. . . let's share our favorite books and authors along with the watches we're wearing this weekend. Young No was an inveterate reader. A fair guess of the total would be in the low thousands of books, mainly historical and political topics with a smatteri...
I was there, staring at the Seven Pillars, with my motorbike. I remember the cleanest and freshest air ever breath in my life. Although, I could not experience any change in my poor wisdom, I will never forget the experience. Great book Seven Pillars of W...
Through Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, and Syria. I can't stop feeling the deepest sadness for what happened in Syria and what is going on in the entire area. Syria and its people are always in my heart.
Sounds like an epic trip. Love road tripping on the odd occasion when my family lets me off for the time required 😁 Still not easy with two small children 🤷🏻♂️ The last one was a year ago from the North of Germany to Turkey, taking the road less travelle...
Although they were big girls in 2010, I remember, as if it were yesterday, myself crying like a baby because I couldn't speak with them in many days. We were travelling the infinite roads of the southern coast of Turkey. Unxpectedly, the most difficult pa...
Not a fully optimal choice. Very comfortable and for the most part extremely well suited to the task but on several occasions completely useless in the wintry conditions (at one point 5 friendly gentlemen needed to help push me to get moving at a snowed i...
What a great trip and experience! We visited Istanbul and then headed to Ankara. From Ankara to Mersin and Adana. The mythic “Iskenderun”! We entered Syria from the Bab al-Hawa crossing, which is apparently still open, although the photos in Google show q...
Hi Art and friends ! I usually have several books “on the go” at the same time. Some are by my favourite authors and others simply because I enjoy the subject. Fleming being one of the greatest and this book is probably not one that you have picked up … T...
and only decades later did my old pal & client Michael Bentley convince the family to allow him to republish it (devaluing our rare 1st editions? who knows) ...
. . . and 9/11. Same goes for me hearing about Donohue's fatal crash in Austria. I was in a hotel room in Alaska . . . couldn't believe my idol was gone.
. . . taste the smog that day. 😖 Btw, the title of the clip is in error - it was '73, not '72. And I saw Mark drive only five times; he wasn't an entry in the '71 Los Angeles Times 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway. That race was won by A J Foyt driving a Mer...
Have read the first, based on your recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed it. Time to give some of the locations a visit - did visit one since reading the book, namely Annecy in France and it has truly been a blast 👌🏻
Ashamed to admit I rarely read a book but you caught my eye when you first mentioned vintage Fleming. I’ve had a quick scan but I am saving it for my fast approaching holiday. 🍻 ...
Regret I will be able to answer tomorrow as I’m without WiFi service since three days ago and the provider service promised to visit on Saturday to fix the problem. 4G doesn’t allow me to post pictures now. Only text… I hope. Anyway… I remember viewing th...
. . . and from the collection of a long-term member of our community, Timerider. We met up for sushi earlier today. The PG was on his wrist, Great White on mine. Re Lawrence: my paternal Grandfather saw him in 1917 walking with General Allenby. Dad said h...
. . . Lawrence of Arabia when it premiered in '62. That's when he learned his father had been a witness to history; it was a surreal moment for Dad. ✍🏼
And big congrats on this new piece for your collection. Enjoy it so much my dear friend. No internet yet at home. Eagerly waiting for the service visit since 8 AM here! Will return later with my post. Abel
. . . and shortly thereafter I replied to a thread asking for GMT suggestions. My candidate then was Great White. Now, almost twenty years later, it's on my wrist. As they say, all good things come to he who waits. ;-)
I have been a profligate reader for most of my life and continue enjoying the hobby to this day. The selection of what I read is eclectic in the widest possible sense of the word. There’s lots of non-fiction, paired with classics, modern literature, sci-i...
I have had the book lying around for decades but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Been practicing Umberto Eco’s concept of the anti-library relatively well, keeping almost as many ‘yet to be read’ books around as read ones 😁 Btw. the last books I finished...
... to read to learn facts regarding my hobbies. So unread books accumulate and I dream when I will have lots of time in my retirement. Let´s see what the future allows!! So many plans in my mind... Best, Abel
Hi All The gap between what we'd like to read and the reality, like starting with Ulysses & giving up within 50 pages. If I'm honest kinda made my head hurt - far too deep & literary for me! So what I think I understand & don't! The reality Finally - just...
Don´t worry about leaving the Ulises unread. I must confess I didn´t finish it too. May be some day will read it from start again. We have to consider there are so many books and great writers to read. We can´t expect that all of them will touch our souls...
10 year old reading Never Love a Stranger the first time and it was quite an experience the movies unfortunately are a watered down version of the books as to not offend the sensibilities of the time, I think if they made movies close the books, they woul...
... is unsurppased. I don´t have a favorite book from Robbins because the very few I read was long ago. I remember viewing Nevada Smith in the late 60´s because I had always been a fan of Steve Mc Queen. I also was a fan of Tom Selleck´s Magnum P.I. Guess...
