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Such a lot of money though. How does it compare with a course and a pair of stones?

Horrible noise pollution. A plague for the thousands of people in their homes who had to listen to it. It's the main cause of new anti-motorcycle legislation in Europe. Wtf is wrong with you?

You don't have to go the radio/solar/quartz route, there are a few perpetual calendar mechanical watches which aren't over £5 grand new. E.g. this 39mm Montblanc

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/montblanc/montblanc-heritage-spirit-perpetual-calendar--id7021736.htm

If the size could be up to, say, 42mm, the choice would be a bit bigger. E.g. Frederick Constant.

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/frederiqueconstant/frederique-constant-slimline-perpetual-calendar--id20398344.htm

Or this 41mm Glashutte:

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/muehleglashuette/business-timer-mens-watch-with-calendar-week---m1-30-65-lb--id12382795.htm

What about second hand? E.g. a Movado 1881, 39mm:

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/movado/movado-1881--id16244725.htm
https://www.chrono24.co.uk/movado/movado-movado-1881-perpetual-calendar-moonphase-vintage-yellow-gold---full-set--id7909318.htm

Gertcha!

Ooh, nice tree.

Sometimes Che would wear a Sub and a Day-date at the same time. Nobody knows why he did it. He didn't really need different watches for different time zones because he also had a GMT. But maybe he preferred the clarity of separate dials. Or he was just showing off. More pics here https://www.rolexmagazine.com/2010/05/rolex-revolutionary-fidel-castro-no.html

I do the same, because my Sub is my favourite watch but I need the Day-date to remind me what day of the week it is. But I wear them on different wrists and they're fakes.

I'm thinking about getting someone to put a Day-date movement and dial in my Sub, so I can finally have a sort-of Sub with weekday. It would work. I have some pics somewhere.

Headline in the FT: "Chinese investors pick luxury watches over houses"

https://www.ft.com/content/a9a34f94-9a49-4938-ae9e-ec4e6d2f4838

"China’s once enthusiastic property investors are turning their attention to luxury watches as a better store of value in the face of slowing economic growth and President Xi Jinping’s intensifying campaign against housing speculation.

The shopping spree, said experts, has contributed to a 40 per cent surge in China’s imports of Swiss watches in the first 10 months of this year even as the broader economy cooled off."

They've had it for 7 years and they get to the Med just like all the other ships do, every day.

edit: " The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. More than 40,000 vessels passed through these waters in 2019, transporting almost 650 million tons of cargo, and reaffirming the Turkish Straits as one of the most important maritime trade corridors in the world. "

https://cimsec.org/let-me-get-this-strait-the-turkish-straits-question-revisited/

They do have a warm water port, Sevastopol. And their Black Sea Fleet has a squadron pretty much permanently in the Med.

Putin believes that Ukraine isn't really a viable country and is effectively still part of Russia. He goes crazy about them claiming to be a separate democracy with their own elections. When Ukrainians had their Euromaidan demonstrations and demanded to join the EU, he put his snipers on a roof and killed lots of them in an attempt to fake a revolution, which he could use as an excuse to invade, in order to protect Ukraine's government. The plot failed because the snipers left lots of Russian army bullet casings on the roof.

He's very emotional about Ukraine. Plus he's a hostage to Russian nationalism. Lots of Russians agree that Ukraine's independence was the worst loss resulting from the USSR's breakup. Putin has painted himself into a corner recently. He has to win something out of all this. Having been in power for so long he must be thinking about his legacy, which ideally ought to be restoring a bit of Soviet strength and glory. He might think that conquering Ukraine would be worth the resulting sanctions in the long term because it would bind all the other central European former Soviet countries very tightly to Russia. A sort of rebirth of the USSR.

https://youtu.be/d24KVT4SGqM

I'm very underwhelmed by that selection, except for the Marathon. Let's hear it for Ralf Tech! Also, Gucci dive watches, which are made by Girard-Perregaux. £500 gets you a lot https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2505460.m570.l1311&_nkw=gucci+dive+watch&_sacat=0 To me they are sort of the new Tag Heuer. I'm harking back to the '80s when all the public schoolboys in Fulham had a Golf GTi and a Tag Heuer 2000. I'd happily wear a Gucci if it only had weekday.

Interesting point! People on both sides have got to be crunching those numbers. Those pesky dems, with their damn tofu and Pelotons, outliving the patriots.

