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Ease of use......especially with iTunes. They took the term plug n play and made it mean something. It just plain works. No drivers to install, no Music Match Jukebox sillyness, or the Creative software for the Zen that my dad used to use. Once I got him an iPod Nano for Christmas, he gladly threw the Zen away. He loves iTunes now and records his LP's and 1/4" Reel To Reel tapes into his PC and imports them straight into iTunes to put on his Nano. My dad is no computer guy, and he managed to figure it out. I think that between the advertising and Apple Store support, it makes the non-computer people feel more at ease with this new fangled computer technology. Just my 0.02

@TJ - Good call

Any thoughts on the case pics or the ETA movement?

Thanks Dems! I do love that McQueen Explorer!

I love that Black Widow Daytona Robert! If you don't mind, can I ask where you got it? Thanks!

Happy Birthday R!!!! Hope you have a great birthday weekend! Cheers!

No better way to go IMHO. You are shipping a Broken Horological Part for repair. Shouldn't be any issues with Customs on that.

I'm over there....

I think that's a great idea Kronos! And yes, definitely add the Watch Repairer's Manual! It's great!

Nice Gavidoc! I love it! My 9411 is underway now! Of course I will post some pics once it returns!

I'm with you Chief. It is a superb example, but I would be terrified to wear it!

Here are some macro's of the ETA movement that came with the watch originally.

Got a nice shipment in today. The fourth edition of The Watch Repairer's Manual by Henry B. Fried. Saw this in a posting from Ziggy and just had to have it! So far it is extremely well done. Great photo blow-ups of the movements and very easy to read. Thanks Ziggy for posting those pics and turning me onto this book!

Ok, here's the pics of the end lugs. Let me know what you guys think?

Just for those who dig this stuff, here is the article about the iPhone and Princeton University

Does the iPhone connect to the internet? I had a similar issue and found a great article called "Take control of your 802.11n Network". I found it when i was having endless and bizarre problems with my wireless network. I read an article where a university IT department was starting to have all sorts of weird issues with their wireless network system in the dormitories. Turns out, the iPhone's (which were becoming more and more popular with the kids) were screwing with the network, stealing odd amounts of bandwidth. Both my girlfriend and I have iPhones and each have a laptop. Her laptop is a G wireless card, mine is an N. Also have a PS3 and an Apple TV connected. With the newer N routers, they can come configured incorrectly from the factory. There is an N + G mode, where it essentially dumbs down the N broadcast to the 2.4GHz spec. This apparently can cause weird problems. The internet worked on our iPhones, the G wireless laptop and the PS3. No go on my Apple TV and my N laptop. Only way I could get it to work 100% flawlessly was to have two separate routers (this was before they came out with dual mode, dual broadcast routers). So now I have one router that is set up to broadcast N only, and the second is connected via ethernet and is broadcasting G only. Everything works perfectly. I also found it interesting, if you are running a Mac, to check out istumbler. Its a great program to show you the signal strength you are getting for each network you see, as well as show you the channel numbers the neighbors wireless set up is broadcasting over.

Looks really good Mickey! Nice job and great looking timepiece!

McQueen Explorer II for today. Love the open 6

I'll take the bracelet off tomorrow and see what I find out. Thanks for the tips!

Yes, there are quite a few oddities with this one. The shaved (or maybe a better term is hacked up) dial isn't a WM9 v1 dial either. Its an aftermarket LV dial with thicker lume surrounds. The case back is quite odd too. I don't think that WM9 would have used those for this build. I would love to find a flat S dial for this piece. The seller said the gasket was a clarks gasket. What I find so odd is how far off the date wheel and date wheel window were on this. It was all the way to the right of the cyclops. Not even close to center. Another oddity is the "ETA" 2836-2 movement is 26mm in diameter. There are some very strange things going on with this one.

Nice! I hope its better than the Concept 24 that just came out

Thanks for the comments Raijor! I am really pleased with the results! I will post some wrist shots tomorrow.

I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. The only issue would be finding the correct font stamp/stencil to use. P.S. I like your Dalek Avatar

Maybe old, but really, really cool! Glad this popped up!