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Bob Hocko and the Swamp Rats, baby!

Let's get an opinion from our own@neckyzips about this. There are lots of movements with those dimensions, and they get snapped up for Panerai builds. I bet someone took the genuine movement out, built a handsome watch, replaced the movement with a cheapie that fits, and is trying to sell it on. The amount of finish Rolex applies to their movements is amazing. Côtes de Geneve, perlage, beveled and polished edges... you know you've got something special when you're holding one. This movement? Not something special.

That's a very nice result. You got the shape of the crownguards right, and that's not easy in an early 1665. Well done!

This one's on the short list today...

Holy crap, there's a lot of nice pieces here! There's one piece I haven't done yet, the inimitable 6542. It's so much more compelling than my gen 1675!

@Sogeha wins the pop quiz for today! English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with precision. Today, on what would have been Harrison’s 325th birthday, Google is celebrating the legendary horologist with a special Doodle. In Harrison’s time, seafaring was dangerous. So much so that, after four ships and 1,300 sailors were lost in the Scilly Naval Disaster of 1707, the British Parliament offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who could devise a way to calculate longitude at sea. Harrison, a self-taught carpenter, took up the challenge. (my kind of man! -ed.) After 7 years of tinkering, in 1735 Harrison created the marine chronometer, a timekeeping device that was powered not by gravity, but by the motion of a ship. It was so accurate that it could be used by sailors as a portable time standard, who compared their local time to Greenwich Mean Time to calculate longitude, or east-west location on the Earth. Time has looked kindly on Harrison’s inventions: In 2015, the Guinness World Records’ association declared one of his clocks projects the most accurate swinging pendulum clock in the world. The project drew ridicule when Harrison boasted it would still be accurate within a second after 100 days of ticking; 250 years later, he was proven right. And there you have it... the basis for determining the Longitude whilst at sea.

Okay folks, no using a search engine for the answer .... what is the significance of the picture on Google's search screen today, and why do we care? Ready? Go!

Great review! Now let's see some pictures of those beauties.

@kernow and @legend I will PM you his email address.

Please try doing some searching. We have talked about him extensively for years. You can also find a ton of results on Google mq,minh quy site:rwg.cc

Sunrise on a mountain... this is the way to celebrate the day!

I always keep it less than 10, over the last 2 years it's been 7. But it recently blossomed to 15. I'm still in the honeymoon phase with several and it should drop to 10 again over the year. Do you remember a certain prominent member here many years ago that did reviews? I heard rumors his collection was over 500.

Very, very nice. Wear that one with pride!

$3,500 ???!!!!! How nice of a Big Crown can I build for that? Phong case - $1,000 MQ true gilt dial - $900 CWP hands - $50 ETA (Tudor "in house") movement - $200 Yuki 7206 bracelet - $150 Gen T17 crystal - $500 Gen 8mm crown and tube - $500 Total $3,300

You and me both brother. Last time I looked hard at this one I broke it.

Tasty on the mesh!

That dial is what does it for me. Spectacular!

sweetness! I had one of these and it drove me crazy (carzy?) because every time I went for a mtn bike ride the crystal would fog up. The real, genuine construction HEV was a surprise when I first opened it up. Wow.

50 short years

When I had him make my dial I waited 2 years for him to find a genuine plate. It's not like people are throwing away vintage Rolexes just to recover their dials for reuse.