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There you go. Have fun.

I'll say it again, I think Mallory made it in '24 and my research for that is a damned sight more detailed.

I don’t post on WUS any more. I’ve almost given up on forums as it is. Here and IWL sporadically is about it.

After what happened last time, would you?

I know, the problem is that I tend to write then proofread, as I already had a thread in the library, it was booted across before I'd made corrections and it wasn't worth bothering a mod about. ...

I'm always astonished at how much influence threads like this can actually have in changing what is 'common knowledge' (or the price of a class of watch on ebay!) and I reckon, having been banging...

I'm personally absolutely convinced that George Mallory easily made it to the summit in '24, which puts a Borgel on the summit.

They absolutely didn't. The closest that Rolex got within a decade of 1953 was about 100m below in '53 and 250m below in 1952. Even the Chinese had got a Tianjin to the summit by the time Rolex...

For what it's worth I rewrote my contribution here, with a fair bit more research to really tighten up just how clearly Rolex had been caught out, and reposted it here:
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It looks to me like it’s just a Franken. The point of my joke was that if you look at the picture of my Rolex case, it has an Omega movement. I built it as a bit of a joke about a decade ago.

As...

I’ve got one of those:

https://i.postimg.cc/8cWW5KyG/lolmega4.jpg

I'm sorry that you feel that way and while, as you can imagine, it feels like a smack in the mouth, from someone I have enjoyed interacting with, I applaud your honesty and it's hardly the first time...

Thanks.

However, I feel quite certain that he is both sincere and does indeed think as many do. Frankly, I really like Rolex and have a very soft spot indeed for their smaller tool watches....

Cool. Actually, as I pointed out repeatedly, he’s doing his own case (and that of coolaid quaffing Rolex fanboys everywhere) a massive disservice by his actions. I’m looking at the big picture, and...

Of course, there was an Omega on the Mountain in 1953, and not just any Omega, but a CK2287, one of the world’s first waterproof chronographs (in 1943) featuring the direct predecessor to the...

My pleasure. I just type fast.

True.

But there’s a world of difference between people who have been on the bus for the whole journey and people who just got on. Do you have anything to add to the discussion or just a quick...

I don't think that's remotely helpful.

I’ll do the rest later, but yes, I’m certainly accusing someone of lying. If you’d read the thread you are being so critical of, you’d remember that. The same source for the claim about the Datejust...

Stop winding the poor chap up.

I was just about to say the same to you. Jolly well done.

The more I look at those devices the cooler they seem. I brought up how cool they are with my beloved and she listened with interest but...

Look, if you have an actual rebuttal of any of this then let’s hear it. If you want to claim that this suffers from any of those biases make you case for it doing so. Meanwhile, please be assured...

No it isn't. It's simple academic caution. At this point, I'd say that there is a combination of evidence to support the theory (as in theory of evolution) that while Rolex and Smiths were worn...

I admire your fine taste. I too have a soft spot for small 1950s watches and the Rolex/Aegler 765 movements Rolex fitted are pretty good even if I prefer in house, rather than an aged design...

Face it, he's also on record (at least according to Stahl) as having confided in his sons that Princess Elizabeth asked Lambert to ask him to join the expedition...

Either way, it doesn't really...

I’m afraid not. The watches were integral. Pugh had calculated optimum oxygen rates, work rates, hydration schemes, breaks and so on and all required precise timing. Smiths provided watches as a...