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[Megan Kogijiki Ratchford]

I agree about watches, they are beautiful amazing machines. I think anyone with any hobby can sound wacky. There will always be someone who knocks it as a stupid waste of money. For instance I was sitting the sale table at our pottery sale and this older guy walked up holding one of my mugs and he sneered "Forty dollars??? I could go to Walmart and buy a whole set for that!" I just smiled and said, "Sir, would you like to see how these are made? We have an advanced throwing class going right now." He was game and went in to watch the advanced students throw and I didn't see him again for so long I thought he had left. He came out as class was breaking up, picked up four of my mugs and a few more from other people and said, "I had no idea, how does anyone DO this? It's astounding!"

I certainly can't knock anyones interest. You spend it on whatever you want, I buy 6,000 year old hand-built pottery, and my husband buys sunglasses. Everyone has something they cherish.

GG Your button covers are beautiful!!

 

[MasterofNone]

While the cyclone looks very elegant, the divo looks very... Steampunk. To me. If your into that I guess that works. If I'm gonna go steampunk though, it needs to be brass and copper and wood... Oh wait. That's ALL I like now... Lol

 

[Bimini Twist]

I've got wood, pretty much all day long.




I live for the wood.



I "work" it.









I'm "the woodworker".

So your avi is a carpenter bee! I should have thought of it sooner since they attacked my wood pile this past year. And a little too close to the house for my comfort.

But functional wood sculpture sounds very interesting!

 

[MamaTried]

Single coil. Duals aren't my thing. Tried a couple times. Not digging it.

I really like my RM2's. I've had a chalice and a cyclone. Stock holes too small for me. Chalice was difficult for me to put a coil on. Who knows. Thanks for the pics/suggestions.

i didn't muck with the Z coil on the Chalice. regular micro mounted side-saddle Drunken Monkey style is working great.

 

[MasterofNone]

Side saddle... So across one post yes? Gonna try that with my igo..,

 

[MamaTried]

Side saddle... So across one post yes? Gonna try that with my igo..,

Drunken Monkey :

.55 micro 28n side-slung on the chalice with combed hemp wick.

The earthy note added by the hemp compliments my monkey poo quite well

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I run both. Typically Z, but this time i went simple... Reason? I'm a little drunk and didn't feel like putting in the effort it takes to make the Z.

My chalice is also the second run that has posts just like a RM2. Not screw capture like Russ'. The air chamber is so tiny that no matter how I place it, it is an amazing vape.


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[MasterofNone]

Oh I remember that post! DRUNKEN monkey! Got it! Lol

 

[jasl90]

Guess I came off wrong... I wasn't trying to be critical of people who are into collecting expensive watches. I certainly understand the part of the brain that drives people to that place where they will spend that kind of money on something like a watch.

It's just that part of my brain doesn't take me to watches. Even if it did, it wouldn't take me to the big, diamond encrusted, Rolex's. If I could have any "high end watch" I'd go for an older style Omega Seamaster or Speedmaster with a metal band... Clean, smooth & simple (looking) and the only watches good enough to go into space.

I can certainly appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a high end watch... Or, maybe I can't... I literally cannot wrap my head around how someone could make, by hand, all the minuscule pieces and parts, that goes into a watch... and to do it with such precision & accuracy, that the damn thing actually works. I'm not down playing that at all...

But... Me personally... While I appreciate it for what it is and the artistry & craftsmanship that goes into it's creation, I don't have a personal need to own one for myself.

.. yeah, and a broken watch also tells the right time twice a day. Most people simply don't understand the masterful craftsmanship that goes into these mechanical works of art. Basically the same reason why we're all in line for a Dibi bec. for me, i'd pay premium for a hand made work of art.

..Please, pretty please, let's not criticize each other's "hobby"


Here's an article I copied from my "jewelry forum"

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I have to admit something: I think all you watch people are crazy. I own a Timex that my dad paid $69 for at Wal-Mart and it keeps time just as well as any of these $5,000 watches people go crazy for, and even looks better than most. To me, a watch is a watch. What makes these expensive timepieces worth the money when they don’t do anything my Timex can’t do?
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It is true that your Timex tells you the time as accurately as someone’s Rolex or Breitling, but a watch isn’t about telling the time, it is about your relationship with time. A watch is about style, a story and the history of both your watch and your own life. On a more practical level, there are countless hours of research and development put into high-grade watch movements, employing the finest mechanical engineers in the world to compile hundreds of tiny parts into a durable and accurate machine, all in the size of something slightly larger than a quarter. High-grade watches are about craftsmanship and style, not just about telling time. If life was as simple as you make it seem, none of us would own anything of quality because, after all, a shirt is a shirt as long as you’re not naked; a bus can get you someplace as fast as a car; and a cardboard box can keep the rain off your head as well as a home.

 

[jasl90]

So true, I love my Speed Master and my GMT.

to that FB. There's a world of difference between a "watch" and a "timepiece". I was fortunate to acquire a vintage Nasa certified Speedmaster Professional hand-wound ref. 3570.50

Speak of the Devil... Errr... I mean Omega.

 

[supertrunker]

i don't wear a watch since everyone else insists on telling me the time

"what time do you call this?"

T

 

[MasterofNone]

I have umm... A cell phone. It tells me the time via satellite

 

[supertrunker]

i have a dress watch i like - it tells the time in binary using LEDs, but i never wear it.

i have a cell phone that lives in a box on the end of my workbench that i never bother with. And i have an alarm clock, that is eerily accurate, takes a satellite time signal and has a battery backup, so even a power cut cannot disable that sonofa......

i have not been late for work in 10 years!

T

 

[MasterofNone]

Binary... Now that's awesome!

 

[Rossum]

It is true that your Timex tells you the time as accurately as someone’s Rolex or Breitling, but a watch isn’t about telling the time, it is about your relationship with time. A watch is about style, a story and the history of both your watch and your own life. On a more practical level, there are countless hours of research and development put into high-grade watch movements, employing the finest mechanical engineers in the world to compile hundreds of tiny parts into a durable and accurate machine, all in the size of something slightly larger than a quarter. High-grade watches are about craftsmanship and style, not just about telling time. If life was as simple as you make it seem, none of us would own anything of quality because, after all, a shirt is a shirt as long as you’re not naked; a bus can get you someplace as fast as a car; and a cardboard box can keep the rain off your head as well as a home.

Indeed, it is about a style. My every-day style happens to be "tools".

But that watch is still a form of jewelry, albeit one that only people who actually know something about watches would recognize as such.

Of course that style isn't suitable for every occasion, which is where this (and my future Dibi) fit in:

 

[MamaTried]

Binary... Now that's awesome!

i once had a hexadecimal watch, but it was 25% overkill...

 

[Megan Kogijiki Ratchford]

I saw one in NY City once that ran backwards with all the numbers reversed. I loved that!

 

[Alexander Mundy]

I saw one in NY City once that ran backwards with all the numbers reversed. I loved that!

Wife bought me one of those that hung on my office wall when I worked for others.
After getting used to it I couldn't tell time on a regular one.

 

[glassgal]

LMAO! Off on a tangent again.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Yeah when you get into it's not about the name on the watch or even the model but what movement is inside. Some are stellar some weren't. So the same watch from the same manufacture a few years apart can have completely different guts / movements and performance.

 

[mwdenko]

I won a ceramic bianci white ceramic (Lexus) edition in an benefit auction. Are they any good? (Since we're talking watches) lol.

I have no idea. I just wanted to help out the organization.