"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:58:27 -0000, "Keith G"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote

Agreed. Even 12 volts can be very nasty. I once shorted the starter
solenoid of my car with my watch bracelet, which went to dull red in
about a second! I can recommend Omega Seamasters, they will survive
being ripped off a wrist and thrown across the street..........

Hmmm, I think I gave my brother one of those about ten years ago - black
face, white hands, looked like a mini-submariner with an RRP of about a
thousand?

You can get a midsize version, but the full-size Seamaster Pro is
bigger than the Submariner - and also better made, despite being half
the price! The one that scarred my wrist is long gone. I think that
incident occurred about 1973, I remember because I had a Reliant
Scimitar 3-litre GT coupe at the time.

I have *never* seen him wearing it. Everytime I see him now, the urge to
mention it is growing stronger (like 'if you don't want it, I'll have the
bloody thing back!!') - not helped by all this 'genuine replica' spam I
get
on a daily basis....

I wear it's cousin, the Seamaster GMT with the 'sword' hands, almost
all the time. It's become my 'everyday' watch, and holds to about 2
seconds a day fast, less than a second if I leave it on the dressing
table overnight, in the '9 down' position.


Well, wadia knoe? Some good has come out of this (now OT) thread - I
was/have been prompted to speak to my brother with the outcome that the
Seamaster (ordinaire - no Pro or GMT and about 31mm, IIRC) is now coming
back to me!

:-)))

Now, the thing is, will I actually live long enough to see it? He's an
'Aerospace Engineer' and his idea of 'timescale' might not necessarily take
into account my rapidly advancing years.....!!

When I gave it to him I was buying Rolexes (8 in total*, including a 'yellow
metal'** Day/Date for about a third of today's RRP....) and gave most of
them away and/or traded them up, the only remaining example being the
Submariner that my oldest son still has.

I don't ordinarily care about 'posh watches' - didn't really then and don't
now, but I also appreciate the fine workmanship on a 'nice' watch and
greatly prefer a self-winding clockwork watch in any case. Also I'm not fit
to own a decent watch again - I recently left a cheap one (leather strap)
somewhere in the Leylandii hedge that I massively reduced with a chainsaw, a
few months ago! Luckily I wasn't wearing my wafer-thin Marvin (with a nice
porcelain face and also a leather strap) at the time, as I'm usually very
lax at taking a halfway decent watch off to do mucky/heavy work!!


*My 'shooting friend' (and jeweller) offered to get me a 'windmill' for them
to keep them wound, at the time, would you believe? (Not that there were as
many as 8 of them at the same time....!! :-)


**Not even Rolex have got the brass arsehole to describe them as 'gold'
........