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Wow what a great result!

That non-cyclops 1680 ... holy smokes!

:-) I was wondering who would be the first to drop their jaw on the floor. Well spotted!

The river is freezing from the bottom up, turning aquamarine blue. It's COLD out there!

It's all fun and games until you lose body parts to frostbite Going out again today, we got a nice snow dump overnight so it's time for the phatbike.

From last night's Snauxbike ride on my gnarly new Nokian studs

The best thing for straight cuts is an Eskimo ulu. Perfect cuts every time.

After my Snauxbike ride tonight, trying out my gnarly new Nokian studs.

Nice idea! #4 is gonna throw someone for a loop....

I'm thankful for this great place we call home, and the great members that make it so. Happy Thanksgiving RWG

I saw this and wanted to share it. These kids signing the song lyrics make it 100x better. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/H3KSKS3TTbc

I can verify the MQ 7206 is a piece of stainless crap.

My old Land-Rover is so slow, I spend a significant percentage of my life in it trying to get places. So if a picture happens, it logically follows............ Hmmmmmmm, I just looked through my archives and almost every wristie I have was taken on a mountain. I guess we take photos where we spend most of our time?

Pffffffffffft, bunch of pampered poseurs. The greatest watch of all time is this one.... it was lost an entire winter in the wilds of Alaska, it was eaten and pooped out by a brown bear, and it went to the Sun and back. Twice. Watches are about how they work, not how they look.

Sorry for the lousy quality but here's a shot of my first DWs. One is part of the first shipment of 5 he sent to North America, the other is from a year later. They ought to give you a taste of an early look.

And there it is, the words I've been trying to conjure up. That's a perfect way to put it. I admire vintage Rolex but as parts get scarcer I wear them less and less. And I wonder, what would it have been like to go diving with an old Submariner? When they were new, nobody thought anything of it. Now, nobody in their right mind would do it. What was it like? So I embarked on the Big Gonzo project with the intent of using it as a contemporary dive watch, straight off the shelf and straight to the ocean, circa 1958. Strap it on and use it like a tool. Now I can tell you firsthand what it was like. There's a certain carefree laissez-faire feeling to being able to run into the ocean with your "contemporary 1958 dive watch" and not even think about it. Just like an original buyer would have 56 years ago. Then you're out swimming, take a deep breath and head for the bottom, glance at the watch, and marvel at how readable the dial is. Try rotating the bezel with salty wet fingers and see why the knurling on the coin edge is so shallow. Then roll your wrist a little and see how the refractions of the domed crystal work underwater. It all fits together and you see the thinking behind the design. Look down at your incredibly valuable vintage watch (if it was real) under 10 feet of water, and think "Yeah, so this is what it was like".

Please PM me the name of this guy too, so I can keep it simmering in the back of my mind.

All the watches I built prior to 5 years ago were for the fun of the project, like overhauling a carburetor. I wore them awhile and in the end, gave them away. It was a lot of fun. The last two I built used high end cases and almost exclusively gen parts. I made them because I'll never be able to afford a good example of the gens. It was surprisingly a lot less fun. If the time comes for them to leave the stable, I'll give them away too. I refuse to go through the tire kicking of semi-interested buyers haggling to split the baby. The pieces deserve that.

"All good things come to those that wait."

Well said. And now page back to the early years of RWG and the guides written by people that used to be here, explaining the state of the art as it was at the time. Guess why those guides were written?

Ahhhhhh, it did. The journey is worth reading about: http://www.tp178.com/jd/uber-comp/artikel_4_2.html

Paul Gerber built that rascal by hand, over 10 years... I bet he could do it with his eyes (almost) closed.