Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

While I'm being a total Sinn geek, did you know that the Sinn 141 S was one of the first automatic watches worn in space?

It was on the wrist of Reinhard Furrer during Spacelab D1, a similar watches were also worn on Mir and during Spacelab D2

He bought the watch privately and wanted to show that an automatic watch would still wind itself without the help of gravity

:( Sinn just discontinued the T2

Real shame, there's nothing quite like it on the market anywhere, 41mm tonneau case, titanium so it's really light, sad to see it go out the collection

The T1's still there though, but that one's 45mm so just not the same

Ooh, cool new watch if you're a Queen fan

Limited edition Seiko 5 "Red Special"

Dial inspired by Brian May's guitar, his signature on the display caseback

Edition of 9,000 and will cost around €560

https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/news/20200123-64494105459

have my [i]what[/i] cleaned and valeted?

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Here's an interesting look at how things can change in the watch world

This is an advert from a jewellers from 1977 offering an Omega Speedmaster for £158 next to a Seiko Digital Chronograph for £165

These days it costs £4,700 for a Speedmaster and under £20 for an equivalent digital watch

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First one out of hibernation I think!

reggie is big handsome floof

(cw: cat eye contact)

I should get one of these

fish watch

I'm not a stamps person but royal mail are doing a special issue of stamps featuring british video games

Included are Elite, Dizzy, Populous, Lemmings, Micro Machines, Sensible Soccer, Wipeout, and Worms

And there's a Tomb Raider mini set as well

https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games

Oh hey, Omega just released a non-limited edition of the speedmaster with the original calibre 321 movement

https://www.omegawatches.com/watch-omega-speedmaster-moonwatch-chronograph-39-7-mm-31130403001001

And it's a reasonable size as well

here's the other 4

they're... certainly a look

I missed this from before christmas but Seiko did a collab with this JoJo's Bizarre Adventure thing that large parts of the internet won't fucking shut up about

All Japanese Domestic Market only, each limited to 1,000 units

THE WOMBLES ARE SOLARPUNK

my feet are mooses... meese... moose feet

Huh. I guess Makita really do make everything you could use an 18v battery with

This is a filter coffee machine that runs off a Makita battery like what you'd use in a drill

No idea why they make it, but they do

This is a $360,000 watch that plays the theme from The Godfather on demand

Because that was a thing that had to exist for some reason

This is Mari Lwyd (image cw'ed for skull)

In Welsh tradition, at christmas, Mari Lwyd will come around all the houses in the town with a bunch of mates and sing loudly that they want to enter your house

You are then obliged to sing back with reasons they can't come in and the argument continues until you run out of ideas and it then comes in with its mates and you have to give them ale and food

In the UK we like to name our gritters (vehicles that spread grit on the roads to increase traction in icy conditions, owned and operated by the county council)

Lanarkshire just got Gritter Thunberg