Pugwash

If it's acrylic and domed, the rainbow can be stress fractures.

I'll tell you tomorrow. I've got one on the way.

Cats. Three of them. One of the three thinks our bed is a launch-pad for her charging round the house, and sometimes she catches loose limbs with her raptor-like claws. Her name is Strawberry, but she's nicknamed Clawberry.

So you're talking about a secondes-mortes wristwatch, and it's not an oysterquartz ... Now I'm intrigued.

Why not? I manage websites for a living. Big ones. I've been working with sites since 1995 and believe that the in-a-box companies can offer you the chance to make your site just like everyone else's. I suppose it dilutes the kind of thing I do and makes everyone assume they can do my job, making it harder to get proper sites built. Like the companies that get the bosses nephew to do their website because he did a course. Convincing people like that that people like me are not in the same class as their nephew is quite demeaning. It's like Desktop Publishing gave everyone the power to produce their own designs, when the problem was there were an awful lot of people that should not be let to do their own design.

I don't trust website-in-a-box sites.

I wasn't aware Rolex made a "Secondes Mortes" wristwatch so you're probably talking about a clock or pocketwatch-style stopwatch. I'll guess ... a clock that goes outside a shop.

They give you an application that generates that flash site. Check out the admin demo: http://imagevuex.inn.no/imagevue/admin/

I've been here for over seven years. I've seen a lot of it, and I prefer to leave while I still love the place as opposed to when I am fed up with it.

By that you mean they both have the same Flash engine on their sites that makes it impossible to link directly to their watches? It's called ImageVue: http://www.imagevuex.com/ http://precioustime-uk.com/

End of next week.

/me verifies ... yup, taken by Joe Mastroianni and it's a shot of Lake Fryxell at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Well, the picture is called Fryxellsee, which is in Antarctica, right?

Gen ETA on my Precious Time Ultimate.

It's Judge Judy. It's for real, apart from the loser doesn't pay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Judy

I bought my Black Monster by mistake, sort of. I had a few eBay bids in and I thought I'd get outbid. A friend of mine said he'd be very interested, but as soon as I got it it felt sporty and made me go into the garage and get my bicycle fixed up. It's my real sports watch, just like yours.

Taken just over a week ago, these are the last decent shots of Paris I'll probably take for a very long time. And the "Vendome" of Pre-vendome ...

A change of watch today. My first ever movement repair! ... and a crappy wristshot because I don't care

Sure, patience. It's not a race. Oh, amazingly, this watch is on my wrist now, telling the time. I fixed the keyless works myself. Ok, so the date doesn't roll over and it doesn't wind, but the hands go round and I can set the time. This is much better than before when all it could do was set the date or sometimes have the second hand go round and round without the hour/minute hands moving, like when it arrived.

If they say Swiss ETA 2836, you can be 99.9% sure it's a Swiss ETA 2836.

http://jholbrook.proboards33.com/index.cgi...read=1174083779 Towards the bottom, pic of loads of watches.

I'd love to, but I'm banned. Who took the photos over there?

Asian copy. You can be 99% sure it's serviced. Rob, what nick was the 2824 copy in when you got it?

Everyone in the UK has seen this clip as it's from the BBC's legendary motoring show, Top Gear.

Tomorrow, I hope to be sporting this: Hell yeah! I'm posting a non-Pugwash pic.