missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Re: missF Dec 2015

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Dancematt wrote:Love the Vostok. I'd love to see it on a different strap. Maybe a timefactors cloth strap in cream perhaps?
thanks DM - would always listen to your watch advice! timefactors are on holiday til new year, but i'll get onto it! :thumbup:
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Re: missF Dec 2015

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missF wrote:
Dancematt wrote:Love the Vostok. I'd love to see it on a different strap. Maybe a timefactors cloth strap in cream perhaps?
thanks DM - would always listen to your watch advice! timefactors are on holiday til new year, but i'll get onto it! :thumbup:
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Re: missF Dec 2015

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OK - you wait 2 years for a SOTC, and then two come along at once!! :lol:
since it's still december, i'll update this SOTC rather than post separately anywhere else.


now the last time I bought a significant watch (my C11), i had just been quite unwell getting quite intense about the nature of time, eventually dropping out of normal time altogether and doing some hospital time! :irre:
i won't go into depths (or heights!) this time, but i have bought a new watch - the Ball Ohio Moonphase - and it's just lovely.

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i remain passionate and fascinated by mechanical automatic watch movements. it's the sheer endeavour that captivates me, sustained and still at work after centuries - the wonder of watching an automatic movement alive in the hands of someone who made it. so the fact that people would still want to create moonphase complications - a hark back to, and respect for, a very different elemental sort of timekeeping, just entrances me. i've always loved moonphase watches.

but the trouble with mechanical moonphase watches is that they're almost invariably dress watches, to tend, take care of, wear lovingly but sparingly, and keep dry. and i'd always thought this ruled me out of ever owning a moonphase. the Ball Ohio moonphase bust all this out the water! Tough, rugged, anti-magnetic, and with a WR of 100m, this is the only mechanical moonphase I've found that i could own and wear - really wear - all the time. and as i like a little bit of quirk in watches, this moonphase has a very prominent moon that takes up about half the dial from 2-7 o'clock - the moon is no afterthought on this watch, and i love the fact that i see the moonphase before i register what time it is!

this year has been very significant for me in ways i won't waffle about. I've reached the end of a 10 year journey, and am about to embark on new ground. way markers are important in life. for me anyway. so place a marker, give thanks you made it so far, then ready yourself for what comes next. try not to take steps backwards. allow for waxing and waning of energies. i bought a moonphase watch which seems absolutely fitting - if i didn't chat on this forum perhaps i would have bought myself a piece of art! :lol:

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my photos are rubbish, but simply proof that the watch is here and now in safe hands. the dial is inky midnight blue lifted to a pale shimmer when the light catches it - like catching a glance of the milky way. the way the light catches the indices makes the dial twinkly rather than blingy. it feels solid and very real and very comfortable on my wrist. the PCLs even get to stay for now!

best of all, i'll be able to set the moonphase correctly for the full moon on Christmas day! 8)
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Lovely addition missF. I'm really pleased that you've added a piece that ticks all your boxes. Enjoy it and the upcoming festivities.


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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Congrats missF!!

We knew you would. It was just a matter of when!

What an excellent watch to mark your point in time with. :clap:
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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That's a great watch enjoy and celebrate this milestone like music I always remember the circumstance of the arrival of a new watch. Christmas 2015 will be linked for ever with the moon phase best wishes at this special time of the year. Chris
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Wow, its so lovely - Congratulations !!
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Thats a gorgeous watch missF and one i like myself , congratulations .
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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You have indeed bought a piece of art! What a great purchase MissF. Absolutely tremendous addition to the collection. Every woman needs a Ball!

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Re: missF Dec 2015

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missF wrote:...if i didn't chat on this forum perhaps i would have bought myself a piece of art! :lol:
I think perhaps you did it anyway! Looks great. Sincere congratulations. :D
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Excellent.

You're coming along nicely.

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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Very nice :wave:
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Congratulations missF that is a great looking watch. As to the PCLs, if you wear the watch as its designed for and don't baby it, after a few years the PCLs will end up looking brushed anyway! Enjoy. :)

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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

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Wow !!
Many Congratulations missF :)
That is a beauty and so different to other moon phases like you said.
Enjoy the full moon on Christmas day.
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Re: missF Dec 2015 (+BIG update!)

Post by Amor Vincit Omnia »

Congratulations, that is so right.
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