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Hello dear JML! Ahh! that wonderful JLC Futurematic!! May be it is a book of Don Camillo series by Giovannino Guareschi? I don´t dare to even suggest the title of your first shot background! Lol!Great watches and shots to play my friend!
Don´t worry about leaving the Ulises unread. I must confess I didn´t finish it too. May be some day will read it from start again. We have to consider there are so many books and great writers to read. We can´t expect that all of them will touch our souls...
Nothing wrong with reading Harold Robbings or other best sellers Salman. Robbins has many enjoyable books many of them made movies. I enjoy reading best sellers too.
Main thing about books and reading is to find enjoyment and happiness in them I feel. Cheers! Abel
I remember as an impressionable...
10 year old reading Never Love a Stranger the first time and it was quite an experience the movies unfortunately are a watered down version of the books as to not offend the sensibilities of the time, I think if they made movies close the books, they woul...
It is usually what heppens when we read a book and we view a film based on it:The feelings experimented while reading is rarely felt in a movie. Agree with you that the enjoyment of a good book...
... is unsurppased. I don´t have a favorite book from Robbins because the very few I read was long ago. I remember viewing Nevada Smith in the late 60´s because I had always been a fan of Steve Mc Queen. I also was a fan of Tom Selleck´s Magnum P.I. Guess...
Great Minds Think Alike :-)...
Steve Mcqueen and Tom Selleck both had great Charisma for sure. S
Hello again dear Salman!! I read the Longitude book some time ago. Fascinating story indeed. Big congrats on your new arrival. I can well understand you have been wearing since you got it!
A very classic and elegant design. Keep enjoying and loving so much! Hagwe! Abel
Hello dear Art! Still waiting for the internet service…
… but I will try to post my shots. I love books and have been an avid reader since I was very young. My house is big and full of books. For my wife ‘s dispair not only my book cases but every place and room have books of very eclectic subjects. Be it fict...
Shots
Stacks of books covering a large cofee table in our living room… James Bond related books have been an obsession since I discovered 007 in the mid 60’s The 60th Anniversary Bond Seamaster make company to Bond related books ...
More shots…
A favorite book about watches. Though author collects pocket watches his writing can be applied to wrist watches as well. He speaks about collecting and collectors and their passion and feelings. Very nice reading! Paired with this beginnings of XX Centur...
More shots while 4G allows!
Ronald Dahl another of my favorite authors. Paired with a NOS gold case c 1967 ref 168009-2 found in the cases of a closed watch shop some years ago How not to love and admire this author? I paired this book with his short stories with my Rolex Bubbleback...
And more 4g shots! Last pictures for my post! Thanks for your patience!!
The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau introduced me into the marvelous under water world and fired my passion for Scuba diving when I read it an old edition of this classic in around 1959 when I was just eleven. This ref 1680 was bought brand new in 1977 i...
Thank you so much dear Salman!! You are too kind!
Appreciate so much your so kind generous comment. Best cordial regards Abel
Now that I think about it, Abel, we had an author theme many years ago . . .
. . . centered on Charles Bukowski. There were many community members in that thread who are no longer here, or rarely. How time flies . . . thankfully, we have our watches to guide us along the way. 😌
I don´t remember that one Art. Agree that time flies!! I can testify that! Lol!! Yes, we are lucky to have our beloved watches.
I wonder how many editions of WS and the Themes of them have been celebrated since I arrived to WPS in 2012. Say... eleven years x 52 weeks per year are more than 570 Themes!! Wow! Am I right?? My memory surely can´t tell the titles of all those themes! L...
New Old Stock Constellation !!!
Simply wow and if that wasn’t enough you followed up with an exquisite Rolex Bubbleback ! I don’t think I dare open your next post on medical advice 😉
Ha ha ha! Thank you so much dear Captain. The Omega gold was a very lucky find several years ago. I don´t dare to wear it as its has it´s original leather straps never worn, but sometimes...
... I wear for a few hours at home. It was found after a little watch shop closed and there were just a few old watches left in a drawer. This was the most interesting one. The Bubbleback is very nice and so difficult to photograph to really appreciate th...
What a suitable subject…
You seem to be full of fitting watch / book combinations 🙌🏻👌🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much dear Captain! Though I don´t collect pocket watches, a few have been added to my wristwatch collection through the years. Those are pocket watches I couldn´t resist to...
