Christopher Ward Forum

politel wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:47 am

Yellow dial, white hour markers and blue bezel?

A kind of updated, more colourful, version of my Kingfisher? Nice to have a non-blue option in the mix too!

For my two penneth, any brand can do a plain clear or smoked see-through dial but only CW can do the 'twin flag' smoked see-through dial , which is my preference, as we are looking to create a unique watch. Good point. I wonder if it's possible to do a subtly embossed version of all the twin flags ...

I appreciate that I'm a bit of an outsider as I've not been participating much (if at all) to this FLE but I have been watching very closely. I'm still gutted I missed out on buying a Trident Elite (I love orange and blue combos) but at the time I told myself I didn't need to replace my Kingfisher (...

I have a couple of the smaller cases like the pod case and I don't want to risk the crystal bouncing against the zipper, so tend to wrap the watch itself in a glasses cleaning cloth. I find this pads out the watch enough to prevent it rattling around...

Option 2 from me too! Unless you want to send a cheap but good two seater my way to replace mine? :lol: (Actually no, as I think I'd be very told off!) Edit: I actually want to expand on this with a more serious answer. You're only probs ly going to build this car once, so using something in good co...

The Exocet photographed looks like an entirely new discrete vehicle. Which part of the donor MX5 will go into the final car (engine/gearbox?) and which bits do Exocet supply? So if I remember right, (it's a good few years since I last looked at a build thread for these) the MX-5 has a sub-chassis w...

This is going to be a great project! Will you have a build thread anywhere? I've been really keen on building an Exocet myself since I saw one at the kit car show at the NEC some ten years ago. Unfortunately I've not had space, time or money for a kit car (all three are key requirements I think!!). ...

Ah drat. I missed out on a window recently and was also waiting on the next one for a couple of straps! Maybe it'll be an SPV1 for me too...

A good warning! I too have had a go at a garage who put wheels back on with an air gun; last thing you want is for them to wreck the hub nuts in doing so too (again, thinking of an older vehicle here) as that then becomes a major operation! I also suggest the other way too; I've had a garage forget ...

Not being an active user in the main does help. Its a weird place, I took a couple of months away a while back but kept browsing and had no ‘urges’ to buy. As soon as I started contributing regularly again the urges returned :lol: :lol: Good to know. Half of my posts so far have been this year, so ...

Hello Gary! I'm proof that you can browse this forum without making a watch purchase - having not made a purchase for some years. But it's very hard and the Mk3 trident keeps calling out to me. :lol: Although I'm not the most active user either so maybe that helps somewhat. I'm not normally a fan of...

Thanks for posting Steve. It reminded me of being fascinated calling the speaking clock (on 8081 I think) when I was a lad. I think my kids would find it funny we did that back then to get an accurate fix on the time, I'm a dinosaur :lol: I'm 34 and remember the speaking clock on 123. This came up ...

Gosh, it was almost 10 years ago! I had sold a car I'd spent many hours and lost lots of blood, sweat and tears to rebuilding, sold for not actually that much money. I decided to treat myself a little with the proceeds to remember the car and the ones that had come and gone before it. (A bit stupid ...

I've been wondering the same about some of my boxes recently; probably actually going to get rid of some of the non-special ones to make space.
Also, in rather timely fashion, this popped into my inbox a few minutes ago: http://www.thetimebum.com/2019/07/watch ... -hell.html

I appreciate these postings about the Tank. It is my partners favourite watch (she'd like one) and so I'm trying to learn a bit about them. Should I be concerned that the more modern ones tend to be quartz? I keep looking out for mechanical movements, but they seem few and far between...