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Boys, just use a little imagination! Are you from UK, by chance? CAmeRa!

Meurglys III.

Absolutely no competition between RWG and TRC (we even share the same Admin!). There have been some occasional flames between members of RWG -- so someone of them migrated to TRC and/or WT and/or RWI. There also have been some occasional flames between two or three incarnations of a same member in different forums -- quite correctly, they migrated to lunatics' asylums. And in the old RWG I days there has been a diaspora away from Blade and some mods of Rongom and others, who gave rise to WT. As it has been said, all forums (no, I won't spell 'fora' -- do you say 'asyla', by chance?) have their special taste, and we are free to be members of them all. What better?

As far as I know, no 090 with ETA so far. Just 027 / 028.

Chris, your watch is a stunning beauty. Class and understatement at their best. It is a watch that makes one really 'feel' it -- and it's not because of your even beautiful shots. And I also have to humbly observe that all other watches in this thread are exciting too.

Ah ah! Nothing more true than that! I was just meaning about the watch, though... Just testing my PAM skills, actually...

Davidsen is helpful and collaborative, I surely can witness about it. I hope that your CG was one-of-its-kind, possibly a starting model, and that new Davidsen's CGs allow for pin removing. Best wishes again, keep us posted!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Faults I have been able to identify: 1 - Crown guard shape ('rounded' feet) 2 - 'REG. T.M.' writing on the CG -- too big. 3 - Cote de Geneve engraving on rotor -- too many lines (4.5 instead of 3) 4 - Perhaps crown even too thick. Any other? Anyway, no bidder so far...

It somewhat depends on how well cleaned the crystal is...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Diamond-Watch-Sapphire...1QQcmdZViewItem I just wonder if it really works for sapphire vs glass...

Argh. I am afraid your diagnosis is correct: if it seems as if there has never been a hole for the pin, then it has likely never been. In this case the pin is push-in only: once installed, it cannot be removed -- and the problem is not from PVD, but from this very design. I wonder whether davidsen's CG are all that way (maybe someone can step in and give their testimony?) If so, you still have a (poor) chance. If there is some clearance between the lever and the crown guard trails, you may try to insert between them and around the pin a small ring taken from a thin foil of some high-attrition matter -- sort of a rubber gasket, but thinner. See the red area in the pic for where to put it (naturally you also need to make a cut on a side of the ring in order to insert it around the pin). In this solution you don't put a rubber tube around the pin (between the pin and the lever), but a flat rubber ring between the lever and the CG. If you manage to insert it, it is usually enough to make the lever not loose anymore. But it is a very hard and tricky task to get it inserted. It depends on how much clearance you have between the lever and the CG. I hope to have been clear enough, my poor English doesn't help me in these circumstances. My best wishes.

That is odd. PVD coating is just some angstrom thick, so it should not be able to hide a pin's end, neither to affect the ability of removing it. If you inspect the backside of the CG (where you can't see the pin) VERY closely, is sort of a small circle visible where the pin should come to surface? Or is the CG surface really, completely flat? Can you post a high-resolution scan, or a macro shot, of the backside of your CG?

Yes, if you are after a 027 (the model with big central second hand and PR gauge at 6) the model with ETA 2892-2 movement is your best choice. It's only flaw is that the rotor has 'OFFICNE PANERAI' engraved rather than the correct 'OFFICINE PANERAI'. It is almost microscopic, though, and you can see it only if you open the watch and inspect the movement VERY closely. A much less expensive 027 is that from Silixprime (80 USD), with asian automatic movement. If you are after a 090 (the model with small seconds at 9 and PR gauge at 5) the best model is from watchstation (a dealer not accredited here). All other models have the small flaws that fletch512 said, in the size of the PR gauge, and / or the presence of a date change pusher, and / or a see-through caseback, and / or unconsistent serial numbers / writings on the caseback.

As you found RWG and purchased a PAM, all you have to do now is to throw away your wallet (it will ever stay empty), to begin covering your GF / wife with gifts (in order to let her forgive you on your new obsession), and to find new and entertaining excuses with your boss (because you are going to spend too much time online). So, welcome!

