Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Horology
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Mar 25 10:43:35 2006
References: <000401c6503b$482dc710$0302a8c0@acer81080ea37f>

Must be about an Omega clone watch :-P



Op 25-mrt-06, om 19:38 heeft Steve Unsworth het volgende geschreven:

> Every so often a post comes along that I have to read two or three  
> times
> before I grasp what it's saying. This was one of them ;-)
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> Jeff Moore
> Sent: 25 March 2006 18:34
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Horology
>
> Yep, funny y'all should mention that right now.  Just a few days ago,
> after a few years of admiring them from afar, I treated myself to a
> shiny new IWC UTC (with the "classic" face).  I saw that the only UTC
> model now entering the retail pipelines was the newfangled, ugly,
> tarted-up "Spitfire" flavor, and I figured I should get one of the
> clean-looking ones while the getting was good.  I learned my lesson
> from the One True Portofino Face I Love, which became completely
> unavailable, new or used, while I was making up my mind.
>
> I am astonished at their ability to make a curved synthetic-sapphire
> crystal like that with no visible optical distortions.  And optically
> coated to reduce reflections, too -- although one wonders if the
> coating on the outside is just waiting to get scratched, thus reducing
> the utility of the super-hard material.
>
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Replies: Reply from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] Horology)
In reply to: Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Horology)