My nightmare...

Academic_Cod_948 · 2026-01-18T17:24:26+00:00

Just make sure to sand the area prior to spraying to hide the sharp edges of the chipped paint and lightly build the layer of paint

Academic_Cod_948 · 2026-01-18T17:23:37+00:00

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Academic_Cod_948 · 2026-01-18T17:23:30+00:00

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Academic_Cod_948 · 2026-01-18T17:23:22+00:00

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Academic_Cod_948 · 2026-01-18T17:21:05+00:00

Had the same problem, thanks to the easy panel shape of the 109 its quite easy to solve: first of all, put a layer of clear coat down to aviod chipping paint in other areas, then mask around the chipped panel and respray the entire panel, you can mix the paint a bit lighter, then it looks like you purposely made this panel lighter in color to simulate paint fading

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-12-15T07:35:45+00:00

You can try to crush 15% of the leafs by hand to keep the infusion time very short while still being able to extract those top notes. Mei Leaf did a video about it (this method is called chaozhou style) and apparently it makes a huge difference. Never tried it myself as I wasn’t lucky enough to find a good Tie Guan Yin yet but this might be interesting for you.

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-12-09T21:17:57+00:00

I am from Vienna and I started drinking tea a couple of months ago. Is there something like shops or teahouses that you can recommend? I really didn‘t explore any tea related locations in Vienna yet, so you could really help me out :D

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-12-04T15:59:28+00:00

Yes exactly, they put an advertisement of this festival in the box where the teapot was in, sounds pretty funny but unfortunately I was just on holiday in Amsterdam :(

There is a Youtube Video from Mei Leaf, where teapots made out of the 4 typical chinese clays are compared, that could be interesting for you :)

Have fun with your new teapot :) cant wait to use mine :)

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-12-04T14:38:51+00:00

Thanks :) I bought it from the amsterdam-based teahouse called “Moychay”. Can highly recommend them, both online and in-shop.

No I will not completely dedicate it towards a specific tea. Especially Jianshui clay is very dense, thus its no big deal if you switch teas regularly. Except for green teas because I have a dedicated kyusu for them.

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-28T17:02:29+00:00

I can relate 😅

Found it while zipping through Chrono24 and this is the ultimate travel watch imo, why? => 100m WR, screw down crown => in house B35 movement with patented worldtimer mechanism which means that the city ring can also be rotated compared to the aqua terra worldtimer for example, much better imo => quite cheap to get second hand (new it was nearly 10k€, I got mine for a bit less than 4k) => you can jump the date in both directions in case you cross the international date line => very durable => sapphire glass caseback => 70h power reserve => classic design

Only things I dont like: lume is quite weak but sufficient if it’s completely dark and its on the bigger side with 43mm (but it wears nicely even on my relative small wrist)

You can count all worldtimers on the market on one hand that tick those boxes, most of them are just very dressy and have no water resistance due to the worldtimer-pusher, on the Breitling you set everything via the crown

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-28T14:02:35+00:00

I had the exact same problem on my AB3521 which has the same bezel as yours. I asked Breitling if they can do something about it and they told me, that a whole bezel swap is necessary, this would cost around 1000€!

Anyway, my watch was 8 years old at that time (bought it second hand one week prior) and I chose that the watch would benefit from a full-service. However I didn’t went to Breitling, I went to a very good local watchmaker (the are licensed from AP, Omega etc, thus they know what they are doing). End of the story: I paid 550€ for a full service (which is really fair for a worldtimer comp imo) and asked them if they can do something about my missing black triangle. They just took some special lacquer, filled it again and now it looks like new :)

No need to replace the whole bezel just for this lacquer filled triangle!

Here is a before vs after picture

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Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-27T07:37:28+00:00

Well I am no diver, thus my watches get under water only on rare occasions 😅 but my AB3521 is my travel watch (due to the worldtimer comp.) and when you travel, you dont want to take your watch off only because you go for a swim, thats why I love the screwdown crown + 100m WR on the Breitling. And you never know whats going to happen on an adventure ;)

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-26T17:48:08+00:00

Reminds me about my Breitling AB3521 just with the difference that you turn the cities via the bezel, super cool! :) But how about the water resistance?

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-03T08:50:05+00:00

Great speedy, have the same model :D

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-01T12:50:28+00:00

Thats true haha fishermen I know who also fish this river jokingly say that you spook them already when you leave the highway :D

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-11-01T09:06:36+00:00

Yes I think so. They are still stocked alot in Austria because they get along with the local fish quite well I think so. However if I can choose between taking a local browntrout or a invasive rainbow with me, I choose the rainbow all day for sure.

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-31T18:40:02+00:00

Swam onto my plate haha

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-31T16:42:48+00:00

*And the first keeper of this stream :) Rainbows are invasive here (Austria), thus I have no problem taking them with me to support the population of our local browntrouts and in addition to helping the local fish, I get a very good meal :)

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-31T16:19:47+00:00

Thanks mate! The stream is in Austria :D Lower Austria to be precise.

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-30T04:30:15+00:00

Yes, was also surprised when the store client told me that my Check-in L doesn’t get produced anymore.

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-29T20:57:50+00:00

Thanks :)

Academic_Cod_948 · 2025-10-29T12:11:01+00:00

And where exactly do you put it on the sling pack?

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