Horological Meandering

amerix
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Please take it in the most positive way, TM!

I have been following you for many years at the PurstS before they became PuristSPro, or me becoming a registered guest , and ascribe to your ideals and values unto this very day. In fact, thanks to PuristS I became seriously interested in watches, not in watch collecting but in - watches, for themselves and all their aspects.

The economic realities of such ventures are lost upon less finely-attuned, rude, blunt ears - but not yours! And your experiences with managers and official spokesmen would drive me to the same conclusion as a Philippe Dufour, "I would rather sweep the streets than work for them again."

My word-games with "host" and "holy" and "ghost" refer to one's being a guest at an organized affair at which one is glad, and in my case, very proud and privileged to have the chance to not only BE there but to become an active participant.

My few and often enough inane (satirically but never sarcasticly intended) contributions should not be regarded as "burnt offerings" to some all-overseeing Ego. Quite the contrary! The "guests" in such a group, calling it for the moment "ours", should always show courtesy and respect or at least some recognition (!) to the whomever is throwing the party - remembering that I, as with the many others here who have found heir way here to the specialist from the generally watch-interested public did not receive an express invitation to join up. An invitation to join, from whom - a watch brand? - how could that possibly be - answers fall from the sky like stone and ash from a volcano. What was there when you started the PuristS - OK, TZ, but litte else, and they were biased as hell!

Invitations to any event I defintely but most respectfully decline.

Declining an invitation to an event staged by the roman Cesars Caligula and Nero could , and often did, prove fatal - just by being there - in fact one could become the major attraction of the evening - gloriously fatal! We read about Christians being tied up on staffs and used as torches to light the way to Nero's palace. Maybe so, maybe not, since the chroniclers of the time rewrote history to serve their latest emperor=employer.

Not referring explicitely to M. Journe but to some watchmakers, of whom I have heard but none that I personally know - including "the mad" Vianney", admittedly a friend - the disease is endemic - it is fine to be captain of one's own balloon; but if the balloon is one's own head - overheated, overinflated with hot air, then the landing can turn out to be expecedly rough and, shall we say - disappointing?

Again, thanks and appreciation for all that you have done here, Thomas, and may it long so continue!

My balloon has just collapsed

Best regards,
Amery
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