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Barking mad · Mar 16, 2024

Sundowners..

Coffee..

befobe · Mar 16, 2024

345.0808

JVP · Mar 16, 2024

There is a helium escape valve on my car’s logo

peatnick · Mar 16, 2024

Sixties Saturday

Omega1 · Mar 16, 2024

Good morning…

gbesq · Mar 16, 2024

Good day all.

Lou P · Mar 16, 2024

OMG, it's OMC! 😜

ATR · Mar 16, 2024

Have a good weekend.

septentrio · Mar 16, 2024

dougiedude · Mar 16, 2024

Jones in LA
There aren't many things more exciting than taking delivery of a box, in a box, in an envelope, in a box, in a box 😀

Wow.. just WOW😲

...which contained what has been for the past nine years, my holiest grail...

I've always felt connected to this watch, partly I think because I was born during the International Geophysical Year, an event that enthralled me as a boy when I read about it in my World Book Encyclopedia. In fact, at a young age, I decided that I would become a professional glaciologist. The glaciologist thing didn't happen, but I did end up utilizing geophysics throughout my real-life career.

And I'm a sucker for unique and interesting technology put into a wristwatch, which I think is why I own the Omega Marine Chronometer, the original 15,000 Gauss Aqua Terra (a.k.a. Bumblebee) and now the Geophysic with its dead-beat-seconds complication and Gyrolab balance.

Here you can see the Gyrolab, as well as the second hairspring (near the rotor axis) that is part of the dead-beat-seconds complication...a complication that added 60+ individual parts to the basic three-hand date movement.

Wow, man, just WoW 😲

… And giant congratulations to you, from a fellow Geophysic grail seeker 🥰, who was also born during the International Geophysical Year!!! And how did we not know it after all this time?!?

Grats again brother!!