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THE CONTINENTAL
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Lost and Found

Post by THE CONTINENTAL » Sat May 29, 2010 6:06 pm

Happy Memorial Day weekend fellow enthusiasts. I wanted to pass on a story of happiness and good fortune. Last summer, I "lost" my favorite boating/sailing timepiece; my Patek Aquanaut. It's nothing spectacular insofar as Pateks are concerned, but nevertheless it holds some sentimental value to me. It was a gift from a lady friend. Needless to say I was more than a bit distraught when I made it home from a celebration following a regatta, sans Aquanaut. I was quite inebriated after downing several bottles of Port, and somehow passed out in the bungalow by the pool where I awoke the following [late] morning to discover my Aquanaut was gone. Now I know what you are thinking, but my family's servants have our utmost trust. So, after looking in all the usual places (back seat of "S" Class Benz, poolside bar, kitchen) I resigned myself to the fact that my Aquanaut was gone.

Fast forward to this summer. I was gathering up my boating gear, and low and behold what do you think I found in the pocket of my Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? Yes, you guessed it ... my Patek Aquanaut.

In any event, it was a happy ending. Now I have a question. What is the fascination with these horrendous looking nato straps? I cannot for the life of me discern why anyone would wear such an unbecoming strap, especially on nicer watches. I can see perhaps putting one on a boring Seiko, or any of the less than impressive but popular boutique brands such as Kobold, Doxa, and the like, in an attempt to make it look "military" or otherwise "mission specific". But, to dumb down a Rolex Submariner, IWC, or any classic vintage diver is just plain uncouth. I can just imagine coming in from an invigorating morning swim in the surf to an outdoor table at the Club for Mimosas and a nice brunch while wearing a sopping wet and smelly canvas strap, dripping seawater into ones's shrimp cocktail. I assure you it would be more than offensive.

Anyhow, I just wanted to share my joy at being reunited with my favorite boating timepiece. It's really a nice piece and very "under the radar" as they say. Here is a pic from last summer.

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Cheers - Potter
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by SCM64 » Sat May 29, 2010 6:10 pm

Glad you found your watch. I think. :think:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by moishlashen » Sat May 29, 2010 6:22 pm

I think that would look awe inspiring on a nato/zulu to be honest with you Conti. A nice Khaki nato would really set off the handset on that bad boy IMO.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by mattcantwin » Sat May 29, 2010 6:39 pm

THE CONTINENTAL wrote: What is the fascination with these horrendous looking nato straps?

I cannot for the life of me discern why anyone would wear such an unbecoming strap, especially on nicer watches.

I can see perhaps putting one on a boring Seiko, or any of the less than impressive but popular boutique brands such as Kobold, Doxa, and the like...

Maybe you should keep searching for the tact you have obviously lost, too. :tap:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by Seth » Sat May 29, 2010 7:21 pm

I'm calling bullshit on that one. NO ONE races with a Patek. I've raced on Stars and Stripes in San Diego with Dennis Connor. I've crewed with Larry Ellison on Sayonara and I've spent enough time in the water in San Francisco with some of the finest yachtsmen on the planet to know for SURE that no one wears a Patek racing.

To start with, its not useful. Calculating countdowns for starts is done on a digital. Sorry Champ. No exceptions. We need alarms. Timing the final to the line... also helpful to have a digital. Its more accurate and easier to know at a glance if you need a quick poke into doldrums to slow it down. But no one is trimming, grinding or doing foredeck with one on. Even the helmsman is far too active to beat down a delicate timepiece. Now the tactician.. maybe.. but most tacticians are in the thick of it, unless your in cup sized boats.

You MIGHT need a Patek in the afterguard WATCHING sailors race....

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by HalifaxNS » Sat May 29, 2010 7:27 pm

THE CONTINENTAL wrote: What is the fascination with these horrendous looking nato straps? I cannot for the life of me discern why anyone would wear such an unbecoming strap, especially on nicer watches. I can see perhaps putting one on a boring Seiko, or any of the less than impressive but popular boutique brands such as Kobold, Doxa, and the like, in an attempt to make it look "military" or otherwise "mission specific". But, to dumb down a Rolex Submariner, IWC, or any classic vintage diver is just plain uncouth. I can just imagine coming in from an invigorating morning swim in the surf to an outdoor table at the Club for Mimosas and a nice brunch while wearing a sopping wet and smelly canvas strap, dripping seawater into ones's shrimp cocktail. I assure you it would be more than offensive.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by Noisy Nova » Sat May 29, 2010 7:41 pm

Nato?

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Zulu?

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by polaco23 » Sat May 29, 2010 8:23 pm

forget the Patek, you drive an S-class? :clap:

damn fine cars.......not even i can disagree with that.

But youre wrong on the nato thing, as if it matters. :geek:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by randyswagon » Sat May 29, 2010 8:38 pm

. . . I believe you should exclusively wear Hublot ( pronounced "you-blow" in my household) . . . :raised:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by andrema » Sat May 29, 2010 8:52 pm

You are such a douche...I tried to type something nice, but it made me throw-up a little in my mouth.

Why choose the S-Class...I see you as a Bentley guy, unless the S-Class is your beater? Just curious, why do you feel the need to throw name brands out? That is extremely tacky IMO.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by Geoffrey » Sat May 29, 2010 9:05 pm

Sorry not my favorite watch by far but
pleased for your sake you found it.
Hope all is well with Mater and Pater
Cheers ya mug
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by meta4ick » Sat May 29, 2010 9:16 pm

andrema wrote:You are such a douche...I tried to type something nice, but it made me throw-up a little in my mouth.

Now we're talkin.

Glad you had a happy ending. I think.

