Graham Watches


The Great History Of Graham Watches
GRAHAM In The Old Days 
Graham dated back to XVIII century when British watch industry and culture enjoyed high reputation.
The brand was founded by George Graham who was a clever and dexterous creator of precise clocks and watches, George Graham now is known to any watch connoisseur, perhaps best known as the “father of the chronograph”.
George Graham was born in Cumberland where he spent his childhood. When he was young, the watch maker went to London where he got the popularity of an outstanding watch makers. The teacher of Graham was Thomas Tompion – one of the best watch makers in the 19th century. After Tompion died Graham bought his manufacture and continued the business of the teacher. 
While producing luxuriously designed and accurate watches, Graham made many inventions that are still considered to be very important. For instance in 1715 the watch maker presented his new invention – the anchor escapement that is the device that controls the speed of a mechanical clock. As well Graham invented deadbeat escapement, minute repeater damper and the chronograph. Due to these inventions Graham became famous in all over the Europe. However, none of the inventions by Graham was patented, because the watch maker liked sharing his knowledge, inventions and experience with his colleagues. After Graham died he was buried in Westminster Abbey. 


Graham Now 
Today Graham is justly considered to be one of the most successful watch companies. It produces watches that amaze both professionals and ordinary customers buy their perfection. Most of the watch models produced by Graham today are chronographs. Often the new models have especial functions are needed by seamen, pilots and people of other professions that involve severe conditions. 
One of the best Graham models is Chronogifhter. This model was presented in 2000. Chronofighter is an old-fashioned and a very complicated model. The model is designed for those who value perfect quality and elegance. In 2002 Graham presented Collectors 132 chronograph. The model came in two versions: one made out of red gold and one made out of white gold. The model features a pulsimeter, thus it is designed mostly for sportsmen. 
One more nice model by Graham is automatic watch Oxford that features a very stylish design. The model is called so to the honor of city Oxford.
AeroFlyback collection includes watches that are designed for sportsmen. Watches from this collection feature a triple telemetric scale. One more nice sports model from Graham is split-chronograph Mastersplit.
In 2004 th ecompany presented Overlord collection dedicated to the anniversary of Operation Overlord. The collection included luxurious watches made out of polished steel, red gold or platinum. 


Those who like auto racing will certainly appreciate Graham Silverstone model, that was originally designed for motor racing lovers. The watch has many important and interesting complications, such as automatic winding chronograph, fly-back function facilities. The wearer of the watch can start a new time measurement when the line is crossed by pressing the push-piece that is located at four o’clock position. As well the watch features the second time zone, big date and 42 power-reserve. The model is available in red gold with silvered dial and in steel with silver-plated, blue or black dial. The watch comes with solid steel bracelet or leather strap. 
Graham Replica Watches
Our watch store offers a fantastic range of Graham replica watches for those who wish to have a GRAHAM Watch for a low price. Our Graham replica watches are watches of the highest quality. First of all, our Graham replica watches look absolutely the same as original Graham watches. Secondly, our Graham replica watches have high quality movements due to which replica watches are absolutely accurate. 
Pay more attention to the price tag of our Graham replica watches. Our Graham replica watches being closer to the original in the looks while at prices that are lower than 1/100th of the original ones.
With Graham replica watches you will be really successful. Graham replica watches are a best choice for anyone who wishes to own a good watch at bargain price. What is more,  a Graham replica watche could be an ideal gift. Receivers are special and will never be forgotten.


St. Patrick’s Cathedral

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan. It faces Rockefeller Center.

The original pipe organs, built by George Jardine & Son in the 19th century, have been replaced. The Chancel Organ, in the north ambulatory, was made by the St. Louis firm of George Kilgen & Son, and installed in 1928. It has 3920 pipes. The Grand Gallery Organ, by the same company, was installed in 1930, and has 5918 pipes.
The combined organs, totaling 177 stops and 9838 pipes, can be played from either of two five-manual consoles installed in the early 1990s to replace the original Kilgen consoles.

