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Paedipod
·Wintry day....speedy Monday back inside after shoveling
WRUW Today?
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Alpenschneerot
·Simple watch today...
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TexOmega
·Back from COA
Early 1940's Libana with Val 23
Early 1940's Libana with Val 23
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Fritz
·been there since Christmas.... silly thing just won't come off my arm. Oh well.....
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bristnj
·Lovely to see how the light plays off this dial.
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1685
·When the sun goes down...,.
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constellationM
·Hmmmmm love the Arman of fresh Coffee
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1685
·Mrs. Lou P and I are on a short Panama Canal get-away.
Here, the deepest part of the canal's "cut" at the continental divide, with the Pan-American Highway bridge beyond.
Ummm..."locked" and loaded , looking down at sea level Pacific side beyond.
The tour guide said that, although gates get removed for servicing, these are the original 100 year old riveted steel gates. Titanic era stuff...still in 24/7 mission critical operation. Pretty amazing...
Ugly tanker at our backs fills the lock to within inches. Note the cars called "mules" at the sides that guide the ship precisely through.
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We saw the openings to new channels going to wider locks, ready to start operation next April for a much needed canal upgrade, but the continental dive cut will remain a bottle neck allowing only one way traffic for the biggest ships.
Ahh...blue Pacific water, to match a worry free watch I enjoy for a trip like this.
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Lou P
··YaY!
Thank you @1685 . Today we got a better look at the new locks site on the Atlantic side (new Gatun Locks) for which construction is wrapping up, but they are currently still "dry". Although we cannot see the bottom of the locks from this angle, we do see the three levels from sea level (horizon) to Gatun Lake's elevation. New gates will be sliding out of the walls where we see the full height vertical dark lines
Panning left we see the temporary dyke separating Lake Gatun from the entrance to these new locks which will soon be blown up and dredged out. Note the ships waiting to enter and descend the old locks further up and to the right of the picture.
Oh, and today I wore another trusty travel companion of mine, the Speedmaster X-33, with jet-lag rousing alarm. 😵💫
Rubber strap borrowed from a Speedmaster Solar Impulse, which is easily adjusted for tropical environments!
Here with a container ship being pulled into the current Gatun locks, Atlantic Ocean at the horizon.
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obstando
·I remembered it's Tuesday!
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Barking mad
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderLast Tuesday of the year!
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timjohn
·Final purchase of the year just arrived. Legendary 4520 movement -- the one that beat everything but the quartz watches in the last chronometer competition held at Neuchatel in 1968 -- in a crisp 1969 case.
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ELV web
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Barking mad
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderArrival of new straps necessitated a change. New boots on BM LE.
@ulackfocus no more pin infringement😀
@ulackfocus no more pin infringement😀
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Bienne2998
·After all it's tuesday again
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kov
·Fresh arrival right on time for #speedytuesday this serial matching 3570.40 :
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Albertwii81
·#speedytuesday
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Scepticalist
·My small Christmas gift to myself - the Heuerville strap - gets an airing today
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