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by vbuskirk » Sat May 29, 2010 10:16 pm

I love happy endings. Good'o Potter. :thumbsup:




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Re: Lost and Found

Post by River Rat » Sat May 29, 2010 11:18 pm

THE CONTINENTAL wrote:Happy Memorial Day weekend fellow enthusiasts. I wanted to pass on a story of happiness and good fortune. Last summer, I "lost" my favorite boating/sailing timepiece; my Patek Aquanaut. It's nothing spectacular insofar as Pateks are concerned, but nevertheless it holds some sentimental value to me. It was a gift from a lady friend. Needless to say I was more than a bit distraught when I made it home from a celebration following a regatta, sans Aquanaut. I was quite inebriated after downing several bottles of Port, and somehow passed out in the bungalow by the pool where I awoke the following [late] morning to discover my Aquanaut was gone. Now I know what you are thinking, but my family's servants have our utmost trust. So, after looking in all the usual places (back seat of "S" Class Benz, poolside bar, kitchen) I resigned myself to the fact that my Aquanaut was gone.

Fast forward to this summer. I was gathering up my boating gear, and low and behold what do you think I found in the pocket of my Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? Yes, you guessed it ... my Patek Aquanaut.

In any event, it was a happy ending. Now I have a question. What is the fascination with these horrendous looking nato straps? I cannot for the life of me discern why anyone would wear such an unbecoming strap, especially on nicer watches. I can see perhaps putting one on a boring Seiko, or any of the less than impressive but popular boutique brands such as Kobold, Doxa, and the like, in an attempt to make it look "military" or otherwise "mission specific". But, to dumb down a Rolex Submariner, IWC, or any classic vintage diver is just plain uncouth. I can just imagine coming in from an invigorating morning swim in the surf to an outdoor table at the Club for Mimosas and a nice brunch while wearing a sopping wet and smelly canvas strap, dripping seawater into ones's shrimp cocktail. I assure you it would be more than offensive.

Anyhow, I just wanted to share my joy at being reunited with my favorite boating timepiece. It's really a nice piece and very "under the radar" as they say. Here is a pic from last summer.

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Cheers - Potter
Now when are you going to post a watch I like.That's is one ugly watch just not my style and I would hate to know what you paid for it.Now when you post a watch I like I will say a good thing.I just don't like the looks of the two watches you posted so far that I have seen unless I missed one.But I do like diver's if you have one in your collection post your best one nothing to flashy.

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by cali kid » Sat May 29, 2010 11:29 pm

and to think you most likely blamed that poor hooker all year long! :fro: Watch has it's place but not on a sailboat :bs: and if it didnt have Patek on the dial i would think croton! :shrug:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by Tragic » Sun May 30, 2010 12:25 am

Potter you're an excellent dude in my opinion.
LOVE the Patek sir!
Glad you recovered it.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by matt.wu » Sun May 30, 2010 12:25 am

I love having family servants.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by poppydog » Sun May 30, 2010 2:03 am

Good morning Potter

I have a question for you: (which is already redundant since it appears you post a thread then never read respondents' comments) why do you never answer or reply to a post? Could it be that your personna is actually the third-person consciousness of every member of WUS and we are all unwittingly taking part in a dialogue that is being transposed through your pseudo-character in a desperate attempt to undermine the success of DWC? Just wondering.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by smalls » Sun May 30, 2010 6:51 am

poppydog wrote:Good morning Potter

I have a question for you: (which is already redundant since it appears you post a thread then never read respondents' comments) why do you never answer or reply to a post? Could it be that your personna is actually the third-person consciousness of every member of WUS and we are all unwittingly taking part in a dialogue that is being transposed through your pseudo-character in a desperate attempt to undermine the success of DWC? Just wondering.
He doesn't reply because it's beneath him...literally...get it? :lol:

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by ezcheese » Sun May 30, 2010 8:32 am

smalls wrote:
poppydog wrote:Good morning Potter

I have a question for you: (which is already redundant since it appears you post a thread then never read respondents' comments) why do you never answer or reply to a post? Could it be that your personna is actually the third-person consciousness of every member of WUS and we are all unwittingly taking part in a dialogue that is being transposed through your pseudo-character in a desperate attempt to undermine the success of DWC? Just wondering.
He doesn't reply because it's beneath him...literally...get it? :lol:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by hazmatman » Sun May 30, 2010 9:06 am

Connie I think you would find affinity with NATO & ZULU straps.

They are not unlike the ones you had your schoolmaster tie you down with.

They might just bring back some extremely pleasant and twisted memories for you.

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Re: Lost and Found

Post by snootydog » Sun May 30, 2010 10:02 am

Noooooooo,would you believe it.....in the pocket of your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? You crazy chappie. How on earth did it get into the pocket of your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? I lost a watch in the actual sea once,yes the actual English Channel. If only i had a Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket,thats where i would have put it. Do you think my Helly Hansen foul weather weather jacket is as good as your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? It has many pockets to lose things in,but ive never put my watch in my jacket pocket....i guess its the last place i would look.
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by DMB » Sun May 30, 2010 10:36 am

snootydog wrote:Noooooooo,would you believe it.....in the pocket of your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? You crazy chappie. How on earth did it get into the pocket of your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? I lost a watch in the actual sea once,yes the actual English Channel. If only i had a Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket,thats where i would have put it. Do you think my Helly Hansen foul weather weather jacket is as good as your Gill Atlantic Foul Weather Jacket? It has many pockets to lose things in,but ive never put my watch in my jacket pocket....i guess its the last place i would look.

Laughing my ass off .... :roll:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by el presidente » Sun May 30, 2010 10:40 am

WTF is this guy doing here :shrug: :bs:
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Re: Lost and Found

Post by vbuskirk » Sun May 30, 2010 11:38 am

:raised: Pay attention Roar. He is channeling some consciousness(es).
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