There is a sub-sect of the Pastafarians (Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) that worships the Speedmaster...or so I've heard...
Ramen. 馃槈
What is this sacrilege? You should not be replacing the image of the divine FSM with a Speedy.
When you truly understand why you dismiss all other gods, you'll know why I dismiss yours.
On second thought, I'll go with double-chronograph perpetual-calendar moonphase minute-repeater. You know ... just in case you can't decide. 馃榾
Can you share any more info on that beauty? Makes me think of the Waltham QP Split Seconds Minute Repeater but off the top of my head I can't place a QP split seconds minute repeater with a 12 o'clock crown, 6 o'clock moonphase, and Breguet numerals.
On second thought, I'll go with double-chronograph perpetual-calendar moonphase minute-repeater. You know ... just in case you can't decide. 馃榾
It's a friend's watch, and we haven't been able to nail down the maker with certainty. Here are some movement photos.
Gorgeous. I was hopeful that this would be something of the CH Meylan lineage with Waltham, which would make it a potentially one of two ever known to exist. Sadly (and strangely for Waltham who didn鈥檛 do complications beyond the occasional chronograph and the one off QP split minute repeater and the one of a kind split minute up for auction in a few months) the Waltham finishing is much more ornate and clean. I was hopeful because I think I see Minneapolis on a bridge?
I鈥檇 love to correspond about this a bit more if you don鈥檛 mind. I鈥檒l send a PM in a bit.
The movement is Swiss. It is a private label watch made for A.N. Anderson in Minneapolis, which is probably a retailer, although I haven't researched it. I doubt many of these were made, but it shares some characteristics with LeCoultre movements. Not enough for me to be certain, however.
When Bobby Henderson first unleashed the FSM, I was just out of my degree in bioethics-related philosophy; he first wrote of the FSM to the Kansas Board of Education in connection with it's legislative proposal to teach 'intelligent design' in biology classes.
Back then, he and I corresponded for some time about the idea of launching a legislative effort pushing to teach evolution in religion classes; never quite got off the ground (given the then exploding success of the FSM)