It's too funny. He's tried to switch to taking credit for the vaccine. The new message is that if you don't have it, you're giving the Libtards what they want by making Repubs easy to attack. Heads are exploding. But he doesn't care because anonymous donors have given him a BILLION dollars for his new media venture.

paying a bag for a fake

If you've seen the Matrix too often, you're easily persuaded that Noob was shut down because their Sub had become indistinguishable from a Rolex. Parity had been achieved. The threat to the System became too great. This forced The Man (Xi Jinping) to deny the Noob to the masses. Ergo a Noob Sub is now a collectible. Even at $1,000 it offers a real world saving of $14,000.

There are too many hysterical teenagers in that Reddit. You'll get a more nuanced view at rwg.bz, which is the more intelligent of the rep fora.

Opinions of outsiders differ, and the insiders never broadcast what is really going on. The whole rep industry is very opaque. The manufacturers/assemblers have various soubriquets but it's impossible to know who or where they are, or whether two outfits are actually one, or four.

The police like to spread pictures of raids and people in handcuffs, but they're many times more corrupt than the British bobby. Noob, a big name high quality manufacturer, has apparently been shut down, but it might have reopened under a new name.

The only certainties are that the quality of the product has improved and prices have increased a great deal. (By 'product' I mean the best reps of Rolex sports models and a handful of other things with mass appeal, e.g. sports models from Breitling, AP, Omega and so on. Nearly everything else is a bit second division, not hugely convincing and much cheaper.)

Availability has suffered a great deal, hence the rise in prices. Nobody knows how much of this is because of Covid and how much because of the police. Everyone is waiting to see if availability improves next year and prices come down. Right now the best Subs from the most reliable dealers are $250 - $750. The best Daytonas are $750 - $950. Lots of enthusiasts have stopped buying new and are mostly trading with each other.

Btw I'm not anti-reps, I have half a dozen.

I wonder how much the Helsons of this world overlap with the replica industry? I bet they are sharing parts and materials and workshops and staff. The economies of scale are impossible to resist. Rep manufacture is spread over several sites. Unbranded parts are made openly. Branded bits are made in secret. Watches don't become 'illegal' until the last stage, when the branded parts are added.

Has anyone noticed Ralf Tech http://www.ralftech.com ? French geezers. I reckon they've nailed it - cushion cases, lovely design. Some have a so-called hybrid movement with the accuracy of quartz and a big power reserve fed by an automatic rotor. So no battery replacement. Such a shame about the name. If only they'd market researched it in English-speaking countries. They've got lots of models. Some, the WRX, are 47.5 mm:

Others are 43.5 mm, e.g. this:

Which is reviewed here https://www.ablogtowatch.com/ralf-tech-wrv-v-automatic-1977-parisienne-watch-review/

Look at this beauty:

Was priced at £1500+, but this ebay seller offers it for £990 if you watch it. Once you wear it you probably halve the value, but still. It's got everything you need. (I mean everything I need.) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/185045546085?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&media=GMAIL&sojTags=media%3Dmedia

He's also got black ones with an auction price of £870 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/185221654353?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&media=GMAIL&sojTags=media%3Dmedia

Here's a beautiful video: https://youtu.be/6PI9txh_f8s
It's so lush...what if you got the name blacked out by a customiser chappy? Wouldn't cost too much. Then you'd have a keeper.

@mattyc The seller seemed very pessimistic about its strength...maybe he thinks cf just goes spongey or rancid after a few years. Or maybe he convinced himself there were hidden Cracks of Doom.

The Parlee is most interesting. Z4 frame and fork was 2k new, weighed 850g. I wonder what's wrong with it? Looks OK in the pics. If it's sound and it fits it's the basis for a hyperbike. I've got a Z Zero and it's a flipping magic carpet.

Assuming he gets 50% off his sentence for good behaviour he's due to be released in 2024. I'd rather he died before that. Then I might play his music again.

Gary Glitter concerts at university were some of the absolute highlights of my youth. Until his court appearances. Not many crims have managed to look that repulsive in public.

There seems to be a lot of that about - they're targetting the mortage free boomers I suppose. This 2CV is the only 'cheap' classic option I've seen. If you don't have a 2CV they're offering a 'new' Ev one for 30 grand. But a new small modern EV with twice the range is 20 grand.

There's a company offering to convert your 2CV to an EV for £16,900, inc labour. Is this encouraging? The range is only 65 miles though. https://2cev.co.uk/pricing/ Are there any other affordable (ha ha) EV kits for old cars?

P.S. They can fit bigger batteries in vans - max range is 140 miles.

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