Chronus

I agree sports - links to top sports (football) stories would get me clicking away perhaps, though I tend to look at BBC, football Guardian and soccernet. Also, for some reason XP seems to run out of resources and wont let me open may windows after a while. It used to be that I'd leave this computer on for a month at a time and now I have to reboot just so I can open more than 2 IEs after say 24 hours of the computer running I better sort this mess out, virus scan turns up nothing

By-Tor et al, how accurate is the Senna version? I like how it's different and has the green hand. Otherwise, I'd go for the grey dial Tag Link. I have blue dials (Omega, Zenith) and enough black dials (Omega, Panerai, Breitling, VC Overseas etc) but no grey dial watch yet.

HEV valve was only ever made for SeaDweller, so that is an obvious fake. Maybe they should have put "Daytona Winner" on the case back too. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

So far, for the 253, I have looked at Joshua's. The ETA 7750 version. I can't see the hobnail dial in his pictures There should be no more problem with the tachymetre tick markes now I think The crown guard and pushers should be polished but this can be a DIY thing in any case?

Both are available with ETA 7750, so maybe I'm slowly converting from 212 towards 253 seeing as I have neither, and when I get the cash to get one, it has to be one or the other

As far as I know, there is only one version in genuine titanium, and it is out of production now. The 2 versions you refer to may be the original rep, and possibly Pugwash's version which had a genuine dial installed after purchase. I think kruzer00 (or someone else) may have had an ETA 7750 put in theirs. I think the rep comes with the Asian copy "Valjoux" ETA 7750 movement at 28800bph.

For the Cartier Seatimer ? Keep me updated, as I'd like to get this watch too

THE GMT-Master was originally designed for pilots, and in that profession, setting the "home" time as GMT was useful. This is probably why the 24-hour hand is popularly known as the GMT hand. The rotating bezel of the GMT-Master (or Omega Seamaster GMT) allow another timezone to be set as well. For the international traveller, it is more useful to set the "home" time to that of where you reside, and the current time displayed by the regular hour hand. Of course, if you don't travel, you can set the GMT hand to a timezone that you may want to keep updated of. eg. You live in London but your parents live in Ontario, so the GMT hand would be 5 hours back.

It should be one hour increments, at least that's how the genuine is. I've posted about it somewhere but too tired tonight to do a search.

There seems superficial differences between the two. Which do you prefer (if you could only choose one) and why ?

I agree, I'll send mine to The Zigmeister or finepics. Anyone else do relumes?

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I like this one Now just a black datewheel... I also like the Cartier Roadster. These Cartiers have a different look and I like it.

Didn't Kruzer00 get an ETA 7750 in his IWC GST Chrono by The Zigmeister? What was done ?

doc, when are you going over?

No fair, don't keep them to yourself!

Next week and counting down!

Unless the poster has mistyped 187 as 186, but most other posts have followed that ? Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Try ofrei.com if you haven't already. I would guess $400-600 as the clasp by itself can be $200? Hey, I'm in Sweden next weekend (The reason I have no money at the moment )

If you're lucky thomasng may still have a PAM 028 Power Reserve at a cheap price. I don't think any dealer has it now as it is out of production, so snap it up if he does. He was selling it at $1-200 off the brand new price and he hasn't used it!

My pleasure, now time to finish watching "Eye of the Beholder" on TV, havent seen too much of it, so don't know what's going on.

Get a genuine Omega SMP second hand for around $1000 or so?

If it's like standard chronos (SMP, Navitimer, etc) The 9 o'clock sub-dial is running seconds (like the sweeping seconds on a standard non-chrono watch). The big "seconds" hand is the seconds counter for the chrono function. The 6 o'clock sub-dial is the hours counter for the chrono function. The 12 o'clock sub-dial is the 30 minutes counter for the chrono function. So when the chrono function is activated, the big seconds counter goes round. When it goes through 60 seconds, the 30 minutes counter increments by 1. When the 30 seconds counter has reached 30 minutes, the hours counter will increment by 0.5 (it will be between hours) so you can see that 30 minutes has gone. When the 30 minutes goes round again, the hours counter will increment to the full hour. And so on. Hope that helps! Time for me to have a (late) dinner

Lovely watches, I really like them

It's all soooooooooooooo scary!