Pugwash

In preparing my Planet Ocean for some photos to show how close to the case the crown should go, I noticed that my crappy pearl looks bad because the metal surrounding the lume is recessed. I thought I could remove the insert and push the pearl through and fix it. This was not to be, hhowever as these photos will show. How to remove the bezel: slip a knife in this groove, but be careful of the ratchet springs whose positions will be apparent later on. If you work the blade all the way round gently, the bezel will just pop off. Be careful here as you really don't want to scar your case. These are the three parts of the bezel assembly. There's a fourth, but you don't need to worry about it and we'll see it in 2 photos time. This is the ratchet spring The bezel itself has a spring (the elusive fourth part) running inside, visible just below the pearl. Yes, the pearl is part of the bezel, not the insert. Bugger, I'll not be raising that then. The insert itself just came off without prompting which leads me to believe the glue used to keep it on is [censored]. This is the ratchet spring in position. Note the tag that sits in a hole. This is to ensure the 120 clicks are on axis. Ramps on the bottom of the bezel provide the other part of the ratchet. The spring is clearly visible here, running inside a groove on the inside of the bezel. Look at the amount of dry glue. Not the best adhesive I've seen. This glue, however, my faithful Resist-a-Toot, does the job. Toothpics (an essential part of any tool kit) were used to apply the glue to the bezel. Bezel insert, um inserted, pushed down with a cloth so as not to get prints everywhere. And Violin! I mean Viola ... er, voila! Back together, just as recessed as before. Damn. When putting the bezel back on the watch, make sure the open gap in the spring is below the last area to get pushed in. This allows you essentially to chase the spring round the inside of the bezel as you're pushing it down. I hope you enjoyed this. You may now return to discussing Wankery engines, or whatever it was before I so rudely interupted you.

My 111h is on several different straps. In fact, here's my Panerai strap collection. You'll see by the height that there are only 2 26mm straps (fiddy-sized) while the 24mm straps are in abundance. Maybe you're thinking of this one?

You're selling what to whom now?

Welcome to RWG. Feast your eyes on the mighty Fiddy and then realise that this one is the cheaper model.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=200071211273 If you've got a link for the crown and tube, I'd be very grateful.

Helfands, here we come. If I can just get US-to-EU postage sorted ...

You have over ten people now. What next?

Of these, I've changed the insert and pearl already, the plexi is dead easy to replace and the bracelet? Mine is on a NATO right now. The only difficult part is changing the crystal and the crown/tube. The rest is ridiculously easy.

Look for posts by a member called Leonado. He's got a map.

This version is better: http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/

The cookie pass_hash that stores the password on your computer is set to expire every seven days. What it should do is renew on each visit, but it doesn't.

I think you missed my point. If you can manage this, I'm in 100%. I just think you're setting yourself up to disappoint a lot of people and you're doing it based purely on something Leonado said to show off. I'm not trying to steal your group buy, but I think you're being a bit premature announcing it. If it were truly this easy, ask yourself why Leo didn't organise a group buy all those years ago, or why no-one else has since.

Angus's words: Josh's words: Trusty's words: Now, remember what we've learned and read between the lines.

The high price was being discussed over on RWI and Josh, Andrew and Angus all chimed in saying stuff like it's an exclusive, etc. The best line from Josh was "Don't be a Pug" which means I am officially no longer pussyfooting round with them. The upshot was that four dealers (the fourth being King) have cartelled on this one and have decided to keep the price artificially high. Yes, they really are that stupid.

Can you AR coat Acrylic?

I'll be honest, it wasn't really a contest.

Sure, but at that point we'd charge the same as all the other dealers. Why? Because that's what they're worth.

I meant an off-topic thread elsewhere.

This is what Angus had to say about the 2813 in the Superocean over on RWI:

Funny. I run Vista on my Mac.

It's around $850.

Any decent 100mm macro should do. Try this one. It's got a minimum range of about a foot: http://www.nikonians.org/html/resources/no...acro/index.html

Saturday and I had to make a difficult choice, but I chose this one, eventually.

This morning, I was trying to decide what to wear. I settled on a black-bezeled diving watch, because I obviously have no class or style (right, Neil? ) but I looked at my choices ... I could go Rolex ... click for 1280px wide or choose between two watches without cyclops ... Click for 1920x1200 HD ...but eventually, I had to go with this one: Click for 1920x1200 HD ps. Mac-users, this last one is for you as all the detail is biased to the left. You'll know what I mean when you see where your icons fall.

Good luck. You're chasing a pipe dream and unrealistically building people's hopes up, but honestly, I wish you all the best. I know Leonado is going to join this thread at any moment and start shouting at me inexplicably, but honestly, how are you going to do this? Imagine, if you will, a market stall in your local town. Now imagine someone in a different continent trying to organise buying something from there. The stall doesn't have email, doesn't have a phone, doesn't take paypal ... I don't want to sound like I'm trying to shatter people's dreams, but this is an unrealistic proposal. Olreon, what you need to do is make contact with the stall and organise the details before getting people on board. You're guaranteed 10 interested parties, myself included if you somehow manage to pull it off, so you don't need to sound it out first.