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Bingo! And nobody knows why Rolex did that................... No "dot" on this one!

What is it about this dial that's most unusual???

Not to worry, I'm an Equal Opportunity dome aficionado!

Yowza, those are the oft-rumored but rarely seen Super Duper Domes!

Well said, R. How about an observation re: my 1680 that you just did? There was no oil AT ALL in several critical places, after an obvious dunk-and-run servicing by "the other guys".

Mmmmmmm, P.E.T.A. People Eating Tasty Animals.

My Doxa Black Lung (ETA 2472) consistently runs +2sec / day.

I think you guys will like this one... already embiggened for your viewing pleasure.

Okay, call me the Voice of Dissent here, but those are some awfully puny wolves. They look more like coyotes to me. THIS is a wolf.

Great posts guys... now I have a slightly different question, same topic: What about removing a tube that has threads on the inside? My Doxa screws down watertight but the outer surface of the tube is smooth, with wear marks from an o-ring working against it. I can't think of how to unscrew it without messing up the inner threads? Ideas?

How much is our community worth? Priceless. Oh, and we have some nice watches too.

Results are pouring in, the first five men into McGrath are 4 bikers and Pete. Most racers will stop at McGrath (350 miles) but Pete plans to finish in Nome. Watch the results here Looks like Pete is the smart one here, taking an opportunity to rehydrate before skiing on!

Proof that not all Alaskan women look like a nuulaqmi washed up on a desolate shore... Chilkoot Charlie's Annual Fur Bikini Competition

I think a quote of the Crispin's Day speech is appropriate here, but you've all heard it 100 times by now. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Gratulerer med dagen, RWG!!

Do a search for descriptions of a bezel assembly for a seadweller or 5513 or 1680. Eunomians and Ubiquitous have done nice pictorials that show the correct pieces. Basically there's a retaining ring, a dished spring and the bezel. The dished spring provides the upward friction so you need to press down on the bezel to turn it. You shouldn't hear any click at all with your Tudor's bezel. It's built just like a Rolex 5513 bezel.

That should be a friction fit bezel, without a click. Perfectly normal. A click was added as a safety feature a few years later, to newer models. Same with Rolex too.

From an article this morning... "At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the entire banking system. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt instruments, the easy money policy of Alan Greenspan's Fed, irresponsible bankers pushing (and then unloading in packaged loan instruments) highly dubious mortgages, greedy house-flippers, deceitful homebuyers. "The list is long. But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not (emphasis added) include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place. "And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis. "What's going on? 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,' said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. 'This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.'" "Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime." 'Nuff said.

The gauntlet is tossed! Seriously, that was a heck of a score with your T-Graph Pro. So when do we post up photos of what we've been up to? I guess after your TGPro arrives ... assuming of course that it's REAL and not just a cardboard cutout?!

I don't know if you recall but last summer during a 24-hour race here, a girl RAN INTO a brown bear on her bike. He tore her up very badly, and Pete was the first one on the scene, reaching her about 1:30AM. He pulled Petra back onto the trail, and then carefully carried her into a stand of cottonwood trees for a little protection; he had no idea if the bear was still around. He held her in his lap and comforted her as he called 911 dispatchers. I've heard the tape and he was sensitive and compassionate, very likely saving her life while soaking in her blood and remaining calm for her sake, while wondering where the bear was. Yeah, he's that kind of guy. Go get 'em Pete.

Heck, I just use two frozen hockey pucks, one with a big hole drilled through the middle, and a big C-clamp. The results look great to me.

The competitors hit the trail for the Ultrasport 350 this weekend. Trail conditions are terrible, with tracking reports showing leaders averaging 0.7 mph -- 2 miles in 2 hours 50 minutes. As they approached Rainy Pass conditions deteriorated, and there are reports of TEN FEET of fresh snow on the trail. My buddy Pete holds the record for fastest biker in the Ultrasport and the Iditarod. This year he's trying it on XC skis, attempting to hold the record in both disciplines. He's also not stopping in McGrath, so he intends to be the first XC skier ever to make it to Nome. That's 1,100 miles on XC skis, pulling a pulk, in snow up to ten feet deep. The man is the kindest gent you'd ever meet, and an absolute animal at the same time. In last year's Iditarod he broke the pedals off his bike, had to wait for a plane to bring him new pedals while the rest of the group got ahead of him, caught the flu, fixed his bike and caught the group while barfing his guts out, broke ANOTHER pedal off, waited for another small plane to bring him another pedal, caught and passed the group again, and won the race to Nome. That included 150 miles of waist deep snow. Here's the start out at Knik Lake, and a shot of Pete:

Is that a ....... TRL?

Boy I wouldn't toss around the Swede part too much, given all the Norsks that live here. Seriously, welcome! did you say.... VINTAGE DIVE WATCHES???!!!!