Arrivals, What Did You Buy Recently?(Watches)

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@Robert-Jan led me astray pen shopping, ordered a Pelikan M805 solid blue special edition with a fine nib
I presume we will be reading future posts handwritten then photographed?
I just sold all my fountain pens last year. Darn computers...
 
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Wanted an original box for my "new" Bulova Self-Winding.



Saw this one and figured that the box was worth the opening bid.



And it was the winning bid! So now I have two.

I did try to buy this 9k Tudor but the watch gods decided otherwise and the internet connection went down, perhaps they were trying to tell me something 🙁

Yes. They were telling you to use Gixen! 😜 On your mobile.
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Just got these:
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The spring bars are cool, because you can buy 50 for five dollars, and they are 1.8 mm, and you order whatever sizes you want.

But also I got this, and I put it on one of the straps I bought in anticipation of the EW Speedy that wasn't meant to be; a Bulang and sons:

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Oooooo, take that Stuart! 😜

With our mobile connection ? Worse than useless, all the talk of 4G and we can't even manage 3G 🙁
 
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Coincidentally also a clock for me today, this one a charming nickel cased Omega 8 day from the late twenties or early thirties.


Awesome! 😀
 
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Excellent strap/dial combination!👍
I started to put it on just a plain mat brown strap, but then I saw this one sitting helplessly nearby, and 'Eureka!''. The leather is rather thick, and it was a 20 mm into a 19 mm lug. It required a lot of persuasion to get it in, but the result was well worth it, thank you!
 
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@Robert-Jan led me astray pen shopping, ordered a Pelikan M805 solid blue special edition with a fine nib


Cute toy. We let you take one lousy trip to Europe and you go all Euro-artsy on us. 🤦
You need to take a trip out to the northwest and visit Standy.
Get back to your roots man, before it's too late. 🤔
 
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I did try to buy this 9k Tudor but the watch gods decided otherwise and the internet connection went down, perhaps they were trying to tell me something 🙁

The watch gods are telling you that you're an 18k kind of guy.
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Cute toy. We let you take one lousy trip to Europe and you go all Euro-artsy on us. 🤦
You need to take a trip out to the northwest and visit Standy.
Get back to your roots man, before it's too late. 🤔
I'm already a vegetarian, they don't tolerate us in the Northern Territory.
 
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I'm already a vegetarian, they don't tolerate us in the Northern Territory.

We dont have pens, everything is carved with a knife in a tree. Got to make it a solid tree with a CAT4 Cyclone just about to hit.

 
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We dont have pens, everything is carved with a knife in a tree. Got to make it a solid tree with a CAT4 Cyclone just about to hit.


Cat 4?

Pfffft!

You should have been there for Tracey, now THAT was a Cat 4!

I flew in the morning after and saw a DC3 in the COs front garden 😲

Seriously mate, keep your head down and the beer cold. Stay safe.
 
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The watch gods are telling you that you're an 18k kind of guy.

Positive thinking 👍
 
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Cat 4?

Pfffft!

You should have been there for Tracey, now THAT was a Cat 4!

I flew in the morning after and saw a DC3 in the COs front garden 😲

Seriously mate, keep your head down and the beer cold. Stay safe.

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I'm already a vegetarian, they don't tolerate us in the Northern Territory.
Naw, Standy 'il take ya on a veggy bush tucker hunt to Mindil Beach, plenty veggy types there. All the nuts 'n berry ya want.👍
 
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Naw, Standy 'il take ya on a veggy bush tucker hunt to Mindil Beach, plenty veggy types there. All the nuts 'n berry ya want.👍
Damn those Crocodile Dundee movies have a lot to answer for in America
 
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Funny as i had to clear a yacht not long ago, and had to take all the overseas fruit and veggies off a couple of French vegetarians on the yacht. Stripped them bare of everything didn't even leave them with a lentil or half a mung bean. Even charged them couple of hundred $ to do it.😁😁
 
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Very confused by yacht and veggie hijack - one for the weird file anyway.

Regardless of what is says, not an omega, but a lovely thoughtful valentines present from my wife who knows what's important in life:



There's no dot over 90 bezel, but the lume still glows brightly at night. Couple of missing pushers, so am unable to test the chrono functionality.