Crimson Vanguard Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 The mail came today! I was happy to see that I got one from england and another from china. The first from china is the skeleton flying tourby, modelled as a breguet. Overall not too bad, I did overpay. It feels light and im not too fond of the leather strap but hopefully it'll get supple with time. I would venture homer's tourby is better and costs half as much. From precioustimes in England I get a graham chronofighter! This thing is incredible. Solid and flawless. I can imagine the conversations i'll start with this thing in the future. I already got a double take from the one person who saw me wearing it hanging my arm out the car window. The running seconds at 3 are cool, and if you time it right, you can set the stopwatch to go at the pace with it... which adds some cool movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubiquitous Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Nice tourby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Vanguard Posted September 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Nice tourby! Thanks man... I like the chronofighter just as much if not more... and you can quote me on this: "If there was ever a watch that was solid, classy, masculine AND eccentric at the same time... surely enough it would be a Graham." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadtorrent Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Exciting. That Graham is a big piece that's for sure. I was impressed by them at the AD...but definitely could not pull off wearing one. Enjoy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Wow CV! Those are two 'in yer face' watches. Enjoy, and wear them well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronoluvvv Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 hanging your arm outside the car window ... total poseur, haha ! j/k i really like the Graham Overlord mind if i ask what the lever on the left does ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Vanguard Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 hanging your arm outside the car window ... total poseur, haha ! j/k i really like the Graham Overlord mind if i ask what the lever on the left does ? The lever on the left operates the stopwatch. The large second hand is stationary during regular use, and the chrono at 3oclock is the running seconds. Update on that skeleton tourby: I originally was displeased when I looked at the back to see the exposed gears and none of them apparently moved. I thought "its just there to look cool, but isnt functional. What a waste." Just yesterday night I actually took a closer look... the silver gears do move, but only when winding... they transfer to one another and wind the mainspring... the gold gears move, but they move with the minute hand... very slowly.. you have to watch for quite awhile to check its progress. So in the end, what a beautiful dress watch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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