dmteter

Pardon my screaming into the void, but....
I'm American, my partner is Taiwanese-born and we travel to Taiwan at least once a year to see family. Please don't get me wrong, I *love* Taiwan, but trying to book each trip involves a level of pain and frustration that I don't get anywhere else. EVA Air? Love the product, but this time their website was so bad, that I said f*ck this and spent the $4,000 USD on another airline. Same thing with trying to book a resort in Jiaoxi. Horrible UX/UI. Credit card declined for no reason. I love so much about Taiwan, BUT WHY DO THE WEBSITES SUCK SO MUCH?.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. :\

Hi. Sorry for the delay. I didn't know that I needed to start the post. I'll answer as many questions as I can, but due to some work stuff, I might be slow in replying for a couple of hours this afternoon. I will keep this open for 24 hours to respond to as many questions as possible. Thanks

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Hi. I've recently got my partner interested in watches and her brother-in-law gifted her this watch. I'm curious as to what the reference number model is. I know essentially nothing about vintage IWC watches but a google image search has not found a match for a) date + b) *only* 12+6 arabic numbers, and c) a non-italic SCHAFFHAUSEN. FYI, the watch is running great (+2 sec/day and 270 amplitude). Would appreciate any insights. Thanks.

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Hi. Kind of a strange post, but here we go. I'm currently 59, going on 60 (duh) and have been riding since I was 20. I'm currently riding a 1999 BMW R1100GS which I bought new in October 1999. When I bought the bike, I was living in rural New Mexico and loved riding there. It blew me away to go out for a day-long ride and see more trains than cars and be able to easily do a 500 mile ride. Since 2010, I've lived in San Francisco. I have no issues with urban (city) riding, but something seems to have changed in the last couple of years about riding on highways in the SF Bay Area. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's just be becoming more risk averse or if it seems that there are too many asshats

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Was surprised to see this Sinn U50 listed as in stock yesterday on WatchBuys and pulled the trigger. It showed up less than 24 hours later. Initial thoughts are very good. The watch looked even better in person than it did via pictures. I love the size and it fits very comfortably on my wrist. The tegimented steel bracelet with DLC is gorgeo

Hi. Apologies up front if this is off-topic but I figured this might be the best subreddit to ask my questions so that I can make good future servicing decisions. Around 25 years ago, my now ex-wife bought me a Breitling Wings A10350 watch. I wore it for 10 years and had a service by a local watchmaker who a friend was taking his Rolex to. I stopped wearing the Breitling and wore a series of Fitbits/Apple Watches until early this year when I purchased a Grand Seiko SBG221 watch to celebrate a much needed new job. I quickly went a bit nuts buying watches (Murph 38, Sinn 556, a nice Orient Star diver, and other fun things like a Citizen "Ray Mears" and some JDM G-Shocks. Sorry for the intro,

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Dave94109
Mystic LVL 70
San Francisco, CA USA
6849 4251 4518

Hi,

I bought a new SBGM221G around five months ago and have been very much enjoying wearing it. That being said, I bought a timegrapher recently and am puzzled by the consistent positional timing variations that I'm seeing.

• DIAL UP: -22 seconds/day
• DIAL DOWN: 6 seconds/day
• CROWN LEFT: 2 seconds/day
• CROWN UP: 1 second/day
• CROWN RIGHT: 1 second/day
• CROWN DOWN: 0 seconds/day

These results have been consistent over a period of several weeks wither when fully wound or not. Overall, the watch is keeping good time. I'm just puzzled about the dial up timing variation. I'd appreciate any thoughts about whether these results justify a service. Thanks!

Hi, I live in SF but commute down to Santa Cruz every week for work and had gotten to know Jordan who worked the front desk at the Hampton Santa Cruz on Ocean. Hanging out with him and talking about underground hip hop, sci fi movies, and random stuff was one of the highlights of my work week. To my sadness, I checked in tonight and he no longer works there. If anyone knows Jordan, please let him know that I'd like to reach out to hang out and continue our friendship. Thanks.

From back in the day when you could still buy fresh Polaroid instant film from Costco.

From back in the day when you could still buy fresh Polaroid film from Costco.