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Maybe McCain, facing his immediate mortality, from a disease that is being treated by healthcare paid for by the government, could have seen that pushing this vote forward would hurt millions of people, including lots of people in similar situations to what he is facing, but instead he did what he always does, which is march in lockstep with the Party. Party uber alles! Party uber alles! He's always been a piece-of-shit hypocrite, and will remain one until he dies.

On a plane to London, which is how it was always going to end (vacation fling, and all, and London was the next leg of her summer vacation), but let's just say that three weeks was plenty of time for personality issues to crop up, especially when you are spending all your time together. Now I'm stuck deciding whether I should spend $35 to send the stuff she accidentally left here back home. I probably will. Still, even with the strife, I don't regret it. The first two weeks were lots of fun.

If you are buying new, that makes total sense to do it. I was trading in an Explorer 2 and paying the difference on a very lightly used (still under warranty) Reverso, and didn't want to make the jump up to a new watch (at the time, as is still the case, the used Tributes aren't much cheaper than new). Cheers, and make sure you show pics once you have it!

Started cleaning up from having a house guest for three weeks. Things didn't quite end the way I was expecting, but I still need to clean up, since I couldn't be bothered during. Just the laundry alone is fairly irritating.

Funny stuff Steve, and true enough (!), but in this case it's simply because mine was made in January 1969, which is long, long before Omega started engraving the casebacks with space stuff! it was 7 months or so after my watch was made that Omega started engraving casebacks with space stuff, which is a long time, right? Right? There are rumors of casebacks, quickly destroyed, that were engraved with commemoration for a failed Apollo 11 mission, but I've never seen evidence. I'd hope that this was rumor only, but who knows. Dave R, I've looked at Tribute to 1931 price, and it looks like they are just as expensive as they were a year ago (they didn't make many, after all!. The Tributes are more special, but not that much more special. I have a strap maker in Latvia (who does wonderful work; I have several of his straps) who made me a copy of the Casa Fagliano strap, but in Horween Shell, and in a custom length (and with 16mm ends, so that I could use my '50s vintage JLC buckle). The Casa Fagliano straps are like $1000, so it was a pretty good deal at $180, or whatever (and was quite a bit less than I spent on the buckle)! I'd be happy to put you in touch with him, if you are interested in a less dressy strap alternative.

It's red, but it ain't that red.

Before you buy a standard GRUT, try to find a Tribute to 1931 version for a reasonable price. I couldn't justify the 1931 price, at the time, and I'm very happy with my GRUT, but the Tribute is more special.

They sure didn't write it on mine!

Speedmaster would have something to say about that, Stretch.

It's too bad that these are so much larger than the original Monacos (unless I'm mistaken).

I like this one, but having recently tried on a 15202ST Royal Oak, I don't know that I wouldn't spend the extra money... I mean, if I were in the market at the moment, which I'm certainly not.

Back when I did meat, I always liked to do St. Louis ribs in the oven, at very low temp. Looks good to me, though, Mike.

Drive.

Two of my three main watches are manual winders. Stupidly, I have a 6-watch winder, and two 4-watch winders, just collecting dust, from back when I had a lot of watches. I think the automatic Master looks great; I wonder if the manual wind Master is so thin that it kinda looks weird (I've never seen one in the flesh). That's a great Reverso, too. I love my Grand Ultra Thin. It, of course, get's plenty of wear with suits, but with the Horween shell strap I had made for it, I also wear it casually pretty often.

Hey, sounds good!

That service cost isn't terrible, outside of the VAT. I would get the bracelet, and buy the Reverso down the road, and I say that as somebody who loves his Reverso.

RP 1992

Summer league is, of course, a true Nostradamus. I found it hilarious that Lonzo played better not wearing those awful shoes.

A neutral leather conditioner cream would work just fine, for basic maintenance. Regular shoe polish is likely to build up on the surface, so I would avoid it. A lot of people swear by Saphir, but I have had great results with cheap-as-chips Meltonian on shell (I have several pairs of shell shoes though, admittedly, they are all no. 8), so I would expect it to work great on Chromexcel, too. You can also use colored cream: Chromexcel isn't as scratch resistant as shell, of course, so maybe a colored cream is a good idea, if you want them looking "new-ish." Then again, the pull-up is one of the charms of Chromexcel, so, again, I say start with a neutral cream, and see how that does it for you. It's been four years, so I don't know if you still need it, but I sent a pair of late 60s J&M full-brogue black wingtips to NuShoe (a cheap eBay find, rare in 12EEE), and they came back in wonderful kit. If I didn't have a pair of Church's in black, I'd wear them often (and if I didn't have a pair of Bally Goodyear welted wingtips, in black, I'd wear the Church's). Nothing wrong with the vintage J&Ms, the Church's just fit me better (perfectly compared to very well, and the Bally pair is even better, and are better shoes than either). It wasn't cheap (I did the executive package), but they did an excellent job. Included shoe bags and trees cut for the specific pair of shoes.

Martin Landau. Time for another viewing of Ed Wood (it would have been anyway, as I watch it annually).

You can try filling the shoes with ziplock bags 3/4s filled with water and then sticking them in the freezer. A boot is going to be difficult for a cobbler to stretch, as the stretchers likely won't fit through the ankle. I've had shoes stretched half a size in width, with no cosmetic issues, but that has been calf dress shoes. I haven't had much stretch, from wear, in quality shoes, especially with shell. The leather will soften, however.

Because it's quartz.

Oh, don't get a quartz reverso. They make automatics. I wonder if JLC makes a bracelet that fits my GRUT.

It should be just fine being serviced in the US. If they aren't able to service it properly here, they will send it to Switzerland. That looks great on the bracelet. I'd be interested in knowing what the service ends up costing.

It's gorgeous ink in a gorgeous package, innit?