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TeeJay

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  2. QC standards - what should be expect?

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    As I said in anoter topic earlier, I have always been happy to view the stock photo and get what I am sent :pardon: If there has ever been an issue, I discussed it with the dealer in question and resolved it. While QC pics are nice, I don't think they should ever be expected of a dealer. Afterall, when ordering anything else off the net, shoes, a jacket, a DVD player, etc, requests for a photo of the exact item to be received would be ignored by the company :bangin: As long as the dealer is prepared to resolve any issues which might occur, I don't see any real need for QC pics :pardon:

  4. Unlucky and disappointed

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    Sorry to hear of your experiences... As to your question, are they checked, that really does vary from dealer to dealer. If you're seeing QC pics, you would hope that the watch has been checked for issues like you've reported. Many dealers, on the other hand, are just pure drop-shippers and never actually see the watch you are sent. Personally, I feel that folks are getting mollycoddled these days with QC pics, and while it is a nice service for a dealer to provide, I don't see why some folks expect them. For me, a stock pic on the website has always been enough for me :pardon: (assuming you do get sent the right thing... Only ever been sent an incorrect watch once in several years of collecting) If you send the dealer an email, I'm sure you'll be able to come to a reasonable conclusion. You may well have to pay return shipping, but in compensation, they may then offer you a discount on future purchasses :) Best of

    luck :good::drinks:

  8. Pan-Am

    in The Rolex Area

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    Who broadcasts this show? I've never heard of it, showtime, HBO?

    It sounds interesting :)

    My dad flew in WWII and Korea, flew for GM in the early 60's and after many years retired from UA as a Flight Instructor.

    He wasn't a "watch guy" at all. He wore simple Bulova watches, changing models maybe every decade. He never really understood my fascination with them. :)

    I knew the Rolex Pan Am story but hadn't heard of this show. I'll check it out.

    Not sure about other countries, but in the UK it's on BBC2. If you go online to BBC iPlayer, you'll be able to watch the episodes to date :)

  9. Pan-Am

    in The Rolex Area

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    The last time I saw my friend who is a pilot, he was wearing a Breitling of some description (possibly a SeaWolf, but I'm no expert with that brand) Also, as an aside, when I went to Japan and wore the GMT, with the bezel and 4th hand tracking the UK time, I actually found myself unable to adapt to local time, and slept terribly throughout the vacation :bangin: Admitedly, we were only there about 5 days, so it could simply be that I wasn't there long enough for my bodyclock to reset to local time, or it might have been the awareness of what the time 'really was' back home which did it... :pardon:

  12. Pan-Am

    in The Rolex Area

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    During that time (early 60s), Pan Am & trans-Atlantic flight were pretty synonymous & I think most boys wanted to be a Pan Am pilot at 1 time or another. Toss in the inimitable Rolex name along with the GMT's cool factor & you have a pretty powerful boy magnet. But my interest in Pan Am comes, in part, from my ownership of it

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    1 of the more blatant examples of the tv show's inaccuracy is its use of 20- or early-30-something actors for pilots (most airline pilots at that time were chosen from the ranks of WWII pilots, which, by the 1960s, put them in their mid-40s+).

    That's certainly reason enough to love the company :good::drinks: I have a friend who is a pilot for BA, and has been since his late twenties, but I definitely understand where you're coming from that at that time, pilots would have been older :)

    I too have been watching the show. It is painful at times to watch-- I have 3 family members that are pilots, and have a chatted with them about everything the show gets wrong, but I digress. I continue to watch it as one of those brain candy shows.

    I am surprised no one has mentioned the fact they are wearing modern 16710 SEL GMT Masters. It was very clear in the pilot episode, there was a great side shot of the case. (No lug holes, sapphire crystal). Honestly, I can not shame them for it. They obviously did enough research to know they should be wearing GMT Master / Pepsi's, and bought what was readily available.

    The biggest complaint on the nets, and that I also have is the "Captain". Way too young to be a captain. They have attempted to address it as a "who you know" jump the line thing. I was hoping the last episode actually got him fired. Personally, I think the cockpit crew should have been cast a little bit more "Mad Men" style. Imagine a "Roger" as Captain, "Don" as FO, and "Pete" as Engineer. A WWII era captain, and Korean War FO. Much more accurate.

    I wonder which dealer they went to for their watches :lol: Definitely sounds like a 'turn on/tune out' show, but I certainly found it pleasant viewing :)

  14. Pan-Am

    in The Rolex Area

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    I saw a bit of last week's episode, which included the Rolex Sub that looked like it has a sapphire xtal.

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    Even though soooo much is inaccurate - I love the show! Catch it every week and we watch it on On Demand when nothing else is on.

    And I posted an annacronysm to IMDb about the watch already ;) Only watch nerds would catch something like this.

