Demsey

I love these kinds of posts. Nice pics 'lanikai'! The 'macro' shot is an achievement in and of itself, but it sure do show up the flaws. That date window? Yuk. This is why Playboy perfected the 'soft focus' technique.

JARHEAD

When a Nederlander, Mexican, Canadian, and a Frenchman get together to celebrate a pagan Celtic holiday. You were expecting maybe...............?

First you put forth the proposition my prose flows like diarrhea, now you allude, it is constipated, for the sake of punctuation? Get a life! Link please.

Clickity clack, clickity clack. That's what it's all about. There is no clickity clack, clickity clack when you post an emoticon. Just one click. Noob.

Careful Vly, Lucifer surf's replica forums looking for fodder toward bad Karma. Shoot, I'm going straight to hell. I know that much.

Well, at least everyone stayed on topic, which was, which was uh, uh, well, at least there was no repeat of important infos from WIS. I think. I pretty much just skimmed through the responses tho', but made sure I read my own a few times for spelling, punctuation, content and composition. I'm that committed to RWG. Plus, no one played the race card. I just thought I would mention that, as it seems everyone else was reticent to bring it up. It's important. An important thing to mention. K. Unfortunately, I did receive a PM from a very old guard member who had been around these boards, as well as TZ, and VRF for about twelve years and was actually a fledgling supporter of RWCC (Replica Watch Collectors Club) that begat TRC and the rest. He included that he still reads, and collects, but no longer posts. On any watch forum. The OT here struck a chord in him and he felt compelled to send a PM with regard. I remember him and his TRC handle. It is our loss. He hadn't taken any umbrage with the membership at large, but from a feeling of ingratitude or unappreciation for his efforts. They were MANY, he sent me links, they are laborous, laborous works, mostly on genuine, that must have taken hours to compose and research. His frustration mainly came at the hands of the obstinate that would rather preach than confer or debate, and a few flat out trolls, but no acknowlegement at all is a slight in and of itself. It has to be wearing if you are that passionate. He fell away and it is as if no one cared. Twelve years. It seems in our zeal to absorb and contribute often times the real dedicated WIS' contributions are overshadowed by the 'quantity' of the static. Not so much their 'Topics' that are gold, and propers plenty, but also their lesser contributions. 'Ubiquitous' posted a topic not too long ago with regard to base 'manners' toward "Thanks". When the WIS takes the time to read a post, often times from the rote query of the novice, and replies, it would be good form to at least acknowledge it enough as to not repeat it. If WIS says "Tropic 19 is correct" on page one, suggesting "Tropic 21? Would a Tropic 21 work here?" three posts later is a type of 'slight'. If you don't have the time to read the thread because your boss or supervisor is hovering in the hallway, wait until you get home to read the thread. At night, after surfing soft porn. That's what I do. There is no member here that is so dedicated that they would not fall away if they thought it genuinely not worth the effort or if no one was listening. Not one. It happened on the old RWG when it was at it's apex. The premier watchsmith of these boards whom we've all turned to for the standard decided to pack it in. A falling out with an obstinate troll was the final straw, but it came after a long period of feeling largely taken for granted and his work seemingly as well. He returned, on his own terms, and it's good he had. The landscape here would be less, and the pursuit of the hobby that much more laborous, if not impossible in certain aspects, for the rest. OK let this thread die. I think everyone who posts hereafter just doesn't get it. Especially those long winded bandwidth stealers, that go on, and on, and on. Like Doc mentioned. They know who they are. Jesus, get a job on newspaper if you love the sound of your own typing so much. No one ever won a Pulitzer prize for journalism on a watch forum for christsakes. Get a life. Losers. I hate those guys. Those are the guys who should friggin' pack it in already. I'm here to tell ya'. Jeez.

And then hacks into 'Moderator's Controls'. This happens all the time to Bob. Apparantly.

LMAO! Usually from the 1 post noob who registered twenty minutes ago.

No doubt, I hate bombastic self imports. And the conceited. I will not abide by them. Look at me, I'm not conceited. And that is what makes me so great. Oh, and long signatures that wear out the scroll wheel on my mouse. A few watch related pictures are OK, but useless stuff like, I dunno, uh, ad hoc film quotes, yeah, ad hoc film quotes that are supposed to relate something about the members' personality. What's up with that? That's what avatars are for. They should express the members' inner most 'self' and should be enough. Oh. Crap. I need to go to the photobucket and 'My Controls'.

Sigh, look, it's real simple. Just keep it fresh, moving the thread forward with new innovation and information. We can't jeopardize our Senior members' input. Capice`?

Dude, you left out the running seconds hand! It's there, right under the .5mm driver;

You see! This really has to stop. Sigh.........

Nice! I've always wanted to do that to a Panerai.

'slickdick'? The clowns don't like it when you are funnier than they.

In that case I'd like to add; "It's not a 7750, the 7750 has 25 jewels and machined brass bridges ......I think it's a new movement from ETA, looks like a Lemania clone........you're all welcome."

Crap. Shot with my own gun. I will never live this down at the club. Archipeligo. @'Nanuq' Please PM member 'Freddy333' with regard.

A few months back the regulars were bemoaning the fact post traffic had come to a crawl. It opened up a good discussion regarding 'cycles' and 'quality over quantity' etc. etc., and now it seems the post count is gaining momentum. Which is fine, but there is a serious disease here and it 'aint N1H1. A two page thread will have so many redundancies of info, it's as if members don't bother to read an entire thread before they post. They read the OP and it's off to the 'reply button'. The enthusiasm is great, but, I dunno, it may backfire. I really don't know why some regulars bother chiming in on some topics that go four and five pages by week's end, the peanut gallery has echoed five fold what the WIS stated on page one, two replies down. That's my tough sh*t I know, because it's largely my pet peeve, but I see A LOT of WIS lurking on the bottom of the page of new topics, then not bothering to post. It's as if their expertise is, or will only be, discounted, so why should they bother at all? After a while I'm afraid they won't. No biggy, I just think it's 'funneh. For now.

Googled around a bit and found it to be touted Référence : ETA 2841-1 21j, but you can find this piece on quite a few shopping sites for ~120-130usd? Huh? http://www.chronophage.com/l_bdd_montres_fiche.php?Fiche=312

Word around it's more of the Lemania tri-compax lineage with auto-wind, but before anyone has designs of popping them into rep 6263's with DW dials, I think Ubi is onto the 'fail-safe' of the design with regard to 'replica'. The chrono pinions won't fit for correct subdial spacing, especially considering the totalisor @ 6. <edit> "6263's with DW dials", well duh, 12,9,3 layout, so latterday rep Speedmasters et al............then <post edit> However this Tissot Chronosport with similar ETA A08.231 looks a more traditional 12,9,6 layout? Hmmmmm.......... <post post edit> Here is a full frontal of the Swatch piece; It may have been the parallax view in 'geo' 's photo that made the @6 pinion look closer to the main? Could be off fractionally to the 7750? Wouldn't surprise...................

It really is a cool watch. Perfect for wearing down at the hydro-electric plant, or just relaxing at home around the dynamo with friends and family. Wear it in good health dooood!

For some reason I have been having a hard time hot linking to RWG today........... Captured from TZ, thank you 'Jorge' wherever, and whomever, you are.

Engined by 15j automatic ETA Calibre C01.211