I tried dozens experiments on the loose lever problem. (As 'loose lever' I mean a lever that is loose when opened, while it is steady and tight when closed -- so shortening the feet of the crown guard is not a solution). So far, the best solution still stays the insulation wire tube placed around the pin. But it is quite difficult to install. A little less difficult if one makes a longitudinal cut along one side of the tube before installing. Second best solution is the silicon mentioned by jdmdohcpower. It is way easier, but a little less solid than the first solution. It is also prone to deteriorate with opening and closing the lever. I also tried this solution with substances other than silicon (liquid rubber, plastic, and so on), and silicon proved to be the best.

Yes, as for the cyclops we (Archibald, Finepics, kruzer00 and me) already verified that OP mounted different sizes on different models -- and possibly even on different releases of one same model. No wonder it could be the same for the crown. Btw: I vote for the 2mm. Btw2: thanks, Tommy!

Speedy, for my 027 project (originally a 44mm PR from TTK) I got a 44mm 111 case from exclusive_discount_uk, and at first the dial did not fit in. My watchsmith had to slightly file the dial in order to make it fit. We also had minor problems with the crown. This is to suggest you about being not so positive that a 44mm case will easily fit any movement/dial/crown/etc. originally made for another 44mm case. I think your best option is to buy a 027 from Silixprime (merely 80 USD) and to replace its asian 21J movement with your 2892-2 and all the other parts you want (e.g. the crystal, which is just mineral glass). You'll get a case, a dial, and all, not at a very higher price than for the case only. And the chance they will fit your parts could be even higher. My best wishes for your rescue.

Thanks HAL for your reply, your answers are to my full appointment. Just some comments: 1) About the differences between life and non-life you might be interested in the works of Marcello Buiatti. His better work is a full book: Marcello Buiatti: Lo Stato Vivente della Materia. Utet Libreria Srl, Torino, 2000. Too bad it is in Italian only. You may find summaries of his idea in English in: M.Buiatti, P.Bogani, C.Acquisti, G.Mersi, L.Fronzoni: The Living State of Matter : between Noise and Homeorrhetic Constraints. In: Non Extensive Entropy: Interdiciplinary Applications. M.Gell-Mann and C.Tsallis Eds., Oxford University Press, 2002. And in: BuiattiCSF.pdf Briefly, Buiatti shows that life is just a particular state of aggregation of the matter (exactly like solid, liquid, gaseous, and plasma) and that it is related to complexity. So the boundary between life and non-life is not a sharp line, but a shaded one. Nothing original, but he expresses it in a solid way. So the explaination why "scientists know the components of life very well, but they haven't found a way to animate them" is just because they are yet unable to assemble them in the proper - and complex - way. 2) Good. I already told JF my story about the matter and I won't repeat. I am glad to read that JF is serene now. Just a bit puzzling, his posting a pic of her in his signature... Anyway, pls give JF a big hug, if you just manage to find a hand effector somewhere. 3) The problem is that that is a question that even I am not able to answer. If it is true that I am lying, then I am saying the true, so I am not lying, so it is not true that I am lying. Conversely, if it is false, then I am not lying, so what I say is true, but then it is true that I am lying. As Goedel (Godel -- how the heck can I put a diaeresis?) demonstrated, every language - even mathematics - has an undecidable sentence at least. The 'I am lying' sentence (or its interrogative and even more provocative version: 'am I lying?') is just the shortest and simplest undecidable sentence in verbal languages. Obviously, I just used it in order to be sure that you could not answer it, so to focus your answers on one of those other questions of mine... Thanks, and all the best, :sss:

That error message suggests that the server is up and running, but there are no folders anymore at the addressed locations. I am afraid that RWG 1 has gone now...

PAM 050!!! Why the heck everyone always forget the 050?? No thin crown. No poor date mag. Correct numbers on the caseback. And so on...

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You mentioned French... Spanish... and not Italian?!?!?