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Luminor Marina - a new development of luxury villas in Dubai
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C60 Sunrise, C60 Atoll White Shark, C63 Sealander Lucerne blue LE, C65 Dartmouth, C65 SC Elite, W11 Amelia (wife), C63 Sealander (son)

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Deformed hairspring - what happens to your hair style when you fall asleep drunk.
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60/60 guarantee: Should your watch require a service expect it to be in for 60 days minimum, and expect to send 60 emails enquiring on its whereabouts.

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Grail - the most desirable watch, tantalisingly elusive and just out of reach, but yet maybe attainable somehow. If I could acquire this watch, it would be the one and only watch that would sate all these horological temptations........for a month or two until nbg, stefs or some other so and so posts in the "what watch are you dreaming...." thread.

Holy grail
- a religious man's grail watch (with a cathedral handset)
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Hour hand - exceptionally long standing ovation

Minute hand - baby appendage
watching you fail in your quest for a “one watch” has been great entertainment
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Oyster perpetual - recurring burps as a result of eating bivalve molluscs
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Retrograde date - the sensation that you have lived through this day previously.

Hairspring stud - an exceedingly well coiffed promiscuous man.
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G-Shock:That feeling when the penny finally drops, along with the credit card bill, for the eight grand you spent on that luxury Swiss timepiece.

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missF wrote: Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:05 pm Oyster perpetual - recurring burps as a result of eating bivalve molluscs
And ^^^ Des!

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Moonphase-The time when you used to enjoy sticking your naked bum out of Car/Train windows.

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Datejust - bag of chips and a shared can of irn-bru; quick peck on the cheek
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BB36 - bra size of a petite woman
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Counterbalance- Looking at the wife's bank statement.

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Black Bay - eBay’s evil twin
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Black Bay Blue-How you feel when you get swizzed by eBay's evil twin.

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