Nanuq

That's what it takes to knock a polar bear unconscious?! Who knew!

Thanks gents! She bears the same birth month and year as me, so today she gets some exercize. The sun is back! Wahoooooooo!!!

Out for a walk in the alpenglow.

That thing is pristine! Give it a few years at Casa Nanuq and it will acquire a little *cough* patina The world's worst endlinks, most rounded off tophat, and half-missing cyclops?Crown guards? We don't need no steenking crown guards.Okay that's not sweat, it's our silty ocean residue. Honest. Mostly.

I wanted the "superdome" look for my Tudor Snowflake, whose case is reasonably identical to the 1680. The T19 I had wasn't domed enough... it was the service replacement dome. I had a fist full of gen Superdome T39s so I test fit it to my case. Like the man says, the bezel is much thinner than a SD so the crystal stuck up halfway to the moon. Out came a 2x4 and some glued-on sandpaper, and I went to work. After 1/2 hour of trial and error and skinned knuckles, I had cut the side walls down maybe 2mm and it looks great. I'd like to cut it down another 1/3mm if I could but that's about all I can go before the dome of the crystal begins to sit on the rehaut and give a weird "lens" effect. Now it sits slightly higher above the insert than my 1665, and I'm happy as a clam at high tide. Just back from 10 days diving in Hawaii, the dome is beat to hell from bashing it on the coral, and it never leaked a drop. T19 service dome T39 Superdome cut down T39 Superdome from the front, pre-coralizing

You know, with the thin bezel that would make a killer starting point for a 5514 ...........

Beauty! Nicely done.

Wow, how useful will this be for me!! I'll put on my set of Geordi-Eyes and wander off into the woods, and all I'll see is a little hourglass icon endlessly spinning since there's no cell service. But then.... just as I hear a branch snap in the woods, I'll regain a snippet of cell coverage and a Wiki article will pop up with: The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. Adult bears generally weigh between 300 and 780 kilograms (660 and 1,700 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family[2] and as the largest land-based predator. Adult male bears are particularly aggressive and are avoided by adolescent and subadult males. Female bears with cubs rival adult males in aggression, and are more intolerant of other bears than single females. Young adolescent males tend to be least aggressive, and have been observed in nonagonistic interactions with each other. Dominance between bears is asserted by making a frontal orientation, showing off canines, muzzle twisting and neck stretching to which a subordinate will respond with a lateral orientation, by turning away and dropping the head and by sitting or lying down. Recommendation: bend over, place head between knees. Kiss ass goodbye.

Gahhhh! Don't do it! A 7016 case is far more valuable than that.

I read that a glowing cigarette lets you heat the dial very precisely to get juuuuust the right look.

Welcome back big guy! Got Frostbite?

What he said. A commercial diver has limited "bottom time", meaning he can only work for fixed periods when tethered to the surface. Because decompression takes longer the deeper/longer you're down, a commercial diver would find his whole day taken up by going to the bottom, a little work, and a long decomp period going back to the surface. The answer is chambers where divers can stay on the bottom for extended periods working shifts, and resting in the dry chamber. When the job is over the chamber is raised pressurized, and the divers spend a looooooong time in there outgassing as the pressure is bled off. All this time in the dry high pressure heliox environment gives the gasses lots of time to seep into your watch. Then as you decompress the pressure outside your watch drops but the pressure inside stays high. If you don't have an escape valve, eventually the pressure difference gets so high it literally blows the crystal off the front. The only people you'll see that "need" this feature are special gas divers that use chambers for extended bottom time ... like COMEX. Or like my buddy Larry.

Roger that... turning toes toward home now, where the ever-delectable Ms. Nanuq awaits.

Well said, Ken. And I promise I'll quit trying to trade off your left nut for the latest/greatest builds that come along. ....................even if it IS a low-mileage item!

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This says it all.

What else to honor the day, but my über rare CrazySaleMan DRTRLXXLWWW?

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Nothing involving bloodletting is required! Step One: the tap test - tap your ring on the crystal. Is it glass or plastic? If not plastic, then proceed to... Step Two: put a drop of water on the crystal. Does it ball up or smear out? Balls = sapphire (just ask Ken, he has pure carborundum balls) Step Three: if it's plastic, put on your polarized shades and take it outside. In sunlight most gen acrylic/plexi crystals will produce a rainbowed Moire' pattern when viewed through polarized lenses. Easy Peasy, and no crystals were harmed during this process.

Here ya go gents, this is what I remembered seeing: Ye Olde Alum Trick

Well, "warm" is a relative term... I'll say warm-"er". To the Land of Dudley she goes, taking up new residence among our hockey loving neighbors, eh?

Boy is that generous! 702 crowns are hard to find. There are some amazing folks here at RWG!

Here's the last wrist check for this one, she's on a plane flying out tonight.