Pugwash

I'd settle for a non-quartz.

IWC, could be several models, but I'll say 3707-001 or 002

Yes it is.

Nope, one layer, one shot. I tend not to separate a shot into layers as much as I am very comfortable with selecting areas and relying on multiple undos if there's a deal-breaker. Here's what I did: Noise Ninja to get rid of the CCD noise (always do this first) and then clone tool to tidy up dust specs and the like, then hit the levels palette for the first of many times and block off the range I want my whitest and blackest to be. Check your clean-up looks good even with changed levels. Then, take the airbrush to the edge where the stand is visible and remove all traces of imperfection in the background. Whitewash the lot by selecting the watch and not much else with the lasso, invert selection, delete. Then, make an elliptical selection over the bezel insert, use the selection transformation to select just the bezel insert. This doesn't need to be pixel perfect as the next step is to invert and feather the selection. Once you have everything but the bezel, desaturate using the hue/saturation palette, bringing out the steel grey. Re-invert the selection and tweak the levels for the bezel insert, ignoring the results for the dial as we'll be doing that next. It's mostly a gamma modification you need here as opposed to white/black levels. At this point, you make an elliptical selection over the crystal and transform selection (scale/rotate, etc) to select the dial/crystal. Feather slightly (4-8px only) to make any missed edges less important. Use levels once more to get the dial to the right depth of black. Desaturate a little to get rid of any colours, although this would not be wise if you had a red sub or GMT, and there you'd select shadows and inverted colour ranges to desaturate. Astute readers will realise at this point the only area with any colour is the bezel insert, and this is visible in the pearl. Subtle enough to hint that this isn't a black-and-white image, which strengthens the metallic look of the steel colours. At this point, I painted over the one part where the stand insert was showing using masks and the clone tool. Once this is done, I loosely selected everything at the front, ie, the face, the crown and the first few links either way, and feathered the selection, inverted it so the background portions of the watch were selected and used gaussian blur to enhance the out-of-focus depth of field. I also lightened the out-of-focus area to draw attention away from it. Lastly, I slapped my drop-shadow P in the bottom-right and hit save for web. Here is the original as it came out of the camera:

Nice. The position of the 5 should have been the big give-away.

Here you go

Graham Cockfighter

... because Life is Good.

Ok, your go again then

Mine did ...

Here you go:

If your watch isn't COSC, you can get a warranty repair, I reckon. Seconds per day: Average daily rate: -4 +6 Mean variation in rates: 2 Greatest variation in rates: 5 Difference between rates in H & V positions: -6 +8 Largest variation in rates: 10 Thermal variation: +-0.6 Rate resumption: +-5

I think you're mistaking reps with gens here ...

coo ... nice display!

Good point. I do visit WT myself, and have even posted some pics, but no-one comments and hardly anyone looks at them. I like Ron and appreciate his forum, but I don't buy and sell enough to be an active poster there.

It depends what you're after. I find having a few forums valuable, but I've been gravitating between my natural home (RWI) and here since TRC fell over. I find there's always a discussion going on here, but it's not always about watches, whereas on RWI, there are less discussions and in-jokes, but more about watches. On TRC, there's been an Out of Order sign and on the old RWG, there's post after post of DeviantArt crappy photoshop montages. So, for the ribald or fiery discourses, it's here, for the watchy stuff, it's RWI, for the feeling of being alone, it's TRC and for ... oh, I don't post on RWG1.

anyone missing one of the other forums, TRC is back.

This has been Photoshopped considerably, but merely to enhance what was already there. As usual, here are the details: f2.8, close in, clean light, buckets of potatoshop, Lumix DMC-FZ20, Asian 21j Submariner from TTK. Anyone want to guess at what photoshop work has been done? Fun for all the family! Quick edit to say ... I forgot to mention that you can click the picture for a larger version.

... and that's what inspired me to do the same with the Sub, only with no visible stand. Truly floaty, and coming soon ...

I decided to try an ultra-clean, high-contrast MoonWatch pic, cos it's difficult. The watch is, as you probably all know by now, an Omega MoonWatch from Precious Time. This pic was taken at f2.8 on a Lumix DMC-FZ20 and was worked hard in Photoshop. Lighting was ambient daylight hitting a light tent. The reflections on the crystal and case were left as the only spots of colour. click for bigger

No it isn't.

Perfect, plus perfect, double-plus perfect. We were never at war with Eurasia. Big Brother loves you.

Yes, but it costs extra.

How about scanning a couple of strips for us?