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TBH, I'd rather take style advice from someone in an XXL Belstaff & size 6 shoes than somebody who looks like this.
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Lots of useful info here from Neil.C - could be worth a pm

https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?137692-My-rare-Seiko-Lassale-and-a-brief-history

A search on Ebay suggests there are donors available (some at eye-watering prices) but it's obviously a lottery and may require a couple of iterations to get what you need. Has anybody explained what...

This could be the best chance you'll ever have to read Ulysses.

Syon Park garden centre?

I bought a couple of Juelong straps on the back of this thread (mainly because JB don't make an 18mm orange tropic). I can't comment on whether Juelong make for JB but the ones they sell on...

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Lovely collection. The general tone suggests the middle Omega in the 2nd picture should be checked to see if it has CS(i) written in the caseback which may make it slightly more interesting. It also...

Can you hurry up and do Fleet Street - I know most of those off by heart.
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There seem to be very few pictures of Bertrand Russell with a beard - could it possibly be the Conway Hall?

I was wondering what it was that you went to see and had a look at the archive.
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Well played!

St Mary-at-Hill?

Jolly good

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Watch repair disaster

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How was ye olde trip?

The Cosy Inn, Graiguenamanagh, during a school trip when I was 14 or 15 (and probably looked about 11). Absolutely no idea what the price of a pint of Guinness was then.

Is this it?

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Thank you, that's very helpful - looks like pointy As aren't a red flag on this particular model.

I have a question about the dial and the Japan 2625 text between 7 & 6 O'clock - should the As in Japan have a flat top? All the examples I can find seem to have a pointy A which I understand is a...

Pepperbox Hill Tower.

I don’t see why, in that respect, they should be any different to normal ones. I have curved bars on a couple of watches with leather straps and, over time, the leather forms around the curve - I...

Would curved spring bars help?