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reminded by a thread on another forum;
Scott Carpenter turns 87 today !

here is the story of his flight:
http://gdnunes.hubpages.com/hub/NASA-Pr ... d-Aurora-7

the Breitling period ad and pic:



My 809 is still in Oregon, so some later pieces I own, get out yours !

I'll play along!

Nice Guys, hopefully next year I'll play along!

Those are beauties. Love the display backs.

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David
Je suis désole pour mon mauvais français.

Zenith Pilot Big Date; IWC Vintage Collection Aquatimer; IWC Portuguese 7-day

Well if we're commemorating the event by showing our rears ( ).....

Just Ron's to go now!

Very nice pieces by the way guys, and Happy B/day to Mr Carpenter.

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Driver8

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We can probably do that for him - we know the pictures

Hi, Mario and Roff. Either one of you could easily have posted this one for me first cuz you know it's my all time favorite Cossie shot. I'll add an obverse pic just for the occasion... BTW, my closest AD is having a new inhouse movement Cosmonaute introduction party here on the Aurora 7 anniversary, May 24th. I've been invited so I suppose I should slap a black croco on the Cossie for the occasion...
Best,
Ron

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An early 2005 caseback pic of both my Cossies...




and the dial of the flyback Cossie...

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And a beauty it is too Ron.

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Driver8

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Great pictures guys...what a beautiful watch!

one more...

Hi, Termite. A quick question for you regarding the lume on your DB Cossie. Is it a new replacement dial from BUSA with Superluminova vice the original tritium or did you have the original dial re-lumed by Mark Hess? I can see the "T"'s on either side of "Swiss made" in keeping with the original etching. I've often wondered if the last two or three years of Lemania Cossie production (just prior to the caliber 22 intro) were SL dials with T's etched on them since SL was in use and tritium discontinued during that period (2000-2002). Of course, the last DB Cossie was built in the late 1998 so all DB's originally were lumed with tritium. BTW, Novacastrian's DB Cossie may well be close to the very last one built considering its serial number. I believe the final production figure for the "Special Edition" A12023 was 3000 and his is number 2996. Just sayin'...
Best,
Ron

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Ron, I had the Cossie serviced by BUSA a few years ago and they installed a replacement dial; you may be correct in that the dial is probably SL w/ the "T" still on it...I am the original owner and [I hate to admit it now], I wore the absolute crap out of it before it really needed a service. It went diving [no joke, about 40 feet down or so repeatedly!], rock climbing, hundreds of miles of mountain biking from Moab to Mammoth and everywhere in the NE, numerous trips to the shooting range, and every manner of construction work. After about ten years of wear, I looked down and saw very small amounts of condensation. It went to BUSA the next day by overnight. Unfortunately, age has hammered my close in vision and I can no longer really read it later in the day w/o my glasses on. Consequently, it sits in the box 364 days out of the year...cheers, Jim

Yeah, i chatted with Don Indiano and he'd never seen a later one than mine. Can't have been too many produced after it.