Nanuq

Is this something like a ..... TRL?

Beautiful piece, but the radiation emblem on the dial puts me off. There are other vintage models that are more subtle and I think he'd sell a lot more. This is a perpetual empty spot in the rep world, and people have been clamoring for years for a good Fifty Fathoms, at a price lower than Phong. Heck even a rep of the current retro model with the sapphire bezel insert... THAT would be hot.

That's me, man... always stirring the pot. I'm a REBEL My current collection has one rep, the rest are gen. They are: Rolex: 6536, 1675, 1665, 1680 Doxa: Sub 300 Gigandet: Triple date chrono LeJour: Superman (twice) Sector: Diving Team 1000 (titanium, so it has a reason to live) Seiko: OM on Watchadoo Avocet: Vertech Pocketwatches: myriad Rep: MBW 1665

Okay, dluddy ... your assignment, should you choose to accept it... Find me a gilt dial for my GMT Master. I, um, gave my last one away. That 5513 is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at his eyes. Check out the statue I posted. They're the same. Warriors have seen things that others cannot even imagine. They carry horrors with them so we can be free. For that, we can never give enough thanks.

Now, now... calm down. Take deep breaths. Her Hotness has that effect on most men. However, while out windsurfing one day........ I think I spotted her...........

Speaking of.... what ever happened to the old bird? Whoops. Was that my outside voice again?! Dang, now she'll be stalking me again.

You got it, baby.

Hey man, instead of staring at your screen, how about returning one of those 4 emails I've sent you?

Magnificent! And to tell the truth... your case looks better than my gen 1680. Honest.

Well said! And if you can't donate cash, donate time. Let someone know that they matter to you.

Well said, gentlemen. From the American perspective...

"To the Alaskan veterans whose eyes have seen what the protected will never know"

Need I say it? Dare I raise the piteous cry once more??? Okay gents, all together now... BLANCPAIN FIFTY FATHOMS!! (vintage, thank you very much)

In a similar / parallel manner, neither will you catch all diseases, even though you're exposed to them! Did I just make a comparison between Panerai and disease? TIME TO BAN MYSELF AGAIN!!!

BLASPHEMY!!! Did you seriously come right out and suggest that every bleeding Panerai in the civilized Universe looks exactly like every other bleeding Panerai???? (snerk) I couldn't agree more!

Ah, TT is over to the dark side now too! Muwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa They are extremely useful, and the apps are great. Shazam bites, so get Midomi for grabbing and identifying music. TouchCalc is an amazing scientific calculator. Simplify lets you load up your friends' music without going through iTunes Of course we all NEED a binary clock..... HereIAm is pretty useful to tell your friends where you are geographically... but it formats the lat/long wrong before sending. Easy to correct. AeroWeather is good for seeing METAR and near-realtime weather Google Earth is amazing Translator for .... you guessed it! Good language pairs Flycast is super breakable but Pandora is great for listening to free streaming music all day. I also paid for a Starmap program that's pretty amazing. Cleartune is a free, and very accurate, guitar tuner Congrats Double-T!!!

Gunnar the Wiking!! It's great to see you again! I must admit I've been in a bit of a wild hare the last few days. Things have calmed down considerably and I'm almost back to kind, mild, gentle, even-mannered Nanuq of the North. Almost.

DANG that thing is gorgeous! I hope someone bids big on it so I don't have to! Whoever wins this beauty, look me up when it's over and I'll give you the hard-learned scoop on repainting the bezel. What a beauty!

No kidding! "Ooooo! Ooooo! Let's make another bloody identical watch and put some smarmy "Mil" grade on it, and sell it for lots and lots of money!!"

Lovely indeed! Not unlike your avatar, now that you mention it. Oh! Was that my outside voice! Time for more spanking I see... note: no monkeys were harmed during the post of this message.

Ah Ken, it was a serious hoot. I'm sitting here grinning like a boy on Christmas morning, one that just set the family tree on fire. @Lani, thank you my friend! This place ROCKS. Ain't no other place like it... the team of mods and admins we have here are simply the best. Present company excepted of course. Now pardon me while I go spank myself.

