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This is the first time I have ever heard that they were supposed to be related...

Read this about the Purewhite Hennessy Hennessy Purewhite is made 100% from white grapes in the Charente region of France and aged in old barrels, some of which are half a century years old. These barrels have less tannin accounting for Hennessy's Purewhite's unique transparent gold colour, roundness and softness. Born by this audacity, Purewhite flaunts its make with a difference, its golden colour complemented with delicate yet intense aromas. Unlike Timeless, Purewhite will appeal to the young crowd looking for fresh, natural and uncomplicated flavours, and who will be surprised to find it in a glass of cognac. It is best enjoyed chilled (6 to 8 degrees) and can be drunk with tonic, coke, ice cream soda and cranberry juice. The bottle’s modern sleek design and screw-top capsule add to its personality and instantly embodies its provocative new-age temperament. uncomplicated flavours

His name is Sollied...and he is from Norway probably admin knows what town Sollied originally comes from

That is one great looking orange

Can it be hacked so as to remove the Xmas theme only?

"No, the steaks are too high." However this one needs some explaining: 14. "I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'" ?

This is a picture taken in Tromsø Norway today...snow in May and -1 degree Celsius...they say that the northern half of Norway might get covered with snow once again. Too bad I live in the southern part that can not expect snow again until October or so

Well said offshore We should freely post our concerns and problems. What we now need to hear and read is JOEs side of the story. BTW how soon can we expect JOE to be back online? g.

IS MADE FROM A made from $20 American Double Eagle gold coin Model: 62022-951201 Corum Coin Watch. Large size, automatic movement, made from $20 American Double Eagle gold coin, brown strap. Please contact us for availability or to place an order. List Price: $12,000.00

These watches use the DCF77 Transmitter (or soemthing similar) and are suitable for use throught most of Europe. The transmitter covers a radius of approximately 1500km, serving the UK and Central Europe.

RWG is up again it just wont quit......yet Long live RWG, RWGjr and TRC Gunnar

Congratulatioms.. Is this the leader of the team?

"...when mechanical watches staggered back from the brink of quartz-induced oblivion in the 1980s, it was only because men realised they didn’t need watches to tell the time any more. "

First I found this: The chain-and-fusee winding system Chain and fusee From "Diderot et d'Alembert", 1751 -1772, Horlogerie, page CC. Then I stumbeled onto the correct path: In memoriam to Günter Blümlein: The Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite” The Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite” by A. Lange & Söhne is the world’s first one-minute tourbillon in a wristwatch format featuring a fusée-and-chain transmission combined with a chronograph with rattrapante functions. TOURBOGRAPH “Pour le Mérite” Platinum watch (41.2 mm diameter x 14.3 mm height) equipped with a Lange manufacture Calibre L903.0 movement, manually wound, hand assembled and decorated, plates and bridges of untreated German silver, precision-adjusted in 5 positions. 465 parts plus more than 600 chain parts, shock-proof glucydur-alloy screw balance, Nivarox 1 hairspring, 21,600 semi-oscillations per hour, 36-hour power reserve, sapphire crystal front and back, silver dial. Functions: hours, minutes, power reserve, one-minute tourbillon with fusée-and-chain transmission, chronograph with rattrapante function. Chrono push-button at 2 o’clock, reset button at 4 o’clock, rattrapante push-button at 10 o’clock, crown for winding and setting time. The Lange L903.0 mechanical movement through the sapphire crystal caseback. Introducing this new masterpiece of mechanical watchmaking recently at a special event in Glashütte, Germany, Fabian Krone, the brand’s CEO, explained how Günter Blümlein, the late lamented and much admired co-founder and Managing Director of Lange Uhren GmbH, launched the project for this timepiece some ten years ago. Given the limited capacity at that time of the newly created company, Blümlein sketched out his initial ideas for the timepiece and worked in co-operation with Renaud & Papi, the mechanical movement specialists from Le Locle, for its development. Fabian Krone, along with the entire Lange & Söhne team at the event, posthumously dedicated the result, the Tourbograph “Pour le Mérite”, to Günter Blümlein who passed away in 2001. The tourbillon carriage comprising 84 parts and weighing less than half a gram. Fusée and chain optimizes the rate accuracy of the Tourbograph. The fusée-and-chain The most complex and exclusive wristwatch ever made by A. Lange & Söhne, the Tourbograph is a combination of extraordinary complications, one of which is the intricate fusée-and-chain mechanism which takes into account a circumstance subject to the laws of physics: the mainspring of a mechanical watch does not deliver the same torque when fully wound as when nearly unwound. The power in the final phase of unwinding weakens and can cause rate inaccuracies. Hence the mainspring barrel and the fusée in the Tourbograph are interconnected with a delicate chain consisting of 600 parts. Whilst the watch is wound using the crown, the chain is wound up on the tapered fusée and the spring in the barrel becomes taut. The spring’s power is delivered to the movement via the fusée with constant torque. The mechanism relies on the lever and fulcrum principle discovered by Archimedes … when the mainspring is fully wound and exerts its full force, the chain pulls at the smaller circumference – or lever – of the fusée and when the mainspring’s power declines, it pulls at the larger circumference of the fusée. This ingenious mechanism improves the rate accuracy of the watch across the entire power reserve range. A planetary gear train comprising 38 parts, with a diameter of 10 millimetres, found inside the fusée, keeps the movement running even while the mainspring is being wound. WOW!

RWG has always come back up again in the past....maybe it will again...maybe santa and good old rwg will be back in july?

I guess we will have to wait for Joe to give his version of all of this and how he will repair the damage g.

Perrelet it is Now I think it is your turn to ask some more difficult questions cornerstone

How embarrassing that must have been lads I bet you would have been more entusiastic at present

Cute

New task!!! "Before X invented this movement, watches were wound using little keys, which invariably went missing According to the Geneva-Society-of-Arts in 1776, "Master X, watchmaker, has made a watch that winds itself in the wearer's pocket as he walks; 15 minutes' walk suffices to make the watch run for 8 days . Owing to a slopwork, continuation of the walking motion cannot damage the watch." Who is the man we are looking for and is there are brand carrying his name still active today?

OK! it just sounded like an insult...sorry

Sometimes life just does not make any sense at all......like in that picture "girl with a doll" in black and grey

WOW those Tissots sure are solid