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Yes! Then we'll go over next door to my country and stop when we reach here. Do you recognize it?

Z, do you mean this one, with the tropical gilt dial?

Yeah baby! Long summer days. And a tip of the hat, nobody EVER catches that. The bezel on this looks like a WSO piece to my untrained eye. The knurling should extend further down the sides, giving it *almost* a bit of a coin edge look.

I'm with these guys. It all looks good but those CGs make my nose itch. Mine are VERY much more squared off than that, and mine is 6 years older. But the real tell is the profile to the guards, it's a strange upswoop to the underside when viewed from the side, and your case has it perfectly.

And still 5 weeks until Sankthansaften. Wait till you see how light it is then, at midnight!

Welcome aboard! You've found THE best spot on the Web, period.

Yeah baby! And did you notice the time? 10PM and broad daylight. I love it here. Thanks!

About Barbers by Mark Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. These never change. What one experiences in a barber's shop the first time he enters one is what he always experiences in barbers' shops afterward till the end of his days. I got shaved this morning as usual. A man approached the door from Jones Street as I approached it from Main -- a thing that always happens. I hurried up, but it was of no use; he entered the door one little step ahead of me, and I followed in on his heels and saw him take the only vacant chair, the one presided over by the best barber. It always happens so. I sat down, hoping that I might fall heir to the chair belonging to the better of the remaining two barbers, for he had already begun combing his man's hair, while his comrade was not yet quite done rubbing up and oiling his customer's locks. I watched the probabilities with strong interest. When I saw that No. 2 was gaining on No. 1 my interest grew to solicitude. When No. 1 stopped a moment to make change on a bath ticket for a new-comer, and lost ground in the race, my solicitude rose to anxiety. When No. 1 caught up again, and both he and his comrade were pulling the towels away and brushing the powder from their customers' cheeks, and it was about an even thing which one would say "Next!" first, my very breath stood still with the suspense. But when at the culminating moment No. 1 stopped to pass a comb a couple of times through his customer's eyebrows, I saw that he had lost the race by a single instant, and I rose indignant and quitted the shop, to keep from falling into the hands of No. 2; for I have none of that enviable firmness that enables a man to look calmly into the eyes of a waiting barber and tell him he will wait for his fellow-barber's chair. I stayed out fifteen minutes, and then went back, hoping for better luck. Of course all the chairs were occupied now, and four men sat waiting, silent, unsociable, distraught, and looking bored, as men always do who are waiting their turn in a barber's shop. I sat down in one of the iron-armed compartments of an old sofa, and put in the time far a while reading the framed advertisements of all sorts of quack nostrums for dyeing and coloring the hair. Then I read the greasy names on the private bayrum bottles; read the names and noted the numbers on the private shaving-cups in the pigeonholes; studied the stained and damaged cheap prints on the walls, of battles, early Presidents, and voluptuous recumbent sultanas, and the tiresome and everlasting young girl putting her grandfather's spectacles on; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and the distracting parrot that few barbers' shops are without. Finally, I searched out the least dilapidated of last year's illustrated papers that littered the foul center-table, and conned their unjustifiable misrepresentations of old forgotten events. At last my turn came. A voice said "Next!" and I surrendered to -- No. 2, of course. It always happens so. I said meekly that I was in a hurry, and it affected him as strongly as if he had never heard it. He shoved up my head, and put a napkin under it. He plowed his fingers into my collar and fixed a towel there. He explored my hair with his claws and suggested that it needed trimming. I said I did not want it trimmed. He explored again and said it was pretty long for the present style -- better have a little taken off; it needed it behind especially. I said I had had it cut only a week before. He yearned over it reflectively a moment, and then asked with a disparaging manner, who cut it? I came back at him promptly with a "You did!" I had him there. Then he fell to stirring up his lather and regarding himself in the glass, stopping now and then to get close and examine his chin critically or inspect a pimple. Then he lathered one side of my face thoroughly, and was about to lather the other, when a dog-fight attracted his attention, and he ran to the window and stayed and saw it out, losing two shillings on the result in bets with the other barbers, a thing which gave me great satisfaction. He finished lathering, and then began to rub in the suds with his hand. He now began to sharpen his razor on an old suspender, and was delayed a good deal on account of a controversy about a cheap masquerade ball he had figured at the night before, in red cambric and bogus ermine, as some kind of a king. He was so gratified with being chaffed about some damsel whom he had smitten with his charms that he used every means to continue the controversy by pretending to be annoyed at the chaffings of his fellows. This matter begot more surveyings of himself in the glass, and he put down his razor and brushed his hair with elaborate care, plastering an inverted arch of it down on his forehead, accomplishing an accurate "Part" behind, and brushing the two wings forward over his ears with nice exactness. In the mean time the lather was drying on my face, and apparently eating into my vitals. Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. As long as he was on the tough sides of my face I did not suffer; but when he began to rake, and rip, and tug at my chin, the tears came. He now made a handle of my nose, to assist him shaving the corners of my upper lip, and it was by this bit of circumstantial evidence that I discovered that a part of his duties in the shop was to clean the kerosene-lamps. I had often wondered in an indolent way whether the barbers did that, or whether it was the boss. About this time I was amusing myself trying to guess where he would be most likely to cut me this time, but he got ahead of me, and sliced me on the end of the chin before I had got my mind made up. He immediately sharpened his razor -- he might have done it before. I do not like a close shave, and would not let him go over me a second time. I tried to get him to put up his razor, dreading that he would make for the side of my chin, my pet tender spot, a place which a razor cannot touch twice without making trouble; but he said he only wanted to just smooth off one little roughness, and in the same moment he slipped his razor along the forbidden ground, and the dreaded pimple-signs of a close shave rose up smarting and answered to the call. Now he soaked his towel in bay rum, and slapped it all over my face nastily; slapped it over as if a human being ever yet washed his face in that way. Then he dried it by slapping with the dry part of the towel, as if a human being ever dried his face in such a fashion; but a barber seldom rubs you like a Christian. Next he poked bay rum into the cut place with his towel, then choked the wound with powdered starch, then soaked it with bay rum again, and would have gone on soaking and powdering it forevermore, no doubt, if I had not rebelled and begged off. He powdered my whole face now, straightened me up, and began to plow my hair thoughtfully with his hands. Then he suggested a shampoo, and said my hair needed it badly, very badly. I observed that I shampooed it myself very thoroughly in the bath yesterday. I "had him" again. He next recommended some of "Smith's Hair Glorifier," and offered to sell me a bottle. I declined. He praised the new perfume, "Jones's Delight of the Toilet," and proposed to sell me some of that. I declined again. He tendered me a tooth-wash atrocity of his own invention, and when I declined offered to trade knives with me. He returned to business after the miscarriage of this last enterprise, sprinkled me all over, legs and all, greased my hair in defiance of my protest against it, rubbed and scrubbed a good deal of it out by the roots, and combed and brushed the rest, parting it behind, and plastering the eternal inverted arch of hair down on my forehead, and then, while combing my scant eyebrows and defiling them with pomade, strung out an account of the achievements of a six-ounce black-and-tan terrier of his till I heard the whistles blow for noon, and knew I was five minutes too late for the train. Then he snatched away the towel, brushed it lightly about my face, passed his comb through my eyebrows once more, and gaily sang out "Next!" This barber fell down and died of apoplexy two hours later. I am waiting over a day for my revenge -- I am going to attend his funeral.

