You know, the term "college friend" sounds fun and all; but she's a 63-year-old, twice divorced woman, with kids and grandkids. It's no "Love Island".
Pardon me, but do you have the time?
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First off, that's Elizabeth Hurley's age:
Elizabeth Hurley sizzles in a bikini on her 61st birthday
Elizabeth Hurley turned 61 years old on Wednesday and was showered with love from her boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus.
And secondly.......This makes me sound really old but as I age I seem to find broads my age hotter than ever before.
Fuck, sorry about that guys, I must have a head injury or something.
Seriously though it's true. When I was like 17 I remember asking my dad about being attracted to chicks in their 20's at his age like I was at the time and he told me something similar to what I just said, as you get older you become more attracted to chicks your age.
Hendrik was always very proper so I believed him of course but after a min of thought I remembered he did marry a broad (aka my mom) who was 34 when he was 54 so he was a dirty dog too Scotch.
All of that is to say, nothing wrong with getting down when a 63 y/o college friend trollop decides to show up and spend a few nights at your Maine Palace.
My pre-order from February 2nd finally showed up. It wasn't late. It was supposed to ship at the end of May and it's from Australia so it came exactly when they said it would. Which while I trust this brand, it is still a micro brand from a YouTuber. You can never really trust newer microbrand, let alone ones run by YouTubers:
Erebus Watches
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This thing is full of firsts for me. First watch I've ever bought from an Australian brand, first pink dial, first with a jubilee bracelet, first with a high accuracy quartz movement, first with an on the fly micro adjust and finally first quartz watch with a display case back.
The other pics obviously show the bracelet and the watch face but here's some of the other stuff:
I get how a display case back is kind of silly a quartz watch but I like it. At least it is nicer looking than most quartz movements. And I've talked a bunch about how I love testing accuracy and how the radio controlled Casios are so cool but they are kind of cheating cuz they get the radio signal from Colorado every night. Whereas this one is +/- 10 seconds a YEAR (as opposed to the vast majority of quartz watches that are +/- 15 seconds a month) without any sort of adjustments. I'm looking forward to testing that and seeing how on the money they actually are with that claim.
Also, I'm not sure if the brand actually claims this, but talking to Gemini the battery they use with the movement they use is supposed to last around 7 years. So if that's true that's also awesome.
And it more or less has everything else you would want in a micro brand. A signed and screw down crown,
100 m water resist, sapphire crystal with antireflective coating on the underside, a milled clasp, applied indices and good lume.
The only negative I see so far is that the second hand doesn't 100% hit all the ticks from around the 30 to the 45 or so. So that's not great for a watch that was reasonably priced for all the features but nowhere near cheap. The preorder price was $429 but since it came from Australia it wound up being $533 with $39 for shipping and $65 in duties (hehehe dootie).
Also I like how the date window is color matched to the dial. I would prefer to not have a date window at all, but if I have to have one I want it to be framed and color matched.
So I'm happy with it overall. Of course I'm still in the honeymoon. It's day two of owning it in person. I guess we will see how often I actually wind up wearing it long term.
And here's a lume shot to end the post:
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND..............It's dead.
Since it had the High Accuracy Quartz movement when I realized I had set it off about 0.5 a second I decided to fix it. I tried a couple times to get it exact with Time.gov and on the third time I broke it somehow. I was not being rough with it. When it broke the second hand stopped ticking. I could still adjust the hour and minute but after screwing back down the crown the second hand wouldn't tick and the other hands wouldn't move by themselves.
I contacted Erebus customer service and they first asked me to send a video of the issue. After I did that they sent me a return label and said as soon as they get the broken one back they will send me a new one. They have been great. I sent it off and it should be back to their place in NSW Australia in a few days.
We'll see how the whole process goes and I'll report back but so far so good. It's not their fault I got a lemon. It's annoying to have to send it more or less as far as possible to get the replacement but whatever.
When I was emailing with CS I noticed that the rep was CC'ing the two faces of the company on every email. That's really cool. This guy Jody runs the YouTube channel Just One More Watch that I have been watching for years and his partner in Erebus is this guy Steven. They both have seen every email I sent. That is oddly comforting. I have thought Jody is a good guy through watching his videos but he's a YouTuber I have never met so who knows. The fact that he and his partner want to know about customer issues with their microbrand company is cool.
Here's the video I sent them after they requested it to explain the issue:
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My replacement arrived on 6.29.
I wanted to wait a couple days to make sure it didn't break again and so far everything's perfect. I set the high accuracy quartz to the correct time.gov time.....And I'm going to have to do some more testing before I can determine if it's really +/-10 per year. But so far it is still synced perfectly with time.gov since I set it on the 29th.
Anyway, they sent me a free strap pack which on their website cost 30 bucks. So that was a nice surprise.
And also I forgot to mention earlier that the case the watch comes in is pretty awesome because it doubles as a travel case for two watches.
So I'm very happy and I told their customer service I was very happy and that seemed to make them feel flattered but they deserve it because it sucks a watch breaks like I mentioned in the email yet when that happens all you could hope for is good customer service and they gave me very good customer service.
I wanted to wait a couple days to make sure it didn't break again and so far everything's perfect. I set the high accuracy quartz to the correct time.gov time.....And I'm going to have to do some more testing before I can determine if it's really +/-10 per year. But so far it is still synced perfectly with time.gov since I set it on the 29th.
Anyway, they sent me a free strap pack which on their website cost 30 bucks. So that was a nice surprise.
And also I forgot to mention earlier that the case the watch comes in is pretty awesome because it doubles as a travel case for two watches.
So I'm very happy and I told their customer service I was very happy and that seemed to make them feel flattered but they deserve it because it sucks a watch breaks like I mentioned in the email yet when that happens all you could hope for is good customer service and they gave me very good customer service.
This was the one I changed the batter on today.I'm looking at one of these Hamilton's. I think I've decided I don't want a Ventura.
I'd rather have it with a white face, but they don't offer that unfortunately.
I have a very similar one in all black anodized with the black rubber strap. That's still running, but unfortunately I have 2 other watches I'd like to wear now, that both need batteries.