DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Early in the morning I wake up, check the forum and see I have an email from BuscaPlata.
Says I won the contest he was running, guess the age total of all his grandkids and great grandkids.
I just used my birth date 6/27 like I usually do, the answer was 629 so I was closest.
A coin ring is my prize, always wanted one so, yay!
Silversmith won one he made recently in another contest and posted a pic, he does quality work.
Then a bit later I get a package in the mail and in it is a new watch.
I bought an automatic Seiko 5 from Island Watch about a year ago but it never worked right, kept stopping.
I quit wearing it and pretty much forgot about it because I have other watches but then I remembered and contacted the owner, Marc.
Since I bought it Seiko discontinued this model and even though there are still many around in the retail pipeline he didn't carry it because he has a fast turnover and he only carries the new Seiko 5 line now which I didn't want for several reasons.
I could have gotten mine repaired but not happy with that, in the meantime Marc started his own watch line and originally started with just divers but a few months ago he came out with the Aviator line, Pilot or Flieger style which was close in style to the Seiko model I had...but better.
Better movements, better sapphire crystal, better leather band, a way better value than that Seiko 5, old or new models..
I asked if I could upgrade and he agrees, pay the difference between what I paid and what his new one costs and done deal.
Love this thing, NH35 movement, thick comfortable leather band, ar coated sapphire crystal, screw down crown for 100m water resistance, full great lume and a beautiful blue dial with nothing else written and absolutely no branding on the dial so totally readable cause it's a pilot watch.
To put the cherry on the cake ordered and got a great deal on a new detector, actually discontinued but new to me, anyway, an F5 with two concentric coils and a Nel Sharpshooter coil to boot.
Going to be my new jewelry sniffer, has almost as good a reputation for excelling at that as the Compadre.
Got the F70 but this is different, many similar features but lower in frequency and I have always found a ton of jewelry, especially gold, with my lower frequency F2 than any others, weird as that may sound.
Love my F70 but I think the F5 will be just as sensitive and just as deep here but with a little more stable ID's in my hot soil.
I will get it Thursday, should be out finding that gold by Thursday afternoon.
It HAS been a great day!
Says I won the contest he was running, guess the age total of all his grandkids and great grandkids.
I just used my birth date 6/27 like I usually do, the answer was 629 so I was closest.
A coin ring is my prize, always wanted one so, yay!
Silversmith won one he made recently in another contest and posted a pic, he does quality work.
Then a bit later I get a package in the mail and in it is a new watch.
I bought an automatic Seiko 5 from Island Watch about a year ago but it never worked right, kept stopping.
I quit wearing it and pretty much forgot about it because I have other watches but then I remembered and contacted the owner, Marc.
Since I bought it Seiko discontinued this model and even though there are still many around in the retail pipeline he didn't carry it because he has a fast turnover and he only carries the new Seiko 5 line now which I didn't want for several reasons.
I could have gotten mine repaired but not happy with that, in the meantime Marc started his own watch line and originally started with just divers but a few months ago he came out with the Aviator line, Pilot or Flieger style which was close in style to the Seiko model I had...but better.
Better movements, better sapphire crystal, better leather band, a way better value than that Seiko 5, old or new models..
I asked if I could upgrade and he agrees, pay the difference between what I paid and what his new one costs and done deal.
Love this thing, NH35 movement, thick comfortable leather band, ar coated sapphire crystal, screw down crown for 100m water resistance, full great lume and a beautiful blue dial with nothing else written and absolutely no branding on the dial so totally readable cause it's a pilot watch.
To put the cherry on the cake ordered and got a great deal on a new detector, actually discontinued but new to me, anyway, an F5 with two concentric coils and a Nel Sharpshooter coil to boot.
Going to be my new jewelry sniffer, has almost as good a reputation for excelling at that as the Compadre.
Got the F70 but this is different, many similar features but lower in frequency and I have always found a ton of jewelry, especially gold, with my lower frequency F2 than any others, weird as that may sound.
Love my F70 but I think the F5 will be just as sensitive and just as deep here but with a little more stable ID's in my hot soil.
I will get it Thursday, should be out finding that gold by Thursday afternoon.
It HAS been a great day!
