EdipisReks1

I like the looks of these. Maybe there will be another pair of Senns in my life that I'll buy and sell three times, who knows?

So, I did lots of things today, but the thing that really stood out was my going "what the fuck?" One of my speakers was off its base. It happens to be the speaker that is next to where the cats get catnip. Could cats really move a 70+ pound speaker? I know that it isn't that hard to move, given that it's on spikes on a polished granite (I've knocked it off the base a couple times myself), but really? Cats? I'm 99.99% sure that no human touched the speaker today, until I put it back where it belonged. Speaker undamaged, but really. Cats? Cats. CATS!!

Thanks, Nate. I've really enjoyed wearing it.

Here it is on a Vollmer mesh bracelet, which I think looks quite nattily 1960s.

So, I got my dad's UG back. I had asked that the case be cleaned up, but that the polish be conservative. In hindsight, maybe I should have asked for a bit more polishing, but the watch looks honest. I have it on a late 60's NOS Spiedel Teju-skin strap, with a correct UG gold filled buckle. The watch wears extremely comfortably, and has a totally different flavor from anything else I own: I'm very glad to have it, both for those reasons and that it connects me to a period of my dad's life that I know very little about, even if just tangentially. Sorry for the slightly out-of-focus wrist shot.

Woke up with what appears to be bronchitis on what would have been the first day of my job. I'd had a cold the last week, but had been feeling better the last couple of days, and then boom. Argh.

We've been married for a while, but it's nearly my 37th birthday, so here is a pic. That is what a well tailored Brioni suit looks like on a hugely fat piece of shit. We got rained on, hence the droplets on the shoulder.

No pics, but tonight was taco night. Deep-fried shrimp tacos with roasted tomatillo and cowhorn pepper salsa, and miso and garlic-confit refried beans between the doubled corn tortillas for Colie, and deep-fried avocado (and the same other things) tacos for me. Guacamole and homemade tortilla chips as a starter. The grocery store had some great looking big freshwater shrimp on sale, so I also made four pan-seared freshwater shrimp with a chipotle-lime vinaigrette for Colie. Pretty good stuff, especially with a brace of grapefruit-based cocktails.

A big pair of Genelec powered studio monitors would be high on my list.

The particular PVD coating this watch has is very tough, in case anybody was interested in getting one: I whanged it pretty hard against a brass door hinge, tonight, and there isn't a mark, even under bright light and magnification.

Thanks. I was finally able to get the OEM strap off (the spring bars were glued to the leather, and some glue had seeped inside the bars) and I currently have it on a grey/black NATO from Clockwork Synergy that I found in my box of watch odds and ends. I transferred the signed Bulova buckle over, to complete the look. I think this is a nice combo, and it's very comfortable. The leather strap was actually very nice, but the sizing wasn't quite right for my wrist. This isn't a watch I would have gotten if I hadn't been able to get it for essentially free, but I actually really rather dig it. Part of that is just because of how different it is from everything else I own.

So this is not at all what I was expecting: it's a Unisonic with a 14k bezel! It's currently riding on a JB Champion two-tone bracelet, which is rather fitting. I have no idea if my watchmaker can service this, the early electric watches being... quirky. I definitely want to get it up and running. It has an inscription on the back, with my father's name. I'd show a picture of that, but it also has his SSN (a common enough thing at a certain point in time, I think). What an interesting watch for a man in his early 20s to have bought. The unexpectedness makes having it all the more special for me.

It can be two things.

I think my record for posting dumb shit is fairly unbreakable.

128 GB of RAM, maxed storage, and 18 cores?

I'm thinking about getting a replica NASA velcro strap for this. I think it would look good and be practical.

