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There it is! Thanks! And now I'VE GOT A FEVER TOO!! Found on another online feed.... MORE COWBELL, the original !

Just because we ain't done it yet... More Cowbell!

The gen case has some pretty unique curves, and that one Slay showed sure looks familiar. But he's also the master of copying an exact shape from a photo into steel. We'll wait, moderately patiently, for a reply. But until then look at these:

Close... I see Athaya crown, MQ dial, TC hands, Clark crystal, Yuki insert, Athaya pearl. Gen movement and overlay, gen case, gen bezel. How'd I do???

True dat! Don't be facing west when you gas it, you'll speed up the rotation of the Earth! Of course I don't have the same fear with my old Land Rover.........

Beautiful!!! Although... I didn't know they made them in diesel?

As long as it doesn't make you cranky and bitter, good solid hard WORK is good for the soul. Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But, he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn’t," but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that; At least no one ever has done it"; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he’d begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot be done," and you’ll do it. -E. A. Guest

Wowie, what a looker!!!

It's ambition to do better that gets us anywhere in life. It puts shoes on our kids and it helps our neighbor. It's worth it. Me? I have my 40 hours in before Weds dinner every week. 60 hour weeks are normal. I bet I'm nowhere near the minority here either. Where is your gaze focused? How far ahead? Get used to looking further out and see what that does to your day-to-day habits.

Absolutely beautiful. And that's far and away the best Bakelite insert I've seen. I know what you mean about the color of the gilt. All my gilt dials have the same warm gold color showing through except my 1675. It's very much "whiter" almost like 10k gold next to 24k.

I have to admit the Nastymariner gets in our ocean regularly with the glacial silt and all. But even as ugly as it is, I'm using the MBW red Sub more and more for that stuff. It's no fun when your dive watches can't get wet anymore.

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I put this fat fonts insert in my Frosty Flake just because it matches the dial so well... I take it swimming and biking and climbing, and now I have to rethink that. As valuable as the insert alone is getting, the watch will wind up losing its "beater" status!

It's a beautiful piece old friend, hard to imagine you're letting it go! Some lucky buyer will have a real conversation piece with this one.

Yeah and I'm not happy about it! Wanna buy a "vintage Rolex bezel insert" cheap?

I can top that, I saw a "vintage Rolex bezel insert" that was just an aftermarket bleached and mildly ruined. Price? $22,500

Docthor, I feel your pain. I owned that Black Lung for many years and comparing photos and histories, I believe it was the best and most original and complete example in the world. Unbeknownst to many, there are 4 members here on good old RWG that also own Doxa Black Lungs. We seem to have the world market cornered. And then someone with incredibly deep pockets approached and made me a RIDICULOUS offer I could not refuse for the Black Lung. In his mind it was comparable to prices for vintage Rolex, and in the end I couldn't disagree. I was lucky enough to have a dear friend that was on the SeaLab and SeaLab II projects. He was there for "Man in the Sea" and he was there in the North Seas diving to the oil field manifolds. He worked with Cousteau, and was at the bottom of the Seven Seas with a trusty Rolex Sea Dweller, and to maximum depth in chambers (over 2000 feet) with it dozens of times. He used it until he had to lick the crystal to read the time, and he worked with Doxa testing their designs in the SeaLab environment before they went to market. They gave him a "special" Sub300 as thanks... and I believe that exact watch is the one I wound up with through a bizarre twist of fate. His name was Larry and he lived in Chicago for a time. During one of his many moves he accidentally threw away a box with some valuables in it... one was that gift from Doxa. So long story short, the guy I bought my Black Lung from said it came from a guy that found it in a box in a dumpster. In Chicago. R.I.P. old friend, we're still wearing your watches and talking about you.

Magnificent.

*cough* perhaps you meant "Yanny"?! I've owned untold billions of Doxas, Squale and Jennys. The pinnacle of that search was an ultra rare Doxa Black Lung. I was able to track down 15 examples worldwide, and that pretty much agreed with the inventory of samples handed out by Vargas in surf shops worldwide. There's a whole lot of obscure, often conflicting, history with the Jenny family and their pursuits.

MORE PICTURES!!!!!!!! Wow, that just reeks of cool. A Jenny Caribbean takes it to a whole 'nother level. Dig that plexi insert, the diamond bezel marker, the hands, the loooooooooooooooong lugs... does it have the Dorkfish on the back? I think the only other watch that might still find its way into my box would be a Caribbean (orange of course) or the Blancpain/Scubapro Fifty Fathoms 1000m in orange.

Holy crap. Are you kidding me?!!!

Welcome aboard! greetings from your cross polar neighbor.

A history of the matter: http://www.heritage.org/defense/report/victory-tripoli-lessons-the-war-terrorism