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Yeah I also liked the blue leather loop a lot, which was out of left field for me.

Duly noted.

I tried on the blue, two-register titanium Speedy Coaxial in the mall today. It's a winner and in your size sweet spot at 44 mm, Jeff.

PS: The engineering on the link bracelet makes everyone else from Patek on down look like a bunch of fucking mugs.

Went for my Apple Watch "appointment." Left sold on the stainless 42mm w/ a link bracelet and a black sport band. Also left with an iPhone 6 Plus that I had absolutely no intention of buying on the way in. See, that's how they get you!

Getting back to watches, I just watched the Hodinkee Lange video and now need to change my pants. http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/Inside-a-lange-and-sohne

Quality! Do you have a picture of the headphones with the new pads installed, please?

Blur were brilliant on Later last night.

Brian Wilson -- No Pier Pressure Proper sign-off.

Hot Chip -- Made In The Dark

Happy Birthday!

Sufjan Stevens -- Carrie & Lowell Sad and beautiful.

Torche -- Restarter

Fish motherfucker! Do you eat it?

Dew eet.

That story really pegged the whiney-ometer! How dare people spend their money on things I find frivolous (or can't afford)? Don't they know there are children starving in (insert suitably benighted region)?

Jeff, what about a Deepsea Sea-Dweller if the 40mm Rolex sports models wear too small for you? Otherwise, again, would look at an AP Diver on a bracelet. Butch as fuck!

I predict beautiful, beautiful music.

All perfectly valid reasons.

I'm just finding as I go along that I don't really want a date window on my watches. It messes with the symmetry of the dial (egregiously so in the case of a lot of chronographs). The Rolex cyclops of course literally magnifies this effect, however practical it may be in use.

Technically the 114060 is the Submariner. The 116610 is the Submariner Date.

Mac McCaughan -- Lost Again Sounds a lot better on TIDAL but still a nice song. I got a really Aussie, Paul Kelly vibe from this on first listen.

It is said that the reason Jeremy couldn't have his steak was that he'd been sat in a pub drinking for two hours before coming back to the hotel, during which time the chef had quite reasonably gone home. This would make him an even bigger arsehole for blaming it on the producer. I'm sure the full salacious details (plus, hopefully, a rough transcript of the 20-minute tirade) will be surreptitiously placed in the public domain by anonymous BBC sources.

Late to the party, but the only current Rolex that do it for me are the no-date Sub, 39 mm Explorer and white dial Daytona.

Skyrockets in flight?