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Zeleni, she's one cute kid! Must resemble her mom, eh?

Hambone, I'm tempted to do just that, but you guys are doing fine. We exist here as a "Band of Brothers" in my tiny little mind, and you're more than capable of watching each others' backs. You guys "get it" about RWG and episodes like this only reinforce that camaraderie. Carry on gents, you're doing fine. If he gets too obnoxious I'll have a little "chat" with him.

Here's an old story from awhile back... repeated just for fun. This happened on one of those harbor tours out of Seward, Alaska. This is what reps are for! I was with my brother Dave on one of those glacier cruises where the boat takes you right up to the face of a glacier and toots the horn so the thing calves off big chunks of ice and scares the hell out of the tourists. I was wearing a newer model Sea Dweller from Andrew, and we were all up on top of the boat, there were lots of tourists milling around in gore-tex and down parkas. I had already noticed a few times that the watch would leak and fog up, and I hate that. So I nudged Dave and whispered "watch this". I held my arm up to ostentatiously check the time, and Rolex Stainless Steel glistened and glittered in the sun like God's Own Bling. I then sucked in my breath in alarm and said "IT STOPPED! Look, this thing stopped again!" and showed it Dave. He clucked his tongue, shook his head, and said something about "as expensive as that thing was, you'd think it would work!" and I agreed loudly. A couple of heads turned toward us. So I shook my wrist a few times, and held it up to my ear. Shaking my head in disgust, I took it off and waved my hand around wildly to "wind it" and got lots more people glancing at me nervously. Then I unscrewed the crown and wound it up madly with exaggerated motions, elbows flying, and listened again. "It's STILL dead!!!" I said to Dave, and I could see him suppressing a laugh. More people looked, so I tapped it a couple times on the railing, and held it to my ear again. DING DING DINGGGG!! Dave was dying by now, trying not to laugh. When I tapped the railing the metal pipe sort of rang a little, and more people looked. I listened to the watch again and said "This bloody piece of @#!*$%" and hit it harder on the railing. Dave was biting his lip and people were starting to stare. I held it up to my ear again and said loudly "YOU MISERABLE LOUSY CHEAP ROLEX!!!" and I turned and bashed it really really hard on the railing 5 or 6 times, WHANG WHANG WHANG WHANG!!! and the pipe was ringing and people were stepping back. Everyone was staring, and I held it up to my ear for a moment, the pipe was still ringing, and I shouted "YOU LOUSY PIECE OF SWISS CRAP!!!!" and I drew my arm back, big pause for effect, and threw that watch as far as I could out into the ocean. It made a really nice high arc, glittering in the sun, and landed with a nice big splash. Dave was nearly wetting himself, tears were rolling down his cheeks, and I stormed down the steps to the lower deck as people parted and let me through, their mouths gaping in astonishment. It was glorious.

How about a photo at the summit? Write "RWG" on your butt with a sharpie and moon the camera. Epic!! Here's the webcam... when they get it fixed we'll watch. GO BIG!! http://www.evk2cnr.org/WebCams/PyramidOne/everest-webcam.html

And my kids wonder why they cannot use Wiki as a cited source in their college papers.

I can second that. I've got a few pieces that I've never trusted to ANYONE before, and Ziggy proved his mad skillz to me by going way above and beyond with them. You just won't find a better watchmaker. But good luck getting an appointment, I think he's booked out to the year 2024 or so...

Nope that's not gonna happen here. There have been a couple ugly exchanges with newbs that come on here and act like total jerks. Well deserved, says I. But for the average Joe that pops in here and wants to just be part of this great place we call RWG ... welcome! Pull up a chair, crack open a tall one, and do some reading. There's a LOT of knowledge here. Oh and don't listen to the guy about running over a watch in the driveway. Nobody here would ever do something as heinous as that!

Welcome to the board! We're never tough on newbs, that's for the other juvenile boards. We do it better here. Between 8:00 and midnight it's supposed to be jumping ahead to the next date and parts of the movement might be engaged that usually aren't. So during that time just let it click the date forward on its own, get those parts "put away" and then set the date to your heart's content.

Moose? Awwwww it's a cute widdle itsy bitsy mooselet! Wait til you see a 2,200 lb bull on the road. Hoooly smokes. Lightspeed and Synergy? That's so yesterday... now I'm on Pugsley and fat tires! Booooyaaaaa!!

Nice, nice, nice! I tried the handlebar mounted headlights for awhile but I kept smashing them when I crashed. So I use a Black Diamond Icon headlamp and wear a thick wool hat to keep the battery pack warm. It's 3w and crazy bright, you can actually see to ride fast in the dark. Plus when approaching an intersection and a stopped car, you just look at them and shine the light in their eyes to get their attention. Works great!

Just for fun, here's how that case will look with a gen 702 crown.

About that crown... JMB went through this, and tried machining off the back end of a 703 to get the narrow "702" look. Because the wall thickness on a 703 is so thin, the results were poor. But.... he tried again with a standard MBW triplock crown, and it came out really nice. There's a thread on it here somewhere.

Happy birthday big guy!

I was going to say this happened to me once in a hockey game, then I saw you're talking about watches. Mea culpa!

For the watch tinkerers among us... another shameless bump.

BUMP for a chilly Tuesday in Alaska!

The path to work? I'll go first... here's the beginning of it, it's a lot less fun once down off the mountain.

Life in Alaska ...where we keep moose on our roof.

This is an organization that my family happily supports. We have a few of these kids we sponsor around the world and it's run really well. http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/default.htm

Another one

I had a nice mtn bike ride today, the light in the birches was great!

1963 GMT with a rare 70s "radial" dial. The same watch, sporting a tropical gilt dial circa 1964 An action shot... yes it IS made for hard use

Are you saying you have a screw loose?

Excellent writeup. Thanks for taking the time to do this ... it's the reason RWG exists. We are here to share watch information and to learn. And to expose scammers, and to spread the word about the good guys. Reputations here are earned. Sounds like Tom is on the right track.

One thing I've realized over the years... if there's a watch you really want, and you instead buy the one that's "almost good enough," you'll save some money initially. But it will keep eating at you, you'll keep looking at "the one" that you really want. After 9-12 months you'll buy another that's better than the first, but still not "the one." After a couple of years, you'll finally buy "the one." By that time, the price will be higher than it was when you first started looking, and you will have already bought 2 that are "almost good enough" and the price of those 2 will add up to the one good one. Save your pennies and get "the one". It's cheaper that way.