Some notable people whose funeral Masses were said at the cathedral include New York Yankee greats Babe Ruth and Billy Martin, legendary football coach and Fordham University alumnus Vince Lombardi, singer Celia Cruz, United States Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy, and New York Giants owner and Fordham University alumnus Wellington Mara. Special memorial Masses were held at St. Patrick’s following the deaths of Andy Warhol, Joe DiMaggio, and author William F. Buckley, Jr..

Alpina Watches International SA

Alpina Watches International SA is a manufacturer of wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthur, who founded the Swiss Watchmakers Corporation (“Union Horlogère Suisse”). A number of watchmakers joined to purchase watch components and organized their manufacturing. All representatives of Union Horlogère depended on the Association, which aimed to sell high quality watches under the Alpina brand. Quickly, the new concept gained acceptance. Together with qualified manufactures, the Association started to develop its own calibres and to enlarge its distribution network.


Gottlieb Hauser.
Everything ran well until the seventies, when the quartz crises violently crushed the Swiss watch-industry. Alpina was powerless to counter the overwhelming emergence of electronic watches. Other major brands got together to form groups (predecessor of the Swatch Group), but Alpina tried to fight it alone without really succeeding. In 1972, Alpina Watch International SA was incorporated with new German investors, which purchased all shares in Alpina Union Horlogère SA. In 2002, Alpina Watch International SA was acquired by Frederique Constant SA and Alpina watches were relaunched worldwide.

Named “Régulateur 1883″ in reference to the year Alpina was founded, Alpina introduced a new model in 2005 as a fitting tribute to the long and rich tradition of the Geneva-based brand. The “regulator” dial is distinguished by the off-centred hour display at 10 o’clock, an exclusive Alpina feature.
In 2008, Alpina Genève celebrated its 125th anniversary with the inauguration of the first movement to be made entirely in its own workshops.

Today’s rant from the “Grumpy Travel Guy”…

Whoa, new format for notes on Facebook. Formatting and everything. Kewl. Anyhow, today’s rant comes at you from an altitude of approximately 31,000 feet on AA Flight 2272 from DFW to PIT via Gogo inflight wireless. But I’m getting ahead of myself again…

So the flights to Austin this week were uneventful and pretty much on-time and I arrived in AUS only to have to wait longer (but not all that much longer) for my bag. Then I hustled myself off to the car waiting for me at the Hertz lot. Except it wasn’t a car…it was the mother of all SUVs. A burgundy Nissan Armada. It looks so much like a school bus that children were flagging me down on the way to the hotel to take them to school…really…or not. I fully realize I’m not a tall guy at 5’7″ (5’7 and 3/4″ according to the DoD in 1987, but I figure I shrunk at least that 3/4″ over the years), but this thing is mammoth in size and I was glad to see it had running boards on it. The control layout is a bit backwards. For instance, the scan button for the radio tuner is on the far side of the radio, and that’s a long reach for a little guy like me. If a 5’2″ woman were driving, it would be totally out of reach. But see that’s the odd thing as the Armada has the adjustable pedals so that a 5’2″ woman actually could drive it, she just wouldn’t be able to use the scan buttons on the radio. And the lever for the tilt on the steering juts out to the side of the column by a good 3 inches, unlike every other car I drive where it folds neatly into the column. A telescoping wheel would be much more useful than just tilt as it was a reach for the steering wheel too. The manual door lock is 2/3 of the way down the side of the door, completely out of sight and out of reach. The instrument cluster is well done, with three main circles under a single binnacle, left housing the tachometer and oil pressure guage, right being the speedometer and transmission temperature guage, and the center taking care of fuel level, temp, and voltage along with the odometer. There is a dial selector for 2, 4 or 4-low drive, and a seperate button to turn on the towing whatever that it turns on. It has the class 3 receiver and plug for towing. It also has a backup camera, which displays on the center screen in the dash. But there is no Nav in it, so it’s just taking up dashboard real estate for no real reason…except to prevent you from backing over anything smaller than a Ford Crown Victoria as you would never see it. And it eats gasoline with reckless abandon like a ten-year old trying chocolate ice cream for the first time, then devouring a whole half-gallon carton at a single sitting. If you buy one of these (and it really does drive well given the enormous size), raise the limits on your credit cards to fill the gas tank.

