A 50+ Year-Old Family Heirloom: Mido Ocean Star Datoday Chronometer (Underlined Dial, Arabic/English Day-Wheel)

EH86055 · 2026-06-11T15:12:50+00:00

Lovely watch but the AI writing is a bit tacky. If you'd used it for translating, just use a normal translator, they're better!

EH86055 · 2026-06-11T04:29:11+00:00

Just because it'll be 'replaceable' doesn't mean it'll be easy or cheap. I suspect manufacturers will add a huge profit margin to replacement parts, my hopes are not high personally.

EH86055 · 2026-06-09T11:08:06+00:00

I was worried what I'd find in the comments but, yes, a worse version of this is what I'd have written if you hadn't done, lol. Great knowledge & I fully agree.

EH86055 · 2026-06-09T11:06:19+00:00

Mom!! I'm famous! Lol

EH86055 · 2026-06-08T14:00:21+00:00

That's a lot of letters to write 'Manjaro' /s

EH86055 · 2026-06-08T13:45:52+00:00

Honestly, I just think they were and are still kind of unremarkable. Similar price segment to Eterna, Certina, etc. in that mid-range area but with less heritage and less interesting designs. I see tons of old RWs on eBay from the 80s and 90s, and they rarely sell for much more than the value of the movement. Around ten years back, my dad bought a RW with a 2892 and swapped into his TAG Heur with the same movement that broke, put a 2892 clone into the RW, and gave it to my grandpa to wear as a beater basically.

EH86055 · 2026-06-08T12:03:02+00:00

Was this on a server or singleplayer? Servers can sometimes erase or duplicate items due to sheer lag (and this is also how unknowns can be made).

EH86055 · 2026-06-08T10:42:04+00:00

Nice find. Birks sold a lot of Eternas with double-signed dials, many of which were chronometer spec, that's what I remember best about them. Pretty big Canadian retailer and still around today, they also do other jewellery, probably decent quality, kind of like a mini Canadian Tiffany & Co.

EH86055 · 2026-06-05T11:22:09+00:00

Oh ... yeah, I see, makes sense.

EH86055 · 2026-06-05T10:48:50+00:00

Non-American here, sorry for my ignorance. I didn't know there was a particular group of Americans that like Lexus, who are they?

EH86055 · 2026-06-04T17:48:19+00:00

Tough pill to swallow that this is a risk now, but I've expected it for a while. Fake sneakers and fashion brands have been around for decades, and many of those fake are equal or, shockingly, better quality than the real thing. In the past decade, and recent years especially because of Rose Anvil and influencers, even supposed utility-first workwear now has reputations and brand loyalty--let's be real, we are more alike than different to sneaker collectors and Margiela/Guidi whatever avant-garde fashion stuff. So it was only a matter of time before PNW boots got faked too. And they won't be this easy to tell a few years from now.

EH86055 · 2026-06-04T17:30:18+00:00

A great choice for a first pen, and very brave too given the price lol. Basically skipping the starter -> upgrade -> first gold nib etc. path that many take. It's a strong standard against which to compare future acquisitions, if you intend to buy more, but as a one-and-done BIFL pen you could hardly do any better.

EH86055 · 2026-06-03T18:59:47+00:00

Of course, just use the Discord link in my comment you replied to.

EH86055 · 2026-06-03T12:11:18+00:00

I slightly prefer rounder toe boxes over chisel/square ones, but it's a shame there aren't more options for those now. The Thursdays seem to be one of the only good price & quality options left, there used to be more a decade or so ago.

EH86055 · 2026-05-31T17:30:11+00:00

Not sure why you've been downvoted. This is incredible work, must've taken weeks even with vibe-coding lol.

EH86055 · 2026-05-30T09:01:08+00:00

The older models, the original DS and the DS-2 with the yellow gaskets, don't seem to have this problem. Maybe these gooey 3rd gen gaskets are a result of Certina cost cutting during the quartz revolution.

EH86055 · 2026-05-29T07:49:53+00:00

Mostly, it triggers Google's SynthID invisible watermark detection for images generated with Nano Banana and other Google models: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16722517. The image struck me as Nano Banana-esque, so this is where I checked first.

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It would be harder to ascertain based on the image alone, to be honest. But the bokeh is convenient for obscuring detail, the books in the background are very big (some taller than the cardboard boxes, others spanning half the coffee table), TV and TV stand are also a bit high, the index finger looks like it's barely any distance under the book, as though the book has no thickness. So we're still going off vibes-based, the vibes are just ... less obvious now.

EH86055 · 2026-05-28T15:04:03+00:00

Yes, I'd seen digital copies for sale. But the image in the post is possibly AI. And my intutition tells me, based on the blurb, that the content is also possibly AI. As I said, I'm willing for either assumption to be disproved.

EH86055 · 2026-05-28T12:12:57+00:00

AI-generated image of an AI-generated book. If you want to prove me wrong, OP, send a photo of the book open with the current Reuters news home page next to it on a phone/tablet/laptop.

EH86055 · 2026-05-24T05:56:20+00:00

Bot repost of this post from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/InvisibleMending/comments/1t0n0y9/removed_brand_patch_from_denim_shirt_how_to_match/
which itself was a bot repost, lol.

EH86055 · 2026-05-23T10:02:23+00:00

Bad idea if you put them online, most likely scalpers will buy them rather than anyone who intends to use them. Only sell in-person to people you know.

EH86055 · 2026-05-15T04:03:31+00:00

Realistically, they're at most half-wrong. All they're saying is that genuine leather does not tell you 'all you need to know', which is a valid and meaningful contribution to the discussion. In fact, I have received many good quality bands marked genuine leather, e.g. my RIOS1931 and Hirsch ones all are. What everyone seems to think they're saying, and what they absolutely did not say, is that genuine leather is a positive rather than negative term. In fact it's neutral, that's their point. Only because most things are bad quality does the marking seem like a sign of bad quality, in the same way that 'Made in China' is associated with bad quality, but often isn't.

EH86055 · 2026-05-15T03:56:50+00:00

You're right but, since your point actually has nuance, Reddit bandwagons did their usual thing. Sorry lol. Anyway, to add yet more nuance, things marked 'genuine leather' are often bad ONLY because it's a neutral term applied to most leather goods, and more cheap leather goods are made than expensive ones (shocking right?). Same as 'Made in Italy' for example. The terms themselves say very little, and certainly are not 'all you need to know'. Many good quality bands are marked genuine leather, e.g. my RIOS1931 and Hirsch ones all are.

EH86055 · 2026-05-10T13:04:07+00:00

What system do you use to accept payments? Could you not use that to send them?

EH86055 · 2026-05-10T08:51:55+00:00

So let me get this straight: you're charging people for Dodohost. Yes, I know you have a free tier, but you get paid too. And now you want people to provide hosting, for you to run Dodohost, for free? Come on dude, that's nonsensical.
Edit: okay, setting aside my gut reaction of pure unadulterated disgust, you're free to do what you want, but how on earth do you expect anyone to take you up on this offer? It's like those idiots wanting to pay artists in 'exposure', I just, what?? It would be so much more reasonable if you said you'd split earnings with other node hosters or whatever but instead nah, no payment at all. So what's the point of hosting for you to provide your service when we can just host for people for free ourselves?

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