... take home. This is one of them. There is an identical one in Goldberger Omega book. In the big thick Omega reference book it is shown with an ad offering it at beginnings of XX for use by those pioneer "chaufeurs". It is a large and curious piece with...
The kind of exception to prove the rule 😁
And with this watch, no one can blame you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The Bond 60th perfectly photographed …
I also noticed several books on your table that I also have. The photographs by Greg Williams are superb and really capture the essence of Bond.
Thanks a lot for your kind compliments dear Captain. Agree with you regarding Greg Williams photography. I imagined that several books in my stacks and some others in my book cases are also...
... owned by you as we share several similar interests and passions. I´m happy for that! Best cordial regards, Abel
That looks almost like home 😂
In 2012 my wife got me an iPad with Kindle installed because she (rightfully) claimed that continuing to add physical books at the same pace would result in the two of us no longer having space to live 😂
Oh my dear friend KM! Book lovers need a Big home. Even Kindle can´t stop the book mania syndrome! I receive same claim from my wife. I only could reduce my magazine purchases and catalogs collecting...
... thanks to I Pad and computer. But books... I can´t resist to have more! Though I promise I make a big effort to reduce my greediness! Best, Abel
It’s not like this stopped new physical ones from arriving…
Just slowed down the inflow 😂😂😂
Ha ha ha!! Yes, service down here is a true disaster. I´m not connected with Movistar but with another similar bad provider. The service finally arrived at 3 PM and changed the router to ...
... fix the problem. I had been waiting at home since 8 Am their visit!! (by the way I´ve been without Internet since three previous days!!) This is Argentina!! Hagwe my friend!
Books and watches, my two life-long passions.
Here's a few biblio-horologic favorites: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Perhaps this JLC is paired with the wrong play. "One ring to rule them all." Well, maybe two in this case. "It's terrifying when you consider tha...
Great entry Goodfellow! Interesting pairing of watches and books with quotations from them. Well played!
Superb watches you share here in your great shots. Keep enjoying books and watches so much! Hagwe! Abel
Your book / watch / strap combinations are sublime 👏🏻👌🏻
Wish I had the wrist for the PloProf 😊🤷🏻♂️ All winners 👏🏻👌🏻
Thank you, KMII!
A PloProf requires more confidence than it does wrist circumference, as it is big but does not wear big --more like a 44mm Luminor (albeit taller) than a 47mm Luminor 1950. Titanium makes it very light. ...
Light is a relative term 😂
In the boutique, even the titanium on rubber felt like a weight lifting exercise to me 😂🤷🏻♂️
Unique book, for me at least because its in dialect and from my mother ☺️
Wikipedia "If I Were a Boy (Albanian: Sikur t'isha djalë) is an Albanian epistolary novel written by Haki Stërmilli in 1936. Written mostly in a form of diary entries it documents the struggle of the young female protagonist Dija to adjust in an Albanian ...
Thanks so much - would be highly interested 👍🏻
If I recall correctly the only two Albanian authors I have read are Ismail Kadare and Enver Hoxha 😉 The First is of course internationally renowned as an author, the second less so in that capacity but I picked up a copy of his ‘Yugoslav self-determinatio...
Enver is famous also for different reasons :). Havent read about the "yugoslav....", but i will definitely check it out out.
Have you heard about Sterjo Spasse? A favourite of mine as well.
Mom would be gratified to know her favorite book . . .
. . . was equally appreciated by you. 😌
Reading this today …
Well it is Sunday … The 321 Speedmaster feels appropriate ;-)) … Car and watch in perfect harmony … Best regards Captain ...
Good morning Dr. My favorite book of all times is
“Guns, germs and steel: the fates of human societies” by one of my favorites writers, Jared Diamond. This weekend I’m enjoying my Nomos. Best. ...
Hi aWtchslvr …
I haven’t had the pleasure of reading “Guns, germs and steel”. I will certainly take a look. Enjoy your Nomos today ! Best regards Captain
Been decades since I read it…
But thoroughly enjoyed it! Need to give it another look 👍🏻 That Nomos is a lovely choice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I also read it a long time ago and I don’t
forget it. The Nomos is my last purchase and one I don’t regret. Best.
I am guilty of not reading enough in recent years..
Even the few books which I started, I did not manage to follow through…let me work on it in 2024 starting with this… ...
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