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If I hadn't been wiped out in the recession I'd probably have one of these. Imagine!

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/iwc/pilot-double-chronograph-split-second--id11417283.htm

This German pilot's watch history is fun https://quillandpad.com/2020/07/11/a-crash-course-in-b-uhren-and-flieger-pilots-watches-covering-both-historic-and-modern-examples-a-pilots-watch-photofest/ As you can see, Spitfire hands are really Luftwaffe hands. RAF watches haven't really been a thing in the posh watch industry. Perhaps that's why Bremont chose their niche?

How do the experts feel about Fortis? I like the styling of so many of their pilot and/or dive watches. Cleaner than IWC. And you can get quite a lot for 2k. E.g. a pilot look with chronograph which is also a 200m diver. https://www.chrono24.co.uk/fortis/index-5.htm?sortorder=11&query=fortis

Best ignore what I say about IWC. I think they completely lost the plot on styling after the 3711/3713 Doppel. When I'm a billionaire I'll buy the company and bash some heads together.

I used to have the first Doppelchrono but I'd get the Sinn because of the bezel. Looks perfect. Pilot watches without a rotating bezel annoy me. And I hate getting scratches on a polished bezel when I bash the watch on a door frame or something. And I hate the so-called Spitfire hands on the modern IWC pilots.

Yes, what time roughly? I'm at Mayfield House, Rushcroft Rd, SW2 1LD. No house numbers in this street but the building is on Google Maps

Remnants of a wave power station.

I didn't know about death diving until I saw this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJnC-9Weds

Amazing. Where did you find that? Great minds etc.

The heaviest proper watch I can find: platinum IWC Grande Complication on bracelet, over 390 grams. Monster bracelet though:
https://www.thewatchagency.com/iwc-grande-complication-silver-colored-platinum-o422-mm-p-2890.html

I just meant that I'd never heard of the Turn-o-graph. Sorry, still waking up. May go back to bed actually.

Wow, I've learned about a new Rolex model! I'm shocked. I really am.

Thanks, but I meant Ordinata's Datejust with wrong bezel. edit: No Ordinata's, underuser53929's. Sorry, still waking up.

What is it?

A Deepsea Challenge clone on bracelet weighs 294g. Don't know the weight of a real one. But it was never available to buy, so doesn't really count. Panerai L'Egiziano is probably quite heavy - 60mm wide. There are 400+g Invictas, but I'm not sure they count either.

Here you go. The worst feature is a pair of nicks which I've labelled. £50 is fine, plus signed for post, or collect from Brixton. Where are you? I play BTOB so I could also deliver when I'm doing that. It's usually somewhere East/North.

Tell them they need to sack the people who design the dials and the hands.

You probably won't want a Sorna World Timer either, which is a shame, 'cos it's £180 new and has THREE rotating bezels.

Bad dandruff is sometimes seborrheic dermatitis. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seborrheic-dermatitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20352710 And for that you need Nizoral! Used to be prescripion only, but now over the counter in pharmacies. Proper stuff. Spread it around everywhere, inc face, eyebrows, ears. Leave it in for 5 mins, then rinse.

Several bookmakers have the Lib Dems as favourites in North Shropshire! Just two years ago they came third, with 10% of the votes. The seat has been conservative for 188 of the last 190 years. That freak Owen Paterson had a majority of 23,000.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/north-shropshire-by-election
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/13/bookies-make-lib-dems-favourite-in-north-shropshire-poll-owen-paterson-byelection

Nice B&R, quite an obscure one that.

It's from 2003 I think, when B & R had a very small, very conservative range which all looked like rebadged Sinns. I can't fathom their current instrument panel bollocks. I'd be embarrassed to walk around with that on my wrist, and I'm one of the people who would love to have a rainbow Daytona. I'm amazed that B&R succeed, but they seem to be doing very well, what with their boutique in the Burlington Arcade. Which is great for me, because you drop your Hydromax off at battery change time, and these charming people send it to the factory and give you pens and notebooks and invites to Drink Spotties. So more power to them. At least they're not stuck in the Submariner homage trough, like half the industry.

Well, I'm not interested in moonphase but I'm very curious about Campanola/Citizen minute repeaters, which also do perp calendar and alarm. They're a bonkers quartz pastiche of a Swiss grand complication, but I admire Japanese manufacturers when they really go to town on one of their notions. I'd love to inspect a Campanola. Some people say the finish is breathtaking. (But they would say that, because they've bought one.) The used ones look very durable, so I might just do it, if I can be arsed to sell the B&R and perhaps a few of my other gewgaws. But strictly speaking I shouldn't have a Campanola because there's no lume or external rotating bezel, which are both on my list of musts.

I wonder if this sideline into the New Romantics will take us away from the Krays? I feel that theme has run its course. I have prepared a number of non-Krays tags. I went to Stoke Newington today (in daylight) but failed to get home fast enough to activate my plan.

Awful that it took 46 years to settle this. The MoD must have known they were culpable all this time.

My first attempt at a wrist shot. I shall try to improve.

It's oil-filled, presumably because oil hardly compresses at all. There's also a flexible rubber case back underneath the metal case back, which is not waterproof. (It has big holes in it). The result is that this watch can go down to 11000 metres even though the case is no beefier than many dress watches.

The second pic is a failure because it was intended to demonstrate another benefit of the oil, which is that it makes the dial easy to see at an angle. The effect is much more apparent underwater. So I should have done a wrist shot in the kitchen sink. Occasionally a little bubble appears, which is fun to chase around. A battery change means the watch has to go back to the factory for a service and an oil change. Until today I hadn't worn the watch since the last battery change 2 or 3 years ago. It's gained 2 minutes since then. Is that good for a quartz movement?

I shouldn't have bought it, because I'm never content with a watch without a weekday function. I really ought to try harder to find The One Watch To Rule Them All. I heartily concur with @inchpincher's observation upthread about buying the watch you really want. But I have never identified one with all the features I want.

Got it now. The street name in the window is for a different street. Most cunning.