the look of things. 23-year old Tritium paint: Recent Tritium Paint:

My output has been drastically diminished in the last 6 months. Maybe I need to do some more of my amateur hack mods. How about a ham-fisted IWC Portuguese graphite mod post for the equally ham-fisted? Or a how to change a movement when you're as rubber-pawed as me and not break every damned thing?

There is a point Noobs sometimes seem to miss, and the call for Video reviews seemed to remind me of it. That point is that no-one here is paid to do this. Reviewers don't gain anything apart from the respect of their peers. I don't mind which Seadweller or Skyland you get and I don't benefit in any way from your choice. There's only so much you can expect us to do. What the Noobs have to do is take it upon themselves to write and post. It's how you stop being a Noob. Too many Noobs come here with the intention of buying a rep, and not with partaking in a community. We can only spoon-feed them for so long until we just give up and leave it to the next generation of enthusiastic members to hand-hold the Noobs and teach them how it works. The problem is we've had a drop-off in activity from people patient enough and forgiving enough to tell 'em how it is, gently and kindly. Oh, and telling people who do this for a hobby how to write and present their reviews will lead to one outcome: Less reviews.

In an effort to break the cycle of Moon Watch, Moon Watch, Moon Watch ... I put this one on. What a beauty. Shockingly, no picture of it on my wrist yet.

I'll set up the camera tonight for you. Today is the first day that I'm not wearing my Moonie, so I can't just look at it.

It was just there while I was raising the cash to pay for this watch. Now it's paid for, he's gone.

I could just buy a new dial and hands from Cousins instead of reluming it, but I like the patina.

If that.

Search has to work well for that to happen.

I'm off the steel and back on the leather.

Aw, you small guys will never know.

I find it a little difficult to say I can't afford new watches when I just magicked $1000 out of my ass for a Moon Watch, but it's definitely the case for me, but oddly enough, I've felt like this since my missus gave up her job in Paris and we went from two very decent salaries to ... oh, wait, maybe that's it. If I sent Mrs Pugwash out to the workfarm, maybe I can start getting a Rep or two a month.

Yeah, v2 is better. +1 Wear it well.

Recently, I've posted some how-tos on modding Planet Oceans and I know Ubi has done the same. I've also thrown up pictures of my new Moon Watch. If I post a pictorial or how-to, I know it'll get the same guys commenting on it, then it goes dead. Do new members feel too intimidated to post? Maybe we need to revisit the old stuff and spruce it up. I could redo the how to photograph watches series (they dearly need it!) if I thought it'd create a buzz of activity, but if it's just going to be six of my mates reassuring me that it's a good post, I don't feel the drive to do it. Maybe By-Tor's absence is being felt. Who knows, but RepGeek is generating over twice the postcount of here.

Yeah, cos I could do with a new watch!

Dude, the UPO isn't a chrono. KTHXBYE

Love the old Speedy reps. I had one of the good ones for a while. It made me buy my gen.

Buy it. Get it out of your system. If you feel silly wearing it, some other sucker will take it off your hands for close to what you paid for it.

Seeing as my Omega Speedmaster Pro is all maid for now, I thought I'd celebrate with a couple of wallpaper-sized Macros. Thanks to RepGeek and RWG for letting me sell stuff. You know the drill, click to embiggen!

No AR, not as good lume as a Seiko Monster. AR would make a huge difference. The sapphire is really, really thick.

This one?

I think attachments are the easy non-technical option, and that's why people are fscking it up. I even ranted about it here:

Nice gesture, guys. I like how you do the business.