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Great read - thanks for the link! One of the things it mentioned that I covet are a pair of those shoes. For the most part I have absolutely no interest in clothes or shoes, but these Berluti shoes just hit the spot (in black)! For me tailored suits though are a waste of time - I'll get a tailored suit when I stop changing size! (Generally in a larger and less athletic direction!)

QUESTION 2 This watch isn't mechanical, as the rather dodgy digital bit shows! My question is this. Mr X likes being on time. No, he really likes being on time. He hears that this watch is very accurate, and he buys it in Milan. However, he flys over to New York one time and is furious to discover that it is no longer as accurate. What is it about New York that stops Mr X's watch from working properly?!

NEW QUESTIONS QUESTION 1 I thought I would try two questions, because I'm sure that at least one of them is rubbish!! Sooooo....... Who makes this watch? Anything interesting about it?

OUCH!!

Bored after robbing a bank?! Even without the yellow colour cast, the pinks and browns from the bank notes make for some uneasy reflections and colour combinations. It upstages the watches - but what watches!!

Great work! I love the way that Lange even admit with this watch that the tourbillon is pointless, other than as a feat of engineering. Shows true class.

Remind me never to annoy you! Nice watch!

NEW QUESTION Perhaps this is a daft one, I dunno.... What is special about this part of a movement? What is point of this part (i.e. what does it achieve)? And to what watch does it belong? Best of luck!

I'll try to come up with something devious....

I think it's pretty cool - and the tradition is nothing to do with the football team! Strictly to do with Love Edinburgh ....but Sydney has its advantages come December!

Quite right - I suspect that half the UK population could not even tell you the name of Edinburgh's two teams. Even the London-based news have little clue about Scottish football - there was a funny moment when one newsreader thought that the Dundee Utd ground was in Italy. "Tannadichi" Come to think of it, in Scotland I think to opposing fans just the fact that you support another team is intrinsically insulting. So you can cuss by just calling them what they call themselves, perhaps sprinkled with 'bastard' at the end to make the point. But then the supporters even tend to adopt the insults - Aberdeen fans sing "we're only sheep shagging bastards" all afternoon. One thing that is a bit unique is that in Edinburgh there is spot on the street where everyone can spit on a Heart of Midlothian. Tends to freak out the tourists! Next time you're in Edinburgh.... Heart of Midlothian on the Royal Mile

Ah we are back in Abraham-Louis Perrelet territory, I believe! And yes, in true Swiss 'faux historical firm' style (they are replica firms ) you can buy your own Perrelet to this day. Thanks again

Interesting link - thank you! On my internet travels I did come across a different 19c clock with a double escapement, although it probably didn't have a 'single power source'. It was used as a timer for a bank vault. Thanks again!

Shhhh....we're trying to keep that up our sleeve as verbal ammunition during the World Cup! @Gunnar: It's Hearts that are the Jam Tarts (rhyming slang)! (They call themselves the Jambos)

Congrats to Liverpool & Hearts - Gunnar & Edge! Almost 3am here....better crash! Cheers!

LIVERPOOL WIN!!!!!!

Ah bugger. Gretna lost on penalties. Incredible effort though.

BOTH finals down to penalties....at the same time

GOAL! 3-3!!

Hearts 1 - Gretna 1 !!!

3-2!! Gunnar....can you hear us?! Stay away from the light!!

2-2!

I took my family for a lovely day out....last bloody week!! I said to my missus when the truth dawned, "why didn't you tell me it wasn't mother's day?" And she said, "you wouldn't have taken us out!" Now I've got to do it all over again!

It's a good match