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·OK, here I am, there's no turning back now... No more WUS for me, and now, an hour or so later, I'm happy with the shift.
Yep, finally ousted, though not really given the reason why.. I figure I know what it was that saw me pushed over the edge.. Permanently.
Perhaps the only negative is that I had a great little "Omega Watch Box' turnover happening there on the Sales Thread, but... I can pick that up here also.
Again tonight I watched that "Hitler - Banned from WUS" video.
DMB was banned about a month or more before I joined WUS, How relevant that video is for me. That F'ing Cafe!! I chased up many of DMB's posts, I liked his style, (well, "the skirt" that is, his wife, did have a certain charm, but..!) Where's that smiley when I need it. I'll learn I'm sure! I chased up a lot of other WUS members that were outed at that time. I just wish I had the foresight some had, Changing up their signatures.??? I remember reading that Dennis.. Thinking WTF?? Well done...
I have always believed that "every adversity in life has the seed for a greater or equal benefit!!" Here Here!
I really want to take this opportunity to thank Simon - username "EDIT" for his PM to me today. I won't paste all the contents apart from...
"mark, just want to say that i wish I had had the balls to post what you did . what a pathetic action by some mod .............
................the forum's not much fun to be around anymore so I for one won't be contributing anymore. have you tried "the omega forum"? A much nicer place to discuss watches. regards simon. p.s always enjoyed your posts even if I didn't always agree with you."
Nothing like some honesty, and more the respect for saying so. You really made my day / week Simon. Thanks mate, for you could not imagine how much your words meant to me, especially at that time. Appreciated!!
I read Simon's PM, clicked a link, found out I was banned, and as you can imagine, Simon's PM just made me feel all that more right, satisfied. I put it out there!
Horologically, my favourite saying, belief, is, that no two collections of 3 or more watches are the same. So what one loves, another loves differently. There are no rights, no wrongs, well, apart from fakes,, and very rare pieces, now that's right, but generally, you get the drift I'm sure. Watch collecting is one of the most personally motivated collections I can think of.
Watch wise, things have been pretty quiet these past 12 months, ever since we bought our new house.. It's over 12 months since I have bought a watch, though I do have a few I want to sell, namely a couple of Sinns.. Haven't worn my flightmaster this year, then there is my Heuer Autavia MH11630 and Heuer Pasadena.. Just not getting the love they should.... But, at this stage, I think I'd prefer to own the watches, rather than the pieces of paper. Gosh, it's not even that anymore, it's just a number that some bank holds. Funny I have never felt the love of holding money that I have felt by holding a watch. I once held $6 Million in cash, but then again, the $15 million in Pearls that I held, now that was something exciting!
Some watch pics.. ok..
Who's got the keen eye...?
Something a little more anal..
The Blue Seamaster 2531.80 and the Speedmaster 3510.50 have been sold.. The rest I still own. Love the Hummer, top right. Also Mark II, Mark 4.5. My wife;s 2262.50, go so well with my 2254.50. I love wearing matching watches, especially for occasions.
My Argentinian Air Force Heuer Autavia MH11630 (Stated to have seen actual flight time during the Maldives (Falklands) conflict.. Image that! I've the original Bezel put aside, but it will be going back on asap. Show me the bezel and I will tell you about the Heuer, or something like that. Why i changed it, well, perhaps the same reason I had the hands re lumed... Eager and a NOOB, what ever the latter really means. I didn't know better, in my own words. I do now, thanks to the likes of you..
Argentinian Air Force inscription..
This is MY Heuer (no name) Pasadena 750.501 (Sellers pic was just so much better than mine..) How that for a 40+ year PVD Coating?
My little bit of indulgence... PAM 005
One of my favorites. Gifted to me by my wife, who happens to be Chinese..
1963 Re-edition Seagull Chinese Air Force Chronograph. (This pic taken by my friend Rudi) Very Sweet.
So, apart from a couple of Tag Heuers, well, this one is the first real watch I bought.. Really? I hear you asking. A Quartz Tag.? Yep, coming from where I did, this was the first real watch I bought. Well there was that mechanical chronograph that I paid $120.00 for in 1977, name began with a Z.??? I've thought about it, and I really can't or do not want to remember what that Brand name was. Could it have been a Zenith?? Regardless, I know I have been a WIS for many a year before i arrived here..
