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You know it's funny but just looking at the watch in an un-bias way it's not half bad, yes I know there are many probs but I'm sure that if I came across that watch before finding this site I would have been happy. This is a general public watch, our dealers know we wont buy it but they are probably safe in the knowledge that if thats all they can get there will still be many outside these forums that will lap them up. Ken

This is indeed an excellent thread, thank you Omi I don't know about pinning but certainly once replies have finished it should be placed in our Knowledge Base forum. Ken

Very nice collection Puggy, all quality watches *cough* wear them well... Ken

Hmm I have lots of friends .........want to take me on Ken

Did you guy's think of asking Birdman? I'm not saying he has them, but that's where I would start my search. Ken

Just to add I will be in on this Kevin, but first I need to decide what I want. Ken

Whereas Sapphire is the superior crystal it's more about what is right for the watch, you don't put sapphire on a watch that only came with Mineral as you would then be adding a flaw to that watch. Ken

Never been to TRC Any particular reason? Ken

Well ..umm.. Ken

The very first winner of the Melbourne Cup Ken

Damn right I do bucko And the lettering on the Beauty Palour door will read correctly ie; from inside it is reversed however in the first reflection it is correct, in the second it is reversed again and in the final reflection it reads correctly. Ken

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Nothing new to add other than to report it is still happening Ken

I used to fiddle in the markets but lost heart when I play big on GKG (I think that was the abbreviation ) I was given a tip so I passed up on what I wanted and bet the lot on a blue ribbon stock. It immediately dropped 10 cents, not much for a stock that was around 8 or 9 dollars, but it did mean that I was holding a deficit. For a full year after that it went up a couple of cents, down a couple of cents, until almost on the one year anniversary it rose to a whole 2 cents more than I paid. I sold and after dealer fees was still a bit behind but the thing that hurt the most was the stocks that I had my eye on previously all did rather well and would have given me a nice return in the same period. But nothing can match my Father's missed opportunity, my Father has played the markets for most of his adult life and he has done very well out of it too retiring at the age of 55 to spend the last 24 years traveling around the country with Mum, parked themselves at the Witsundays for 7 or 8 years but I digress. My Father was an executive with the ANL (Australian National Lines) and through his work had a lot of contact with many characters from within the Ship Painters and Dockers, for my International friends just think of your powerful warfies Union (much the same) so anyway these guys have their fingers in very many pies if Dad did right by them there would always be that little whisper *Jack o Lantern race 6 Flemington* which was always a fixed race. Anyway it came to pass that one day in late 1969 the whisper in his ear was buy Poseidon 'But Big!', now as I have already stated my Father was quite good at playing the market and by his analyse Poseidon was over priced at $1.20 and history would prove him right, however short term shows that there was money to be made and lots of it. Being the wise fellow he is my Father declined to buy in to what he saw as a nickel (pun intended) and dime stock and promptly watched that stock rise to $10, the next time he was down at the docks a guy said 'what's wrong Bergie, you should be as happy as a lark', then Dad had to admit he didn't buy in, the instant response was theres still lots of time buy in now, but of course you now had this stock that was not worth the initial $1.20 over priced at $10 so Dad shied at doing so again, he was prompted again at $50 and one last nudge at around $100, if memory serves me well it peaked somewhere just shy of $300 a stock, talk about a missed opportunity Ken

Now how did that get through? Oohhh Thomas Ken

Aint no way I'm gunna sleep in a coffin............................not even a safe one Ken

I opened up one of my watches and inside was a Asian 21 jewel movement..........should I be concerned Ken

Are you kidding me!! Given the same problem I probably have gone the 1+2 and 2+3 and 3+4 route Ken

Actually I like this suggestion but I wonder if it should be pinned here or in our knowledge base forum, I am going to discuss this in Admin and.....................I'll be back. Ken

I think Puggy's answer would be the norm, the members want watches to look as good as gen they really don't care if someone points out that they are wearing a cheap strap (maybe because it wont happen) as long as it looks good on the watch to them. And don't forget Reg you have stated that you were trained to nit pick leather goods as we have been trained to nit pick watches. Ken

Well rwg.cc wins hands down................and that's an unbiased opinion Ken

Ahh..............Well.........Umm..........nah fagetaboutit Ken

Well you could give him a good seeing to with that cockstrap of yours Ken

Shouldn't that be Partridges? Puggy he insults us Ken

Ok Puggy the Quizz Master said you won so you must be right Ken