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  1. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    SJ, Thanks. I wasn't aware of the connection. Some research for me I guess....
  2. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    BB@M, I assume you mean the one on the right in the first pic. I don't have the tool to get the back off, but I seem to recall 9298(?). Not sure though. :sorry:
  3. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    SJ, I know of the UG connection with transatlantic flying. What was the other watch developed for the purpose? Great site BTW. UG are nice watches, but getting harder to find parts for. I have a polerouter bumper with my watch guy for what seems like a year now - gotta do something about...
  4. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    ^^^^^beautiful.
  5. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Beautiful work. That's a very nice piece
  7. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    1958 Polerouter
  8. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Reverso
  9. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    a 1943 Elin AII The crown is a bit rough, but I'm reluctant to meddle with its authenticity
  10. Talbot

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Apologies for the O/T subject matter, but I'd seen a few comments from folks wanting, but not being able to justify the cost of, a Navitimer. This is an English Rotary Chronospeed, and if you can tolerate a Quartz movement, you will see new ones on eBay for around GBP$60 Quartz, but...
  11. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    Couple more pics The Super Oyster stumped my watch guy as the crown is not the screw in type. Turns out it's some kind of limited American model... The new Explorer I is noticeably larger than previous models.
  13. Talbot

    Earliest use of the term 'Hip'?

    I'm sure other loungers are more scholarly than I on these matters, but here goes I'm currently reading 'The Big Money' written in 1936 by John Dos Passos (good read BTW). In he writes about the Wright Brothers: 'The folks claimed it was the bishop's bringing home a helicopter, a...
  14. Talbot

    The Antipodean thread

    Indeed. My wife discovered that the Uncle she never met was a pilot of a Halifax shot down at night over Antwerp. His third mission. The place and time of the explosion. No survivors. The names of the crew. Description of effects left behind. The pleading letters from home for answers...
  15. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    Radium I think - not sure. It is a very low contrast dial when wearing it. A black face would have been better and glare from the domed acrylic doesn't help. Difficult to read at a glance and harder under water. The bracelet is wrong, but the correct riveted one is outside my discretionary...
  16. Talbot

    The Antipodean thread

    Lest We Forget....
  17. Talbot

    Great images on Lost America.

    Neato. Thanks for sharing.
  19. Talbot

    My Swing Era dictionary

    Its real George to try.... ???
  20. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    Its had some work, and I would not call it any more original than grandpa's axe....
  21. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    Last time I landed at O'Hare I reckon they off loaded my luggage before the plane touched down. I got it, but in pieces. Early in my career I worked as a facility technician at an international airport here. There are many places where luggage conveyors pass through unattended spaces. Too...
  22. Talbot

    "Vintage" Plane Ride

    Front cockpit of a Stearman for a couple of hours in a beautiful crisp day over Texas. I shall never forget it, sigh.
  23. Talbot

    Lets see your Rolex watches

    1952 Rolex Super Oyster - wearing it right now 1957(?) Millgauss. 1970's Explorer I

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