Pugwash

The reason the more interesting and unusual candidates didn't win was, like TTK said, because they didn't fit. The IWCs appear to have won and that is almost entirely down to the fact that they are exactly what Jay/RT specified. The movements are clean and unmodded, they were answers to the question that was asked. It's not that the public voted for 'boring' watches, it was that no-one could come up with any 'interesting' ones that fit the rules. Opportunity lost? Not for me as I'd have had to have bought a gen Aquatimer otherwise. ps. The IWCs are not boring and I'm glad they had as much support as they did.

Ah, Festivus ...

Damned skippy! You should read his posts on WM9. He's such a Spacktard that it's impossible to keep a straight face reading his posts. His "I need to know I'm not buying rubbish" posts followed by his "wow, this is the bestestest!" crap. It's almost worth joining the forum to goad him into throwing his spacktoys out of his spackpram again.

ps. Yes, amkinvesting is 100% certain DaunWaun. His posts on WM9's forum link to the same photos.

I don't even know where it is.

I presume his account is closed otherwise I wouldn't have posted his PM here. I prefer to keep PMs private, unless they're insulting or something.

Marketing ... every time you see a product that's been marketed, just remember that a portion of the price you pay just went on a shiny new pavement scooter, a Blackberry Pearl and a pair of fashionable glasses for a marketing executive.

After picking apart his watch in a PM, he sent me this: To which the only reply can be that he's a [censored] photographer. Oh, and a scammer.

It's not a motorcycle racer in either MotoGP or SBK.

Rehaut: So visible it's not even funny. Pearl - nasty and flat. Mag? It's not 2.5x and that's due entirely to the rehaut. Look at your bottom picture. See the Rolex Crown etching touching the SS of Swiss? Don't tell me what I can't and can't see in your pictures.

SELs, Magnification, CGs, pearl, Rehaut, etc. ie. The usual. Like I explained in PM, these are faults that pretty much prove to us that this is the exact same watch we get here for $100-$120. We are very familiar with these errors.

... and those of us that took part and tried to make it work appreciate the work and effort put in. What an opportunity, it would have been criminal not to have taken part. I wouldn't have felt my time was wasted, even if my suggestions had been lambasted and came last.

Seconds are running at 9 on this watch. I wonder if the dealer knows he's got a fake ...

I have a foundation in art and art history. I was never rich enough to take three years off and have fun.

Of course. You'll see loads of posts proving it if you just search.

Damn, you must be new here, right?

Yes. We get them from the same place as George gets them. There's no great mystery. Here's a pic of my Sub, face on.

Over four hundred dollars for a noobmariner! Ok, this is exactly the kind of rip-off that this forum is designed to stop. You must be shitting me. You must think we're stupid if you think that a positive review of (admittedly a decent $120 watch) a Sub for over 400 dollars is not going to be seen as an obvious plant. I'm looking at the photos and, apart from being decidedly average, the watch portrayed is about on par with my $100 noobmariner. amkinvesting, show me where your watch is better than this one and I'll shut up: Until you show me where this watch of mine is $300 inferior to yours, I'm going to assume you're a Scammer.

Simple: The ETA 2894 is a better movement.

The viscosity of the lubricant is related to the surface area required, surely. That's physics. Using aircraft wheel bearing lube on minute watch bearings would be a mistake in my books. I'm with Clive's "but it was BEST butter" myself.

Damn, this is the most forgiving and forgetting forum I've ever seen. I'm impressed.

I always assumed the scale difference between aviation and horology was large enough for the rules to change. What works on wheel bearings doesn't necessarily hold true for watch rotors. And a merry Xmas to you, too, The Zigmeister!

This has been fun. Merry Xmas, everyone!

Nope, seconds at three and a 45 minute chrono.

Eterna core, not IWC. IWC and Porsche went their separate ways quite a while ago.