Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Greg. I have spent much time on Timezone, Chronotrader and a bunch of other watch sites. These are great articles you have cited. After accumulating 30 watches I've stopped (for now). Rob On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:53 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote: > > Rob, > > Here's a link to a number of articles written by Carlos Perez when > he actively doing this at Timezone.com: > > http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml > > I haven't been too active their in several years. > > Lots of Omega and other interesting watch ruminations in several > articles. > > Greg Lorenzo > Calgary, Canada> From: rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> To: lug@leica- > users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Too Busy? - Now OT Watches> Date: > Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:18:02 -0500> > Greg,> > Great link. Every watch > on that page is special. Would love to have > them all but the only > one I currently have ia an Omega Speedmaster Pro > "Moon Watch" > lovingly given to me by my wife for our 30th > anniversary. Prized > even more than my Leica for obvious reasons. The > IWC Mark XI has > the cleanest, easiest to read dial IMHO -- would be > nice > complement to Speedy -- 35th anniversary maybe?> > Rob> > > On Jan > 21, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote:> > >> > Jeff,> >> > Not my > cup of tea. I prefer the IWC Mark XI, discussed here:> >> > > http://www.timezone.com/library/cjrml/cjrml0027 > > >> >> > Greg Lorenzo> > Calgary, Canada> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 > 18:47:20 -0500> From: jbm@jbm.org > > > To: lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Too Busy?> > > > 2009-01-21-16:04:03 Mark > Rabiner:> > The whole point of the picture > > is its busyness.> > > Its what makes it what it is.> > Yeah. For > > instance... I mostly > only like really simple, bold, legible,> > > cleanly designed watch > faces. When they get a little more > > complicated> than that, I > usually don't like them much. But there's > > an example which> > comes to mind of a watch face which is SO over-the- > > top busy > that its> complexity just ends up (to my eye) turning into > > an > intriguing and> intricate pattern. To my surprise, I really kind > > > of like it:> > http://www.sinn.de/onlineshopPRO/zoom-pics/900.JPG> > > http://www.sinn.de/onlineshopPRO/TEMPLATE/index-ka.php?id=900.010 > > > > > -Jeff> > _______________________________________________> > Leica > > Users Group.> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > for > > more information> > > _________________________________________________________________> > > Windows Live?: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect.> > > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 > > > _______________________________________________> > Leica Users > Group.> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information> > > _______________________________________________> > Leica Users Group.> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > for more information > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live? Hotmail??more than just e-mail. > http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information