Reply With QuoteI've got an early Japanese market sub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY
I loved it at the time, but it feels a bit dated now
For the parents amongst us:
I've got an early Japanese market sub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY
I loved it at the time, but it feels a bit dated now
Anyone else remember those little plastic baking powder fuelled submarines you used to get in breakfast cereal packets?
(The American ones were bigger, obvs.)
Finished!Originally Posted by Raffe
For the parents amongst us:
Misses the point. Using advanced search I will have to trawl through lots of irrelevant posts. Having all of the information in one thread is a far better idea.
Sloppy homework.
Thanks for the link. I think it proves the point. That thread is currently on page 7 just above a "watch deposit held since 2018" thread. Not ideally situated for someone wanting to find info on a Speedmaster and in a search not even on page 1.
Missing the point. If you have a thread purely about a particular watch type in a sub forum it will be far easier to access than having to wade past "any mini mechanics on here" or "sale - Mark Worthington". Both valid public chat threads for some forum members but of no use if you're trying to find info on a particular watch type.
Eddies submersible from around 2010
and a Vostok re-housed in a lookie-likee case.
I suggest you build a document about the future forum/subforun structure and then send it to Eddie for implementation.
It'll be done in no time.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
D+Finished!
Why
I think you have miss understood ‘Submariner’? Surely to be ‘ironic’ you would show an individual who is a ‘Submariner’ and not a ‘Submarine’?Here's a shot of part of the sub U534 showing the depth charge damage that forced it to surface right at the end of WW2. I guess you'd call that a fair amount of WABI
I was very fortunate to be able to walk right through it before it was sealed off, cut into sections and preserved for public display. There is a lot of history and mystery behind this particular sub.
It dates from 1942.
I have more pictures if anyone would like to see them.
I thought it was a watch thread myself. Oh there I go being ironic.
Thanks more like it.Mine:
Marko Ramius
And von Stolberg
complete the top 3
Stunning collectionSubmariners and Submariner dates I have owned over the years not counting Seadwellers.
1958 5508 with an Omega 300 1966
upload pictures
1962 5512
1966 5513
94010 1980
94010 M.N. 82
show me a map of where i am right now
1994 14060
1999 14060
2004 LV 16610
2010 LV 16610
2007 16610 can’t find any snaps of this one. It was a quick flip for an SD.
2020 114060
M.
Spongebob always had a nice Sub
Unfortunately I don't have a Sub as nice as Spongebob so here is my 1996 14060
Don’t mess with the oldies on this forum, they have pent up anger and time than anyone.
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
as has been said:
I remember the days you could walk into a Subway and get bacon and egg - crusty roll. Yum. My favourite!
Big 44.5mm vintage sub.
as has been said: I remember the days you could walk into a Subway and get bacon and egg - crusty roll. Yum. My favourite!
Nowt better! I also like eggy bread. Of course the bread is just dipped in the egg, not immersed. So I suppose that when making it one is a submarinader.
I'll get me coat . . .
F.T.F.A.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Just as Rolex Submariners are often referred to as Subs, so are Submarines.
Oh, and just to be ironic, Rolex Submariners are not Submariners at all, they are watches. Perhaps Rolex should start selling individuals who sail in submarines?
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Yes, and there were also the ones that you put in the old style pop bottles, (internal screw top with rubber seal), and when you screwed down the top the pressure on the bubble in the small cavity underneath the submarine was compressed causing the sub to sink. Loosening the top caused the bubble to expand and return the sub to the surface.
They were free with something, but I can't now remember what. I did have quite a few of them as a lad so it was probably something edible and sweet.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Neil, it's not for experts in the field (a blessing for me) but sets out why the Germans lost the Atlantic campaign despite seeming to win it for much of the war. I learnt some useful facts and I'd recommend it.
And just for the OP, here's a couple of shots of my 2008 Z Sub.
First at some pile of rocks in Wiltshire.
