The Flinders Automatic by Melbourne Watch Company
The list of independent watch brand-hopefuls continues to grow with another crowd-funding entry in the shape of Melbourne Watch Company. Melbourne and its founder, Sujain Krishnan are using Indiegogo as the platform to back their first production watch, the Flinders Automatic.Before stepping off on his quest to design his own watch, Sujain ran Melbourne Custom Watches, a shop that created homage military and pilot style watches. The small business ran for the past year with enough success for Sujain to realize he had the potential to expand beyond creating other people’s designs and homages into his own brand. One slight name change later and we have the Melbourne Watch Company and a first timepiece.The Flinders is their first original design and was named after Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. For those not familiar with the name Flinders Street Station is a railway station in Melbourne that services the entire metropolitan rail network. Although named after a railway,

AP swag incoming and special thanks to MasterSerg
I want to send a special shoutout and thank you to my friend Sergio (MasterSerg)... Him and I became friends through TRF, and during one of our many text convo's we discussed those awesome AP brown travel boxes. Today, I received a special incoming today from Serg... Once again, thank you so much, Serg!

Anybody gotten a "partial maintenance" from an Omega Service Center?
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5146J incoming
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114060 swap with 16710 Pepsi?
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