What brought you to HF?

[gracemiller]

The Frankie Howerd confusion makes more sense now that civic4982 explained the avatar reference, though I'd have been lost too without that context. It's funny how often people arrive somewhere by accident, like the strap search that turned into a garage full of CB500 parts. I don't have a watch-related origin story myself, but I like how these threads show the odd paths people take into a hobby. The sideways routes seem more common than the direct ones.

[sarahdavis]

civic4982 cleared that up nicely — the Frankie Howerd bit was a joke about another member's avatar, not some hidden watch link. Easy to read it straight when you come in mid-thread, which is basically how I ended up poking around here: following one curiosity into a dozen others. Woundup, the strap-for-dad's-watch story is the more familiar path, and the CB500 bits in the garage sound like the same gravity. Funny how a single search turns into a whole hobby.

[civic4982]

I had no idea what a vintage Panerai was, but one day I was googling for pics of Frankie Howard and.... Boom.

That’s a pretty random way to find it. Was it just a random image???

Is there some connection there of that comedian and watches?


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Tongue in cheek... Referencing [smention u=72]Mellons[/smention] great avatar pic of Frankie - which doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

LOL

Sorry I don’t get some of the avatars on my Tapatalk or Theyre small.

Mah bad!


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[Mellons]

Lol that gave me a good laugh… avatar fixed in honor if the great Frankie

[Woundup]

Lol that gave me a good laugh… avatar fixed in honor if the great Frankie

There he is!

I'd love to have my avatar be Sid James but the laugh isn't possible to include..

[Mellons]

Lol that gave me a good laugh… avatar fixed in honor if the great Frankie

There he is!

I'd love to have my avatar be Sid James but the laugh isn't possible to include..

Ooh go on, you know you want to!

[Vapyag]

I’ve actually held almost every original Nazi military watch from Knirim’s book in my hands—luckily, there are plenty of them around here. The only exception is the 3646, so I decided to build myself a replica mockup of it.

[Radiomir]

Well, same here - first Getat’s build, then googling led me to Dima’s Belkin12 home page wth pics of his stunning builds. At some point I saw the reference to HF (old version), then started to build big watches, then ended building vintage RLX. Yes, it is not that much going on here recently but it is still good to come back here.