Welcome aboard, Gary.
I told you the water was warm.
What a great time made possible by everyone who traveled and took time out of their schedules to participate.
Many thanks to Charlie Cleves and everyone at Cleves & Lonnemann [a name I constantly misspell
] Jewelers for their hospitality [coffee, lunch
]. Also, no suprise of the TRF generosity exhibited by John [PhPuser] and Todd [therolexguy] for bringing Spirit and Silletto mags.
Then Greg [mosco] shows up with a very cool Orbita travel case to donate to the proceedings.................... [that mysteriously ended up in my possession
.......... .thanks again, guys!
Great to meet Mike [finally!!!] and see his stunning collection and checkout that amazing Omega Polprof [spelling??], what a hoot!
Great to see old friends from an earlier GTG, Joji, Mike, and Steve.
Thrilled that Greg got to join us at the last minute, we enjoyed his eclectic and exotic examples, plus a couple of Red Stripes, mon!
Todd brought a Bond, a real Bond, sporting an 18mm authentic Bond strap.
Not to mention a wealth of reference material.
Mark [theken] came away the proud new owner of a couple new [no, old] pieces, congrats.
Tim [brit78] was a late comer but made up for it with his very cool Panny.
Ed, nice to match a face with the voice. Keeneland, brother!!
Y'all made this GTG a great success and a blast, so thanks.
Ok, here's the pics........but a disclaimer: sorry no multi watch wrist shots, no TRF group shots, I guess we were really into the watches.
But there's one nato shot to piss off JJ!!!!
dP