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Omega, you blew it with the new 321’s!
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PhilF
·Wow, interesting thread, for a while I thought I'd stumbled onto an Invicta forum, or at least a Timex, "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking"
Seriously, it's an Omega forum, a informative source of what we like and have in common. Haven't met or seen a Speedmaster I really didn't like. As much as I'm looking forward to a METAS Certified Speedmaster, I've got to get motivated to actually locate & find a Snoopy, which I think is my personal "Grail"
Seriously, it's an Omega forum, a informative source of what we like and have in common. Haven't met or seen a Speedmaster I really didn't like. As much as I'm looking forward to a METAS Certified Speedmaster, I've got to get motivated to actually locate & find a Snoopy, which I think is my personal "Grail"
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Bill Sohne
··Bill @ ΩFHi Guys
The funny thing is Omega Plat Speedy 321 is based on 105.012 ... I was at the NYC Speedy Tuse and I was wearing my 105.012 and when I had a chance to see the Plat in the flesh ... I took my 105.012 off ( this is a family watch bought new in 1966). I forget the gents name from Omega who was handling the watch saw mine and smiled , we traded watches as he wanted to handle mine as I tried the plat on.... He said this is the watch !
@saulgoodman I bet if you were offered a steel version of the plat speedy ... IT would have been a winner...
It kind of is but the Plat metal is over the top for me at lest.
Good Hunting
Bill Sohne
The funny thing is Omega Plat Speedy 321 is based on 105.012 ... I was at the NYC Speedy Tuse and I was wearing my 105.012 and when I had a chance to see the Plat in the flesh ... I took my 105.012 off ( this is a family watch bought new in 1966). I forget the gents name from Omega who was handling the watch saw mine and smiled , we traded watches as he wanted to handle mine as I tried the plat on.... He said this is the watch !
@saulgoodman I bet if you were offered a steel version of the plat speedy ... IT would have been a winner...
It kind of is but the Plat metal is over the top for me at lest.
Good Hunting
Bill Sohne
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GadgetGuy88
·Hi Guys
The funny thing is Omega Plat Speedy 321 is based on 105.012 ... I was at the NYC Speedy Tuse and I was wearing my 105.012 and when I had a chance to see the Plat in the flesh ... I took my 105.012 off ( this is a family watch bought new in 1966). I forget the gents name from Omega who was handling the watch saw mine and smiled , we traded watches as he wanted to handle mine as I tried the plat on.... He said this is the watch !
@saulgoodman I bet if you were offered a steel version of the plat speedy ... IT would have been a winner...
It kind of is but the Plat metal is over the top for me at lest.
Good Hunting
Bill Sohne
Ahhh...the calm that comes when Bill speaks!
Was it Greg K. who said that in NYC? He was the one showing the Pt Speedy (and the meteor). ...and he would know as he is the development lead guy at Omega.
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CanberraOmega
·Meanwhile, I’m concerned the title might be missing a word?
321 has a possessive apostrophe. What does it own?
321 has a possessive apostrophe. What does it own?
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cvalue13
·Meanwhile, I’m concerned the title might be missing a word?
321 has a possessive apostrophe. What does it own?
grammar burn!
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Bill Sohne
··Bill @ ΩFAhhh...the calm that comes when Bill speaks!
Was it Greg K. who said that in NYC? He was the one showing the Pt Speedy (and the meteor). ...and he would know as he is the development lead guy at Omega.
i think your right.... it was Greg... He was quite taken when he saw my watch and I told it was purchased new by my mom in 1966.
A few people at the even took pics of both watches side by side.... I dont think I took one.... sorry...
best
bill
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JwRosenthal
·Meanwhile, I’m concerned the title might be missing a word?
321 has a possessive apostrophe. What does it own?
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cvalue13
·It will own many forum members money soon 😉
*ahem* given the deposits, it already owns several forum member’s $$
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cvalue13
·It's only a burn if you're correct, which he is not.
This is common usage which is neither correct nor incorrect.
Tom
sorry, mate, but the burn is real
also, now you’ve transitioned past grammar burns and into logic burns, as I’ve not encountered something that can be neither correct nor incorrect...
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentI’ve not encountered something that can be neither correct nor incorrect...
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cvalue13
·What, you've never had a wife??? They are ALWAYS correct (in their minds), even when incorrect 😁
i SHOULD have said: “I’ve not encountered something subject to logic ...”
(been trying to work on my brevity!)
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CanberraOmega
·For all the 15 years I owned and cared for a SPpppppppppppppppppppppp
It's only a burn if you're correct, which he is not.
This is common usage which is neither correct nor incorrect.
Tom
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorI’m happy with my plain old Moonwatch.
Not vintage
Not LE
Not anything special
Not expensive
Not hard to get
Not sold out
Not that much different from a 3x the price 321 😉
Not vintage
Not LE
Not anything special
Not expensive
Not hard to get
Not sold out
Not that much different from a 3x the price 321 😉
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JwRosenthal
·I’m happy with my plain old Moonwatch.
Not vintage
Not LE
Not anything special
Not expensive
Not hard to get
Not sold out
Not that much different from a 3x the price 321 😉
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Pun
·I’m happy with my plain old Moonwatch.
Not vintage
Not LE
Not anything special
Not expensive
Not hard to get
Not sold out
Not that much different from a 3x the price 321 😉
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VetPsychWars
·Maybe it is a contraction? Perhaps it should be 321es, and the apostrophe is to mark the contraction?
English is a mutt of a language and it is darned difficult to know what to do all of the time.
"321s" or "321's" are both acceptable. "321s" is perhaps a bit more usual.
"Fewer" as in "There are fewer good watches in the world." is in danger of disappearing. Everyone uses "less" when they would previously have used "fewer".
Tom
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VetPsychWars
·sorry, mate, but the burn is real
also, now you’ve transitioned past grammar burns and into logic burns, as I’ve not encountered something that can be neither correct nor incorrect...
Languages evolve, and English evolves more quickly than others, I think.
I am a professional writer and I have to deal with real "rules" and also BS "rules" too. For example, English has allowed a sentence ending with a preposition for a thousand years. Some group of what I consider, well, people who should be disrespected, tried in the late 1800s to impose more rules upon English, and a lot of them came from Latin. "No split infinitives!" came about because Latin does not have a two-word infinitive. "To boldly go where no man has gone before." as always been correct. "Where is the library at?" has always been correct. (Famous punchline!)
There are more but they always piss me off!
Some humor!
Tom
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cvalue13
·Languages evolve, and English evolves more quickly than others, I think.
I am a professional writer and I have to deal with real "rules" and also BS "rules" too. For example, English has allowed a sentence ending with a preposition for a thousand years. Some group of what I consider, well, people who should be disrespected, tried in the late 1800s to impose more rules upon English, and a lot of them came from Latin. "No split infinitives!" came about because Latin does not have a two-word infinitive. "To boldly go where no man has gone before." as always been correct. "Where is the library at?" has always been correct. (Famous punchline!)
There are more but they always piss me off!
Some humor!
Tom
I’m down with such examples of “incorrect” language becoming an acceptable part of language
but, confusing possessive and plural punctuation is not the same thing: no matter how much people on forums write “your” when they mean “you’re,” or “its” instead of “it’s”, it ain’t going to be correct!