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:lol: ^^^^ Workhorse movement? Really? I haven't had a belly laugh like that in a long time, and they just keep coming. I'm waiting for a call from the Honda dealership to see what they plan on doing about the transmission service they screwed up and needed a good laugh. Thanks to everyone for all your great wit. :lol:
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Hairspring - what happens when you iron your ponytail
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Tortoise wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:20 pm Complication - what happens when your partner discovers you have bought more watches than you have actually disclosed.

Day Date - tete-a-tete during the daylight hours.

No Date - Lucked out...

Date Wheel - a circular device used to manage the rotation of your dates.

Reliable Movement - regular bowel motions.

Ubiquitous Movement - bowel motions, all over the place.

Workhorse Movement - really trying hard to have a bowel motion.
Movement swap - ......
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Explorer Dial - dialing random numbers into your phone just to see who answers.
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Column Wheel - What you do when coming out of the AD with your new watch, grabbing the awning support and spinning like you are in the Sound Of Music.
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Fumee dial - dialling the wrong number because you're so angry...
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Flying Tourbillon - Human cannonball member of an elite French circus troupe, exploring new directions in his act...
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Isochronism - looking after your rich mates


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Natural escapement - summer holiday in a nudist colony
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Second Guessing Staring at your quartz and waiting to see it tick. Caused by an irrational fear that it may have randomly stopped for absolutely no reason.
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Timegrapher - a role in 1970's industrial facilities in line with the trend for 'time and motion studies' usually comprising a dour white-coated man with bad breath holding a clipboard.
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Lavaine wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:45 pm Second Guessing Staring at your quartz and waiting to see it tick. Caused by an irrational fear that it may have randomly stopped for absolutely no reason.
Triptick- a common quartz low power indicator which usually brings heart palpitations to anyone Second Guessing.
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High frequency escapement - ski holiday, diving holiday, walking holiday, all taken by March
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Helium Escape Valve: Fr n - derrière.
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Hibeat- the most powerful setting on a Kenwood Chef
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