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Spotted this morning on Fleabay, the elusive and rare vintage Rolex 8211 ... it's a 6536 plus a 1675! http://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-ROLEX-JAMES-BOND-007-NO-LUGS-6536-1-OVERHAULED-RIVET-BAND-RARE-ODD-GREAT-/291082845981

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh BABY!! That's a beauty.

Yeah he's a big one alright. His mate is nearly as big and they sit out there in the dusk and talk to each other up and down the mountain. Hoot hoot! They were tough on the snowshoe hare population this winter... we had a huge warmup around January and it got down to bare ground on the mountain, then it got nasty cold again but stayed bare. The snowshoe hares were pure white, running around on the dark ground like little "free buffet" signs. We had a lot of well fed eagles and owls!

I'll go ahead and set it manually, the Boss will have to push his magic buttons to make it "stick".

I sold mine on an RWG fundraiser here for $60 shipped.

It was a glorious ride, yogi is out leaving tracks on the trails so I wore this today. And this... Heading home

Heading out on my snauxbike now, I'll try to get a good back country shot.

Take a really close look at the piece in your hand, the crown with the protruding male thread. Is there any chance those are actually two pieces screwed together? Can the cap come off that threaded piece? If so then maybe the resulting solo crown will screw onto your case.

Ding ding ding ding!! Whoopy steps up to the plate, eyes the pitcher, scuffs the bag. The sun is at his back as he stares down the mound, crowding the plate. The windup... the pitch... CRAAAAACK!!!! And Whoopy knocks it outta the park! The crowd goes wild!

A Rolex is already camouflage for many people, they can hide behind it and blend into environments they don't often enter.

I'm planning something similar. I talked to my long-time modder about it and his reply... "Seconds is easy, you only need to remove 0.05mm, the minutes hand is not too bad at 0.10, it's the 0.20 from the hours hand that is challenging, especially if there isn't much meat available. But, I can machine the hour wheel hand seat to gain room there." So it can be done.

I was out on this trail yesterday and it still has lots of snow on it. Bears are out now too! Whoop whoop!

Haaaaaa!!! What was the beat rate on that bad boy?

*clutching throat* gag ... cough cough cough ... klunk <---falls on floor

Yes, aren't those particular vintage red triangles in the $4k to $5k range now? Dang. That atmosphere is way too thin for me.

Ohhhhhh really! What's this? Some new über build on the horizon?

Droptop, think of this as an engine build. You want an intake tuned to the exhaust, valves tuned to the intake, cams to manage those valves and pipes tuned to the exhaust pulses. One piece affects all the others. It's the same with a watch build, the pieces are all interrelated. This was a great kickoff for you. Nicely done!

I bet the starter motor on your Vette has more horsepower than the engine in my ride. Love me some big block 4-barrels!

That's my "enhanced aging" effect. So what do you think, did I achieve the "gently used gen" look?

Sorry, that made me think of this.........

If I had banned him at the first sniff of scamming, he couldn't have come back and given us all his (empty) reassurances that all work would be completed and returned. A ban shuts off all communication, and that's what we needed most from him.

Hmmmmm, Mayer might be interested. I can add a disclaimer that the dial is of uncertain parentage...

You might be able to find a crystal with thicker "chimney" walls, that would fix it.