***Friday, May 2nd, 2025 – WRUW | The Weekend Edition

Awful week.

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We’ve been moving into our new office/workshop this week, so I was getting home quite tired by end-of-day. Thankfully, the flu that I’ve had over the past few weeks has finally subsided.

This was going to be a longer post but I don’t want to go into the details and I don’t want to lower the mood of this thread.
Our cat Bowie died suddenly on Wednesday evening and we’re all feeling devastated and miserable about it.

I’m always amazed and…

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***Friday 4th April, 2025 – WRUW? | The Weekend Edition

First Friday of the month means that this thread can go all weekend, hepcats.

@cybercat , that Nikon camera that you liked from last week’s thread is the FE model. Of course, one is not enough, so here are my other Nikons, seen here in this shot of last Saturday’s watch, the Baltic Hermétique Tourer;

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Clockwise, from left;
– The EM. This plastic-bodied model was aimed at the female amateur photographer’s market and it features…

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***Friday, March 21st, 2025 – Watch You Wearing?***

Wore the Baltic Hermétique Tourer last weekend and to start the working week also;

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Had a doctor’s appointment on Tuesday, to discuss a recent blood test result. It would appear that my cholesterol is up. LDL level is 4.8, which I’m told is not good. I’m having a CT scan done next Tuesday morning. I’ll be quite surprised if they tell me that my arteries are clogged. This may just be hereditary.
Looks like 2025 is turning out to be the year of health…

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***Friday, March 7th, 2025 – WRUW? | The Weekend Edition***

First Friday of the month means this thread can go all weekend, hepcats. Monday is the Labour Day public holiday here in my town. Great, a three-day weekend!

Anyway, last weekend’s watch was the 37mm Baltic Hermétique Tourer;

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Switched over to the 39mm Tudor Black Bay 58 next day;

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Got home from work that afternoon and switched to the Casio A500WA-1DF WorldTimer for work the next day. There’s something pleasantly…

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