HauteHippie

Why not you, Warren? Weren't you going to be getting an awesome new camera over the holidays?

Interesting, but I honestly don't understand why he'd rather weld to the dial than use a little (easily removable) glue..... Did he offer an explanation?

MMmmmmm.... Crazy Horse!

I don't have a Fiddy, but my immediate choice if I did would be a Greg strap or three.

Good luck Moi Babes!!!

Got any pics of the new vs. old dial font? I'd also be curious as to where the new dial came from if you could find out....

Nice. Do you know from which dealer this 036 was purchased? The pics on Joshua's site show a canon pin that isn't recessed. So I'm curious.

True, the weak dollar is really kicking our butts. I'm just not sure how much more of this low unemployment and good job growth we as a nation can withstand!

I just think it must be really nice to have such a strong, stable economy that they can consider napping at work. Oh.... wait.... Nevermind.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_...ce_naps_at_work French health minister seeks nap study Wed Jan 31, 8:25 AM ET PARIS - The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job. France launched plans this week to spend $9 million this year to improve public awareness about sleeping troubles. About one in three French people suffer from them, the ministry says. Fifty-six percent of French complain that a poor night's sleep has affected their job performance, according to the ministry. "Why not a nap at work? It can't be a taboo subject," Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said Monday. He called for further studies and said he would promote on-the-job naps if they prove useful. France's state-run health insurance provider will send letters explaining the importance of good sleep. The Health Ministry's Web site offers tips on how best to get a good night's rest. The ministry's online "Passport to Sleep" recommends cutting down on coffee, tea, colas, and athletic activity after 8 p.m., shunning TV time or working late in the evening, and listening better to the body's own sleep signals, such as yawning. Bertrand said sleepiness causes 20 percent to 30 percent of highway accidents across France each year.

This sums it up for me as well.

Well done, Pug. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't like resting the movement on the rotor, so I remove it before dropping the movement out of the case. Time to pop your crystal and send it in for AR now.

I aim to please.

Great looking, and a must have for me now thanks to you. Only issue is T SWISS T, which I think I can live with.

Well I asked FlipLockBuckle, and his advise was to use a set of hedge clippers. Actually, I've been thinking about get something other than the Presto tool for this because even though the Presto isn't supposed to mar (and I use watch paper between it and the dial anyhow), I just don't want it pressing on the subdial print. The levers look like they'd be better for little subdial hands but somehow they give me visions of a subdial hand flying across the room never to be found again... I'd like to hear from Ubi and The Zigmeister as to what their tool of choice is.

What he said.... just shove the springbar tool in there and the strap will give.

I had to check this out on my TWBC, and low and behold the Noob caseback is indeed slightly better. So on it stays!

Cheers!

Please nobody listen to this. The force from a hammer is concentrated on a small region of the crystal which can easily result in breakage while the force from a press with a properly sized die is distributed over a large surface area and therefore very unlikely to cause problems. Mods, is it time for a ban yet? In the meantime......

Hey Ubi, why the Noob caseback ?

I've never had any issue with San Francisco customs. What was the customs claim on the package you received and for what value?

Works fine here. This is the URL expanded: http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-18k-gold-Diamond-...1QQcmdZViewItem

I've bent two Noobmariner bezels in trying to get them off. My recommendation - if what you're trying to do is get at the insert - would be to remove the movement, and pop the crystal. You'll then have access to the insert and wouldn't need to remove the bezel.

To answer a few PMs about coating color: This coating is a purplish blue. Or a bluish purple. Give me some leeway as I am a tad color blind. But either way, it is the same coating used on high end watches, sunglasses, etc. And there IS color variance from run to run, but not from drastically blue to drastically purple. Another factor effecting color (and performance) is the substrate itself - more specifically the refractive index of the substrate. Performance is improved on high refractive index substrates. Best performance is acheived on substrates with an RI of about 1.9. Sapphire usually comes in just a hair under 1.8 - but can vary. If our watch crystals use a low grade sapphire (meaning one containing alot of impurities) - or don't use sapphire at all - then the RI will be lower than the gen watches, and that can definitely be partially responsible for some *slight* differences in color casts, transmittance, and ultimate performance - as I've said before. Also, for those interested, there is another higher performance multi-layer type of coating. This achieves lower reflectance, and higher transmission through the substrate than ours. However it is roughly 3x the cost and tends to turn the substrate a yellow/green cast. Ours will achieve 1% (or lower) reflectance on the coated side(s) of true sapphire, while the far more expensive coating will achieve 0.5%. Gen watches, having that blue/purple cast, are definitely not using the multi-layer coating. They're using the same coating we'll be using. I think the summary is this: The coating I have found is the industry standard Mil Spec coating that is used for this sort of application. Any variances between gen crystals and our crystals that we might see in the finished results are going to be due to factors out of our control (quality of sapphire for example). And that's about all I can say.

Yea, a rubber. This from the guy who broke 3 expensive crystals, eh??