… but I will try to post my shots. I love books and have been an avid reader since I was very young. My house is big and full of books. For my wife ‘s dispair not only my book cases but every place and room have books of very eclectic subjects. Be it fict...
Stacks of books covering a large cofee table in our living room… James Bond related books have been an obsession since I discovered 007 in the mid 60’s The 60th Anniversary Bond Seamaster make company to Bond related books ...
A favorite book about watches. Though author collects pocket watches his writing can be applied to wrist watches as well. He speaks about collecting and collectors and their passion and feelings. Very nice reading! Paired with this beginnings of XX Centur...
Ronald Dahl another of my favorite authors. Paired with a NOS gold case c 1967 ref 168009-2 found in the cases of a closed watch shop some years ago How not to love and admire this author? I paired this book with his short stories with my Rolex Bubbleback...
The Silent World by Jacques Cousteau introduced me into the marvelous under water world and fired my passion for Scuba diving when I read it an old edition of this classic in around 1959 when I was just eleven. This ref 1680 was bought brand new in 1977 i...
. . . centered on Charles Bukowski. There were many community members in that thread who are no longer here, or rarely. How time flies . . . thankfully, we have our watches to guide us along the way. 😌
I wonder how many editions of WS and the Themes of them have been celebrated since I arrived to WPS in 2012. Say... eleven years x 52 weeks per year are more than 570 Themes!! Wow! Am I right?? My memory surely can´t tell the titles of all those themes! L...
... I wear for a few hours at home. It was found after a little watch shop closed and there were just a few old watches left in a drawer. This was the most interesting one. The Bubbleback is very nice and so difficult to photograph to really appreciate th...
... take home. This is one of them. There is an identical one in Goldberger Omega book. In the big thick Omega reference book it is shown with an ad offering it at beginnings of XX for use by those pioneer "chaufeurs". It is a large and curious piece with...
In 2012 my wife got me an iPad with Kindle installed because she (rightfully) claimed that continuing to add physical books at the same pace would result in the two of us no longer having space to live 😂
... fix the problem. I had been waiting at home since 8 Am their visit!! (by the way I´ve been without Internet since three previous days!!) This is Argentina!! Hagwe my friend!
Here's a few biblio-horologic favorites: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Perhaps this JLC is paired with the wrong play. "One ring to rule them all." Well, maybe two in this case. "It's terrifying when you consider tha...
A PloProf requires more confidence than it does wrist circumference, as it is big but does not wear big --more like a 44mm Luminor (albeit taller) than a 47mm Luminor 1950. Titanium makes it very light. ...
Wikipedia "If I Were a Boy (Albanian: Sikur t'isha djalë) is an Albanian epistolary novel written by Haki Stërmilli in 1936. Written mostly in a form of diary entries it documents the struggle of the young female protagonist Dija to adjust in an Albanian ...
If I recall correctly the only two Albanian authors I have read are Ismail Kadare and Enver Hoxha 😉 The First is of course internationally renowned as an author, the second less so in that capacity but I picked up a copy of his ‘Yugoslav self-determinatio...
This book looks a good read and your choice of a Seamaster is very appropriate. Personally, sipping Mai Tai’s on the rocks sounds like a perfect Sunday ! Best regards Captain
… have my Internet service restored!! Lol! Just realized that I only posted static shots in my previous entry. Have a nice Sunday dear friends! Abel ...
Here’s my first one - complete with the non-existent timepiece of Jack Reacher - who happens to have a body clock with chronometer precision 🤣. But then to redeem myself I’ll also include this one. ...
. . . all. And I mean most of their novels, not just one of each. But that was a long time ago. Can't bring myself to pick up a work of fiction now. Art
. . . is The Quiet American , and some fifty years ago at that. I saw the '58 version of the film adaptation several years ago; deeply impressed by the production and performances, but didn't realize how different the tone was from the book until reading ...
For me it will have to be Tolien's LotR, no question. My personal copy I bought back in the 90s, and next to the Reverso which I had coveted throughout that period. ...
. . . Fire In The Minds of Men . Billington became Librarian of Congress a few years after writing it; it came out while I was in college but didn't read it until many years later. He might well be the most famous American no one is aware of. Art
Francis Mallmann is my go to barbecue book. Always a good read. Good stories. Good insights. Good recipies. Mmmmmm..... And chronos pair nicely with barbecue. ...
. . . but never read a book on the subject. Or any tome devoted to the culinary arts, brewing, gardening, etc. I should write a book . . . . . . about guacamole. People have been known to beg for it. 🥑 ...
... is the my favourite series of novels and stories. In fact, I collected nearly everything written by Pratchett - as I did with the works of Asimov, Sheckley, Alan Dean Foster and others. Marcus ...
. . . in my early teens, Marcus; for sure I've read Arthur C Clarke, also 50+ years ago. Science fiction was personally more compelling on film, though. Best, Art