What's the story behind your avatar?

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Mine is a pic I took inside one of my favorite stores in Tokyo - Deus Ex Machina: The Residence of Impermanence. Aside from liking the combination of the image and word, the fact that it evokes Longines’ winged hour glass logo is a big plus.
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...Although, you really can't knock a picture of an attack aircraft firing ordnance, eh @Mad Dog?
You know it, boss...and I fixed “ordinance” to “ordnance” for you...I hope you don’t mind. 😁

For the record, I’m not flying that SH-60B in my avatar pic which is firing a Penguin anti-ship missile. The Penguin was still in development regarding deployment on the SH-60B when I was on active duty [1986 - 1992] and it was not yet in the fleet. That avatar pic is very likely from the testing of the Penguin...but I’m not 100% sure about that.
 
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Magritte is my favorite painter, and I had a different painting of his as my avatar here for a while. Then I realized the cursive script he uses on La Trahison des Images is pretty similar to the font Omega uses for Constellations, Seamasters, and Speedmasters so I thought that might be appropriate.
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Ah yes; my Avatar, that’s a difficult one to explain. It’s an unexpected emergent property of the interaction between Vaseline, a Rolex and tooth care.

You would need a Nobel Prize to understand.😎
 
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I just used my picture with black and white setting also, but I don't smoke anymore.
 
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Someone else on WUS had swapped out the black-on-white day & date wheels on his Grail with Fortis 1045 Cal white-on-black wheels and I liked the look; so when I got mine, I did the same.
 
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As most of my watches are divers, I thought this appropriate. I took it from the seabed looking up to the surface in White Beach, Boracay, Philippines.
 
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Ah yes; my Avatar, that’s a difficult one to explain. It’s an unexpected emergent property of the interaction between Vaseline, a Rolex and tooth care.

You would need a Nobel Prize to understand.😎
We've got some 'brainy bassteddz' on this forum... give em a go mate???👍
 
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I know nothing about watches.😟 I'm a guitar geek who happens to have inherited a nice vintage watch and I always knew I would be out of my depth on this forum. My avatar (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore as the un-holy Derek & Clive) is an open, declaration, and confession, that my attempts to contribute would (for the most part) amount to complete and utter 'bollocks'.👍
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I know nothing about watches.😟 I'm a guitar geek who happens to have inherited a nice vintage watch and I always knew I would be out of my depth on this forum. My avatar (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore as the un-holy Derek & Clive) is an open, declaration that my attempts to contribute would (for the most part) amount to complete and utter 'bollocks'.👍
But you have a good sense of humour and that is worth something to. 👍
 
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...............That avatar pic is very likely from the testing of the Penguin...but I’m not 100% sure about that.

Here you go mate. An HSL 47 "Blackhawk" 🙄 popped it off in RIMPAC 98.

 
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i love the Calatrava, the Calatrava wine, the only Calatrava i can afford...
 
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Picture taken long before I found OF of two watches on a piece of concrete stamped OMEGA at a rail crossing at the end of a train line in Alaska...on honeymoon. First 1200m Ploprof delivered in Canada and wore it diving there.
 
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Gambled thousands of dollars on an ebay listing from South Africa and a pretty cool SM300BT actually arrived! 😉
 
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My avatar has changed since the last time we did this, so this is one of me during a training session - was a competitive recurve Olympic style archer for many years.



It is also the origin of my screen name, although many people think it's my last name. It isn't.

Cheers, Al
 
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My avatar has changed since the last time we did this, so this is one of me during a training session - was a competitive recurve Olympic style archer for many years.



It is also the origin of my screen name, although many people think it's my last name. It isn't.

Cheers, Al

Nice grouping!
 
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My avatar (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore as the un-holy Derek & Clive) is an open, declaration, and confession, that my attempts to contribute would (for the most part) amount to complete and utter 'bollocks'.👍
"Those Omegas don't 'alf give me the 'orn."
 
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Dogs, cartoon characters, and squirrels make the best avatars. 👍

I concur. 👍 Calvin & Hobbes is by far my favorite comic strip so I always seem to end up using a C&H avatar. My first avatar was Tracer Bullet. Switched to this one last year sometime. It just cheers me up everytime I look at it!

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I concur. 👍 Calvin & Hobbes is by far my favorite comic strip so I always seem to end up using a C&H avatar. My first avatar was Tracer Bullet. Switched to this one last year sometime. It just cheers me up everytime I look at it!

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One of the few comics that would make me laugh out loud. Bloom County and Pearls before Swines are two others. 👍