19mm lugs… bad. Really limits strap choices. Some of my 20s can be fitted as shown.
More as I wear it!
And yeah, I shot it next to the Bolt, both are personal milestones.
More 9F GMT pictures and details
As noted in Coming soon to a WIS near you and Grand Seiko 9F GMTs are out!, I can’t wait to see these. As Seiko does press events, pictures and details are emerging, here’s what I’ve found so far with links to source materials.
From this WUS thread by user yonsson, click for full size versions:
Some gorgeous pictures in there! And the lime looks excellent. Interesting to see it next to the (unaffordable, yet grail) Blancpain Bathyscaphe 38mm.
From the Japanese-language oomiya blog (I recommend using the translate feature in Chrome):
Just gorgeous. On reflection, it’s hella expensive, I mean $3,500 for a quartz watch? For half that, you can get a superbly-made Citizen with solar power and perpetual calendar, with the same intrinsic 5 seconds per year accuracy.
And the lugs are, as confirmed by yonsson, a terrible 19mm. Some 20mm straps will fit, but a bad design decision.
A great pity that the green dial version forgoes the lume: (another yonsson picture)
Yay for RSS
As explained before, I adore RSS, and it shows in my phone usage.
MiniHack is a client for hacker news – decent. I am truly a news junkie.
Labor of love
I had a 1952 International pickup a long time ago. Built like a tank. This flawless beauty has similar lines.
Man that finish. So many hours.
The Empty Core of the Trump Mystique | The New Republic
Another pertinent factor is envy, a basic human emotion that rising social inequality can only exacerbate. To put it in cruder terms: “The world sucks for me, so I am going to make it suck for you too. I have lost my job, my status as a white male, and may even lose my gun. So you, my smug, privileged friend, are going to lose your civil liberties, your faith in social progress, your endangered species, your affirmative action, your reproductive freedom, your international alliances, your ‘wonderful’ exchange student from Syria.”
A stellar and thought-provoking essay.
Delorean
A local rental that work paid to ferry the CEO. Looks like a labor of love to skin it like the movie prop.
BWV 1008 – Cello suite No. 2 in D minor – All of Bach
One of my ongoing joys in life is a weekly-ish email from the ‘All of Bach’ project in the Netherlands. Not just a well-filmed and recorded performance, but conductor/performer notes and historical context.
I have a few performances of the cello suites, and prefer Rostropovich but this is well worth your time.
It’s odd, I’m used to modern rapid-rewards, short attention span videos so these require a bit of focus to watch.
New digs
Got moved to another building at work. Nice view from the balcony.
Here’s the one I started in.
And my favorite part:
An unusual strap
Bought this ages ago but finally tried it. The stiffness works well with the large Seiko and it’s quite comfortable, which was a nice surprise. Find it on Amazon. 13 bucks.
Lying with averages
Via
We can do better than percentile latencies | theburningmonk.com, this amazing animation:
Every one of those has the same mean and standard deviation in both X and Y!
Read the linked paper for details, but this is by far the best visual education I’ve ever seen for why you absolutely cannot trust summary statistics.