    I have to admit, I don't know enough about the time period to spot the historical inaccuracies, but found it believable for the period, and certainly very watchable :)

    Inaccurate is putting it lightly.

    I don't think I ever asked what sparked your passion for the Pan-Am company :)

  17. Life in Alaska - part BRRRRRR

    in General Discussion

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    I like the Davis Vantage Pro. It updates the display much more frequently than the other brands so you can catch the big gusts. And it keeps graphical history for each sensor so you can look at trends. Up in the mountains we get wild weather and I can watch the barometric pressure coming in waves by watching the history. It's wireless too, so I put the sensors outside and set the receiver indoors, then on a separate channel I rebroadcast my signal so my mini station in the bedroom upstairs gets the same display. The only shortcoming is the wind cups flying off at high speed in the cold, but most locations don't have to worry about that.

    TeeJay, the International Date Line runs between the islands, called locally Ignaluk and Imaqliq, for Little and Big Diomede. They're also known as Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Island, because the one in Russia is 20 hours ahead but it's only 2 1/2 miles away. Yes, your life would be brief in that water. It's slushy down to about 20 degrees from the wave action, then a good cold snap freezes it solid. We swim in 40 degree water in summer and we're okay for 20 or 30 minutes. But that stuff will take you out.

    Ahh, that's a bit further than it looks in the photo, but I have done distances like that before (in a heated pool :lol: ) Very interesting about the two islands though :good:

  18. Life in Alaska - part BRRRRRR

    in General Discussion

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    TeeJay, actually, the natives have relatives across the water, so when the ocean freezes up they run across there on snowmachines. Their genetic histories go waaaaaaaaay back together.

    JMB, did you say -54F? Pffffffffft. T-shirt weather. My job prior to this one was on the north slope, in the corrosion control group. We had to read all the sensors every week and plot failure rates. -54F was like a summer breeze, a walk in the park with your sweetie. We'd often slip off our boots at -54F to enjoy the soft snow between our toes. ;-) One week it hit -72F ambient and the wind kicked up to 45mph. The wind chill was off the bottom of the charts, but we estimated it at -165 to -170F. That was a touch chilly. :tu:

    Freddy, it's not really cold out, but the wind is brutal. We use arctic entries so the house stays pressurized in the wind, and the windows don't blow in. There are companies here that specialize in coating the inside of house windows so when they break the shards stay together like a car window in a crash. Up at the mountain house I have windows 10 feet tall across the downwind side of the house, and it's still scary as heck watching them flex as the wind sucks the cedar shakes off the house. On the downwind side. I got my favorite wife a really cool birdhouse for outdoors, it's 2 feet square, built like a victorian mansion, with peaks and gables, and weighs like 40 lbs. I mounted it to a post outside, on the ground, and I went to check on it (can't see it from the house with the swirling snow). This morning it's......... gone. Just completely gone without a trace. Not even any shrapnel out there.

    Nice thing though, this weather will get the crabby old bears into their dens so the woods are MINE again! Gimme my skis!

    Joking aside, what is the distance at that point? I expect being in that water would mean death in minutes, but the distance itself certainly doesn't look a challenge :) It's fascinating how Humanity has spread and migrated across the globe :) With regards your window issue, had you considered a clear safety film which would hold the entire pane together should it break?I've seem it used in hotels here in the UK, and figure it wouldn't be too costly :) I know what you mean about wind too, kind of... Although it's nothing like what you have in Alaska, where I live now, the wind comes straight off the North Sea, not having hit land since the North Pole, so a day that would be T-Shirt material anywhere else, still needs jackets because of the wind :D

  22. Teachers caught on tape.

    in General Discussion

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    Im with you on that one bro :thumbs:

    The other thing that really pisses me off Is...the school board said the girl was lying..that the teachers were good people.

    All I can say Is.....video cameras and tape recordings dont lie...not In this case anyway.

    Im happy to see the father and daughter bringing this to the publics attention.

    Shame on those teachers.. and those school board members for trying to sweep this under the rug. I feel that all of them should be held accountable.

    It was the're job to protect this child....Instead they tried to protect those pieces of human waste....shame on those bastards.

    Mike

    To be honest, having to leave a job like teaching, they'd be lucky to wind up with a McJob, many companies wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot barge pole... I guess there may be some nudie booths looking for new jizz-moppers, but that really is about the best they could hope for... :thumbdown:

    There was a series on UK TV recently called Educating Essex, which was focussing on kids with some serious 'behavioural difficulties', and one pupil made an accusation against the teacher, that when they checked the CCTV proved unfounded, so there will always be the two sides of the story, but given that this was a special needs school, those yahoos should never have been employed to begin with...

    I have a very big Fijian friend who says he would like to do things to Christie from the rear entrance... as far as Kelly goes I think 5 beers and some Vaseline is the answer.

    Vaseline is for those we love :lol:

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