we needn't "pretend to disingenuously effete euphemisms " - when we mean shit, we should write shit, and not sh!t.
Otherwise, don't use sh!t (shit) at all. (crap? or how about just "damned lousy?" )
See? Now you've gone and done it; you got me to slip further down the slippery slope of not wanting to engage in this topic ever again...
Point of order - the 3126 is not a tried and true JLC caliber (thanks for the typo correction, by the way, that "slip" - Freudian or not - did ring my alarm claxon's to a possible flame alert) but an AP in house development (I know you knew that, I point it out to underscore the point that your original point was what you meant, and not the back pedaled position of appeasement taken later)
Yes, I am well aware that it is not "most" of the AP chronos currently installed (not yet, anyway)
I am also aware of the possible future alternatives being considered, which you vaguely imply/reference, but do we really need to slag an old warhorse, tried and true, to pave the way for a (possibly glorious, possibly not) new replacement? Afterall, I know you know I am very well personally acquainted with one of the possible future alternatives (you were with me when you were on the phone calling across the Pacific...)
Isn't it a longstanding PuristS credo to appreciate all watches FOR WHAT THEY ARE, allowing for all the wonderful diversity and loving them DESPITE their quirkiness or imperfections?
Afterall, how else can we otherwise love, even tolerate, some of the crap that everyone seems to ooh and aah and fawn over when lovingly posted by their new, proud owners?
AGAIN, I have no particular love for the Offshore, though I know those who don't really know me might too easily conclude this and look at my comments as fan boy blind devotion apologies.
The Offshore needs no apologies, and those who buy it mostly buy it for the design of the cases and dial; yes (gasp) even for the fact that it is popular and a status statement, much like most of the Rolex and Patek buyers in the world. (come on, who wants to argue with me that most PP 5016 owners buy it because it is "the ne plus ultra standard production grand complication PP" and the most expensive (non-jewelled) model and thus for the bragging rights inuring, and not necessarily because of how great and consistent the repeater sounds are, or how fine the anglage, or how well regulated every single piece is, leaving the factory?)
The 2326 is a FINE movement - what are we comparing it, the 7750 derivatives? the 2892 modular evolutions?
It is not a GREAT movement.
I'd be interested to read what is a great movement, to those 2326 haters...
Ooof, 500 words more than I ever wanted to write on this subject, ever again.
Forgive me my weakness of character to not be able to resist a provocative temptation...I am now going to flagellate myself in penitence; the bracing cold here only adds to the stinging...
Cheers, and of course, ya know I luv ya, man, "disingenuously effete euphemisms" and all!
TM