and now for something completely different...

[aardvarkbark]

[Warning: traditionalists may want to look away.]

Python. (as in, Monty, get it? You will.) (see, used to be a show on BBC...animated big foot dropping out of sky....'this parrot is no more'.....but I digress)

I don't wear bracelets (if I ever do divest of a watch, buyer gets bracelet with no swirls, never polished and protective sticker still on clasp, stored in box since day of delivery when it was removed and replaced by strap).



Really like the DJII. Started with the blue stick because I longed for the blue sunburst dial of the past Aqua Terra, and this is it, but with the dazzling wg bezel. Ordered me up a 20mm tan gator with white stitch to go with the indices before realizing the lug spread is 21mm, but that will be remedied soon (right, peter, soon?).



Also really like tt. And romans. But need lume on hands. Because I'm getting old (see comment about liking tt). So I was pretty excited when I saw the tt with black (dark charcoal grey, really) dial and outlined romans with lumed hands. But this needed a special strap. Black gator just wouldn't do. Then I saw an ad for WatchStyle.com that featured a Camille Fournet python (python. see? now you get it) and knew that was it.

Camille Fournet is in Paris. That's in France. They're the people who, in medieval times, brought us the phrase 'I fahht in your jenerile direccion' which they apparently would call down from their castle walls to those in search of the grail riding by on their trusty steeds, or possibly just accompanied by their squire with coconut halves (well, at least according to the brits in python, m. -- and they seem to be fairly faithful historians; and yet again, I digress)

So here's what results...





It's like Steven Tyler meets ivy league bling. The pictures don't do the dial justice. If you've seen it, you know it's a much richer charcoal grey. The highlights along the edges of the scales in the strap match it perfectly.

It's my favorite combo in the stable now. I know this is a predominantly tt- and strap-averse crowd who shudder at the sight of gaps between strap and case, but I like it.