Pugwash

I dislike new-design PAMs with a passion. Ugly tuna cans that say a lot about overcompensating masculinity, in my opinion. However, the old design is beautiful and lends itself towards accessorising, and any hobbyist loves accessorising. I have 2 after-market straps and another three on the way, and I only own one PAM. I am in no way a PAM-addict, but I appreciate that the Panerai is the barbie doll of the rep world: You can dress it up and pretend its a princess. This pic says it all:

I just opened mine (to remove a hair from the winding cog) with the Ruihua case-back opener I picked up from Precious Time.

Welcome back and well done.

While I admit to having worked on that photo-shoot, it was before my love of Reps and I was not the photographer, merely the post-production geek. I thought it was rather an obvious photoshop chop job; You should see what I can do when I put the effort in.

As long as I'm not in BKK when you get to Paris ...

This test used very hot water ... it heats up the watch, expanding the air inside, adding a fraction of a second of safety barrier in which you can whip out the watch before water gets in. That's the theory, at least. It does mean that the test covers hot water as well.

Its real name is Cappricio, if you're trying to find it on E's site.

These two straps were picked up on one of TC Straps' specials over on RWI, and they really make the PAM111h stand out a lot. I'm new to this whole PAM thing, but it looks like fun. The Toscana Oreo: The Toscana Il Mupetto:

...but you had to buy that many reps to get to this point. It's all worth it.

MBW: My Bank Weeps.

Radeon X1600 not high-end enough for you?

I've used Macs since the 80s, and, to be hoinest, until OSX 10.2 came out, it would have been a hard sell to get people away from Windows. OS9 was way behind what it should have been and 10.0-10.1 couldn't even play DVDs. I bought a G4 Tower (G4-400/AGP with OS8) the month they came out and loved it, but I secretly knew we Mac users were losing the race. I got OSX Public Beta and knew it was the future, but it took a few releases before we could truly lord it over the XP-heads. I'm typing this on my dual 2GHz G5 (bought shortly after they came out ... I seem to be into these towers at release date - roll on the Intel PowerMac!) and love doing all my photo stuff one minute and boom, getting down and dirty with sed/awk/grep or a perlscript on the UNIX command line. It's the machine for the creative in me that loves to play and the geek in me that pays the rent. Welcome, Slay. You're in for a fun ride. Spot the Mac G5 on the left plugged into my 24" widescreen LCD. The PC on the right hasn't been started since ... ooh, last time I needed to play R-Factor.

...and for today, the rugged-in-a-non-brokeback-way Toscana Oreo. The Legend is certainly getting some wrist time. ...but I may change into the Il Mupetto strap later.

Someone needs to crontab an ntpdate on this server. The clock is wrong.

Anyone got the time?

Coo, there's someone. I have a 2836-2 that needs the springy-bit that holds the stem in unspringificating. I pushed the thingy in too far when trying to put the second hand back on my GMT. I'm in France, but have no fear of EU customs.

Like this:

Even if it accurately models the amount of water my PAM will see? Not having a pressure tester means I don't get to test it with one. See, that stuff is the good stuff. I never knew how pressure testers were supposed to work.

All I wanted to know was if I had to take off my PAM when it rained or when I had to get something out of the sink or bath with both hands. Now I know it's safe to shower in. I'm not a swimmer really, and I don't wrestle crocs or fish or play about on boats, so for me, the 3" test is fine.

Keep your personal stuff out of my posts. Really, what is the point in calling my strap plastic? Are you accusing me of being tasteless and stupid?

I got mine today. I'll tell you how long a wind up lasts. As for how much it needs winding, you wind it until its wound. You can feel when it's done.

If you're removing the movement, you don't need hot water.

Because that defeats the purpose. This was a test for whether or not a new watch needed opening up and sealing. This one doesn't. Also, doing that requires a PAM caseback tool, and I don't have one of those. Where's your spirit of adventure!

He's not kidding ...