And then when I had a decent camera and a light box. Both since departed :(
Since a lot of members are posting stuff on U-Boats I collect any thing military timepiece related. Here is what we military collectors call a U-Boat clock. I remember watching Das Boat the movie were they are getting depth charge and you see the U-Boat clock crystal crack in the movie. Think this is built better than a Rolex. Still keeps good time today did have get the mainspring repaired last year.
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At the risk of taking his thread even more off topic... (is that possible)Since a lot of members are posting stuff on U-Boats I collect any thing military timepiece related. Here is what we military collectors call a U-Boat clock. I remember watching Das Boat the movie were they are getting depth charge and you see the U-Boat clock crystal crack in the movie. Think this is built better than a Rolex. Still keeps good time today did have get the mainspring repaired last year.
How do you feel about having that clock on the wall and it’s Waffenamt displayed prominently on the dial?
It’s a lovely clock and I appreciate it’s a historical piece but I could not have it on display. I know not every German was a Nazi but the symbolism and what it stood / stands for means I could not entertain having it on the wall.
I should add I am not judging, just interested in your thoughts. I have had a similar conversation with someone else about a KM wrist watch I own and never wear. (Even though there is no Waffenamt on the wristwatches)
Just. can't. resist.
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
One week solitary confinement for capitalisation crime.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
My Dad joined the US Navy at age 16 during WW2 he was in the pacific surprising he did not hate the Japanese more than another WW2 vet I know if you owned a Japanese car he would not get in it only American made only he hated them that much. A lot of veterans brought home war prizes some of these clocks are some of them a lot of them came out of captured U-Boats that were brought to England to be scraped and veterans took them off the U-Boats here are the vets who fought the war on U-boats taken them home with them they thought differently I guess. My Dad brought home a lot of Japanese stuff remember him telling me a story when he was on Guam a while after the US took it back exploring a cave and they found a dead Japanese soldier a skeleton he still had his glasses on. Don't like there believes or there cruelty they did during WW2 but if we forget it and hide every thing about it we forget it and history can repeat itself. Now a lot of air museums have combat aircraft from a lot of countries even German aircraft with the exact marking normally on the tail the same marking on my clock I guess we should start protesting those museum think the the imperial war museum mite have a few and we can go to the Smithsonian air museum and get them to remove those marks off the tail. Just some thoughts on this.
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Less, surely
No need for your pi$$ to boil, it was a civil question.
Well done. Superb!
I think the best episode.
Cheers,
Neil.
As I said River Rat I am not judging. I believe very strongly that history should be preserved and if we don’t learn from the past we will repeat the mistakes.
I am just not sure I would have it as an object on my wall even though it’s a lovely clock. I could not to look at that symbol every day.
My grandfather also served in the Pacific during WW2 and was part of the post war occupation forces for a while. (He then went on to serve in Palestine and Korea). I am in he process of getting some of his mementos framed for the wall.
Anyhoo this has taken the thread completely off topic now
Take care!
What? Someone’’s stolen Stonehenge?
And just for the OP, here's a couple of shots of my 2008 Z Sub.
First at some pile of rocks in Wiltshire.
And then when I had a decent camera and a light box. Both since departed :(
Let’s get back to watches and topic titles. Enjoy Eddies platform and stop crapping on it.
M
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My Submariner connection
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
are those dolphins with scales?My Submariner connection
That’s nice to see, and a few stories behind it I’m sure.My Submariner connection
That’s two of us then....anyone else on here?My Submariner connection
Nice watch! Was 2008 the year that the company started to laser their serial numbers solely in the case of the watch?Neil, it's not for experts in the field (a blessing for me) but sets out why the Germans lost the Atlantic campaign despite seeming to win it for much of the war. I learnt some useful facts and I'd recommend it.
And just for the OP, here's a couple of shots of my 2008 Z Sub.
First at some pile of rocks in Wiltshire.
And then when I had a decent camera and a light box. Both since departed :(
Thanks
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