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Shagadelic! This is what I'd do to MY Jag, if I had one.........

As a Land Rover owner I feel eminently qualified to comment: BUY IT. And then get some stock in oil companies so you're actually paying yourself as you replenish the leaky fluids. It's a win-win!

*snerk*

Demsey nails it! I knew the old celestial nav training would come through. It's a Gudermannian transform of sorts... "real" latitude as a function of "fake" latitude on a Mercator projection. Toss in a transform for Mercator loxodromes and you're home and dry. Pack lots of wool!

GONG!!!! next?

Here's what I'm working on today... who can figure out what I'm trying to accomplish? When you get it figured out please send me your results. I'll just chill and drink some coffee until then.

Absolutely right on that!! I got the total for the AMAZING job he did on my 1680 and it's cheap at twice the price.

I always believe in paying a workman for his labor, especially moreso if the guy is an artist. So if a service is $100 and it takes 4 hours to get it apart, ultrasonically cleaned, inspected, oiled, reassembled, checked on a timer for beat... that's a lousy $25/hour. An artist is worth far more than that, and I personally wouldn't want someone tearing my vintage gen down and slapping it back together in 4 hours. I have a carefully constructed mental image of Ziggy sitting in a warm wooded den, tools askance, briar pipe nearby with a snifter of good brandy, Debussy on the stereo, all dressed in tweed and slippers, J purring on the couch, and he's inspecting each minute detail of my watches with the biggest magnifying lens you've ever seen. After each successful inspection he dips the part, one at a time, into a vat of cleaning solution, and carefully hand dries it, placing it carefully on a padded velvet cushion. Of course he changes the solution between each part. See? That's how an artist does it... honest. Just ask J. And the results are well worth the going price.

McAffee 3.6.0.595 and no hits. Kaspersky v9 and no hits. Trend Enterprise and no hits. Spybot and rootkit scan, no hits.

I've found the legal services of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe give much better results!

A letter has been sent to the AD that did the bad work... now does anyone have a good contact at Rolex NYC?

Heck you can look in Colorado if it leads to success! Thanks for the efforts so far!

WOW. Good thing Ken has two left nuts eh?

...and that's if no parts need replacing. IF you can even find a replacement for a broken part, you can expect to pay an arm and Ken's left nut for it. In 1986 I said no to a gen bezel for my 6536 at $250 without insert. Now you can't touch one for $1,250.

This AD is one of the most prominent jewelers in Seattle. I think it's time for a letter to Rolex.

Ziggy... Remember how nasty my Gigandet looked when you tore it down? It was last serviced at the same AD.

Yep you've lost it. Quick send me all your watches before you come to your senses!

Of course, RG is correct... it was a Rolex AD that did the last service. Yes, you read that right. This is exactly why I send my watches to the Maestro down south. (Note, only I get to call him that! Look at a globe..........)

The king's a beggar, now the play is done: All is well ended, if this suit be won, That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day: Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts; Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts. -Wm. Shakespeare ca. 1608 <===note the year Thanks Ziggy for all your hard work.

And the outcome of all this? A buyer's market for mechanical watches! *rubbing hands together*

You got that right, Maxman... they say in the auto biz "oil is cheaper than metal."

Maybe it's rancid whale blubber? Big applause for that SPECTACULAR lume job!!!! Lordy, you do good work!

Wow, nice photos RG! What a mess. Let's hope this one polishes up just right. Got vintage/ivory lume photos? I suppose the right thing to do is to NOT tell where it was last serviced!

"Humor"??? *finger poised over BAN button*