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Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories

I will kick off with some Dragonfly pictures from yesterday (late end of season for them here which leads to some odd situations). I have seen them die on mass covering a local park which was sad but also impressive until the colours faded. Not really …

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Astronauts wore Rolex GMT’s and not just Speedmasters. Say it isn’t so…

I posted this over in the Rolex forum but I thought there may be a little interest here as well since many of us have a bit of space geek in us.

My interest and research is confined to a very small sliver of space occupied by the watches worn by astro…

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Help identifying vintage Titus watch (manual, probably 1950s/60s)

Hi everyone,
I wasn’t exactly sure where to post this, as I couldn’t find a dedicated thread for watch identification …I hope it’s okay to ask here.
I recently came across this vintage TITUS wristwatch and I'm trying to learn more about it.

It’…

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Giant Chocolate Watch! (YouTube)

Amazing chocolate making skills. Enjoy!

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Question to Community About Selling

I am not new to this forum but have not posted in a while. I want to respect the rules and read the private sales post but had a few questions.

I am quasi reluctantly selling a watch I own and wanted to know if anyone had some feed back on one of the…

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Bronze Watches – Post Them as they age.

I am a few years late to the bronze. Here is mine, brand spankin’ new. Will post updates as it ages.

Post yours, or some cool ones you’ve seen.

The tropic style Baltic strap made the buckle look and feel wonky. The bro…

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THINGS WITH SPRINGS CH CHAT 08/10/2025

Just FYI . This is still a work in progress…..
The Things With Springs Clubhouse room is meant for a Live watch forum experience with a small GTG. We are striving for a collector to collector conversation.. Having collectors either email me a photo o…

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Italy flea market

We are going to Italy in September (wedding) , so any flea markets for watches and/or watchmaking tools.
First trip there. So the cannelloni, tiramisu, pasta, Faciocca, pizza margarita and other stuff on the list.
Many desserts to try!

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Omega Speedmaster spaceflight ads & marketing ~ Defectum

While working on the complete spreadsheet which will list all wristwatches ever worn during spaceflight missions, an effort by the Space Watches Facebook group, we already bumped into some bad marketing purposes by our beloved brand…
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Before…

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Pawn shop bargain?

Just got back from a trip to the USA. I wandered into a pawn shop and said any mechanical watches? They had a wrecked Elgin and this one which they said looked old, but they couldn't open the back. I bought it and eased it open

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