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gasebah

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  1. If you are ready to cough up the money for a gen strap, they are available here: https://watchparts24.de/Original-IWC-leather-bracelet-genuine-alligator-IWC-Big-Da-Vinci-and-other-models

    If you have a deployment clasp (I guess so) I would highly recommend a gen strap as they are the only ones I have seen so far that have the correct length. The IWC clasp is made in a way that the short part of the strap has to be a lot shorter than normal, other wise the clasp will end up in an impossible location on your wrist.

  2. 31 minutes ago, Mike on a bike said:

    Yes a bit of that also and they sure we're an independent lot who in time had desendants who were law abiding but again with that independent tendency.       

     

    I guess that is one way to look at it, but globalization takes from the haves and gives to the have nots. Being in the haves I would be a fool to support it. With China nipping at our heels both in economic and military power in our best interest to strengthen ourselves. Keep in mind we are the world's policeman without our armed forces the EU would have to spend a lot more on defence, in your interest for us to remain strong. Oh by the way who took down that wall for you France , Germany, nope we did, you have what you have by our good graces. So allow us to be invested in our American exceptualism it makes us rather boorish at times but we mean well and rarely if ever leave a friend in need wether in blood or treasure we answer the call.

    Yeah well you could argue that the demise of the Soviet Empire took the wall down, or an open minded thinker like Gorbatschow, or ideas that could not be held off any longer. But I do not want to diminish the US role in it and we are grateful. I can also live with and understand the US exceptualism as you call it. But I think your remarks about Brexit are shortsighted and made without taking into account what the European idea really is. And I am sick and tired of simplistic nationalists in Europe that endanger the values and ideas that took decades to develop. And that is it. After all this is watch forum and not a political discord. I like it here and if I continue I will likely say things I might later regret.  

  3. Europe is currently bound to the North by populism and to the South by refugees that are drowning in the sea to the East by Putin’s tank, to the West by the Trump Wall. Europe was threatened in the past by war, in the future by Brexit. Today Europe is alone more than ever and it is extremely cold outside.  Europe is necessary more than ever but its citizens do not know it. Europe is by far the best solution but you cannot explain it to people that don’t understand history and that it is reversible. Globalization teaches us that today Europe is inevitable, there is no alternative. But Brexit also tells us that you can walk backwards in history. Brexit was a terrible and selfish decision. Europe is not a market, it is the will to live together. Leaving Europe is not leaving a market, it is leaving shared dreams. We can have a common market, but if we do not have common dreams, we have nothing. Europe is the peace that came after the disaster of war. Europe is the pardon between French and Germans. Europe is the return to freedom of Greece, Spain and Portugal. Europe is the fall of the Berlin Wall. Europe is the end of communism. Europe is the welfare state, Europe is democracy, Europe is fundamental rights. To walk away from all this to have "freedom" is terribly shortsighted and ignoring history.

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  4. 7 hours ago, Mike on a bike said:

    Hopefully get the EU iron boot off of your countries as well, you folks do not elect the EU officials who control policy not good.

    Yeah let's have single national states instead with little nationalist leaders who shout Hungary first, or Austria first, or Poland first. We had this and trust me we don't need it.

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  5. Yeah, I know that post but I was hoping that there is an alternative. I'd rather not have the bezel touched as I figure 0.5 mm is enough to let the bezel numbers get too far to the crystal then. I am afraid it won't look good. Apart from the fact that these gen crystals have wandered in ridiculous price ranges.

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