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Feel like a kid in a sweety shop! Thanks again!

Fascinating - thank you! Opens up a world of possibilities A couple of links: Main Sea-gull website (Chinese) English website - also check out the finished watches they also sell - very interesting English Sea-gull website Movements Watches

I should clarify - the original pics looks funny, regardless of where they came from.

Just a personal opinion, but I think this guy has gone a bit mental in Photoshop. There's just something iffy about all the pics.

...or trying to roar up to a Hell's Angel convention on this....

So who do you pick to score?

lol!

This is all a nice warm up for the main event this summer.... ....yes, I'm talking about the Scottish Cup final. C'mon Gretna!

Aye, but a few of those players have retired....

Poor little West Ham. It's like pitting a hamster against a tiger. And then have everyone pick on the hamster...

It was a sting!

Exactly - why I suspected that they guy himself didn't really know too much about it. Even so, he must have suspected. Item has been since been cancelled BTW.

Glad you made the effort though! Rushing is the difficult bit, but the adventure is the fun bit! I've been to this area of Bangkok before - all the talk of your plans made me hunger for another visit! You're right though. You've got to be canny on the street and in the markets - suffice it to say that they always saw you coming - and they're great at what they do (fleece you). This applies in a lot of stores in the Far East, not just when buying reps (tailors, electrical stores, 'antiques' - any tourist trap). The dealers take that crap on your behalf!

[Oh god - you had me worried there about what kind of picture you were about to put up!! A horse...or a shower!!]

Incredibly, the suburb he lives in doesn't even have a McDonalds....

Yeah, all the best brands plastic wrap their watches these days - keeps 'em fresh! I'm not sure that the seller hasn't been a little bit stooged himself - seems to sell an interesting array of "antique" crap (sort of antiques Steptoe and Son might keep!). Don't mind this though: NSW Fire Helmet - Might help me look more refined down at Woolworths.... BTW: if anyone ever wants to find the guy - he probably looks a wee bit like this:

Seriously lol....!!!

hehe... "Taking your rep Rolex to fool an expert is a bit like..." ....telling a stable girl you're hung like a horse!

Aye, so things are getting a bit heated in a couple of other threads - people posting reps on gen forums, and (troll talk?) tales of school trips to the local Rolex dealer. (This internet is a dangerous place - are there now schoolchildren posing as grown-ups to 'groom' us adults?!) Anyway didn't really want to take these threads OT. [On a personal note, my perspective is that it's a bit mean-spirited to do anything that detracts from the pleasure that anyone gets from owning the genuine article - just as surely as I wouldn't appreciate them trying to get up my nose by suggesting I am some kind of lesser human for not owning one.] "WHERE IS THE HUMOUR?" You plead...... Okay, this is the game: "Taking your rep Rolex to fool an expert is a bit like..." ....taking out your fake [censored] and rubbing them in a plastic surgeon's face. You get the idea....

I think we're seeing a lot of demand here for the next step.....modding it! Great ideas: Google earth (tell the time as you zoom into your back yard), global warming-o-meter, snow globe, stars!! But do you think it would be too much to add an orbiting moon?!

Hehe...it would be nice to be able to swap them over on a long haul flight! Although, of course, the true aficionado wears two of these watches at a time - one of top of the wrist, one underneath Looking at the pic, Antartica does seem to dominate southern hemisphere watch; damn geography. On a (silly) medical note - if you pull your jumper down over this watch I think you could pull off a great impression of a ganglion cyst!

Funnily enough it seems they thought of everything... I think the minute hand is that red dot. But even better - the original packaging contains a kit....to turn it into a desk clock! Smart cookies.

That explains it! Thank you! It's actually quite a good way to tell the time around the world - would be better perhaps on a desk though. Mind you, I wouldn't want to boil an egg with this thing! Err, your egg's ready when Afghanistan hits where western Turkmenistan is right now!

Exactly - I'm not sure I would wear it - but I kind of wish someone else at the dinner party (yeah, right - pub) would!

River's Turning Globe Watch Wow - it's certainly a conversation piece! There is, I should add, another WS-1 model with the earth the other way up - for those of us that are that way inclined