I wanted to re-visit this thread after the hype had all died down, for two reasons.
First to thank you Ethan for your kind words, you may not realise this but just by making this post you have continued the feeling of community that makes RWG such a great board.
The second thing I wanted to get across is the reason for my gesture and that all boils down to Karma.
We have a member from the old board (I wont name him) who is very big on Karma and believes strongly in the 'what goes around comes around' princple and for this reason he has been known on occassion to send a member a monogramed pen, the idea being to put the good vibes out there and help build the community feel to the board.
So my story.........For those that don't know, around a month ago I suffered a serious back injury through work, which will need corrective surgery to fix, by all accounts this has been a major jolt to my and my families lifestyle and we are looking at around 2 years before I will be fit for work again and then it will be a very limited field of work that I will be capable of doing.
Ok so how does this affect Floris, well two major points about my injury is the very long boring days and the very sudden drop in earnings to support my family, then in rolls RWG or more directly a member Alan (offshore) who has in fact sent me a great deal of watch supplies, parts and tools to set up a small watch repair gig (all cash only, thank you very much ) He followed that up by sending me a full working Briet to fiddle with and see if I can put it all together.
So quite simply I have been branded with the good Karma from RWG and of course Alan and my wish was to continue this good feeling through to Floris.
I do however understand now that I may have gone a little overboard but I am sure Floris will still like the watch I send him.
Regards
Ken