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: Re the news is a bit of a downer. not bad..

: Posted By: PSB-Accutime

: Date: 8/16/05 06:34 GMT

: Not That tuff I learned some lingo URL
: never new what it was.
: http://www.acronymfinder.com/

: I belong to a ton of car sites and its real
: easy to post photos on those sites off my
: computer. I did get a host H.P. just for
: this site. But I wasted my time as I was
: incompatent. The problem would be
: changing Chronocentric to operate like those
: sites you mention. Frankly, Derek was the
: brains behind the smooth technical operation
: of chronocentric. Without him changes are
: very problematic.

: I did a search and saw on this site some very
: good directions on posting I just have to
: make it a to do list. Figure out how to
: do it, and post some stuff. You are correct
: above... It's not that difficult once you
: get going. I knew nothing about HTML and
: hosting web pages when I started in 1996...
: I started on a Friday night and had a whole
: weekend free to figure it out... It only
: took me about two-three hours to get the
: bulk of my site up and I had the rest of the
: weekend free!

: Boy after reading your replies to me I am
: just glad you could read what the Heck I
: wrote! Jeezzzzzzz. Oh well. Hey... FWIW
: , English (grammar) was never my best
: subject in Jr/High School/College, in fact
: it was one of my worst. Your writing will
: improve the more you write. At some point
: decent grammar and spelling will become more
: important to you than blind speed and your
: replies will improve, especially with
: repetition. It did with me.

: NOw that 156 in tit. any of the crew seen the
: Fortis its new for 05 only 2000 made L. 5100
: big , bezel. I have the hots for one again.

: Now I know MrHy. Swatch Group was going to
: discontinue them But invested agreat amount
: of $ and updated the equepment for the 5100.
: and has in this year relested a new batch of
: our old faverit Movements. BUt maybe there
: not going to relese anymore? Or does anybody
: know that there are for sure all gone for
: ever. ( well as for sure as we can with the
: Swiss Cartell) Sinn supposedly got the
: last 500 movements that Swatch was going
: to produce with which they made a special
: 500 unit special edition... Tutima hasn't
: switched their promotional materials from
: touting 5100's to 7750's like all the other
: producers (Review Thommen, Bell & Ross,
: Fortis, Sinn, etc.) have, which leads me to
: believe that when the 5100 got it's reprieve
: a couple of years back they stocked up on
: 5100 ebauches and are able to continue
: production for the time being. The rumor is
: that Tutima also has a contract with either
: NATO or the German Military to continue
: production of "NATO chronographs"
: which might have some bearing on Tutima's
: seeming ability to continue to offer 5100's.

: That means that parts for are 5100s are going
: to be more difficult to get. Dang. I
: don't think so, at least not in the
: short/mid term. The 5100 was in production
: for 30 years+. I think it will be a while
: before we are scrounging for parts.

: Thanks for the info

: PS Guys with Sinn contacts. we could get some
: beat 5100s and give them up for a tit.156

: I can come up with 2 that need good cases.
: And a FWIW... SwatchGroup is only ceasing
: sales of the 5100 to non-Swatch firms. I am
: sure they are retaining the tooling in
: storage and could resume production if
: needed and or desired in the future. In fact
: I suspect if any of the Swatch firms really
: wanted to produce a 5100 based watch, I'm
: sure production could be resumed toot sweet.
: That's looking at the positive side of
: speculation, the negative side is that no
: Swatch firm has seemed to have any interest
: in the 5100 for the past 5-8 years, Hyaek
: & Co. seem to wish to relegate Lemania
: to "ebauché maker for Moonwatches and
: Bruget" and nothing else... Which I
: think is nigh criminal as Lemania is an
: excellent and accomplished firm in the
: design and crafting of chronograph ebauches
: and frankly I'd take the worst Lemania
: movement over the best F. Piguet can muster
: any day of the week and trice on Sunday.
: (You're blocking Chuck... Tell us how you
: really feel!)...

: If you see a 5100 you think you might want in
: the future, I wouldn't be shy in my bidding!

: -- Chuck
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Thanks for the cool site that tell s me what FWIW and more means.

I think we 1st talked around that time 96 97 about watches then I did not hear your name tell this site again. I didnt get a computer tell I found this site. You are scrathcing your head I bet. But I think it was not about Heuers But Omegas. Who Knows
I used to be able to write ect. I have writin some things. But do to a mind injury I have lost a lot of things.My math in now better than my writing, Thats easy I can hear the crew saying. But trully the mind is a funny thing.
I used to race cars but have found that it has effected me there also, But dont worry fellow racers you wont have a chance to finally pass me because I can no longer pass medical.
Now when I do finally post photos I am a Film guy and have tons of movements in fine detail on film.

My digital photos are not up to this sites par AT ALL. Sometimes i Get lucky. On the colored dial shots you all did I trerd like heck to post my Wakmann day date calinder boat etc dial. I thought somebody would Now that baby has a colorfull dial
Ok I quit talking
Thanks for all the info
PSB
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