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Honestly, as much as I like Jan's work, I'd buy that strap you linked, if it is the right length, and the appropriately sized deployant buckle. Omega makes both 16mm and 18mm, so it should be easy enough to source one. I really prefer pin buckles, but I totally understand why you want that combo.

Yes, the problem would be sourcing the alligator hide (it's not easy, and definitely not cheap, to get it in small quantities and high enough quality for artisan work). It wouldn't be any cheaper than that Rousseau strap, FYI.

It’s very likely that is the reason if it’s a modular movement. It’s a good looking watch!

Get your mind out of the gutter: my strap maker only makes the finest strap-on straps for the most elegant perverts. Anyway, Jan can make you anything you want, Marc, and the quality is superb and the prices reasonable. PM me your email.

Nice! Want me to put you in touch with my strap maker?

There isn't anything about it that I don't like. Even the flaws are charming (for instance, it is a bit of a slab-sided watch, but at only 9mm, with a break in the side due to the bezel, it looks nice). The dial is about as simple as it gets: square matte silver with no guilloche, and a simply braced date.

You know, the Santos is so good that I think I could just wear it for the rest of my life. Cartier knocked it out of the park.

That is badass! Unexpected familial watches are... fun isn't the right word. Important.

Funny! I really do have too many watches, though. I don't have enough watches.

I'd trade most of what I have for that. What a monster piece! Better with every scratch, just like how the best tuxedo is something handmade, Italian, with the occasional moth hole.

Accuracy of new watches: 117610LN, a watch that is several years old and hasn't been serviced since new: ~+1 sec per week. Seriously. That is either on my wrist or on the watch winder. Cartier Santos (a brand new watch): +1-3 sec per week. Again, seriously, with it either on my wrist (which has been a lot) or on the winder! New Speedmaster: I can't quite tell, as I need to set it each time I wear it (too many watches!), but it seems to be about... drumroll... +1-3 sec a week. Man, modern mechanical watches rock.

Espresso is much more the process than the beans, but espresso roast coffee is indeed tasty in a French Press!

What a cutie!

That's great! Did you end up sending it to a Seiko owned center, or one of the Seiko certifieds?

I would wear one of them. I'm not sure I'd buy one, though, if that makes sense.

I'm sure that's what would happen! My doctor, while an excellent doctor, is not an excellent communicator.

This is my “Big C” watch.

Wearing the Santos, today. I love this watch so much that I wonder why I have other watches. Of course, this is my sentiment whenever I put on most of the others... There is something about the Santos, though. I also doubt whether I should have gotten the large. I bet I'd be doubting getting the medium, if I had gone that way, too.

I found out today that I'm "probably cured" of cancer. That's not as good as "cured," but much better than "probably not cured." There is a possibility that I'll need a course of radiation in 6 months, but my doctor thought it unlikely. So, all in all, good news! When do I get my ribbon?

I can get one.

I would take a pic of my blacked out GShock, which I picked up today, but it's so monochrome that my phone won't focus on it. I really rather like it. When I really got into watches, ten years ago, I never thought I'd ever own a digital again, but I really like this and the cheapo Casio World Time I have. This GShock is an objectively terrible watch (it being blacked out makes it hard to read, and hard to use), but it certainly has a presence! I might get one of these, in a little while. I was never allowed to have a GShock (I was bought many other Casio watches, but never the GShock nor the calculator, for who knows what reasons) as a kid, so this is a bit of wish fulfillment for me. I'm also now into selvedge denim, so I guess that the logical third thing is to get into sneakers. I wear suits at work, so that's a fairly nice contrast, and the 90s fashion that is so in now works for me very, very well (other than suits: 90s suits were gross).

Well, my incision seems to be infected, but I'm finally starting to lose the steroid + IV weight. Opiates not helping with bone pain and then opiates not helping much with vasectomy pain is what diagnosed it. I was on opiates for months, with my leg. I'm not taking any more for my neck, now, and I have about a month's supply left. That is what I think creates addiction, here in the USA.

I had some rather bad pain this morning that Tylenol didn’t help much with. Unfortunately I’m opiate resistant, so they don’t help that much either, but a little bit (I just took half a Vicodin at 8, and Tylenol mid-afternoon).

Just pain and fatigue. I've taken a little bit of Hydrocodone, but I don't think I'll need to after today. I hate the stuff.

Apparently!