Sad but troo. I still have a Log Tables Book somewhere.
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I still have my slide rule.
I just checked and it still works. 3x4=11.99
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Yeah I think it is. I think itâs also in the Certina DS Action GMT.
Itâs great that there are now two, travellers GMT movements in watches at the 1k price point. (This one and the Seiko).
I donât know if the Seiko Kinetic is still available, but that was also a travelers GMT function, although not a mechanical watch as it ran a generator to power a capacitor into a quartz movement.
This. I find myself opening excel before the calculator these days. Apart from anything else itâs better for spotting and correcting typos when calculating lots of values.
[adds âaccountancyâ to CV]
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And âDatabase Designer/Administratorâ.
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Yes, so, classical beauty.
The catches are 33.5mm (which doesnât really bother me), and a bit of road rash.
Hence ÂŁ6.5k + VAT, which TBH I donât really have. Well I do, but it needs to last, err, forever.
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Lovely hobnail bezel too, classy
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Not seen something like this before:
Glass discs geared at the edge. Jaeger did a whole line of clocks based on it for well to do people in the 30s-80s. Cool stuff
This is Quintingâs [sounds Chinese / is Swiss] entire schtick, and they take it a bit further, with all ultra-thin, edge-driven sapphire discs - and they make things like chronographs which are a fair sight harder to do than that Chaykin.
Mindless watch-snobbery being what it is (and bad commercial decisions being what they are TBF), they donât get taken seriously because they use a unique and very clever quartz movement which allows the watches to be agreeably symmetrical*⌠BOO! BOO!
Meanwhile, Chaykin make inexplicably popular >ÂŁ10K watches for 8YOsâŚ
This wank is - somehow - their most popular modelâŚ
That said their mechanical âmysteryâ watch is damn clever and well put-together, I am forced to admit thru gritted teethâŚ
Cartier did it as well I believe. All of them seemed to vanish below the horizon a decade ago in terms of attention-received.
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*Bet Vincent Calabrese could make a symmetrical torus-shaped movement to power these⌠Now that would be fucking clever!
Being a pauper and not much of a watch wearer I hardly ever look on this thread.
Took a look in here the other day and happened to click on a link to HS Johnson , where I saw this - Briston 15140.SPG.C.12.LVB Clubmaster Classic Grey Wristwatch| H.S Johnson
Well it arrived today. I quite like it 
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Have to say, I really like the styling of Briston watches, most especially the chronos. Very good VFM too, especially in sales.
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I like their cushion shaped cases.
I have a âtortoiseshellâ one and like it a lot
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