New Watches!!!

A few weeks back (first sunday of the month) I went to the usual antique market, but this time I knew what I was looking for.
I managed to find a few nice watches and didn’t end up spending a fortune either.
My father also sent me a pocket watch he had in his “secret drawer”. It was a pocket watch his colleagues gave him as a gift when he left Bulgaria.
Recently I also won a bid for a 1917 Hamilton 17 Jewels Pocket Watch on ebay and can’t wait to get my hands on it.
So here they are (clicky on the images for a small description):

Komandirskie Paratrooper

Slava Perestroika

Molnija Pocket Watch

Molnija Mechanism

Molnija Back

Hamilton Grade 975

Hamilton 975 movement

Hamilton 975 movement

Hamilton Back case

I’ll post more pics of the hamilton once it arrives here. Hopefully all in one piece.

I don’t think ther will be many more watches added to my collection for a while because I got banned from xbox live and so I’m thinking of getting a new xbox so am unsure of my financial status at the moment eheh.

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Japanese Bento

You are obviously wondering what the hell a Japanese Bento is. Firstly, it’s a present I got for my girfriend Gloria from Japan. Secondly this is what it is:

It’s not just a normal bento…It’s a TOTORO bento wooo!

Okay okay… can you guess what it is yet?

This might help:

Not guessed yet?

It’s practically just a lunchbox. You cook something in the morning or the day before and then stick it in the bento and then you can take your food with you in this microwave oven friendly bento.

It’s very popular in japan and not only for kids. Recently there has been a rise in men using bento’s due to the economic crisis.

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The 80’s are back

I haven’t really done much in a “physical” kind of way this weekend but i did quite a few different kind of things.

Ok watch this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3g_yf1vzI

The video is so 80’s it hurts. The singer’s GREEN suit makes me want to rip my eyes out, and then all of a sudden… CHILDREN EVERYWHERE!! Just fantastic.  Great song though, and definitely in my top 10 80’s songs of all time. They don’t make songs or videos like these anymore.

I also wanted to go and vote for the Democratic Party representative for the next primary elections in Italy, but I realised I still haven’t got my new electoral card because i’ve changed city of residence. A bit angry but what could I have done.

Another thing i did this weekend was find all the films with Bill Murray that I haven’t watched and then ofcourse proceed to host myself a Bill Murray Film marathon (if two films can be considered a marathon).

Those two films were “Caddyshack” , still maintaining that 80’s feel. It was ok, nothing spectacular. One of those 80’s fun films with Chevy Chase. Bill had a relatively minor role but it was quite funny. Loved the way he kept his lips kind of deformed throughout the whole movie, to give his character that weird accent.

The second film was “Rushmore“. A more recent (1998) movie, and also a tad more serious than caddyshack. It gave me a weird vibe to start off with, somwhat like the vibe i felt when I saw “Step Brothers” for the first time. You’ll know what I mean if you’ve seen any of these two movies. In the end it was actually a very entertaining movie and it ends well which is always nice.

I have to say though that my favourite Bill Murray movie was and still is Groundhog Day, followed closely by Lost in Translation. Actually that reminds me of the funniest clip ever in Lost in translation, where Bill is in the hospital waiting room with an old japanese man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntLhQLIfVE (could only find it in italian but it’s still understandable and funny, check out the ladies in the background..it’s so improvised.

On other news my back started hurting again, i’m just praying it’s not my hernia acting up again…

I bet there’s still tons of bill murray movies out there and i’m sure i’ll watch some more of them (Next on the list is “Where The Buffalo Roam“, which is supposed to be what they based Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: bookworms don’t flame me!, and where Johnny Depp based his character from)

Time to go

o/

P.s. Thanks to omgbruces.com/forums for the 80’s inspiration

Oh! and new watch: Vostok Komandierskie Tank, Automatic

Wallpaper of the week and apologies

Apologies because it has been aaaaaaaaaages since i’ve blogged.

This has been for various reasons including rage, back pains, work related problems, not enough time and also lazyiness.

So here it goes, hoping my blogger’s block isn’t blocked anymore.

Loads of random wallpapers for you all!

waargagagablgablblgarbl

Sharkdriver

artsy

Psycho Bale

Graphite battle

Adam West

Bebop rocks

Windows Default?

One of many passions

Sexy

Wallpaper of the Week

Autumn is on its way so I decided to post some of my autumn trees wallpapers.

There’s also a small bonus for all the girls 😀

Bonus Ken

Sorry about the shortish posts but been going through a lot lately.

Enjoy.

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Soviet Wrist Watches

I recently bought two vintage russian, or should I rather say Soviet, wrist watches. They were “New Old Stock” meaning they were unsold, so practically new.

One is a Raketa (Paketa) 24 hour watch 19 jewels. It’s not a normal watch. First things first, it was probably made mid-late 80’s when russia was still CCCP. What’s strange about it then? Well it’s a 24 hour watch. Usually watches are 12 hours, meaning that in 1 day, the hour dial will go round twice. In this case, it goes round once. You can see the difference in the photo! It’s hand wound, and it lasts approximately 36 hours. It also has a rotating bezel that shows cities around the world, so you can tell what time it is there too!

The second is the real deal. It’s a Slava Medical watch. This watch was apparently given to all Soviet doctors. As you can see from the pictures, it has a pulse measuring aid. This one is hand wound too and was made around the same time as the Raketa. I immediately thought of my girlfriend (she is in her 4th year studying medicine) and so I’m going to give it to her as a present. It’s actually a very good watch, with 26 jewels, which is actually a few too many, but hey…

Here they are (I recently changed the wrist bands because they were unglueing):

The ones I now own 2

The ones I now own 1

Slava Medical

Mine has the cities in russian unlike this one (prolly US version)

Wallpaper Weekly

This week’s wallpaper isn’t really a wallpaper.  It has a lot of different images that represent musical band names. There are 74 band names in this image and it’s up to you all to find them!!! Don’t cheat! They go from music to country to metal. So there’s no distinction. How many can you find?

Answers will be posted next week!

Oh and a funny cat too for your pleasure.

Have fun 😀

funny cat

Guess The Artists!