This is the watch that kicked my WISdom off, some many decades later..
Below is perhaps my greatest horological achievement.
I'd sent my (2254.50) watch in to have the Second hand replaced as the tip had faded. I supplied the second hand. 3 months later it came back, whereas previous it ran near COSC, it was near 1 minute slow per day. I sent it back.. Perhaps 4 months later I got it back, (I exaggerate not) and wearing it perhaps the third time, it just stopped. I gave it a shake on my wrist and heard clunk clunk clunk. It was still under "stated" warranty, but this saga had not been as long as my Omega flightmaster Cal 911 that I sent to the same watch repairer! So I'm thinking of cutting my losses and sending it to someone else to have my watch fixed.
A month or more later, after much, much thought and visualisation, I was pretty sure what the problem was.. A loose screw. I carefully removed the back, which fortunately came off easily, as it should, with no scratches. Holding the watch carefully, (I was over carpet) I removed the back, and the iron cover (farraday cage) and there it was, a tiny screw, and then, a movement mount.
Re-installed, resealed, and the watch is on my wrist tonight, as it has been for the past 2 to 3 weeks! I was rapt! I believe the 2254.50, to be the most beautiful SMP, due to its no nonsense simpleness. Hence it has been on my wrist for 2 or more weeks! That's saying something.
But that is about the limit of my watch making expertise, apart from strap and bracelet adjustments. Oh, I did re install a misplaced Chrono stopper circlip on my 1963 Seagull.
So that's me. My watches, my experience.
Personally, I'm still Floggin Me Nuts for a living. My wife and I travel to China every February, or there about, for a month of excitement, culture and food!
My goal of my membership here is not to be so sensitive. think twice before I post anything, relax, have a laugh, and attempt to contribute, at least 25% of what i get to take out. I've some great acquaintances here, and lets hope those friendships grow.
Regards, and I'm not apologising for the long post, for I felt it was owed.
Pics all back now...
Yep, finally ousted, though not really given the reason why.. I figure I know what it was that saw me pushed over the edge.. Permanently.
Perhaps the only negative is that I had a great little "Omega Watch Box' turnover happening there on the Sales Thread, but... I can pick that up here also.
Again tonight I watched that "Hitler - Banned from WUS" video.
DMB was banned about a month or more before I joined WUS, How relevant that video is for me. That F'ing Cafe!! I chased up many of DMB's posts, I liked his style, (well, "the skirt" that is, his wife, did have a certain charm, but..!) Where's that smiley when I need it. I'll learn I'm sure! I chased up a lot of other WUS members that were outed at that time. I just wish I had the foresight some had, Changing up their signatures.??? I remember reading that Dennis.. Thinking WTF?? Well done...
I have always believed that "every adversity in life has the seed for a greater or equal benefit!!" Here Here!
I really want to take this opportunity to thank Simon - username "EDIT" for his PM to me today. I won't paste all the contents apart from...
"mark, just want to say that i wish I had had the balls to post what you did . what a pathetic action by some mod .............
................the forum's not much fun to be around anymore so I for one won't be contributing anymore. have you tried "the omega forum"? A much nicer place to discuss watches. regards simon. p.s always enjoyed your posts even if I didn't always agree with you."
Nothing like some honesty, and more the respect for saying so. You really made my day / week Simon. Thanks mate, for you could not imagine how much your words meant to me, especially at that time. Appreciated!!
I read Simon's PM, clicked a link, found out I was banned, and as you can imagine, Simon's PM just made me feel all that more right, satisfied. I put it out there!
Horologically, my favourite saying, belief, is, that no two collections of 3 or more watches are the same. So what one loves, another loves differently. There are no rights, no wrongs, well, apart from fakes,, and very rare pieces, now that's right, but generally, you get the drift I'm sure. Watch collecting is one of the most personally motivated collections I can think of.
