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Health comes first!
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I remember someone called him "a gentleman and a scholar", I think this definition fits Gordon pretty well, at least from the small bits I got to know of him. I was expecting his retirement so no real surprise for me, yet the sense of loss remains. But health comes first and when your family is in need you have to be there no questions. Good luck Gordon.
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NortON wrote: October 8th, 2021, 11:26 am
Emilio wrote: October 8th, 2021, 11:23 am @atkin68 +1

I hope his wife gets well
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+1 best wishes gordon
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Hoping his wife makes a quick recovery.... best wishes to his entire family.
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Our suppliers are slowly disappearing. Thankful they gave us the ability to make all of our builds but really sad it is becoming damn near impossible to make grails.
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blueradish wrote: October 8th, 2021, 9:05 pm Our suppliers are slowly disappearing. Thankful they gave us the ability to make all of our builds but really sad it is becoming damn near impossible to make grails.
My exact observation, on a watch-building level, around this situation with Gordon and other trends lately. I wish the timing had been a little better for me. When my kids were small, life was too full for really diving into this hobby - but that was seemingly the golden age of this particular niche. I got a couple parts from Gordon way back then, but ruined them cause I had no proper tools nor any idea how to work on watches. Now, I'm just beginning to reach a level of skill and tooling to do decent work, but the suppliers are waning. But like you say J, grateful to have overlapped at least for a while with Gordon and others.

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blueradish wrote: October 8th, 2021, 9:05 pm Our suppliers are slowly disappearing. Thankful they gave us the ability to make all of our builds but really sad it is becoming damn near impossible to make grails.
This is really sad for anyone like me. I knew about Pam homage in WUS about 10 years ago, but studying, family, money...all of them took me so far, and now, when I can comeback to this hobby, many people retired. Some still online, some just disappeared. And I can only see many great builds through photos in this forum.
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What's lacking is just some enthusiasm and will. We now have some great new parts maker but don't advertise them ever. I'm thinking of the case backs I got from Kp0y or the 036 dial I Belkin12 do: these are high quality parts made with passion and expertise. We need to have rebuild compatibility list with currently available case sets (aliexpress for 6152 and getat or similar for Luminor) and we'll be ready for really great builds. Think about it, if we show interest and buy parts market will follow.
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Gordon is the best in this business and i wish him and his family a great future!
NW 6152 is incomparable with anything else...

The best thing for us and for Gordon is to buy all of his stock left!
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kilowattore wrote: October 9th, 2021, 2:06 am What's lacking is just some enthusiasm and will. We now have some great new parts maker but don't advertise them ever. I'm thinking of the case backs I got from Kp0y or the 036 dial I Belkin12 do: these are high quality parts made with passion and expertise. We need to have rebuild compatibility list with currently available case sets (aliexpress for 6152 and getat or similar for Luminor) and we'll be ready for really great builds. Think about it, if we show interest and buy parts market will follow.
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+1, we'll have to seek elsewhere, Athaya, Belkin12, Kp0y to begin with, and there are many others out there. I am sure that we can work something out.
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