Pugwash

You need to use a proxy. RWI's hosts just blanket-block certain European ISPs and claim they don't. It looks like a routing issue (I even tracked down the router of theirs with a problem, but they denied it outright) on one of their routers/subnets. There's nothing to be done short of changing ISPs or using a VPN or Proxy.

It appears people are confusing Precious Time (aka PT) with Puretime (aka Angus). It's dead easy to tell them apart: Precious Time (PT) is in Europe and Puretime (Angus) is in China. If you're buying a Big Bang or a Chronowotsit, it's Puretime. If you're buying an Ultimate anything, it's Precious Time. If you're getting it to avoid EU customs, it's PT also known as Precious Time. If it's a Raffle, It's Precious Time, aka PT. If it's 40 pics of a Big Bang in development and an argument with Josh and Trusty, it's Angus. PT is never Angus and always Precious Time.

I'm not planning on visiting London in the near future, but I may pop over for a weekend if there's a GTG planned, as long as the EuroStar is cheap enough. I do still enjoy this watch and I decided against fixing the bezel as it's fine. No-one else notices so I'm just wearing it as a fine piece of watch as opposed to an accurate Rep.

I recently saw a Fortis GMT watch and the 12 was printed at the top of the dial and the 24 was at the bottom. It looked so unnatural, yet there it was. It gnawed at me as I wandered the shop until I realised. The hours mimic the sun. The GMT hand traces the path of the sun as it rises and sets. It made so much sense. Since then, My Rolex GMT has the 12 at the top of the bezel and the 24 at the bottom. It takes very little time to get used to and you instantly get an impression if the day/night with the GMT hand. Am I wrong or does this seem to be the by far better way of doing it? Try it, you may like it.

I was about to say.

I reckon anything less than a few months old should be ignored as we've just simply not found the faults yet.

Are you telling me it's not really an ETA?

Seconds-at-six. There's nothing accurate about a stuttering second hand.

The dollar has been tanking.

The problem with the HBB being declared best rep is the same as every "Best song of the last 20 years" listing. You'll always have one or two flavour-of-the-week artists in the list that won't be there if you repeat the question next year. The Big Bang is du jour and as such will always feature highly in current lists of best this and best that, but once it starts to become another rep, it'll fade to the same level as the Honpo 187 everyone raved about that didn't even make this list.

Really? http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/ce-de/...4895550-8315406 The number one seller on Amazon Germany in the Electronics section is a pre-order for an iPhone at a thousand Euros. Would you care to revise your statement about how well it'll sell there?

I'm trying to work out if I'll get the Cousteau. The one I really want is the white-bezel "Slevin" Aquatimer.

Yes, it's a fantasy, like I said above. It's the one Rolex should have made. When I bought my first NATO, I bought one for my younger brother to go with the ExpII I got him. He only ever wears that watch and only ever on NATO.

Silix Prime, bought Feb 2006, ETA2836, wrong stack, fantasy model, $150 back in the day. The second hand fell off and in fixing it I blew the keyless works, I got it fixed and accidentally lumed by the amazing Palpatine. It does exactly what it should, tells the time, date, does GMT ... looks the fscking business, really. It's the 50th anniversary GMT Rolex should have made.

While waiting for my PO due this week, I'm trying all the steel watches I have, just to get back used to it. Today is this one:

For those few that have not met TTK, he looks and sounds exactly like that, only with a Scottish accent and more of a cackle.

and more Clives (spelling mistakes)

Not the manual winds.

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See the rep Omega thread ...

Oh Noes! Poor Reg! What will our hero do?

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Well, that's me well and truly told. Keep 'em coming.

Ok...

I checked the US patents office and yes, it was granted. Go here and select "Search" and enter iPhone. Trademark 77007808 is "Live" and is Apple's iPhone trademark. Trademark 75076573 is "Live" and is Cisco's iPhone trademark. See, that's the problem. It's not clear. They didn't have an actual product called the iPhone. They merely pretended to have, and that makes their defence very dubious.