Watch wise, things have been pretty quiet these past 12 months, ever since we bought our new house.. It's over 12 months since I have bought a watch, though I do have a few I want to sell, namely a couple of Sinns.. Haven't worn my flightmaster this year, then there is my Heuer Autavia MH11630 and Heuer Pasadena.. Just not getting the love they should.... But, at this stage, I think I'd prefer to own the watches, rather than the pieces of paper. Gosh, it's not even that anymore, it's just a number that some bank holds. Funny I have never felt the love of holding money that I have felt by holding a watch. I once held $6 Million in cash, but then again, the $15 million in Pearls that I held, now that was something exciting!
Some watch pics.. ok..
Who's got the keen eye...?
Something a little more anal..
The Blue Seamaster 2531.80 and the Speedmaster 3510.50 have been sold.. The rest I still own. Love the Hummer, top right. Also Mark II, Mark 4.5. My wife;s 2262.50, go so well with my 2254.50. I love wearing matching watches, especially for occasions.
My Argentinian Air Force Heuer Autavia MH11630 (Stated to have seen actual flight time during the Maldives (Falklands) conflict.. Image that! I've the original Bezel put aside, but it will be going back on asap. Show me the bezel and I will tell you about the Heuer, or something like that. Why i changed it, well, perhaps the same reason I had the hands re lumed... Eager and a NOOB, what ever the latter really means. I didn't know better, in my own words. I do now, thanks to the likes of you..
Argentinian Air Force inscription..
This is MY Heuer (no name) Pasadena 750.501 (Sellers pic was just so much better than mine..) How that for a 40+ year PVD Coating?
My little bit of indulgence... PAM 005
One of my favorites. Gifted to me by my wife, who happens to be Chinese..
1963 Re-edition Seagull Chinese Air Force Chronograph. (This pic taken by my friend Rudi) Very Sweet.
So, apart from a couple of Tag Heuers, well, this one is the first real watch I bought.. Really? I hear you asking. A Quartz Tag.? Yep, coming from where I did, this was the first real watch I bought. Well there was that mechanical chronograph that I paid $120.00 for in 1977, name began with a Z.??? I've thought about it, and I really can't or do not want to remember what that Brand name was. Could it have been a Zenith?? Regardless, I know I have been a WIS for many a year before i arrived here..
This is the watch that kicked my WISdom off, some many decades later..
Below is perhaps my greatest horological achievement.
I'd sent my (2254.50) watch in to have the Second hand replaced as the tip had faded. I supplied the second hand. 3 months later it came back, whereas previous it ran near COSC, it was near 1 minute slow per day. I sent it back.. Perhaps 4 months later I got it back, (I exaggerate not) and wearing it perhaps the third time, it just stopped. I gave it a shake on my wrist and heard clunk clunk clunk. It was still under "stated" warranty, but this saga had not been as long as my Omega flightmaster Cal 911 that I sent to the same watch repairer! So I'm thinking of cutting my losses and sending it to someone else to have my watch fixed.
A month or more later, after much, much thought and visualisation, I was pretty sure what the problem was.. A loose screw. I carefully removed the back, which fortunately came off easily, as it should, with no scratches. Holding the watch carefully, (I was over carpet) I removed the back, and the iron cover (farraday cage) and there it was, a tiny screw, and then, a movement mount.
Re-installed, resealed, and the watch is on my wrist tonight, as it has been for the past 2 to 3 weeks! I was rapt! I believe the 2254.50, to be the most beautiful SMP, due to its no nonsense simpleness. Hence it has been on my wrist for 2 or more weeks! That's saying something.
But that is about the limit of my watch making expertise, apart from strap and bracelet adjustments. Oh, I did re install a misplaced Chrono stopper circlip on my 1963 Seagull.
So that's me. My watches, my experience.
Personally, I'm still Floggin Me Nuts for a living. My wife and I travel to China every February, or there about, for a month of excitement, culture and food!
My goal of my membership here is not to be so sensitive. think twice before I post anything, relax, have a laugh, and attempt to contribute, at least 25% of what i get to take out. I've some great acquaintances here, and lets hope those friendships grow.
Regards, and I'm not apologising for the long post, for I felt it was owed.
Pics all back now...
