sssurfer

Great, Admin!

Now the site will download much faster (the ads were slowing it down more than a bit -- not to talk when the ads server was down, ages).

And I won't have to further explain to my wife (who is not speaking English) how a replica forum can have sex ads targeting my specific geographic area...

Maybe a psychiatrist should have a complicated PAM, such as a texture-dialed chronograph 253?

Maybe.

But I personally prefer the 212.

Great!

To understand all, is to forgive all or as the French say, "tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner".

Unfortunately, I do not understand at all.

In that case I'll go plain and just tell you I want you, not your 111s or 112s...

(Please don't reply that they are part of you, I would reply that I want you as a whole, not parts, and in the end you would make me admit that I would even swallow those watches for you, I know )

Somewhere out there, Highflyingclive just had a sudden case of tachychardia, and ran to check his watch case.

:lol:

Not a great issue here.

I'm just playing around with a black sub that I got for a few bucks.

It is black in the dial, bezel, case, and bracelet.

The black color on the case and bracelet is just due to black paint -- nothink like PVD or black-oxide.

That black paint is polished and shine.

I would like to make it matte, so to make it more similar to this old TTK's watch (if this pic is annoying you TTK, just lmk and I'll remove it):

I tried with all sorts of chemical agents -- acids, alcales, solvents, bleach, etc -- and nothing worked.

Physical agents (brushing pens, pastes, powders and so) either just removed the paint in unneven and very bad looking fashion, or they did nothing at all.

Has anyone a clue, by chance, of what I might use to the task?

Thanks in advance,

sss

I find the Radiomir in pink gold pretty nice too but too bad no rep of this as yet.

No rep of this?

So, RWG is on the up and up?

What would you expect?

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Crazy!

I love crazy.

Just, I don't feel compelled to get acquainted with first-glance binary decoding.

Thanks for the link, still I think I'll pass on this.

Alant, nothing personal naturally, I am just deadly bored with the 111 frenzy.

To me, the 111 is the most boring PAM ever.

After the 112, obviously.

Oh, I told it at last!

Feeling better now...

You see, you see, that's just what I mean!! You write a brilliant reply (thank you), full of excellent, considered and encouraging advice, and then you have to go say that!!! Sigh.

Don't try playing those psy tricks on V, khumzi.

She's a female, we have no chance at tricking them (unless they want it, obviously).

Better going plain and just tell her what you want.

Btw, congrats on your purchase!

@Admin, Ken & Pug:

Thanks for making this clear. It goes without saying that I am complete noob on this matter.

This is very interesting (thanks, zeus)!

I wonder whether the november-december peak is due to a 'christmas-gift effect', and the june-august slightly high plateau to a 'holiday time' effect...

Oh my! First time I see it! :lol:

Whoever made it is a genius.

How about a Moon phase PAM?!

The only statement a moonphase PAM brings:

"Here is a Werewolf"

Not recommended to psychotherapists, IMO.

15 secs of charge, but 5 secs exposure time for the photo, uh?

Great work anyway, congrats!

May I ask you what ratio C1 / C3 you used?

Agree.

Still I feel that a correct date (datewheel + cyclops) would have a market.

And there are rumours that someone is currently managing to get there...

sssurfer has a sweet one.

Me?!?

Thanks!!

But... sweet??? :blink:

So am I! He's got a 127E in there.

Ooops... missed it completely.

Oh well, in this case no special preference for DSN vs TWP.

I think I'll leave the comparison pic to the benefit of anyone inquiring about what is a dagger swan neck and so...

In short, what statement do you think PAMs make in general

and these two models in particular?

"Either I have a good memory, or I don't care what day it is"

sssurfer, TWP carries the E-series movement now too. The engraving doesn't look as crisp as the dsn version, but at least it's the right series movement. It looks like a dagger-style too. I just ordered it last week so I'm just going by the pics for now.

Thanks for the heads up, slai!

I was naturally talking about the model currently displayed in the TWP gallery.

Summary: a very good rep but for the date font and as long as you don't take it off your wrist.

Details (inaccuracies graded on a 0-10 scale, 0 = giveout, 9 = almost invisible, 10 = perfect):

Crown (a little thin): 7

Date font (really too thin): 3

Minute markers (a bit shifted towards the border of the dial): 9

Font of the numbers in the subdial @ 6 (not perfect): 9

Caseback (it's from the G [2004] model i.e. the 196): 1 (but obviously 10 as long as it stays on your wrist).

What is the difference between needle swan neck and dagger?

You'd definitely recommend ordering DSNs Fiddy?

Definitely.

There used to be two avatars that hit me, but it is a long time that they disappeared, I don't even remember which members they were of (one of them swdivad, maybe).

One was a rotating tesseract. Amazing.

The other was a 3D and animated Taichi (Yin-Yang).

...Oh, and naturally an evergreen favourite of mine is ajoesmith's!

Apologies for being a little late.

DSN.

TWP's has the needle swan neck, not the dagger one.

I also become very cautious anytime I read "synthetic sapphire".

Being the sapphire of watch crytals always synthetic, that is a redundancy that might cover something different (Andrew and Josh teaching).

TWP's is also incorrect in that sort of "clous de Paris" pattern on the movement bridges.

OP introduced that pattern only on H series (2005) and onward -- while the 127 comes in E series only (2002).

In the end, I am sorry I have to qualify TWP's model as incorrect.

While DSN's is 99.5% correct.