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POTR

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    Doesn't everybody?
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    Close, but no cigar... Representatives have been dispatched to ensure the spread of these falsehoods is squelched... Snorting quartz... heh... maybe it should be spread as disinformation so no one suspects the track and control systems embedded in the fossils and swatches... oops...
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    Gee... I contorted my brain tying together little bits and pieces of the thread to come up with a nice little segue to fit it all into a nice little bit of musical humor, only to end up with someone taking it all too serious... and confusing our young lady into thinking I might be using my secret decoder ring to cheat! What a long, strange trip it's been... eh... nevermind... where's Ryy when I need a drinkin' buddy? I like cake.
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    This might not work... But this does... More properly known as the ineffable characters making up the Royal Arch Cipher, either version is used (as required) to decipher certain 'artifacts.' Hmm... babelfish, still not required, but Google does wonders...
  5. I've had my Beijing 08 cap for almost 6 months...
  6. Hmmm... Antique, stainless, luxury, waterproof, sports watches on bracelets seem to be in today... Mine has a little RED on the dial too... My 23J Waltham SEA LUXURY... But you've already seen it before...
  7. If I can wear 'tiny' watches, anyone can...
  8. This weekend? Glash
  9. But it is so much fun watching you squirm! Ok... I'll let you off the hook... I'm pretty sure that the ETA 2461 found in the Tudor 7016/0 Sub is based on ... The ETA 2451.
  10. >> NIST << Or search for free atomic clock sync software.... >> Atomic Clock Search <<
  11. I am always wearing at least one watch. So, the 'hobby' is always with me. Even if I am not 'focused' on it. Total count... about 500, another 100 or so dials, and perhaps 20 uncased movements in various states of repair/assembly, several cases, bracelets, miscellany... current REPs? 1. Got that from TMG. Gave away the few other reps I had acquired over the last month or so... Still building the only important rep... ( I spend one hour per day on this ) Current 'electric' 5. Current quartz? 0. Gave the only two quartz I owned (Ronda moon phase) away last week. Time spent? Yes.
  12. Package on the way...
  13. Just tell me where to send it...
  14. Back to that watch of yours... It looks like the mov't is rather unpolished, is missing retainers, and the stem retainer screw & seat are buggered up pretty badly... Tell you what I'll do... IF YOU WANT IT, I'll send you my currently recently acquired, unserviced, barely running, but nicely polished, nearly unbuggered "41 J" version, and you can take a really nice look at it... and take any and all parts you want from it to pretty up that watch... IE: the whole thing... You and your watchmaker of choice will get a kick out of how they upped the jewel count... and a really unique story to add to the watch... I'll eventually find another "41"... My only requirement would be to send me back the SEARS ROEBUCK rotor...
  15. It's a 2451, same as the Benrus UltraDeep... As far as the 2451 goes, I have a few of them... One of them is the "41 jewel" version... it is NOT ETA hallmarked, but it does have SEARS ROEBUCK & Co. engraved on the rotor... It can be found in several levels of finish... and almost any number of jewels from 17 to 41... Here is a nice "30 Jewel" version...
  16. Nanuq... It is an ETA 2451... and is that a "Beard Hair" on the rotor? And oh yeah... Would you like to sell that ugly watch? I might be able to scrape together a couple bucks...
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    Babelfish? Who needs babelfish? That cake is in encoded ENGLISH... Easy enough to figure out... The process? What is the most likely phase on a cake? H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y -N A M E- The last letter of the first two suggested words are the same Y - yup - there it is encoded as "<" Hmm.. the second letter of first word and second to last of second is A - yessiree Bob.. encoded as "_|" So we have -A--Y ------AY --- Hmmm... H is 1st and 5th letter, same? Yup... so, now we have HA--Y ----H-AY --- So, if the is a double symbol in the first assumed word, and there is... well that pretty much clears up our assumptions... HA PP Y ----H-AY --- So, fill in the now almost certain second word... HAPPY BIRTHDAY --- Any letter symbols from the first two words match the unknown third word? hmmm... R and B HAPPY BIRTHDAY R-B But wait a minute? How can you be so sure that unknown letter is an O now big guy? What gives? How come it isn't something else? Well we could eliminate the vowels that we already have and know don't match... (which would be the most likely thing between two consonants, oops unless it's initials) but how can we be certain? Look at how the glyphs are designed... Start at the beginning... A is what ? _| B is what ? The same with a DOT... Hmmm.. is this a pattern? Probably, it seems logically and progressively designed to make it easy to remember and pick up quickly... so... Test for O... do we have an N? No.. but we do have P... and P has a DOT... so if the pattern is real, O should look like P, only without the DOT... Does it? Yup. O it is... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB Hey, that's ME? Or is The Zigmeister the birthday boy from the East??? No wait, he's up North... or was that just metaphorical? Or is that allegorical? Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical.... a liberal, oh fanatical, criminal... Oh won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable... respectable... oh presentable... a vegetable... At night when all the world's asleep... The questions run so deep... For such a simple man Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? I know it sounds absurd... But please tell me who I am... who I am... who I am... who I am... ... ... ...
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    There are however a lot of non-monkish, girlie names on the bottom of that "Trappist" cake...
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    Dude, it says "Happy Birthday ROB"
  20. Haunted? Cajun? HAAAAAAAAAW! Justin Wilson? Is that YOU?!?!?!?! JK. Welcome to the forum... it's a fun place, I gare-on-tee.
  21. hmmm... three hours or so and the site is already MIA... yes, "Let's see what we have here..." is default text for the osCommerce software...
  22. Nice point, but actually there are a few more than two... and some of them are surprizingly small operations... However the only other manufacture other than Seiko that comes close to our friends price requirement that I can think of is NOMOS... It is POSSIBLE that you might be able to find a NOMOS Stainless No-Date Tangente with the older 1T (not manufacture, based on Peseux 7001(ETA)) movement for a little over $1000, but the new one with the in-house Alpha movement would be more than double that... Regards, POTR - Old soldier
  23. Actually, anyone calling you out for the etching on a crystal that isn't supposed to be etched probably knows that service replacements have an "S" etched through the coronet... so that one won't float... you're still burned. As far as drilling holes on a rounded, sloped surface... start with a drill bit smaller than the finish diameter you want, (drill twice or trice with progressively larger drils) make sure you have a decent drill guide to prevent most of the flex, and mark your spot with a DENT from a nice sharp punch, to keep the drill from walking when starting... (also, most people will probably tend to mark a bit "low" or "long" as the uphill side influences their perception of where the actual "center" is...)
  24. In Korean watch or clock would be 시계 (she-gay) wristwatch would be 손목 시계 (son mok she-gay) (long o sounds)
  25. Oh my. If I hadn't just bought an unanticipated SUV this week...
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