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You are indeed the OMEGA review expert around here By-Tor the dealers should see this as an opportunity send you one XXL for free for you to review this newcomer on the board and to spread the good news (about how accurate it is and so on...). I know I will eventually buy one but now with the new house and all the new furniture needed etc (the new house more than twice the size of my previous dwelling) there is no way I can buy one this side of Christmas

Great collection galning You make me proud to be Norwegian

but remember that no matter how beautiful it may look its faux and it still has that silly smiling sun instead of a moon phase

Thank you for this very informative and to the point post The Zigmeister this is the kind of input that raise this forum to a higher level. This should certainly drive the price on this particular replica down..way down Thank you

Har du kjøpt en Norsk sykkel eller Robert? you should know that KONA translates to WIFE in Norwegian from your description it seems you ride her (kona) hard...btw its time to prepare for the lutefisk and the akevit and the rakfisk soon

I do use the Chronograph (stopwatch) function when I give a talk or the like ..Im a nerd BTW I have never liked the termed "Chrono" it is inaccurate and should be avoided at all cost The chronograph was invented by a Frenchman, named Rieussec, back in 1821. Literally, this was the only timepiece that bore the name Chronograph rightly. It actually wrote on the dial with a small pen attached to the index. The length of the arc of the circle displayed the time that had passed. The index was fixed while the dial turned. The Greek words chronos and graph stand for resp. time and writing. Chronoscope would be a more accurate name for chronographs, since there is no real "writing" involved anymore. In 1822, Rieussec was granted a patent for his invention. The history of the chronograph Before we start, a word about terminology: Strictly speaking, all "chronographs" today are "chronoscopes" - they show the elapsed time, but they do not record it (Greek chronos = "time" and graphô = "I write"). The word "chronograph," however, has become the generally used term and it would be a silly know-all attitude to use anything else. Per definition, a chronograph is a chronometric (time-measuring) device which contains a mechanism that allows to stop at least one hand to facilitate reading of the elapsed time. Around 1720, the English watchmaker Graham built the first clock which allowed to measure the duration of an event - theoretically, with 1/16 second accuracy! Graham is therefore known as the "Father of the Chronograph" today. In Paris, Rieussec built a clock in 1822 that was a real "chronograph" which wrote the elapsed time on the dial as a series of ink dots. The "chronographe (à) rattrapante," the split-second chronograph, was invented by the Austrian Winnerl (the literature is rather unanimous about that; I only mention this because someone from Perrelet once told me that it was invented by Perrelet ...). The exact date is not known; both 1811 and 1831 are found in the literature. In 1862, Adolphe Nicole developed the first chronograph whose hand could be set back to zero, and in 1883, the first chronograph with the nowadays typical twin pusher design appeared.

This is a nice and clasy watch the perpetual Longines is a watch I would consider worth buying......but probably I will save up to a Nivrel Moon Chronograph pictured below or a vintage repeater (for a little more money). In fact looking for Longines watches on the web I stumbeled onto RWG and started collecting replicas.

Welcome back dear friend we need horologists like you around. Hope you are well and prosper. The very Best Regards From Gunnar Gran

I truly enjoy that BORAT

Liverpool vant jo 3-2 og det er jo bra Håper det lokale laget ditt får kvalifiseringsplss også vær glad...jeg reiser til Roma i morgen tidlig Aller vennligst fra Gunnar

Thanks ken I try my best...being happy is a good thing indeed @mikellem Thank you @eddhead In fact we are renting a tuscan house as well but for just one week the rest of the time we will be spending our time in the cities Now I have to go to sleep.....tomorrow noon ill be in Italy The very best regards Gunnar

The question is with all the hype around global warning and all the hate against Hillary C nowadays will the bore Al Gore run again? and can he win? BTW I would give my vote for Al

Thanks JTB and I will do my very best to enjoy Italy

The one but luckily not the only....my 100/003

The box kit makes them look more impressive

I have just sold our apartment and bought a splendid new house. I am a very happy man. Our new house is 200 square meters in size, there is a full size doubble garage, have 1.2 acre very well kept and planted property with it and the place even has a nice view of an undulating landscape. I actually feel so good about all of this change that I am now taking my family on vacation to Italy for the fall break. I will be going to Rome first and then to Florence (I love Firenze) . I will be in Florence the 2, 3 and 4th of Oktober so if you have any suggestions to what watch stores to visit (or meet me at the square and have a cup of coffee) fill me in. So if you are in Rome or Florence the next 10 days and see someone sport a RWG CI watch its probably me Best regards Gunnar

Thank you again my friend allways a pleasure to receive words from you The very best regards Gunnar The traveler @jraines87 It seems I am just a poor lad compared to you.... @jkerouac Thank you my friend @lionsandtigers I will send you a pm before the 1st

Dont get me started on the flaws the list is so long it hurts but if I have to give a top three its 1.faux functions 2. poor finishing of the case 3. spelling and placement inaccuracies on the dial

I like this thread group buys that actually work out well are the best thing The once upon a time RWG general gran

I like Clinton and i can see why some do not like Hollywood.....we all remember the mess sorrouding JFK...M.Monroe....and then later we had (the bright cowboy) Ronald R...its difficult to know where politics begin and hollywood ends (or is the other way round) ...we want to see a president turn movie actor

If only Al Gore had been elected we wouldnt have been in this kind of trouble

Interesting read bigpops still i feel its better to keep the 42 and 45mm generations seperated from each other

Now reports indicate that Osama might not be dead after all......

Naturally the RWG C1 gets a lot of wrist time with me... and only 3-4 out of my 25++ watches get much wrist time...some get less wrist time beacuse they are lacking a screw and some because I just do not beleive much in them myself These get most wrist time; The RWG C1, VC Chronographe, IWC Jones, JLC retrograde date and now and then the OMEGAs.....when the winter comes along and the suits come out I will start to use my AP JAs again Happy timekeeping g.