Aurelian

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Recent posts

Errata

Such a great day to be a gamemaster. I forgot to put @Stricko in my good list. I missed @tanookisuit_ty 's poem and had to carefully re-read my own ru...
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The loved one, born of death

That is the literal translation of the name Aimee Thanatogenos, the female love interest in the 1965 American/British film The Loved One . It was base...
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Why, oh why?

@foghorn asks why I hate you. Do I? Or is it a bit of fun directed at our overweening self-regard?
48 votes ·
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Recent Comments

commented on Which one do you prefer? ·

The Super Seville homage is the obvious winner because it is the right size.

commented on Concerning WRUW posts, and changing watches during the day. ·

I never think to add the second (or third) into the WRUW.

commented on What your watch name ? ·

Using two Stripper Name Generators (one had an extensive personality quiz) the two names were: Typhoon Heatwave and Trey Down Under.

commented on What your watch name ? ·

Gruen Vulcain. It is better than my stripper name.

commented on 1940 Hamilton Curvex ·

Really very nice. 1940 Stanford?

commented on Anyone going down the fountain pen rabbithole too? ·
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I don't have spreadsheets for pens (yet).

commented on Edge168n's WRUW ·

Yeah, the watch looks complete different. (Just kidding, it looks the same.)

More posts

There is still time to get off of the hype train.

Here is the latest in what now is a series of screeds about Bulova. I am wearing a Bulova today. I love vintage Bulova. But rather mete out contrarian...
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Update, Rankings, Whatever...

Last year we had 47 participants in the Self-Flagellation Challenge. This year we only have 17. That means that the joke may have run its course. So,...
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Recta? Damn Near Killed Her

I did a search for this brand on WatchCrunch and came up empty. So, this may be the first Recta reference on the Crunch for a brand that is over 125 y...
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Performance Art and the Different Ways to Skin a Cat

We all use this site differently. Some treat it like a watch Instagram and stay mostly over on WRUW. Some like to ask opinions as they try to figure o...
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The Future of Collecting Vintage Watches

@Ryan_Schwartz , @Porthole , and I discuss the future of collecting vintage watches over at The Escapement Room . Things were said that can't be unsai...
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Save the date!

Three years ago, @TimexBadger made an offhand comment that he was going to try to wear the same watch for a month to see if he could. Like most of us...
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A short note about a number (a 1WC prequel)

Sometimes we hear a Cruncher, usually a fairly new Cruncher, opine that wearing one watch is easy and that they do it all the time, in fact they have...
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