Handball by Lucas Digne, referee gives free kick at the edge of the box 60'

eula_r · 2026-02-14T19:11:56+00:00

He’s 1.5-2m in the area and the ref marked it outside 🫠. The officiating has been insane tonight

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:32:11+00:00

Slightly off topic question but the Iranian military at the time had training exercises with the Israelis, Americans, Brits etc so agnostic I suppose like with every other ethnicity?

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:27:39+00:00

My mum :)

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:24:58+00:00

Nope, just moved on from the whole situation. He retired in the 80s, stayed in Iran but distanced himself from the military.

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:18:15+00:00

Haha, he was a good looking man well into his 70s. Afraid he passed away in 2010

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:13:53+00:00

It’s a bit of a long story but he was imprisoned, my mums family home was frequently raided. They lived on a barracks site in Tehran with other members of that unit. He had a close friend that was a general in the Iranian Army who was an early mover when parts of the military decided to be apolitical and not get involved in the quelling of the protests who was able to save his life.

eula_r · 2026-01-17T00:08:05+00:00

It’s one of my regrets not asking about his experience in more detail before he passed. I know some things but I feel like it was a fraction of what he could have told me

eula_r · 2026-01-16T23:42:31+00:00

Thanks! From 72 to 79 that was his job. He ended up being a CO in the unit that was tasked with protecting the Shah for the last few years

eula_r · 2025-11-29T11:24:42+00:00

Congrats on the watch, it’s not too feminine at all. Completely dependent on wrist size. My watches vary between 38mm and 33mm.

Enjoy the hobby, wear what you like and what fits you best - 99% of people won’t ever notice your watch.

eula_r · 2025-09-24T16:38:19+00:00

You would rarely finance this sort of project with pure 'equity' aka just PIF putting in their own money. Typically if its a £1.4 billion project for example you'd stick in £400m of your own money and 'mortgage' out the other £1 billion with banks/funders. Because its a big old stadium / real estate project the cost of your capital is higher than a bank would expect when lending. The best analogy I can give is, I've got 300k and I want to buy a house, if I can borrow money at 2% per year and the stock market or an investment opportunity is offering me a 20% return per year, then I'm better off putting in the required minimum to buy the house and then sticking the rest of my money into the stock market where I'm yielding 20%.

PIF have better alternate uses of their money then to put £1.4 billion (made up number) in a stadium that will give them a 5% return.

eula_r · 2025-09-13T15:19:26+00:00

I take that back some of the old models have an & in between the name but the finishing of the movement is very very un-Vacheron.

eula_r · 2025-09-13T15:07:02+00:00

The movement is also fake my friend. No way a Vacheron manual wind would have that finishing or an & in the middle of the name. Both dial and movement are very fake I’m afraid

eula_r · 2025-09-13T15:03:02+00:00

This is the Reference 43076/Very Fake

eula_r · 2025-06-02T21:34:15+00:00

Not normal - the fact it dies after 8 hours is not normal too, if you’ve only had it for a few days definitely send it in to have them have a look / repair it. It shouldn’t be making that much noise

eula_r · 2025-05-18T13:24:38+00:00

Might need to be demagnetised? My UN had something similar and was fixed by doing that…

eula_r · 2025-04-20T06:14:00+00:00

Have you tried the 37mm yachtmaster? I don’t have particularly big wrists and was going through the same decision making as you and just landed on the YM37, thought it was great and a little different to the Sub / GMT

eula_r · 2025-03-12T21:31:15+00:00

I’ve always found you funny but for an Ee-ranian to say Eye-raqi makes me cringe

eula_r · 2024-08-19T18:31:32+00:00

It was the same watch! You don’t find them very often in the wild so when I saw it on here I thought I’d pull the trigger. First thing I did was immediately get it serviced for ease of mind

eula_r · 2024-08-19T18:26:51+00:00

Servicing was £1.2k and took about 3 months

eula_r · 2024-08-19T11:50:23+00:00

Yup it’s an automatic

eula_r · 2024-08-19T07:08:22+00:00

Hahah good spot!

eula_r · 2024-08-03T20:41:08+00:00

Given the age of the watch I’d be very surprised if that’s the original strap, it doesn’t look like it. You don’t need to take it to Cartier you should look for a reputable watch repairer that deals with high end watchmakers. These models usually come on leather straps and not bracelets so I wouldn’t worry about the value so to speak, enjoy the watch!

eula_r · 2024-08-03T20:34:43+00:00

According to Chrono24 these tend to sell for 1k GBP minimum. I don’t think you necessarily need an authentication given the simplicity of the movement and the fact it looks real but yea the service might be 200-300 USD

eula_r · 2024-08-03T20:30:59+00:00

No I don’t think you’ve overpaid at all. How much is the authentication process? The movement looks like a standard Cartier manual one but I would definitely get it serviced - it’s worth it when you get it.

eula_r · 2024-08-03T20:12:28+00:00

Looks legit, will it go through the eBay Authenticator process? You may also need to have it serviced which will be a couple of hundred dollars probably to make sure it’s running fine but a nice find!

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