Crowns can be finnicky.

I'd venture to say you're not pushing in far enough so that the threads connect and you can screw down.

It's likely a non-issue.

Try pushing in and then rotating counter-clockwise 1/4 turn, then turn it clockwise to see if that does it. On my Seiko, I have to do this for the threads to better align.

ok, I'm a genius, Calibre 5 movement does not have a screw in crown. Others in the Link Collection do.

If i push it in and turn it, I can hear the spring winding if I hold it up to my ear.

1, 4, 2, 3.

3-4-1-2

My wife complained about my $300 Tissot (after getting a nice signing bonus at a new job). How do I convince her I need an Omega Seamaster?

SW-14 said:

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My wife complained about my $300 Tissot (after getting a nice signing bonus at a new job). How do I convince her I need an Omega Seamaster?

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You do you.

I finally got my SKX009J1 for me and the smaller SKX013K for the wife. I ordered both with the black rubber bands and ordered a big selection of cheap nato straps to try different colors to see if we like any of those better.

We're doing a sailboat trip to USVI/BVI over New Years and I didn't want to take an expensive watch on the trip. Her Omega Constellation is aging and has lost some of it's water resistance so she needed something sporty and durable anyway...plus it's always good to have an excuse to buy a couple of inexpensive classics.

I'd post pics but I'm an old and don't know how...

Joint checking account.

We do the same thing.

You see, my wife likes to spend money on dumb ***** My youngest turned 1 last weekend, and she has a friend who is a vegan, so in order to accommodate her, she decides to spend $55 on a ****ing soup from Panera. I cooked a giant pot of chili for about 20 other people for less than that. But in her mind, she needed to make her weird friend feel welcomed.

$55 for soup? Surely that's a joke

You'd think so, but nope. She spent her own effing money on it, but I still said something about it because it's dumb. Have a salad or something available.

But the thing is that my Omega can be sold for more today than what I paid for it in '07 ($1800 OTD). My Sub will probably never be worth less than $5k unless it's totally destroyed. $55 soup becomes **** in a few hours.

Receipt didn't lie, homie, because guess who got to play errand runner on Saturday? She got 2 big things of it and a bag of bread for some reason. All for her friend. Want to guess where it is right now? Sitting in the fridge.

It's one of her former teammates from college. She's cool, though. We were up visiting her when she lived in Anchorage when I closed the deal on my Sub with the gray market dealer. I also wore my sub last year when we flew to Switzerland to visit her (she's moved back now, obviously) for a week.

You're complaining about spending $55 on food for a party. If you can pay less than $15 a head you're doing great. Either I am not following this right or you're complaining about nothing.

Farmer1906 said:

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You're complaining about spending $55 on food for a party. If you can pay less than $15 a head you're doing great. Either I am not following this right or you're complaining about nothing.

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No, it's $55 for 1 particular soup for 1 weird vegan friend.

I was able to make chili, buy 2 bags of HEB Fritos, 2 16 count Ballpark franks, 4 bags of hotdog buns, and 2 bags of cheese for less than that to feed everybody else at the party.

aTm2004 said:

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But the thing is that my Omega can be sold for more today than what I paid for it in '07 ($1800 OTD). My Sub will probably never be worth less than $5k unless it's totally destroyed. $55 soup becomes **** in a few hours.

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A good poop is priceless

Wgaf about overpriced soup or lying about the price of said soup. Either way, let's move on

is her friend vegan and a fatass?

No. She's actually pretty fit...no Rule 1

third coast.. said:

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I know a few folks were talking about spinnaker watches and they have a sale right now and this watch looks good and is only 159 right now. Less than 3 bowls of soup.

https://www.spinnaker-watches.com/collections/cahill-collection-sp-5033/products/sp-5033-02

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I ordered a different spinnaker black friday watch to toss in the wife's stocking and picked it up this evening from the fedex dropoff where they took it after i wasn't home to sign for it. Shipped direct from Hong Kong and the package had been crushed in transit. It was just in the watch box with a layer of bubble wrap tossed in a tyvek envelope and apparently it was under something heavy. Box totally fubar, one side of leather band crumpled, i didn't get any farther than that, tossed it back in the envelope and sent them an email describing the situation. Curious to see how they handle it