Archetypal

Rye, you are one 'tough mudder' to take that on, I've had mates say it changed something inside of them forever. Watch wise something light, shock and weatherproof with some neat features as well as endless stopwatches is a place to start. Im on a Gshock that has built in altimeter, compass and thermometer. This covers my long distance cycling (with pedometer for distance-iPhone for maps) and snowboarding, even sea and beach sports, when I don't want to wear anything shiny. Multi device training is a pain though, and this fails on covering GPS distance, pace, elevation and heart rate - in one device, which is what you want if your serious. Heart rate monitor is the best way to really progress your training by keeping you on your personal edge. An investment though. https://www.bodytronics.com/p/garmin_heart_rate_monitors/GAR910XTHR Hope this helps. And more importantly good luck in the training! Its sure to be rewarding.

Have you tried the shanghainese mooncake that is filled with pork and served warm? Delicious! Regular moon cake is mama huhu (so so in English!). Horse horse tiger tiger - right legend?

Nice collection there, thanks for sharing! Particularly like the attention to time keeping

116400GV wears neat, small and comfortable after a PAMathon stint. I never lost my love for her, she's a classic and gets better with age (Apart from that mineral xtal )

Lovely, especially the strap combo.

Its the national holiday for the whole of next week. Things may slow down the week before and the week after...

Yes - But technically it starts this coming Sunday for a week. Its the National holiday, the second longest to Chinese New Year. But often people take the week either side off too, so it is possible things will be slow for the next 2.5 weeks.

Firstly welcome to the community! The best way to start building a collection and understanding the rep game is to start buying some watches! The ones you like! Wear them well, enjoy them and over time you will develop an eye with an individual taste and end up wanting only the best out of a selection of key models. At that stage you will understand those grail watches in detail, as you would of read your fair share of research rep and gen, thus being able to see the gen detail and find methods of achieving your idea of perfection from rep's whilst leveraging the community and all the dealers, modders etc etc. Its an expensive hobby and mistakes will always be made, thats part of the learning curve for each and everyone one of us! This forum is one of the best watch information engines in the world, documenting over a million posts and countless hours of hard work, commitment and passion by the community - you have to your spend time, as we all have done, do and will. To get you started on your research a 30 second search pulled a few links covering aspects of this subject...they may not be your type of thing, but you get the point. http://www.rwg.cc/topic/149037-best-dssd-rep/ Enjoy the journey, its frustrating at times, but once the box starts to come together its a great feeling. Arch.

PAM 390 on Nato - Super comfy with interesting wrist presence.

I can't add more than the guys but my thoughts are with you and the family Kev. Be strong, and don't disappear completely.

I agree Legend, TeeJay you must not forget - I think you should have the words legendkiller and Archetypal tattooed on your butt, next to the soup.

I reckon we could all learn Chinese if we were 3 again! :drinks: :drinks: :drinks:

Spot on Legend. As we we know China is a vast country with 5000 years of tradition, tradition that is arguably lost on most of the young Chinese (you cant blame them) let alone the Laowi's (Old outsider's / foreigners). After two years living here, I am more confused than when I first stepped off the plane. With around 292 traditional spoken dialects its no wonder the Chinese had to simplify and create what is known as the modern Mandarin (Including Pinyin which spells the characters using the alphabet, making the spoken mandarin possible to learn by other nations) and Simplified Han Chinese as around 2000 written characters (Traditional characters in total is a massive number, around 100,000). This process of language refinement unified China helping make them the power house they have become, whilst making themselves globally accessible. Smart really.

The traditional character has several meanings, and they initially came with a story, something along the lines of: "Catch the heart of a bear or the bladder of a leopard and you will show bravery and courage" But thought it too long winded. Not many native under 30's Chinese can read traditional han - its an ancient art form left for the scholars these days, and captures very out of date beliefs, stories and traditions.

After engaging my Chinese team on this and distracting them for 15 minutes, they came up (after much debate) with the following translations.

At this point let me ask a different question about factory rep ND subs, generally. Is this latest noob 114060 offering better than Josh's 5512/13, or Trevor's 14060? Im speaking purely from the watch you can wear without worrying about big obvious over sized crowns or super wokky rehauts, perspective. Sure, none of these models I mention are perfect - but the non loupe viewed engineering is pretty good on this 114060, is it not?

Getting creative on the I-phone with my PAM 390 DLC...

Im pretty sure that the perfect clones and trusty version is not the noob as pictured in this thread. The crown and deep and wokky rehaut give it away. This is the noob latest version.. http://www.torobravos.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=39_115&product_id=648 The dial font looks different on the trusty/perfect clones version, perhaps more accurate. It'd be good for someone with the trusty/perfect version to chime in with some photos for comparison...

Beautiful work.

Yep that looks great.

The case is a touch short, the hour hand is wrong, the ceramic engraving is too shallow, and not bold enough. The SEL's are 0.5mm to narrow, the dial fonts are a little off too. Crown guards off and crown not perfect. Anything else... Still, I have one (Noob) and its a beauty on the wrist! Especially at the price...plus as watchaddict says in reality these hiccups appear minor. Credit to Watch addict for his use of his photo in the comparison...

Shanghai - China...

I should probably add I that I'm cheating by living near Toro...that's what I meant by dangerous. : )

True story - Called after lunch, Noob Fiddy on my wrist before dinner. 5 hours. Dangerous isn't it.