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| Kit | | 08. Sep 2011, 17:25 |
#3521
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| Kopš: 07. Mar 2007
Ziņojumi: 409
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08 Sep 2011, 17:22:06 AV rakstīja:
Sim siksnam labaks fotografs 
Esmu no sita chalja pircis mesh siksnu - bija OK.
No sim patik 1 un 3.
3 ari patik, un 4, bet tas laikam izskatisies komiski uz Magrette |  Offline | | |
AV  | | 08. Sep 2011, 17:26 |
#3522
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|  Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| Ja grib leetu, kvalitativu siksninu un aatri, tad iesaku sho vacieti -> CLICK | | Offline | | |
| hronists | | 08. Sep 2011, 17:37 |
#3523
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|  Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
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08 Sep 2011, 17:16:30 Kit rakstīja:
Nu ko specuki domajat par siem:
nu ja visām siksnām malas ir tikpat neapstrādātas kā pēdējai, tad neiesaku. malām irjābūt vai nu vaskotām vai pārklātām ar speciālu pārklājumu, pretējā gadījumā tās ļoti ātri saiet čupā. | | Offline | | |
| AV | | 08. Sep 2011, 21:27 |
#3524
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| Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| Nee, LACO no statiem, Kemmneram no Steinharta. | | Offline | | |
| AV | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:28 |
#3525
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| Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| I'm calling time on silly watches
Jeremy Clarkson
After many years of faithful service, my watch has gone wrong. It just chooses random moments of the day to display meaningless times which, speaking as the world’s most punctual person, is a nuisance. Especially as I shall now have to go to a shop and buy a replacement.
Yes, I know I could send it to the menders but, because I really am the most punctual person in the world, what am I supposed to do while it’s away? Use the moon? For me, going around without a watch is worse than going around without my trousers.
Of course I have a back-up. My wife bought it for me many years ago with her last salary cheque and it’s very beautiful. But sadly my eyes are now so old and weary that I can’t read the face properly. Which means I turned up to meet an old friend one hour late last week. And that, in my book, is ruder than turning up and vomiting on him.
It also brings me on to the biggest problem I’ve found in my quest to find a new timepiece. There’s a world of choice out there but everything is unbelievably expensive and fitted with a whole host of features that no one could possibly ever need.
I have flown an F-15 fighter and at no point in the 90-minute sortie did I think: “Damn. I wish my watch had an altimeter because then I could see how far from the ground I am.” All planes have such a device on the dashboard.
Similarly, when I was diving off those wall reefs in the Maldives I didn’t at any time think: “Ooh. I must check my watch to see how far below the surface I have gone.” Thoughtfully, God fitted my head with sinuses, which do that job very well already.
You might think, then, that my demands are simple. I don’t want my new watch to open bottles. I don’t want it to double up as a laser or a garrotte. I just want something that tells the time, not in Bangkok or Los Angeles, but here, now, clearly, robustly and with no fuss. The end.
But it isn’t the end. You see, in recent months someone has decided that the watch says something about the man. And that having the right timepiece is just as important as having the right hair, or the right names for your children, or the right car.
Over dinner the other night someone leant across to a perfect stranger on the other side of the table and said: “Is that a Monte Carlo?” It was, apparently, and pretty soon everyone there was cooing and nodding appreciatively. Except me. I had no idea what a Monte Carlo was.
Then we have James May, my television colleague, who has a collection of watches. Yes, a collection. But despite this he has just spent thousands of pounds on a watch made by IWC. Now I know roughly what he earns and therefore I know what percentage of his income he’s just blown on this watch and I think, medically speaking, he may be mad.
It turns out, however, that his IWC, in the big scheme of things, is actually quite cheap. There are watches out there that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds. And I can’t see why.
Except of course, I can. Timex can sell you a reliable watch that has a back light for the hard of seeing, a compass, a stopwatch and a tool for restarting stricken nuclear submarines, all for £29.99. And that’s because the badge says Timex. Which is another way of saying that you have no style, no sense of cool and that you may drive a Hyundai.
To justify the enormous prices charged these days, watchmakers all have idiotic names, like Gilchrist & Soames, and they all claim to make timepieces for fighter pilots and space shuttle commanders and people who parachute from atomic bombs into power boats for a living. What’s more, all of them claim to have been doing this, in sheds in remote Swiss villages, for the last six thousand years.
How many craftsmen are there in the mountains I wonder? Millions, by the sound of it.
