Nanuq

Nooooooooooo!! I missed out on this one? Argh!

Yeah talk to Mary, she has them.

Howard Cosell

Here's a rare one

Amen brother. Would I take the Big Gonzo out diving if it was running a gen movement? Not on your life.

2 wheels for me too!

Blues at Sunrise

Dang, Legend that thing is pretty. Good Lord. That's ........ magnificent.

I'm a dyed in the wool vintage Rolex buff and I'd never consider a contemporary piece, even if it was given to me free of charge. Horrible ghastly things. Until I saw the ARF SD43. Yes, I bought one. I violated my personal ethics and it lives in Chez Nanuq. And by God, it's beautiful. I've got absolutely no complaints about it save one: it uses a very "white" shade of steel for the case, and not for the band. ARF say it's 904 alloy just like Rolex, and they may be right. But the band is something else and the "color" of the steel is different than the case. It's subtle but it's there. Other than that, it's absolutely worth the money. It's solid as a tank, substantial, and feels every bit the part of genuine Rolex. There's nothing cheap or flimsy or tinny about it. You'll come to admire the case size as a nice step up from the vintage stuff but not over large like the DSSD. Really, what have you got to lose? If you don't like it, sell it on for a $50 loss. It's worth the gamble.

It's summer, time to go topless!

I notice that black bezel is on slightly crooked. Call me a philanthropist, call me altruistic, I hereby volunteer, yes I will put myself out there and make this generous offer: Send me the Newman and I will personally reinstall the bezel so it is *perfectly* aligned. I don't mean it's close to aligned, I mean it will be so absolutely perfectly straight that NASA will be calling you for timing exercises. It will be so perfectly straight that Mormons and Southern Baptists will name their marriage seminars after this watch. CERN will call for computations relative to your 12:00 marker. It will be so incredibly aligned that 70s hippie burnouts will call to see if the Moon is still aligned in the Seventh House. Rumors persist that the UK Royal Observatory is considering redrawing the Prime Meridian across the dial of your Newman. No matter where it is. It will be that aligned. It's the least I can do. I'll PM you my mailing address.

Amen, bingo, etc. etc. etc. Let me also add: 4...In the world of scarce 1030 autowinding wheels, an ETA movement is your friend.

Black. Definitely. Always.

Yes indeed, the devil is in the details. My first Big Crown was maybe $300, then after a year I punched it up to the next level. Total outlay including the initial $300 was about $800. It was magnificent!! Well to be honest the difference at arm's length was negligible. So I waited a couple years for *cough* the right dial, and I went big. Loads of gen parts make for big numbers and in the end I have maybe five large in it. And does it look any better than the mid-grade version? Yes, but only because the education I acquired to build it taught me what to look for. Think about that for a minute.

fantastic lover

You got that right!

Did you say Christopher Walken? Well then we need this... https://vimeo.com/55619001 More Cowbell!!

That's a great result. Thanks for sharing! And we have enough people here with mad machining skillz it ought to be easy to do.

I made a tester out of a Nalgene bottle and it will go to 90psi before the lid leaks. That's about 200' depth.

Wasn't that a service offered by RedBigJoe??

But it's not just the aged Swiss nano oil, let's not forget the dropper carved from the Norwegian unicorn tusk that he uses to microscopically place each droplet.

How about planes and watches? Turbine Otter and gen 6536/1 above the Ruth glacier. That rock face is 6,000 feet high for perspective.