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Wow Lani, that is gorgeous! I didn't know you had your eye on one of these beauties. Verrrrry nice. A word of advice, the endlinks for thin/vintage cases won't work for the 300T, as it's a much thicker case. I have about 20 pairs of endlinks for the thin SUB 300NT or possibly 600T reissue. But I doubt they'll work for a 300T. I tried 100 different combinations of techniques and paints before I found what I like for the vintage Doxa bezels. I use Testors competition series paints from a hobby shop, they're lacquer based. I use gloss black and competition orange. The trick is to do TWO coats of paint in the bezel to get the rich saturated colors. Clean it throughly, I used alcohol on mine. Make sure it's completely dry before beginning. Use a toothpick and paint in the orange numerals on the bezel, and expect it to be sloppy. It will spread out over the engraving onto the metal next to it. Wait for it to dry. This is the hard part. Seriously. You can even use a hair dryer to speed up the paint drying process, but it still won't be dry enough to really stick to the numerals. Wait. Be patient. Overnight is good. Next morning, find a tongue depressor or a cheap/thin chopstick with a square edge. Use that to push the extra paint off the bezel, leaving the paint down in the grooves. It sounds very tricky but it's remarkably simple. You'll mess up a couple of numbers... don't sweat it. Remember you're going to do this twice so go ahead and repaint the mistakes. Wait some more, and next time push the excess paint off with your chopstick (or a sharp thumbnail) from the opposite direction. See how easy that was? Now do the inner bezel markings, and here you want to try and keep the black paint from bleeding out to the little track that connects the depth numerals to the ring separating the inner track from the outer track. You'll see what I mean when you get going. In this case you want to push the excess black paint out of that "ring" with a perpendicular motion (to the ring). Patience, it can be done. Give it two coats and the final result will be awesome.

Doxa and Certina. It's a match made in heaven.

I remember the first time I was 48... Congratulations, mate!

Done. Good call Gents.

Holy smokes! Good Lord that thing is GORGEOUS!!!

Hmmmm, saturated saltwater solution and direct sunlight?

It's global warming, I'm tellin' ya. Snow? Yeah I've heard of that stuff...

His name was P4, but his friends called him Liberty.

How about this prize?

WOW!! What a beauty!! Dang we've got one nice Doxa community going here at RWG. Nicely played, gents!

It's good to ask questions like this. The rule of thumb should always be, "Buy the seller, not the watch." Thanks for helping him out, guys!

Uh oh, Pizz....... what have you done???

Naw, good on the TROOPS.

Here is an opportunity from Xerox, again this year they have made it possible to select a greeting card, add your personal thank you note, and they will print and deliver it to a random troop. It only takes a moment, so Let's Say Thanks.

Wow that thing's a beauty! I'd give Ken's left nut for that bezel.

Wow, let's keep these coming, you guys have some nice stuff!

There's only one for me, 95% of the time I reach for Julbo Drus or Sherpa. They block 100% UVB and the plastic frames on the Sherpa don't frostbite your temples where they squeeze your face. Great fit, great performance and cheap enough to smash them in a backpack and not be crushed by the replacement price.

Here is a well and thoroughly "loved" Doxa, up for sale in (cough) less than "stellar" condition. It has, apparently, flooded in paint thinner, so much of the dial markings are gone. Everything else looks good, except the bracelet end links are wrong, and the bracelet has apparently gone missing in the clasp region. Other than that, she's a stunner! Of course this is not unlike bringing home a lady of the streets to meet your mum, so tread lightly and with caution. I see lots of good reasons here to buy the poor thing, rescue it from its torment, send it to Jack at IWW, get a dial refinish, perhaps toss in another generic ETA movement, get the hands repainted and relumed, and get the guts of the clasp replaced, or else just put it on a strap. Utterly lovely Doxa In either case, you'll be saving a very pretty Syncron era SeaRambler from the trash heap. If it goes for cheap enough, I say go for it!

They are, sadly, dying. There is far too much pollution and I hate what it's doing to the nature I love so much. There are fossils of tropical ferns under the permafrost on the North Slope of Alaska. Did you know that? Fossilized dinosaur tracks too. It used to be warm, as in very warm. Now it's often -70F and big SUVs can't account for the change. This is a big, mysterious blue marble we live on. Let's do everything we can to treat it like the treasure it is.

Well said, Mem-X. I'm a physicist/mathematician and anything I've ever published has been scrutizined to the nth degree, and it better stand up on its own, or I'll be labeled a fraud, legitimately. My reputation matters more to me than acceptance of any published work, and I'd think the same would be true of anyone calling themself a scientist. To follow the Scientific Method and to be able to back up your findings ought to be paramount. Otherwise you deserve to be laughed from the community. Now I'll shut up, because it's very poor form for me to be so vociferous, being on the Admin team here. We Admins are here to facilitate, not dictate. Happy Holidays everyone!

Slay, it's better to be thought a fool, than to be proved a fraud and a liar. "Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the "trick of adding in the real temps to each series ... to hide the decline [in temperature]." "In another exchange, Mr. Jones told Mr. Mann: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone" and, "We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind." Mr. Jones further urged Mr. Mann to join him in deleting e-mail exchanges about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) controversial assessment report (ARA): "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re [the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report]?" "Another professor at the Climate Research Unit, Tim Osborn, discussed in e-mails how truncating a data series can hide a cooling trend that otherwise would be seen in the results. Mr. Mann sent Mr. Osborn an e-mail saying that the results he was sending shouldn't be shown to others because the data support critics of global warming." "Repeatedly throughout the e-mails that have been made public, proponents of global-warming theories refer to data that has been hidden or destroyed." "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." "This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?" "I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor." And the capper, in context so it cannot be misconstrued........ "And there McIntyre’s efforts to uncover the mystery of the Hockey Stick might have ended, had he not had a stroke of luck, as Chris Horner explains at Planet Gore. “Years go by. McIntyre is still stymied trying to get access to the original source data so that he can replicate the Mann 1998 conclusion. In 2008 Mann publishes another paper in bolstering his tree ring claim due to all of the controversy surrounding it. A Mann co-author and source of tree ring data (Professor Keith Briffa of the Hadley UK Climate Research Unit) used one of the tree ring data series (Yamal in Russia) in a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 2008, which has a strict data archiving policy. Thanks to that policy, Steve McIntyre fought and won access to that data just last week.” When finally McIntyre plotted in a much larger and more representative range of samples than used those used by Briffa – though from exactly the same area – the results he got were startlingly different. Have a look at the graph at Climate Audit (which broke the story and has been so inundated with hits that its server was almost overwhelmed) and see for yourself. http://www.climateaudit.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/rcs_chronologies_rev2.gif The scary red line shooting upwards is the one Al Gore, Michael Mann, Keith Briffa and their climate-fear-promotion chums would like you to believe in. The black one, heading downwards, represents scientific reality." Those are facts. Not opinions. Read the articles for yourself, if you dare. TT kindly posted the links.

My pleasure, ma brotha. It couldn't have happened for a nicer guy. There is another very interesting piece on the 'Bay right now... And I've been watching a very nice vintage Beads of Rice bracelet this week, also on the 'Bay, but now it's gone??