Putting the football thing aside - this is just a lovely genuine interview.
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Saw that a few years ago. Totally genuine and very touching.
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Thinking about pulling the trigger on thisā¦
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Looks like a lot of watch for not a lot of dosh! 
Only slight problem being that seller wonāt sell to the UK - very common with sellers on C24 now ā¦ #BrexitBenefits Import costs and post would have pushed the price into the Ā£200s.
UK seller with no hidden costs on ebay at Ā£195 still looks a very fair deal:
Or the equally nice black-dialled version is cheaper still:
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actually lolling
So, watch noob here. My career was spent working with high power lasers and in laser labs reflective things on or near your hands are strongly discouraged. I wore a watch until 1980, then I stopped until last week when a strange man* sold me his NITE Hawk out of the back of a pickup.
I took it out yesterday on this weekās long walk through the countryside. As a diabetic, when Iām walking I have to stop every 5k for a glucose boost. The first time I did this I noticed the rucksack shoulder strap snag on the watch as I slid my arm out, but thought nothing of it. My second stop was planned for the woods on Thame Lane but before I got there I found I had to cross a bloody ditch ! So off with the rucksack again. A mile or so past the Thame Lane stop I glanced at where my watch should have been and ā¦ there it wasnāt. Shit ! Shit shit shit !
I nearly gave up on it. I might have walked miles without it, mostly in the countryside. Despite the crap weather the plants have still grown, so surely the chances of spotting it would be zero. But although I have a lot of faults I can still be very stubborn. So I turned round and walked back towards home, checking the path for a lost watch as best I could. I stopped on Thame Lane and rummaged through the undergrowth, but no watch. However when I got to the ditch there it was, just lying among the spoil ! Hurrah !
It looked like this
The strap with the buckle on seems to have lost the pin which attaches it to the watch case. The strap itself looks OK except for a pretty small piece of missing rubber nicked out where the pin would have protruded as it passes into the watch case.
So if Iām going to keep this strap then I clearly need a new pin. First question for you watchmeisters: Who should I get to fit this ? Answers that occur to me are
i) any high street jeweller can do this
ii) it needs to be someone who specialises in watch strap pins (insert URL here)
iii) youād be best off sending it back to NITE (canāt I send it today ? Boom tish !).
What do you recommend ?
Second question: I donāt want this to happen again so what should I do to prevent it ?
i) donāt take your nice watch into the nasty outdoors
ii) just fit a new pin. They wear out but a new one should be fine for at least 10 years
iii) you need a different type of strap/bracelet which can stand being tugged
iv) thereās this safety gizmo (insert URL here) which will hang onto your watch in the event of strap failure for long enough for you to notice.
Again, any advice much appreciated. I like this watch and I reckon I was very lucky to find it still lying in the dirt. I donāt want to risk that again.
Cheers.
*@Mrs_Maureen_OPinion . He said the watch had once belonged to @A_Touch_of_Cloth .
Do it yourself, you can buy the pins from amazon and itās really quite easy to fit.
Just measure the inside of the lugs to work out the length needed.
I just use a scalpel, put one end of the pin into the lug hole and then flatten the other pin with the blade and slide under the lug and wiggle until the pin clicks home.
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Fit a NATO strap so a pin failure doesnāt mean you lose your watch
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Donāt do this, unless you want to look like the sort of person that joined the TA and loves paintball.
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Watch shop or jeweller with a workshop will do it for pennies.
Iād replace the other pin at the same time. Easy to do as posted but risk of scratching if you arenāt using decent tools.
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So this arrived this morning just after Iād finished abusing my car as a truck.
Ceramic case certainly feels like ceramic and the dial lumes as it should. Numbers are a bit comic sans and the crown feels āfragileā but for Ā£113 itās different enough from my other gewgaws to earn its place.
I now have to sell some stuff. Sigh.
Packaging was surprisingly robust and the case it comes in quite cool.
Pic of my Merc as a shrubbery added for context.
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Post watch and strap back here mate (no need to include box etc - padded envelope will be fine) and Iāll check itās all A-OK (just in case the lugs are damaged), and replace the springbars. Ignore the usual belms - a NATO might be a good idea for peace-of-mind so Iāll dig one out. On me, Iāve got shedloads of spare everything here.
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Really pleased with this eBay purchase for office use - smart and accurate and the power reserve is working well. As a bonus I think it wears better than the Ā£50 it cost me!
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Oh James, I live in black Levis 501s and steel toe-capped warehouse brogues and a selection of increasingly raggy tee-shirts. Apart from work presentations in the 1990ās and noughties itās been several decades since I cared at all about how I look 
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I do care about having to walk miles with my eyes glued to the floor though, on the off chance I might spot a few hundred quidās worth of escaped watch.
Thatās a very generous offer Paul and I will see if I can get it back to you, not because youāre in any way liable (you really arenāt) but because you know what youāre doing when it comes to fitting a new pin, or pins, and I donāt.
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Haha fair fair.
Shitā¦
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Couple of recent incomings, both used, both of a lightweight nature -
Original Marathon Navigator with plexi crystal:
Always fancied one of these asymmetrically cased oddities, and itās supremely comfy on.
ā¦And a long-wanted blue-dialled Sinn diver. Not as Iād once planned a U1 B, but rather the much rarer Titanium bodied T1 B -
Amazingly light, and after years of seeing these as powder-blue renders, it turns out the dial is actually very nearly purple! Itās in every way a step-up from the U1, though itāll scratch easier, but correspondingly, itās lighter and harder to ding.
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Embarrassed enough to replace this
With this when out in public
While afraid to wear this (worn lugs over 80 years old, was my dadās)
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Worth getting your dadās old chrono serviced - itās a nice old thing and the dial and hands are in remarkably good condition. The plexi crystal can be polished as well.
There are people out there that can laser-weld battered old cases, and also re-plate - though doing both is by no means easy.