While I'm saddened to hear this, and I wish you all the best, I am pleased to hear your scan went as well as it could go.
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While I'm saddened to hear this, and I wish you all the best, I am pleased to hear your scan went as well as it could go.
I'm sad to hear that, old chap. Take care, and hang in there as best you can.
I call this one the Obliviator. It requires one spirit measure, two glasses, a bottle of good quality Scotch whisky and some lemonade. The recipe is as follows:
Pour two measures of neat whisky in...
Westland Lysander G-CCOM flew over earlier. Couldn't see it, as I was otherwise occupied at the time, but I heard it and looked it up on ADSBExchange. I'm quite miffed I missed it.
I was ten at the time, and in my last year of primary school when it happened. I don't recall the teachers being upset, but then it's possible they didn't know about it or, if they did, were not...
I picked this up towards the end of last year - a little Eterna desk chronometer from the 1980s in a wood, brass and leather case about three inches square. Since it wasn't working and I couldn't get...
I quite like the Frodsham website. It's elegant, understated, and easy to understand in a few clicks. Compare it to the Zenith monstrosity above, and it's a whole world away.
YHPM.
Thanks everyone for chipping in. Looks like a Monte Cristo 4 is the way to go. I see various comments about keeping it a one-off thing. Don't worry, in my circumstances, cigar smoking as a hobby...
Later this year I turn 30, and I've decided that to celebrate I'd quite like to do something I've never done before, something a bit reckless, and (attempt to) smoke a Cuban cigar. I should say at...
The Five Bezel Pips
A Rolex expert awakes one morning to find a letter containing five bezel pips on the sundial in his garden. Confused and slightly panicked, he takes them up to London to...
If you've ever wondered what google streetview might have looked like in 1940s New York, wonder no more. Here's a site that allows you to do just that:
https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
That's brilliantly hilarious. It's funnier than an entire series of HIGNFY.
Just spotted this on re-reading the thread. Yes it is. Why do you ask?
I'm a compulsive omni-collector, which sounds so much better than hoarder. Joking aside, and not including horology, I collect the following: old books, antique silver and post-war designer silver,...
Haven't really had any duds this year. Most unusual.
Just misread a thread title on SC. I thought it read: OT - Some cats for sale.
It depends. Modern Rolex, yes. But only because their modern watches are watches that hold no appeal to me. Consequentially I don't particularly desire or wish to own them. Vintage Rolex, however, is...
It's a perfectly delightful machine. But if I had that money to spare and had to spend it on a Bentley, I'd go for a '53 R-Type Continental in black, like this one:
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Not a lot of people know that although the first human to break the sound barrier was Chuck Yeager, a fox called Basil Brush did it first. Boom boom.
Joking aside, what a legend. RIP.
In life, Maradona. In death, Mara-goner. RIP.
I agree with Wallasey in that it was probably originally a man's watch, from 1920 give or take a few years. But I'm not convinced that it was ever a pocket watch. Here's a very similar one to yours I...
I like those a lot, particularly the one with the black dial on the khaki strap.
The date display.
I could see myself living anywhere on the coast, if the house was right. Recently I've found myself coveting various properties from an Italianate terraced mansion in Waterloo in Merseyside, late...