Breitling even bangs on about how it made the instruments for various historically important planes. So what? The Swiss also stored a lot of historically important gold teeth. It means nothing when I’m lying in bed trying to work out whether it’s the middle of the night or time to get up.
Whatever, these watch companies give you all this active lifestyle guff and show you pictures of Swiss pensioners in brown store coats painstakingly assembling the inner workings with tweezers, and then they try to flog you something that is more complicated than a slide rule and is made from uranium. Or which is bigger and heavier than Fort Knox and would look stupid on even Puff Diddly.
I think I’ve found an answer, though. There’s a watch called the Bell & Ross BR 01-92 which, according to the blurb, is made in Switzerland from German parts by a company that supplies the American military and is used regularly by people who make a living by being fired from the gun turrets of Abrams M1 tanks while riding burning jet-skis.
Who cares? What I like is that it’s very simple and has big numbers, but what I don’t know is whether it’s reliable and whether people laugh at you because of it at dinner parties. Anyone got one? Anyone know? [ Šo ziņu laboja AV, 08 Sep 2011, 22:39:39 ] | | Offline | | |
| AV | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:35 |
#3526
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| Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| Jeremijs veel par pulksteniem raksta par Alfa Romeo MiTo.
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And this brings me neatly onto the question of watches. For some time now I’ve been on the hunt for a new one but the choice is tricky. I couldn’t have a Breitling because I don’t own an Audi. I couldn’t have a Calvin Klein because they are pants, I couldn’t have a Gucci because I’m not a footballist’s wife, I couldn’t have a TW Steel because my wrist isn’t big enough to sport something that can be seen from space, I couldn’t have a Tissot because I’m not eight and the only thing in the world worse than a fake Rolex is a real one.
Have you noticed something odd about Rolexes? Especially the modern ones that wind automatically when you move your wrist about? A great many owners wear them on their right hand. I jump to no conclusions here but you can feel free.
Mostly, though, I cannot wear any of these watches because I am an Omega man. I have worn a Seamaster for years, not because James Bond has one and not because Neil Armstrong wore something by the same maker on the moon but because on the day I went away to school my parents gave me a Genève Dynamic.
The trouble is that for the past few years Omega has been the Pillsbury dough of Swiss watches. The Terry and June. Omegas were dreary. They were boring to behold. They were Vectras in a world of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. The De Ville Prestige, for example, was plainly designed by someone who had a black-and-white telly.
This filled me with despair. I wanted a watch. For the same reasons that I bank at Barclays and wear Levi’s, it had to be an Omega, and it just wasn’t coming up with the goods. It was like Leeds United. Once the home of Peter Lorimer and Gary Sprake but now an also-ran bunch of unimaginative clod-hopping no-hopers.
And then one day, in Hong Kong, I saw it. A new Omega. It’s called the Railmaster and it is a thing of unparalleled beauty. There is no button that owners think will call for help if they find themselves in a crashing helicopter on Kilimanjaro, it is not waterproof to 8,000 metres, there is no stopwatch, there is no swivelling bezel to tell you how much air you have left in your tanks and you even have to wind it up every morning or it will stop. Plainly this is a watch for the sedentary soul. The man with no hang glider or mini sub in his garage. I bought it in an instant. | | Offline | | |
Puuchuks  | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:40 |
#3527
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|  Kopš: 03. Jul 2002
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 24359
Braucu ar: BMW
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08 Sep 2011, 22:35:54 AV rakstīja:
and the only thing in the world worse than a fake Rolex is a real one.
šie Klarksona teksti jau lasīti, bet speciāli priekš viena mūsu drauga es vēlētos vēlreiz izcelt šo  | | Offline | | |
| AV | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:42 |
#3528
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| Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| Jaa, teksti jau bija lasiti agrak, bet nospriedu, ka lab iederesies saja topika  | | Offline | | |
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| AV | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:44 |
#3529
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| Kopš: 14. May 2002
Ziņojumi: 17407
Braucu ar: 500
| Roger Dubuis Excalibur Double Tourbillon Skeleton
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| hronists | | 08. Sep 2011, 22:49 |
#3530
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| Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
| Bertonam un pārējiem vienrādītāju cienītājiem
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| ix | | 09. Sep 2011, 00:01 |
#3531
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| Kopš: 23. Apr 2003
Ziņojumi: 266
Braucu ar: Dīzeli
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08 Sep 2011, 16:44:00 zbmono rakstīja:
08 Sep 2011, 16:39:21 Kit rakstīja:
Mekleju brunu siksninu prieks Magrette, iepatikas sitie izstradajumi
Kads perka no viniem? Kada kvalitate?
man nepatīk ne viens ne otrs. man liekas, ka tev vajag tumšāk brūnu/mellu meklēt.
varu piedāvāt ļoti labu Kazimon siksnu 
tā kas vidējā.
