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MikeFields77
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Howdy All.

Glad to be a member on the OF here.

Been lurking around and learning loads.
Here we go. It all started when i bought a F1 Tag Heur as my first “luxury” watch 18yrs ago naively thinking it would be a babe magnet. lol

So you can say i caught the watch bug close to 2 decades ago and have flirted with several mechancical watch brands mainly german micro brands ever since. i’m that guy that would happily start a watch conversation with total strangers! So far it’s been a great ice breakers.


Recently, Omega has become very attractive especially with the recent silver snoopy award 50th anniversary. This beautiful speedy left an indelibly impression and awakened an interest in Speedmasters i never fully understood or appreciated until snoopy 50th came along. Now i’m here to start my journey.

I’m a Software engineer by profession and love mechanical watches an oddity in the age of fitbit and smart watches.

Anyway, thanks for accepting me and i’m looking forward to some robust and entertaining discussions .



Best Regards from London

Mike
 
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Welcome, I’m sure you already know that there are some very knowledgeable people on the forum and much information to be found. Hope you enjoy your time here, there are quite a few members in the London area, I’m in Eastleigh near Winchester. Again hope you enjoy contributing to the forum.
 
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It sounds like it has been a rocky road, but you have arrived at last. 😉
 
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Welcome to the Forum.

Here's hoping you find your way to a Speedmaster and into many discussions.
 
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MikeFields77 MikeFields77
I’m a Software engineer by profession and love mechanical watches an oddity in the age of fitbit and smart watches.

Anyway, thanks for accepting me and i’m looking forward to some robust and entertaining discussions .
Welcome Mike!

I spent 40 years in software development and remember one good friend in the same trade objecting to the title Software Engineer on the grounds that Engineering was a discipline and he had never observed much discipline in software writing. I was labelled Development Engineer, which was odd because I did little development, my forté was breaking what other people had developed 😎

I was wearing a Heuer when I first got into the business, so I have to say good choice 👍

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Welcome Mike, hope you enjoy the forum. Great place to hang out!
MikeFields77 MikeFields77
Howdy All.

Glad to be a member on the OF here.

Been lurking around and learning loads.
Here we go. It all started when i bought a F1 Tag Heur as my first “luxury” watch 18yrs ago naively thinking it would be a babe magnet. lol

So you can say i caught the watch bug close to 2 decades ago and have flirted with several mechancical watch brands mainly german micro brands ever since. i’m that guy that would happily start a watch conversation with total strangers! So far it’s been a great ice breakers.


Recently, Omega has become very attractive especially with the recent silver snoopy award 50th anniversary. This beautiful speedy left an indelibly impression and awakened an interest in Speedmasters i never fully understood or appreciated until snoopy 50th came along. Now i’m here to start my journey.

I’m a Software engineer by profession and love mechanical watches an oddity in the age of fitbit and smart watches.

Anyway, thanks for accepting me and i’m looking forward to some robust and entertaining discussions .



Best Regards from London

Mike
 
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SouthernScot SouthernScot
Welcome, I’m sure you already know that there are some very knowledgeable people on the forum and much information to be found. Hope you enjoy your time here, there are quite a few members in the London area, I’m in Eastleigh near Winchester. Again hope you enjoy contributing to the forum.

Thank you. Shame to hear Eastleigh moving to tier-4 this week. Look forward to meeting those from the London area once we come out of lock down.
 
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It sounds like it has been a rocky road, but you have arrived at last. 😉

You are absolutely correct! Steep learning curve too. I'm finally home
 
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Welcome Mike!

I spent 40 years in software development and remember one good friend in the same trade objecting to the title Software Engineer on the grounds that Engineering was a discipline and he had never observed much discipline in software writing. I was labelled Development Engineer, which was odd because I did little development, my forté was breaking what other people had developed 😎

I was wearing a Heuer when I first got into the business, so I have to say good choice 👍

PB180286m.JPG

Thank You.

40 years in the trade turns you into a veteran with real battle scars around the COBOL programming Language at the very least.
Sounds like you enjoyed Testing Software. Reminds me of an old software testing joke.
Developer: There is no I in TEAM
Tester: We cannot spell BUGS without U

Nice HEUR by the way with a great strap choice too. Excellent taste
 
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Welcome Mike - its a great forum, Im sure that you will like it here
 
MikeFields77
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The obligatory speedy watch photo! The Blue chrono is the Skymaster from a microbrand watch company in Sweden, MAEN. Still grappling with my old samsung phone camera so photo quality isn't so great.
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MikeFields77 MikeFields77
Thank you. Shame to hear Eastleigh moving to tier-4 this week. Look forward to meeting those from the London area once we come out of lock down.

Welcome along Mike!

In slightly more regular times, I host a little meet up for fellow nerds in London (and beyond!) - www.time4apint.com
 
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Hey there, Mike. I'm a newbie and a tech guy like you who's in love with all the mechanical and visual features of vintage beauts and not an even remote fan of smart watches. Welcome aboard.

tyrantlizardrex tyrantlizardrex
In slightly more regular times, I host a little meet up for fellow nerds in London (and beyond!) - www.time4apint.com

I'd look forward to that! Though I'm physically away at the moment, my heart and mind are in London! My mind is literally there though, since I'm working London-based, lol.
 
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40 years in the trade turns you into a veteran with real battle scars around the COBOL programming Language at the very least.

Never did any Cobol, started with Fortran at college then Control Data's JCL. JCL was not quite a procedural language, more a way of losing hundreds of Pounds in one batch run by getting a space in the wrong place. At this time I was learning to be and then working as a mechanical engineer.

This one is the actual Heuer I was wearing all through the 1970s.

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Never did any Cobol, started with Fortran at college then Control Data's JCL. JCL was not quite a procedural language, more a way of losing hundreds of Pounds in one batch run by getting a space in the wrong place. At this time I was learning to be and then working as a mechanical engineer.

This one is the actual Heuer I was wearing all through the 1970s.

PA150022m.JPG

stunning Heur watches !
 
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