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And does that pic reveal the blue/red color swap adjacent to the "8" in 18, as expected? Looks like it to me!

The rest of the world isn't now in debt $137,000 per household due to grossly out of control crony spending, either. How can we expect our children to owe that kind of money, when it went to this generation? Talk about getting a lousy deal! My kids together are $274,000 in debt with nothing to show for it. Our biggest problem is not our government, it's the character of a population that sees nothing wrong with demanding a lifestyle at someone else's expense. The government is simply responding to those demands.

Count yourself lucky I deleted all Euler's glorious equations I had originally attached!

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all movements are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the watchmaker's table. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of timekeeping freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their dials but by the beat rates of their movements. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to trade watches with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every Timex shall be exalted, every A. Lange and Sohn shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of Hans Wildorf shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling Rolex bands of our nation into a beautiful symphony of Solid End Links. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be W.I.S. one day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My Rolex, 'tis of thee, sweet watch of royalty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every watchmaker's side, let movements ring." And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let movements ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let movements ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let movements ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let movements ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let movements ring from the curvaceous slopes of California! But not only that; let movements ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let movements ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let movements ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let movements ring. And when this happens, when we allow all our blessed movements to ring, when we let them ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Timed at last! Timed at last! Thank God Almighty, my movement is timed at last!"

There's more than one way to skin a cat. Why do you think the back comes off?

If the whack didn't do it, then there must a be a stuck loop in the hairspring. Freddy's right that the polar moment of inertia is reduced, but it's not intuitive how it's reduced. When one or more loops of hairspring are stuck, it reduces the effective length of the spring, which means it is more resistant to rotational torques applied by the main spring, along with having a higher natural oscillation frequency. The balance wheel won't swing out as far, and will then oscillate much faster. (for more see: Leonhard Euler's Theoria motus corporum solidorum seu rigidorum: Ex primis nostrae cognitionis principiis stabilita et ad omnes motus, qui in huiusmodi corpora cadere possunt, accommodata starting on page 122) Quick solution: pop off the back and give it a big shot of WD-40.

Did you know it is possible to disassemble a Rolex crown and rotate its head on the plunger / clutch assembly? Then if one were to carefully measure their many varying stem penetrations into various movements, ...and if one had a large assortment of crown gaskets of microscopically varying thicknesses, ...and if one were to methodically and carefully polish microscopic amounts of length from the ends of crown tubes, ...and if one were to methodically measure and insert tiny amounts of graphite into crowns before screwing them onto stems, ...it would theoretically (*cough*) be possible to make it so every crown on every watch in a collection, when screwed down, would have its coronet oriented precisely vertically. Just sayin......

Tractor? No it's a Land Rover. Though there's not THAT much difference between them.....

I think the weekend is coming even sooner than anticipated! Okay, more seriously... my 6536 started doing that in the late 1980s after I whanged it against something pretty hard. It was running like a steam engine with a stuck throttle. I stopped in to see my buddy the Rolex watchmaker and he said it was something about a curb pin and the hairspring looped over it. He said he could take it apart and fix it and reseal it for $200, or (looking around to make sure nobody was listening) I could just thwack it, dial down, into my open palm. THWACK!! Right back to normal operation.

Hey, welcome back! Don't be such a stranger, buddy.

What, and get myself banned from that forum too?

Here's the Montrail Couloirs on a backpacking trip to Spencer glacier.

I swear by Montrail boots. For more casual use I use Montrail Couloir and they're superb. They're very warm, waterproof, lined with glove leather and apparently indestructible. For technical use it's the Montrail Verglas. They're insanely warm, lighter than the Couloir, and very rigid with a carved beech wooden footbed. You can't go wrong with either, and they're both step-in crampon compatible. If that matters to you.

Mmmmmmm yes. Very tasty indeed.

Precisely, and exactly. There is nonspecific reason to believe it originated from a person unnamed.

*Sigh* It has come to the attention of the Admin/Mods team that we've got another repeat troublemaker. We identified suspicious behaviour, and it was confirmed by extraneous sources. Member "Gotohavearolexnow" was banned a few weeks ago for blatantly disregarding the specific and unambiguous directions of a Moderator. His behavior here was noted as behind the scenes dealing, he was told to knock it off, and he responded rudely. So I banned him. Well he apparently is incapable of graciously accepting disciplinary measures, and registered again under a new username "VintageRep". Then he posted in the thread in which GTHARN was banned, whining about making an observation that perhaps "they" should have instead received 2-week suspensions instead of permanent bans. Come on, man. Do we LOOK that stupid? Seriously? So member "VintageRep" is banned too. Maybe he'll get the point this time. Somehow I doubt it. I strongly suggest anyone having any behind-the-scenes business dealings with him retract your payments or offers immediately. And watch out. He WILL be back.

I'll stick my neck out and boldly tell you.... RUN! and RUN FAR! Of course my source of comparison is a lowly 1675 GMT from a bygone era but there are specifics that tell me your photo is a fake. At least as compared to my lowly and threadbare (gen) insert. Most egregious is that in your photo the "22" is covered up. How.................................. convenient. The font kerning for the 12, 14 and 16 are too widely spaced The looks like the dreaded "2 overhang" is there I dunno. If it's a rep then it's a good one. Better photos would help .... which is another tell-tale sign of a masquerading rep part.

Roger that. Then there's the HE valve. A long decomp had the valve popping ever so often, and a tiny bit of lint got in there. Next dive, it failed.

I received this many years ago from a fine gentleman here. It's worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpT_8dDu4Hg&feature=share&list=UUAAAZLOT6zRB9WEo_LEp1aA

You're exactly right. Problem is, if it floods, some parts are hard to get, others are impossible to get. My 1665 has been to 2,000' in chambers many times, and has spent weeks decompressing. It got its seals replaced and greased every year like clockwork. Then it failed at 80 feet. The watchmaker rescued it and saved all the original parts, but that was a 1/1000 chance. Those odds are too high for me now. Now the MBW 1665 does the swimming and the gen stays dry. And I hate that it's like that.

Roger that, LK. They breathe honor.

My AD watchmaker has a buddy that used to buy up broken Tudors for $50 each, because the reversing wheels on the 390 movements were dead. He's got a drawer full of Big Crowns, you name it. My palms got sweaty. I tried to calmly tell him that yeah, I'd take one off his hands, busted and all.... I guess I could manually wind it..... He passed along the offer and the other guy went into vapor lock. Drat!

Ohhhhhh baby! Exclamation Point dial!

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Ummmmm I think that one's a 1968 Correction: it's a 5.4m serial so it dates to 1978