Kas tas kreisajā malā par pulksteni? | | Offline | | |
| Araajz | | 09. Sep 2011, 06:37 |
#3532
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|  Kopš: 30. Aug 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 28274
Braucu ar: E39
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09 Sep 2011, 00:01:31 ix rakstīja:
Kas tas kreisajā malā par pulksteni?
Fortis 
man liekās, ka zbmono kā reiz viņu vēl tirgo | | Offline | | |
| hronists | | 09. Sep 2011, 08:06 |
#3533
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| Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
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09 Sep 2011, 06:37:26 Araajz rakstīja:
09 Sep 2011, 00:01:31 ix rakstīja:
Kas tas kreisajā malā par pulksteni?
Fortis
man liekās, ka zbmono kā reiz viņu vēl tirgo
+1
tirgoju gan. [ Šo ziņu laboja zbmono, 09 Sep 2011, 08:43:20 ] | | Offline | | |
| hronists | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:01 |
#3534
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| Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
| Labi puiši un meitenes, es off uz Amsterdamu. Ceru ievērtēt jauno Rolex Explorer II.
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| e36hadene | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:20 |
#3535
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| Kopš: 12. Feb 2010
Ziņojumi: 531
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Gan jau, ka esi kaut kur visu uzrakstījis, bet kāds ir izmērs tam kreisajam un pa kādu ciparu tirgo? | | Offline | | |
| Puuchuks | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:27 |
#3536
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| Kopš: 03. Jul 2002
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 24359
Braucu ar: BMW
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08 Sep 2011, 22:42:43 ML rakstīja:
viņš krāns nesaka, KAD plāno uztaisīt to pulksteni, kuru pirms laika vispār solīja uztaisīt 
raksti epastu un vāciski. man viņš solīdi atbildēja uz visiem jautājumiem.
arī to, ka viņu fabriku personiski apmeklēt nevar  | | Offline | | |
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| hronists | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:27 |
#3537
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| Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
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09 Sep 2011, 09:20:40 e36hadene rakstīja:
zbmono
Gan jau, ka esi kaut kur visu uzrakstījis, bet kāds ir izmērs tam kreisajam un pa kādu ciparu tirgo?
40x11mm, aizskrūvējama uzvelkamā galviņa, ūdensizturība 200m (!), minerālstikls, ādas siksniņa. Ir visi papīri, kastes, pirkts pirms 2 gadiem.
stāvoklis - korpuss ļoti labā stāvoklī, jo tas ir speciāli rūdīts tērauds, varbūt arī ir pa kādai švīkai, bet nekas nozīmīgs. Stikls ir ar skrāpējumiem, bet nekas krimināls. Ja ir vēlme, var nopirkt safīra stiklu pa tiešo no Fortis par ~90 CHF. Man tāda doma bija, bet ar laiku pieradu un skrāpējumi vairs netraucē.
p.s precizitāte - ~2-3 sek/dienā. [ Šo ziņu laboja zbmono, 09 Sep 2011, 09:28:24 ] | | Offline | | |
| e36hadene | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:29 |
#3538
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| Kopš: 12. Feb 2010
Ziņojumi: 531
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| Cipars? Neliec man sākt rakties pa visu šito pulksteņu padarīšanu atkal, tā jau esmu pavilcies, stundām ilgi šķirstot, kas kur pieejams. | | Offline | | |
| hronists | | 09. Sep 2011, 09:48 |
#3539
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| Kopš: 01. Sep 2008
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 14820
Braucu ar: Svensk hjul
| 250ls | | Offline | | |
| HaL | | 09. Sep 2011, 10:07 |
#3540
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|  Kopš: 28. Jan 2005
No: Rīga
Ziņojumi: 23635
Braucu ar: Turbo
| smuks, vismaz nav kā Kemneram kretīniskā dizaina regulators 
vispār skatos daudzus šis topiks sačakarējis un svētā pulksteņu trīsvienība būtu jāpakar  
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