Open Thank you to TRF and Beaumont Miller and a few Pics of My new 1680!

[bluemartinifan]

We all enjoy and appreciate TRF for our own reasons.
I want to take time to acknowledge and thank TRF for being an important part of my life. Kinda sounds funny - that a forum site can provide such impact to my life - but it has
My passion for collecting Rolex would be different and likely reduced without this forum: our debates, appreciation, education and friends.
Forums are made up of people, with like minded passions, who create relationships and bonds.

I thank TRF for all of this.

I also want to thank my friend John (Beaumont Miller). I want to thank John for his passion, knowledge and patience. John is a rare person who invests his time to help others. We enjoyed the hunt and vetting process together for this 1680 - although he had the nerve to go on a week long family ski vacation during the hunt and unmanaged, I almost bought 1 project watch and another with issues. After this process, I now look at watches with a sharper eye - I think I will enjoy our passion through a bit of a different lens.

The pics below are a 5.2 mil 1680 that arrived today from Andrew Shear. It's an untouched case with a MINT dial. These camera phone pics do it no justice and I will take better pics this weekend in the morning light - but I wanted to post this now to thank TRF for being a fun and important part of my life
Russ