Daniel, on a complete side note Thanksgiving is coming up here in America. Canned cranberry sauce (more like gel than sauce) is a staple. Every time I see your screen name I think of carving an Ω symbol out of it and posting the picture. Would make a nice avatar!

 

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Can't quite visualise. Feel free to fiddle with my avatar - given that I didn't choose it in the first place!

 

Oh, and please don't tell me you take your cranberry sauce straight out of a jar/can!

This year, take the jar/can, add half a cup of nice red wine (maybe an Aussie Pinot Noir), a cinnamon quill, a star anise, few cloves, orange peel, and ground nutmeg. Simmer on the stove for 20 min, until combined. Much nicer!

 

My sister makes real cranberry sauce from actual fresh cranberries. Yuck! I want my "can"-berries. The whole experience, from the shhhhhlup it makes coming out of the can to the sliced lunch meat serving style just screams Thanksgiving to me. Everything else is from scratch (well, we don't grow our own turkey) but not the can-berries.

 

good franken specimen for a very comprehensive lesson on How to Spot a Fake 101! I did not get that many right

 

I did that too when I first saw it this morning, we'll see if it comes down...

 

Mods: could you add the photos to the thread, for later reference?
Thanks heaps!
I am on an iPod and almost Impossible for me to do it

 

Respectable Member Privateday7

Learning to pick up refinished dials or 'improved' watch-cases, frankens and fakes, etc, is more than a life-long journey, for people like us.

The unscrupulous elements are taking advantage of the ever-growing pastime and passion of vintage-watch collecting. Be wary and consult the forum, before picking up anything, let it be just for a small sum of our hard-earn $.

Thank-you.

 

Respectable member Seamonster,
Thank you for your advice. It is very true.... I am beginning my journey, and this forum really help new guys like me with its vast knowledge, resource and helpfulness. For that I express my gratitude.

It also increase my respect to all of this forum members.

Warm regards,

 

I think this was a really good thread! Thanks x350 for doing this!

 

+1

 

Is this another one?
OMEGA CONSTELLATION IN EXCELLENT+ CONDITION WITH BOX: http://bit.ly/TLm3UA

 

Yes, it is.

They have even gone the the trouble of doctoring the bridges to create a cal 551, adjusted movement. Note how shallow the chamfering on the jewels on the bridge with the caliber number. The bridge has been ground down and re-engraved with the Adjusted, etc. text added on the rotor bridge as well.

 

Say it again? What doyoumean by "shallow the chamfering....." Etc etc ?????

 

This is the only item this seller has, and she has had zero feedback in the last month....