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No love for the SHT buckle?

Sure, my friend. Consciousness is relevant for a very small percentage of our whole being. Between 1 and 5%, I would say. You can't be serious, mil_sub. Just take a good dose of LSD and look at what you become able to see.

C'mon, Rob, tell us the truth... that watch is a gen, isn't it? Either that, or you are going to get kidnapped by Officine Panerai while on your trip to Europe. They would not miss your skill. Btw, have a wonderful journey!

Rob will do a fantastic work, no doubt. I had mine completely re-PVDed by Kye, but now it is at my watchsmith as I messed up the keyless work while swapping the case. Hope to be able to post pics soon -- but my watchsmith takes ages.

The most relevant constraint is the movement thickness, cannon pinion excluded. The 2893-2 is very thin, 3.81mm thick. The 6497 is 4.50mm thick. I doubt that DSN uses true molnija movement, most likely he uses its china replica i.e. the CH190X movement, that is about 6mm thick. In the end, the case for the 6497 should be a better fit for your 2893-2. Still, you are left with a 0.69mm difference, that might make your stem misaligned.

Clip loupe on fake eyeglasses. Buy a $3 plastic eyeglasses and squeeze out the lenses. But no mag needed to remove and reinstall hands.

So, is this a Finepics thread? In this case I cannot avoid reposting a pic of my Mark's relumed and datewheeled 028:

Sold for a gen?!? Shame on you!

... that could happen in the first few seconds of their "death", or in the minutes of their reanimation. Correct question. Allucinations and dreams are not consciousness. Incorrect assumption and bad experimental design. That would only confirm our unability to know at what extent the brain was functioning. Brain is a complex system made of many parts, modules and circuits. Some parts go out of work in death, or come back to work during reanimation, before other parts do. Obviousy, completely incorrect. Intestinal cells are still alive, and intestinal villi are still moving, up to three days after the brain is completely dead. And also brain death is a matter of tens seconds or a few minutes, depending on the different parts. As during allucination and dream the perception of time is completely falsed, those tens seconds or minutes can be perecived as many minutes by the almost-dead or returning-from-death. The human mind and consciousness stop when all the brain parts relevant to mind and consciousness stop. Period. That is a process too, and we do not precisely know how much time it takes -- especially as we were not in knowledge of which brain parts are relevant to mind and consciousness until very recent times. All hints point to tens seconds though, or, at most, just a few minutes. Either the author is confused or he just wants to promote his book. At first he correctly says that death is a process rather than an event, then he fails to apply the same concept to the brain and mind (that are the same thing) and he talks of brain shutting down like if it was a switch. Does the author asked himself why noone who had his head crushed by a truck came back from death to tell us about his experience? I suppose he would say it is because the victims had no mouth to speak anymore... Many years ago I too dreamed that I was dead and I was floating in thin air above my body, and I was seeing my body and the whole room from the ceiling. Does it mean that I actually died at that time -- or may it be a pretty common and aspecific dream/allucination? Thanks for pointing out this arcticle, mil_sub.

So the saga continues... I have a feeling that, as DLC can be applied by Physical Vapor Deposition i.e. by PVD (reference), Officine Panerai may indifferently use either the term DLC or PVD to refer to DLC (not the opposite, though). It's just us that [incorrectly] use the term PVD as a synonym for TiN, TiAlN, or AlTiN coating applied by Physical Vapor Deposition i.e. by PVD. In reality, DLC is just a sub-type of PVD coating (especially when applied by PVD rather than by PACVD -- that, on its hand, is a special kind of PVD). That's why my initial question.

I saved the full ajoesmith's post, pics included. I have it available as a zip file. But it is 40 Mb, while the max allowed size for attachements here is 2 Mb. I can send it via email. If anyone is interested, email me (or PM me your email address if you do not yet know my email) and I'll send you it. It is saved with firefox -- unsure it will work with IE. But the pics are all there as jpg files: so, even if you cannot open it as a htm page, you can have a good look at the pics anyway.

Awesome! I especially like the olive strap combo. Do we have any clue on which PAM models were DLC and which were PVD those days? E.g., I was beginning to think that the 028 was PVD on the A series and DLC on the B series...

Interesting indeed. Thanks, fat! and your avatar has good chance to become my favourite one (...naturally after ajoesmith's... )

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Congrats, Andy! So many posts, and especially so good posts! Keep up the great job to our benefit.

At cousinsuk the DG 2813 and 4813 are even cheaper (4.95 and 11.95 GBP). And placing an order is easier. At that price(s), replacing the spring is nonsense. I suppose you already know this great tutorial by ajosmith on how to install a 4813 into a sub.

Yes... it will be a surprise... my most loved watch, in a new case and with that crystal. Doubly ;) inaccurate, but stunning! Just, it is at my watchsmith now, as I messed the keyless work with all those remove-and-reinstall... and my watchsmith takes aeons...

Thanks!

Awesome timepiece! Do you plan to put single or double AR on it?

Sorry for the long wait, I check this section just a couple of times in a week.

Thanks. I asked as I believed I was the only one willing to sacrify accuracy (single AR) to aesthetic (double AR) on PAMs. @chieftang: thanks for your aprreciation, B! So, glad that the crystal you gave me for my solvent/glue tests was worth.

If The Zigmeister is busy or resting, you can try Rex450 from RepGeek. He is US located.

Hi TJ, Sorry to hear that. I am not able to help to fix the movement, but I can give you my advice about your other question. G series movements with swan neck are worth a lot these days (if dagger swan neck, even more)! Up to 200-250 USD! Don't give it away!

Perfect. It is simply perfect.