Sorry Legend, and tonight I'm listening to lions roar in the zoo across the street. This afternoon I went off into the deep blue sea and ran into a few big barracuda, but alas I didn't have the camera to catch the moment with the Frosty Flake as a wristie. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a Tiger shark photo. I hope!
Those are great recommendations; I think we should also put up a photo with our nomination, the photo that stopped you dead when you first saw it. The photo that made you Lose sleep. So let's see them, gents!
This is the source I use, it lists the heights and diameters as well as the pinion sizes.
http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&&2uswk&ETA_2846
Exactly... the tropical effect doesn't appear over the whole dial evenly (I was going to say it's not homogeneous and isotropic, but figured I'd get a brick thrown my way). It's more pronounced at the perimeter, date window and the central hole. Here's a gen...
Some people have started with an even brown dial and carefully added shoe polish to darken it. I tried that and the results weren't very pretty...
Maybe someone with more skill could get it to work?
Kernow, we seem to be cut from the same cloth... I have a road burning motorbike too, and I've crashed it 11 times.
Is it my sense of balance? Or am I incapable of choosing wisely when all that power is on tap?
I think it's the latter.... I tell you, it's like crack. It's totally addictive and nearly as fatal.