Pugwash

You had be until this point. Like any other contraband business, maybe.

Sweet.

It's debatable, to be honest. If the watch is a beater you don't care that much about, you'll be fine. Most likely you don't need a service. I need a service on my GST because it kept awful time and I removed a tiny piece of purple thread from the escapement and set the beat-rate-thingy wrong. I expect it to come back less loose and gritty-feeling and much more accurate. I believe my IWC was due to generate problems. I had no confidence in pressing the chrono buttons, for instance. A service gives me a watch I know is at a base reference point of 'good condition' and anything that happens to it subsequently is my fault entirely.

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he. I mean it's not really much closer as it has a bloody great crown guard on it.

Wonder no more:

Bumpo

They're all just Hampster Dance copies anyway ...

oops, I wasn't supposed to post here, was I.

As long as it doesn't arrive too late, as that would make me cry like a schoolgirl whose teddy bear got stolen.

Did I miss it? Who's got the best sub?

[CRUSADE MODE=ON]When the package gets to Eritrea and the Ministry of Transport and Communications get hold of it, will they update the delivery details? What's it doing in the UK anyway?[/CRUSADE] (see why your joke is old now?)

... because putting a joke country as your location didn't get old fast, then? If no-one's going to actually use them properly, the flags just become avatar junk. It's impossible to tell someone who their best dealer is when they claim to be from bloody Eritrea. I don't think I want to risk Eritrea's postal system as I don't trust the incumbent Ministry of Transport and Communications, so expect no strap orders.

Ah, that makes sense. However, you're registered as Sennsi as well I'll keep the bookmark handy in case anything happens to the other forums, then.

Look, I didn't post out of sheer respect, and I ask all of you to do the same. Ok?

Crown Guards are wrong, the number is 5b, when the gen is obviously 5 or 6, as can be seen in the pics. When will the rep makers get this right!!! One step forward, two steps back, every damned time!

Yes, we got it!

. bumpo

Ok.

The only caveat I've ever been presented with was from OldeCrow who says that the CN Panerai movements, of which this is a variant, should only be wound face-down. I'm no expert but he paints a convincing picture.

That's my point. If you could afford a genuine Seadweller/Sub, you'd not be worrying about that as much as the fact that your watch isn't a cheap bit of tat that'll implode in a swimming pool while us not-so-rich people would be worried about damaging it. I suppose this says more about us than the watches. If you'd worry about damaging a gen, maybe expensive reps look less convincing on you.

This is precisely the reason to wear an expensive diver's watch for some people. They don't want to be worrying about it.

That's not owned, that's educated. You'll know it if you ever get owned. The finest electric watch is the Seiko Spring Drive. It incorporates all the good things about automatic mechanical watches with the accuracy of electronics. It is basically a mechanical watch with a digital escapement.

This is not the case. Joshua, and others of course, call Mineral Glass "Synthetic Sapphire". This has been discussed and shown to be true on numerous occasions.

Some cows? How about my fridge?