Well, I figured out the problem with the Bulova. I haven't owned many quartz watches, and I initially didn't realize that there was a spacer under the crown to keep the watch from running. The Movado Museum 70th anniversary I bought for my wife didn't have this spacer, so I didn't expect it, and I couldn’t see it until I turned the watch over. Apparently this high-amplitude movement burns through batteries, so it makes sense that Bulova adds the spacer. Anyway, if you activate the chrono while the crown is extended, the chrono seconds hand will move a tick, and if you hit the chromo-reset, the split-seconds counter will as well. So, if you try to use the chrono function with the crown pulled out, you end up with a watch that doesn't reset to noon. I had done that a few times before I turned the watch over and noticed the spacer. Resetting the movement just required pulling the crown out and pushing the chrono start pusher 250 or so times, to reset the main chrono seconds hand, and the chrono-reset pusher a couple dozen, to reset the running split-seconds dial. Not the end of the world, once I realized what had happened, and it's kind of nice that there is a way to adjust the hands, as I can certainly foresee an imbalance happening, over time, with a 262khz movement. I haven't read the manual yet, maybe this is even mentioned as a feature. The hour counter, fortunately, syncs straight to 0 upon chrono reset: that would be a real pain in the ass, if it didn't, as it would take pressing a button that would take approximately 16,000 times, otherwise. The seconds sub-dial ticks (though at about three times the rate of a standard quartz), but the split-seconds and the chrono-seconds sweep more smoothly than any mechanical watch I've owned. When reset, the split-seconds and the chrono-seconds sweep through, instead of just going right back to noon, which is kinda cool. Dial legibility is very good. The lume is excellent, picking up a charge very quickly, and glows quite brightly. The lume is slightly tan, which avoids the overly dark brown "aged" luminova that is popular with reissue watches. I'm sure the lume will retain charge for a reasonable amount of time. The dial is very well printed, and the hands are uniformly painted and reach their respective chapter-rings, as they should. Anyway, on the wrist, I really rather like it. It's very different from my other watches, but in a good way. It feels quite substantial, but comfortable. It's larger than my Speedy, but about the same thickness. The strap is very supple and comfortable, but isn't really a NATO strap. My guess is that I'll stick this on a real NATO, at some point. I have a knock-off Omega-style black with two-gray stripes, and black furniture, which would look quite nice. The case finishing is very uniform, and the curves are nicely radiused, which helps make the watch wear smaller than it is. The lugs being short, the tachymeter ( which is under the sapphire) being about the same diameter as a Speedy's and the fairly tight fit of the strap to the body also helps it wear smaller. I think the finish will look good with some "brassing." All-in-all, now that I have it resetting correctly, I'm quite happy, especially since I was able to get it for essentially free. My only real complaint, other than the NATO not being a real NATO, is the edge on the sapphire.

The Bulova isn't too big, but I don't like the shape of the crystal (it's just slab-sided) and the chronograph seconds hand doesn't reset to 12 o'clock (it's 2 seconds off), so back it goes. It was a nice thought.

From the early reviews I've read, the iMac Pro is way, way faster than the regular 5k iMac.

45mm may well be too large for mine, too, but it apparently wears smaller than its size. Unfortunately, the stainless one wasn't available.

.

I found myself with a fairly large, non-transferable, credit, and a coupon, after a price adjustment on an engagement ring, so I bought the current limited edition Bulova Lunar. I've never owned a black watch, and it's a bit large, but I like the look and the features, so I'm hoping this will make a good weekend watch.

I have a balanced SQ that KG fixed. It belonged to Headphone Addict. It really sounds very good, but the split volume pots is a pain.

I’d just buy whatever watch you like best.

My uncle contacted me out of the blue, this week. Apparently, in the mid-60s, my father owned a Universal Geneve, which he traded to his younger brother (my uncle, and the only one of five siblings still living) for something that my uncle can't remember, after my dad bought the GMT Master. My uncle wore the watch for years, but stuck it in a drawer after buying his first Rolex in the early 80s. He apparently recently found the watch in said drawer, going through things after finally retiring, and is sending it to me. I assume it's a Polerouter, of some kind, but I really have no idea. I'll report back when I have it, which should be next week. I'm sure it will need a full service. I'm excited.