This will come as a shock to those of you who think of me as mild-mannered, Mister Milquetoast of the North... but I have been BANNED from the Doxa forum! What could have precipitated such a precipitous charge? Pull up a chair lads, this is good. As you all know, I've had dreams of a Doxa for about a year. This is all on the sly, you know... being as everyone thinks that I live, breathe, eat, drink, make love to, write bad checks to, and swear by Rolex. Rolex first, Rolex last, Rolex for everything else in between. Well shocking though it may be, there are other brands out there. Yes, it is true. It happens to the best of us ... Doxa caught my attention a few years ago. I resisted, I struggled, I avoided... I attended Doxa AAA meetings, all to no avail. The siren song is what got me. It did me in and I was soon shipwrecked on Doxa shores. And what lovely shores they were! Arrayed before my ever-lustful eyes were myriad rare and cheap models, most of them having that groovy orange dial. I was in love. I wrote sonnets and lost sleep. I conspired to buy buy BUY until my eyes were red and the ever-delectable Ms. Nanuq suspected me of an affair. Yes, I admit I would crawl out of bed after determining that she was, indeed, asleep... and I would tiptoe down to the server farm and logon to the Doxa SA website, and I would sit for long pleasant hours reading and clicking and fantasizing about some day... SOME DAY eventually owning a Doxa. If the gods smiled upon me. Endless hours of reading led me to certain conclusions: there are FEW models with domed crystals (cha-ching). Of these few, there are fewer yet that are "rare" to the point of "I MUST HAVE IT". I eventually settled down on a Black Lung, and the search was begun. (insert thrilling theme music here) I found, and bought, the penultimate Doxa, of which photos you have seen here. And let me tell you, she is a BEAUTY. Well, it was about the time I had spotted her, and was pursuing her, that the troubles began. In a fit of pique and glee I went to my new Doxa Home and posted about my new-found treasure, long before I had bought her. (insert dark and depressing dirge, a theme from hell) It turns out NONE SHALL DISCUSS LIVE EBAY AUCTIONS. "Off with his head" and all that. I suppose it was all written carefully down in the Terms of Engagement or whatever they call it on their site, which I gleefully skipped over. Now you guys know me and my ascerbic sense of humor. Apparently the admin/mods over there have no sense of humor that they are aware of and I received a mild correction. In horror I realized I had breached a Term of Engagement, possibly causing the Earth to fall into the Sun, or worse. So I quickly stopped posting such horrible, horrible things. But the other lads continued. And such was the die cast. With tongue firmly in cheek I posted things like "the Ebay item OF WHICH I REFUSE TO DISCUSS would indeed be a rare find, if someone did want to go that route". Things like that. Well, Wilbur... those Mods took that as a gibe and a camel's snout up the trousers, and I was quite rudely corrected and accused of things I never did! Honest! Cross my heart! I was innocent... INNOCENT!!!!!!!! Well, things calmed down again, some guys went to bat for me, and all was smoothed out. Or so I thought. The admin there apparently remains absent for long periods of time (I wonder if it's Blade?) and he came by, and smelt and saw the wreckage from my ever-so-mild ruckus. So he emailed me, condescendingly, and said I was suspended until I emailed the Mod who had publicly embarrassed me, and taken things others said and attributed them to me, and asked HIM to reinstate me. Hee hee hee heeeeeeeee you KNOW what's coming, don't you? I handed him his ass on a platter. I made him cry. I bent him over and SPANKED him. Then I withdrew his use of all my copyrighted imagery, and made him edit ALL my posts, removing every pictorial reference, or face the threat of legal action should my server logs show ANY access from his site. Amazingly, he BANNED me for that! I mean... can't the boy take a mild correction? "Mild" as in... WWII was a "mild" conflict. So here I am, a felon of the worst sort in the digital age. A lowlife scum, the worst of the worst. The Alaskan from Hell. I recommend you keep your women and children and pet puppies away from me! I may bite when cornered. There, I've bared my soul. And now I feel pretty darn good about the whole fiasco.

How does Sarah Palin, Her Hotness, say it? "You betcha!"

There ya go!! I knew there was a good purpose for it! Looking more closely at the funky red case, it's pretty neat how they do the clamshell thing with the remote pushers. But still the crystal is exposed to heat loss? THAT just doesn't make sense.