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satyanash

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  1. The 821A is one of Miyota's cheap basic movements. It has a loud and rattly rotor, plus it's indirect seconds drive so the seconds hand can pick up a stutter after a little bit. But it's accurate and solid, which is what's important at the end of the day. Pilot watches used to have hacking for precise time measurement - very important for a pilot to be able to time their flight runs with accuracy. The 821A did not have hacking up until a couple of years ago but it does now, so if you're buying brand new from their website you'll get hacking. If you're buying grey market though you may get an older non-hacking one.
  2. Chad Simmons: 5-star EDGE Eddrick Houston sets four visits, hearing from programs across the country
  3. Ketch is very upset about On3 devaluing Rivals and ESPN in their new composite rating formula.
  4. (Justin Wells) Inside Scoop: New visitors headed to Austin, athlete targets, and a list of prospects to visit UT
  5. Bobby Burton: Arch Manning's choice proves prescient in light of Bama, UGA coordinator changes
  6. Eric Nahlin: Texas needs to hit on these evaluations for a fast start in the SEC
  7. They run the weirdest fucking watch ads I've ever seen.
  8. He very clearly got a handful of jersey. If this wasn't the SB no one would be complaining about that call.
  9. Bulova Lunar Pilot was just re-released in a smaller size, 43.5 mm / 50mm lug-to-lug (original is 45 mm / 52mm lug-to-lug). MSRP is $895 but of course that will come down. Dial is unchanged but the watch as a whole looks slimmer. Some welcome news for small-wristed guys like me 😄
  10. Or a Bulova Lunar Pilot, the other true 'moonwatch'. Going for ~$300 on Jomashop right now.
  11. I will add there's nothing wrong with making watches in China, as long as they're honest about their product. Stuff like this for example. Losing ~30 sec. per day is not tremendously precise, it's standard for the cheap Miyota 2036 movement they used. It's cool that you can upgrade to a Seagull though.
  12. Let us know how it ends up. I'm usually leery about Chinese-made Kickstarter watches with bold marketing claims but this one does seem more legit.
  13. https://www.dpss.umich.edu/content/crime-safety-data/daily-crime-fire-log/
  14. HMT is stuck in a bygone era. In the '70s and '80s crowds of people would line up outside HMT showrooms with recommendation letters from politically connected friends/relatives in order to be able to buy watches. Obviously that's no longer the case, people have other options now that the Indian economy isn't closed off to the outside world anymore. The HMT ABD still has a supply of previously manufactured 36mm cases and 0231 hand-wound movements that they're sloooooowly assembling and selling off through their broken website (which does not ship outside of India) and a few showrooms scattered around Bangalore. Their prices for the original Janata, Pilot, Kohinoor, Jhalak, and Vijay models are cheap as ever but the QC is more hit or miss than it was after the layoffs and factory closings. They're also making and selling some quartz and automatic models in larger 40mm+ cases with imported off-the-shelf Miyota movements. Sometimes, for a large enough group order they'll make and sell custom 'limited edition' versions of their watches according to customer-given specifications. That's how the Pilot 'White Dial' Limited Edition first came into being back in 2013. There are also a ton of crappy fake HMT watches with repainted dials and cannibalized movements floating around on eBay for ~$15 a pop.
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