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20 years old yacht master bought for $5500

worn daily and only recently stoped working, service cost was $1700. The owner is member of our community told me a story about his Explorer , he went with it to the room with MIR machine, the watch got tosted, it started running 1 hour slow just in a cou
1M
By: Concord
12
Bill
897

Alpine A 110 Légende: My third stage of improvements.

Compared to the two former stages, this third is maybe the one which took me a lot of time in thoughts, research and work. The car as I took delivery of it, in November 2020 : Indeed, while the first stage was the most evident, as it focused on the weight
3Y
By: amanico
46
amanico
7657

Good problem to have!! This price range is my sweet spot.....

The Railmaster is an awesome option and could be had I am sure for less than $6500... my AD has one currently in Detroit Metro area and is offering a heavy discount closer to 5K... The Aqua Terra Blue Dial or Silver dial is also an extremely versatile wat
5Y
By: Jurry
38
amanico
4301

Flying on the water…

Well, to continue my trip down 65 th Birthday Street, here is one from my youth. 1969 was a very good year for me. I was all of 14 years old, wearing a Rolex 5500 Air-King, and piloting one of these. I thank my Father every day. These photos are from the
6Y
By: HighEndOne
13
HighEndOne
1288

It's not allegedly unreliable, it's damned unreliable

Wow I could really riff on Maserati Quattroportes and BiTurbos -- back in the olde days I drove down to the Maserati dealer and took a Biturbo for a test drive. When the salesman and I got back we couldn't get the doors to unlock and after amusing a deale
6Y
By: psfparis
15
Weems@8
3243

A New Member… Part II

SBGW003 I've always wanted to post a pic like this! [To catch you up if you missed my initial post, after retiring from my university position I began to indulge a latent interest in watches. Selling my great-grandfather’s pocket watch in order to enter t
7Y
By: halgedahl
4
halgedahl
1762

POTM – 2018 – April – watch-guy.com

Dear friends! After last month's POTM from far North this month we travel down South to meet our next POTM. Our long long time member Another awesome interview. Sit back relax and enjoy as always. Cheers D 1. Please introduce yourself! Hi. My name is wat
8Y
By: Ares501 - Mr Green
63
Subexplorer
8373

In terms of complexity of movement

I would say that the 5100P is definitely at least twice as superior as the 5500P. I cannot comment on the complexity of making the pagoda case compared to the manta ray. Based on this I would say that a 5100P at two thirds of a price higher than the 5500P
8Y
By: GLau
29
sham1
8615

Color Temperature Measured

When your digital camera is set to AWB there are (at least) three metrics in play: color temperature as measured in Kelvin (K), the light balance (LB) measured as "mired units" (micro reciprocal degree), and color-compensation (CC). LB is a reference to t
9Y
By: cshimokita
2
cshimokita
436

I drove it for about 30 miles through some high speed curves

And some twisties, as well as sitting in traffic. I was told the US version is more luxuriously outfitted than the base Euro version - most of the US versions have leather, Euro base versions mostly plastic. Light, nimble - the acceleration from the 1.7l
9Y
By: bimbeano
9
nitediver
2353