And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Last time I saw a spread like that was in the back of a shop in Singapore. You needed to be taken there by a tour driver but it was cool with the shop owner completely up front about what was inside the cases. They were fake but still nice watches.
The brownish discoloration of the lume on some of the hands and dials suggests that several of those watches have radium based lume and are likely to be quite radioactive.
Omega over Rolex all day.
ReplyDeletewas given a "moon watch as a gift many years ago. it sits in a drawer as Omega wants 1500 to fix it. bit steep really when you are retired.
DeleteQuit wearing watch when I got cellphone. One less thing to break / lose/ buy / keep up with the Jones's
ReplyDeleteWho cares what time it is?
ReplyDeleteI quit wearing one when I retired
ReplyDeleteI received a really nice Citizen Eco when I retired. It's been worn twice in 13+ years.
DeleteCitizen is hard to beat. I also like my few Seikos. - Snakepit
DeleteLast time I saw a spread like that was in the back of a shop in Singapore. You needed to be taken there by a tour driver but it was cool with the shop owner completely up front about what was inside the cases. They were fake but still nice watches.
ReplyDeleteThe brownish discoloration of the lume on some of the hands and dials suggests that several of those watches have radium based lume and are likely to be quite radioactive.
ReplyDeleteI'll take the compass, got no need for a watch.
ReplyDelete"A broken watch is right twice a day, but a man with two watches is never sure of the time."
ReplyDeleteI'll go with the Tornek-Rayville
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