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WAKMANN Charles Gigandet Triple Date Chronograph Ref.# 71.1309.70

Original Tritium lume, 37mm solid stainless steel case, Valjoux 730 manual-winding movement, 5 atmos (164 feet)

 
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That may have to be my next Omega. I want a moonphase version to go along with my four 3861s.
you should, a bit more time to reset but it's rewarding to have on your wrist! and great excuse to spend more time with the watch!
 
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Ready for another season….. oh yeah, it took 23 minutes. Tool watches are so handy😎

 
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Alpina Fab Suisse on a glorious evening 👍

 
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Kinda killing time work is done and no one, other than me, is doing anything stupid. I actually had a diver on this AM but decided I should change to something a little dressy. I really should check the weather it’s a damn monsoon
 
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Felt like wearing the Speedy today:


Question for y'all: I bought this on the strap, but am thinking about getting a bracelet for it. Can anyone recommend a good third-party bracelet for this, or should I stick with a factory bracelet?
 
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Today I’m wearing my great-grandfather’s Lange pocketwatch from about 1908 on a sterling silver watch chain from 1901 Birmingham.
 
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Felt like wearing the Speedy today:


Question for y'all: I bought this on the strap, but am thinking about getting a bracelet for it. Can anyone recommend a good third-party bracelet for this, or should I stick with a factory bracelet?
Personally I would only use a genuine Omega bracelet. But they're expensive.
 
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Felt like wearing the Speedy today:


Question for y'all: I bought this on the strap, but am thinking about getting a bracelet for it. Can anyone recommend a good third-party bracelet for this, or should I stick with a factory bracelet?

The proper factory bracelet for your particular Speedmaster variant would be a nice addition, but a nice after market would be a great "field expedient."

I like your Speedy with black strap really well. I've tried to talk myself into purchasing a second Speedmaster, just so I could have one kitted out in brown and one kitted out in black. I always love to see Speedies on straps! I love wearing mine on a strap.
 
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The birthday watch. Watch and I are the same age, only it ticks better and shows less patina. Took a quick photo while getting in my cardio walk before heading back to cataract post up checkup, but didn't have time to post. Due to "Metro-Mess" traffic it turned out to be an all day sucker, driving there and back.

Surgery is a success! No discomfort from yesterday's departure from the surgery center to now. Right eye sees clear white. Left eye sees with a yellow hue of which I was unaware until now. Next week I return for surgery on the left eye.

Even the watches here on WRUW look better out of my right eye!
 
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The birthday watch. Watch and I are the same age, only it ticks better and shows less patina. Took a quick photo while getting in my cardio walk before heading back to cataract post up checkup, but didn't have time to post. Due to "Metro-Mess" traffic it turned out to be an all day sucker, driving there and back.

Surgery is a success! No discomfort from yesterday's departure from the surgery center to now. Right eye sees clear white. Left eye sees with a yellow hue of which I was unaware until now. Next week I return for surgery on the left eye.

Even the watches here on WRUW look better out of my right eye!
Dude I went through some serious ass surgeries, like cut you open and cut out perfectly good ribs to access stuff surgeries, but an eye surgery to me sounds terrifying. You have to be awake right? I don’t know. I mean the option is not seeing so what can you do. But if you were awake and they put things in your eye you got me beat. I just helped someone prepare for a tarsal something something surgery. It’s an abnormal foot thing I didn’t know was a thing.

She’s gonna be hurtin the might fuse her ankle. Anyway the only fun part of surgery is seeing if you can count to ten when they tell you to after that it all sucks.
 
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Walrus, you would laugh at me for I am the ultimate dental and optical wimp. I can and have watched surgery on the inside of my left forearm in perfect comfort, endured bypass surgery without trepidation, but come at me with a dental pick or a bottle of eye drops and I go all flinchy. Entertain actual invasive procedures around the face and I am a quivering jelly.

Cataract surgery proved to be easy greasy. The worst thing was the three separate dosings of deadening eye drops at the start of the ordeal. Stuff stings bad. But, then they introduce the juice into the IV and one goes into a twilight sleep, not completely out, but no recollection of the surgical event. No discomfort, no scratchy eyes, no hangover from anesthesia afterward.