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A mtn bike and Ruger Redhawk strapped on. "An armed society is a polite society". Hey it works here, but we also can legally carry concealed w/o a permit. Prepare to have it bruise the heck out of your hip!

O/S ... I read about the history of the 1665 and when/why they added the o-ring beneath the crystal retaining ring. It was precisely because of what you found. Over time, corrosion and crud would accumulate between the case and ring, and eventually lead to pitting or a leak. On my vintages whenever I have the crystal retaining ring off, just before I mount the crystal again I smear a very thin layer of vaseline at the outside surface of the very bottom of the crystal. Then as I press the ring back on it scrapes that layer and pushes it down, forming a grease seal between the ring and case, and between the crystal and case. Plus it helps the ring seat better. Great writeup!

Welcome back Klink!

Thanks for asking, it reveals again why we exist here... to prevent people getting scammed. We do that by spreading information. Slick said it best, "Buy the dealer, then buy the watch."

He's on to us! Scatter, boys!!!

You couldn't be more right, Red... and all these people keep getting their cars buried in the snow in my front yard! I think I'll make a guardrail... from some lumber Ten Billion Times Stronger Than Neutron Star Crust.

"If I can just ... remove my shoelace (grunt) I can tie a klemheist ..."

These guys might even be more loony than Alaskans!

Here's another...

What, do you mean the garlands and wreaths by the front door? Other than that, it looks just like decorating day at Chez Nanuq!

Gaaaahhhh! You guys are killing me! I broke my wrist and the skin went hypersensitive for the last month so I haven't been able to wear a watch. I'm suffering, I tell ya! Maybe until then I can wear my CrazySaleMan "MirGrass Special" V1.0?

Besides a couple gens, this year I bought a new box for my watches to sit in.

In the context of the CRU, would that be a "peer review"?

I think someone else already beat you to the search... Okay, okay, that was bad.

Ohhhhhhhh yes! Very nice. I really like the stains at 11:00 and 2:00. If those aren't original and vintage stains from a life well lived, you did a masterful job of applying them. I had a gen with stains like that but crazy as it sounds, the only place on the dial that wasn't stained was directly beneath where the hours hand had sat while the damage occurred.

Are there *any* threads left at all? Is it the bracelet (female) that's stripped or the screw (male) end? A couple of things come to mind. You can try some Loctite in there, it can fill damaged threads a *little* and might hold it together. Or you can put a drop of superglue in there and assemble it... sometimes that stuff works great. Or not. If you're really at wit's end, sometimes it works to crush the threaded end of the screw just a little, making sure not to booger up the threads too much. That turns a circular threaded shaft into an oval threaded shaft with a larger primary axis/diameter ... and sometimes that's just enough to grab and then a drop of Loctite will complete it. Good luck!

Nice job, T! But I think the search engine is still broken, no matter how I try it still can't answer "Where's Waldo?"

Oh wow, that's GREAT! You know, you can buy RED paint where they sell the Testor's competition colors... I used their comp orange lacquer on mine and a drop of red would darken it down just a smidgen. You could try that, but I think yours looks killer good as-is... it matches the orange hands just right. (PS: some people use crayons to fill the bezel numbers, but you didn't hear it from me)

We'll send Ken right over.

New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths December 7, 2009 | Issue 45•50 MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures. New Study Data shows that many seemingly innocent children—such as this one—are not to be trusted. According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly exploit them to obtain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone or a new toy. "The most disturbing facet of this ubiquitous childhood disorder is an utter lack of empathy," Mateo said. "These people—if you can even call them that—deliberately violate every social norm without ever pausing to consider how their selfish behavior might affect others. It's as if they have no concept of anyone but themselves." "The depths of depravity that these tiny psychopaths are capable of reaching are really quite chilling," Mateo added. According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a clinical diagnostic tool, sociopaths often display superficial charm, pathological lying, manipulative behaviors, and a grandiose sense of self-importance. After observing 700 children engaged in everyday activities, Mateo and his colleagues found that 684 exhibited these behaviors at a severe or profound level. The children studied also displayed many secondary hallmarks of antisocial personality disorder, most notably poor impulse control, an inability to plan ahead, and a proclivity for violence—often in the form of extended tantrums—when their needs were not immediately met. "Children will use any tool at their disposal to secure gratification," Mateo said. "And as soon as the desire is fulfilled, be it some material want or simply an insatiable and narcissistic desire for validation, they quickly become bored and lose interest in their victims, all the while thinking only of satisfying whatever their next hedonistic craving might be." Mateo added that even when subjects were directly confronted with the consequences of their inexplicable behavior, they had little or no capacity for expressing guilt, other than insincere utterances of "sorry" that were usually coerced. Because children are so skilled at mimicking normal human emotions and will say anything without consideration for accuracy or truth, Mateo said that people often don't realize that they've been exploited until it is too late. Though he maintained that anyone can fall victim to a child's egocentric behavior, Mateo warned that grandmothers were especially susceptible to the self- serving machinations of tiny little sociopaths. Despite the overwhelming evidence presented in the study, its findings have been met with heavy criticism from people who associate with children on a regular basis. Batavia, NY resident and 38-year-old mother Mary Corcoran echoed the sentiments of many other adults who refuse to believe they are sharing their homes with merciless predators. "Not my Jimmy. Just this morning, he told me I was the best mommy in the whole world," Corcoran said of her son, 5. "In fact, he's been such a sweet little boy this month that Santa just may bring him everything he asks for." According to renowned child psychologist Dr. Pritha Singh, author of Born Without Souls, diagnosing preadolecents as sociopaths is primarily a theoretical interest, as the disorder is considered untreatable. "We've tried behavior modification therapies, but children actually learn from our techniques and become even more adept at manipulating others while concealing their shameless misanthropy," Singh said. "Sadly, experience has taught us there is little hope for rehabilitation." "Just look at the way most adults act," Singh added. (thanks to The Onion!)

Would you like me to forward your contact info to Miss Understood?

Selling t-shirts, apparently.

Gold hands (that usually don't match in color) and a silver seconds hand. These three are all original to the watch.