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I went for a different dress watch, but the deal on a NIB was too good to pass up, since it included a free $525 service for my son's 5 year old Planet Ocean 2500 (was new old stock but the oil is over 5 years old).

My son's 2012 15" Retina Macbook Pro developed the GPU Panic issue and is being totally refurbished by Apple under the 3 yr Apple Care warranty, but they would have fixed the GPU issue with just a new logic board even wthout the extended warranty. I didn't know the issue affected our rMBP until after I'd backed it up two 2 disks and restored OS X six times over a 24 hour period, and it kept crashing. A light bulb went off that said "hardware" and I made a genius appointment.

Happy belated birthday!

I was going to get one until you had the one with issues, so I decided not to. Looks good on you.

Happy Birthday!

I haven't heard from you since 2010 when we talked about the JH13Pro at the other site. What did you end up getting?

I like that my Explorer II clasp/band has a small extension that adds a few mm to the band, to help it fit when my arm swells up in the summer - it's kinda like a shorter version of a "dive extension". I think someone said it was called a "tropic link".

Did you try on the 42mm Explorer II?

My Titanium Citizen and my Titanium Seamaster Pro Chronograph are both kinda dull grey looking, and sometime look a little boring or cheap. But my new Titanium Planet Ocean is beautiful and shiny and I've been wearing it almost daily since my birthday. Sometimes a nice matt grey watch is cool because you don't see them on everybody's wrist everyday, but this is just the right grade of titanium and I love it the most. Maybe the Tudor is as nice as this?

I'm guessing about $40-50 is what I paid, plus a little more for a battery, case-back gasket, and pressure testing - the Tick Tock Shop here in Colo Spgs made the Tag Classic 2000 look almost new, which I gave my brother for his birthday the week before my car crash in December. PS: The trick is in knowing what the original finish looked like - he did make me do research about which parts had been brushed and which had been polished originally, or to decide myself how I wanted it to look. As far as I could tell the whole thing was brushed or matt finish, but on some photos I found a few shiny spots on the bezel ridges. So I had him just clean up the scratches and not put a shine to it anywhere except for on the raised bezel ridges located at the 5 minute, 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55 minute marks. In the new watch we got my wife, it's the shallow areas of the bezel that are polished.

Yeah, I have a black leather strap on my Speedy too. Looks good.

Two years ago I gave my wife a Citizen mother of pearl Eco-drive watch, and she made me return it because it was too dressy for every day wear after her job change (went from Children's Hospital Director to doing home Occupational Therapy again). I ended up returning it for an inexpensive Bertucci 100M WR SS watch with screw down crown, with several interchangeable nato straps and a pocket full of cash left over. She actually wore it often, but lost it at the hospital in December right after The Accident. I could buy 10 bertucci's for the price of this TAG, but we wanted to make this one special and I have the weight of the kids behind me to make her keep it this time.

My daughter, son, and I went looking for a watch for their mom's Mother's Day gift. The criteria were Swiss quartz, small size < 30mm, rugged and sporty but also fitting in a dressy situation, and hopefully very water resistant for a trip the the Boy Scout Seabase in the Bahamas this summer. We found a TAG Aquaracer with mother of pearl dial, and good lume with rotating bezel and 300M WR. MSRP was $1,900 but it was on sale for $1,300 - but as a repeat customer I got them down to $1,100. Then in combination with a Wolf dual watch winder I was able to use $500 in Jared rewards, bringing the watch down to $600.

I was seeing several posts, and couldn't figure out what happened. Any way to get my typing back? I spent a while editing it down to be shorter and not TLDR...

The 8400 is actually like the 8500, but moar antimagnetic (Master Coaxial). The watches using these newer automatic wind in-house movements are often fatter than the ones using the 2500, even though the 8400 and 8500 are only slightly thicker than the 2500 - it was a design choice by Omega that turned off a lot of people (hockey puck watches). Maybe a Hirsch Heavy Calf waterproof leather strap from www.watchobsession.co.uk for about half that much?

Very happy with mine, although I still wear my older one often to prevent wear and tear on the new one. The 2500D has a 3-level coaxial escapement that is improved over the previous version, and wont get gummed up as easily as the 2500C with 2-level coax. This makes the 2500 movement closer to the 8500 in-house movement, although the 2500D is still a highly modified ETA 2892 (which in itself is capable of meeting COSC specs and competing with the Rolex 3135 depending on the grade and finish). ----- A shot of the 42mm Explorer II from my trip to NC last December.

That sucks Nate, sorry but lucky you caught so fast, like when our pipe froze last Feb and I was up and was able to shut off the water before it did more than $2K in damage in 90 seconds...

Happy Birthday!

Did you guys see the video of the bracelet re-sizing as you dive deeper with the Pelagos? http://www.tudorwatch.com/#/en/pelagos/buckle-video/ And another shot of my new watch...

Thanks, belated works for me too!

A dock will have to support everything - if they had come out with a dock from the beginning, that connects to the one port, that has some USB 3.0 ports, a Thunderbolt port, and power input then it could be excused. Just like they abandoned Firewire 800 and optical disks, I fear they are going to abandon Thunderbolt 2.0 as well someday, and this new port is the harbinger. At least with Thunderbolt I can still use my FW800 drive and connect to ethernet with an adapter.

That's what I reported with my Edition 9, they turned to shit after a few hundred hours...

Thanks guys! I appreciate the well wishes and incoming congrats. Had a nice birthday weekend, spending time with the family and going out for a nice meal and then a movie at home. My big gift was an IOU from the wifey for an Apple Watch since it's not out yet, and then my favorite snacks and some clothes. I'm up on crutches for short periods of time and trying to bear weight on my left leg more, through the big pain in my femur, while my daughter walked using the parallel bars at physical therapy for the first time on Friday. I'm hoping I wont have to have a second femur surgery and new rod for a "slight varus deformity", and praying that my daughter who is just now able to stand is well enough for her 2 month-long internship in Portland in June (19 more PT sessions covered by insurance before she leaves). I'm a little worried though that the doctor gave her a permanent handicapped tag on Thursday, for an orthopedic disability. Is he trying to tell us something? And thanks for not forgetting about me like last year, it brought tears to my eyes, so thanks again!

When does yours arrive?

Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 8500 in Titanium with Liquid Metal bezel - the dark blue glossy dial and bezel changes depending on the light. Currently wearing an Omega brand shark mesh.