Speaking of folded 7836s, yours got here Z and it looks great!

Well said. I'm locking it down. Arkon, you've made your point repeatedly. Now let it rest.

It's craziness, I tell you. I just sold a killer nice titanium swiss dive chrono on eBay, for $740. For the whole watch. Almost unused. I wonder if it's time for we, the ones with the money, to step back and consider what we're doing to the supply/demand curve? If we stop buying, and agree among ourselves that $500 seems more reasonable for a complete case set, and don't buy ANYTHING until the prices come down to that level, we can make it happen.

Apparently the Big Crown King gets a preferred buyer discount. I asked Phong about a caseback to take my Big Daz up a notch, and he wanted $650 for it. Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no. Think I'll pass.

@ auxair, I have a 6536/1 with the same 1030 movement. When I wear it, I set the time and give it a shake to get it running, then forget about it. It winds and runs all day. By the evening it has plenty of reserve to run all night. If I don't wear it the next day, then it probably won't still be running the 2nd day after I set it down. If you can use yours like this (without manually winding it) then I'd say you're just fine.

Here we are in early May, and already the sun is well above the horizon, even at 10PM. The Long Dark is over, now here comes the long days. Ahhhhhhh memories of this sustained us through another winter.

Hoooooooooly smokes. I'm (finally) home for the night using a real computer so I can see the pictures, and ..... wow. Just...... wow. WOW. That thing is amazing. Yeah you got a $1,000 crown there buddy. And my eyes spy 3 colors to the 4-line text. Dang that's a nice dial. I can only dream that some day I'll put together a build nice enough to carry this one's luggage!

Verrrrrrrrry nice! Did you say it needs some .... aging?? send it to Chez Nanuq and I'll set you up. Nicely built!

Did you ever try your heat process on a dial to turn it tropical?

PM sent!

The Invisible Likers have been here again, I see.............

Nice!!!

............and you can put this build over the top by making it a "date" watch with a T19 domed plexi. It's a great look! The date window appears to be the 3:00 index at first glance, then you see the date when you look for it. Snazzy.

You mentioned tropical effects... I'd take a tropical gilt 6538 if one showed up.

Zeleni, I once suffered a similar crisis. Be strong, there is hope!! http://www.rwgforum.net/index.php?/topic/57992-Crisis!--Panic!--Emergency!

In the end, your character/reputation is your most precious possession and nobody can take it from you. To lose it, you have to throw it away.

Mulholland? Hooooooly smokes. I saw him selling some very questionable parts ~3 years ago and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Check out WUS. One of the Moderators on the official Doxa forum ripped off a guy's 600T. This is getting crazy! Too much temptation I guess.