This morning I got to AUS much later than I normally would have for my flight as this morning’s meeting went a bit long, but still not totally rushed. Of course there were 2 wheelchair cases (no complaint there) and 3 women who didn’t understand what’s not allowed in your carry-on (like the six-month supply sized shampoo bottle), or what is made of “metal”, you know, like watches, jewelry, hair clips, cell phones, etc. This all just held up the line a little bit more. Fortunately, I had time to stop at Amy’s Ice Cream in the Austin airport for breakfast. Yes, I had a chocolate shake for breakfast and it was phenomenal. Hey, it’s made with milk, so it’s just like having a bowl of cereal…with ice cream substituted for cereal…and ice cream is made out of milk…so it’s healthy. If you’re ever in the airport in Austin waiting for a flight, get yourself a chocolate shake at Amy’s. Yum!

The short ride to DFW was…well…short. Then I get to DFW to the sound of some lady from who knows where screaming down the concourse at her teenage son for something that she deemed to be an egregious violation of the laws of airports and all humanity. Or at least the way she was yelling made it seem that way. I had to look to make sure he wasn’t murdering someone just because of the way this lady was screaming. Her daughter and husband both had a look that was an interesting combination of horror, dismay, and confusion. Estimated combined IQ of this particular family of four? Approximately 12. And that’s being generous. No meal service on the PIT-DFW leg, so I opted for Popeye’s chicken for lunch at DFW. Hey, it’s something to chew up and swallow, and the chick behind the counter slipped me a few extra chicken nuggets. She was cool that way, and I appreciated it. There was a mom and daughter combo at the seating area at the gate, both eating Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Lucky kid. Adorable and well-behaved, I wish all children could be like that. You could tell her mom was doing a stellar job of raising her.

So American Airlines started putting wireless in their planes last year some time, and I decided today I’d give it a go and see how well it performed. Seems like I never have enough time to get things done with all the flight time, and this might present an option. It’s not horrible. I may just have to do this again, or see if the monthly package makes sense.

So look for me at the airport. I’ll be the guy slurping down a delicious chocolate shake for breakfast, trying to answer a couple more e-mails before I have to board the flight. And I’ll have the Zune earbuds screwed all the way in to my eardrums to drown out the sound of the lady screaming at her kid loud enough to wake the dead…4 counties away…no, make that 4 states away.

Travel safe!

FYI this is a friend of mine post from his Facebook. I told him I would add some of his rants to my site I hope you enjoy.

Stand Up Paddle Boarding aka “SUP”

So about a year ago I was sitting in Maui looking out at the surfers and there was this weird guy on a very large surf board with a paddle. I turned to my wife and said that looks like something I can do…but I never got a chance to try it in Maui. A few months later I was back home in Austin, Tx. I was out with my wife and kid at the time and was looking out on Town Lake and there was a group of people standing on surf boards with paddles. Since I didn’t get the chance to try it in Maui, I thought here’s my chance now. I’ll finally be able to give it a shot. First thing was first, I needed to find out who was putting this on and how much it was going to cost me. It turns out a local company named SUPATX was doing a free expo every weekend but, for some reason we never could make time. A couple of months go by and it’s winter…I start to research and read online all about this sport and how long people have been doing it. One day I am watching the Sundance Channel and low and behold Laird Hamilton and Eddie Vedder are out in the ocean off Maui doing stand up paddling (SUP). A few more months go by and I get a job promotion and have to move from Austin to Nashville. I said to my wife one day when we’re in Austin or near an ocean, I might be able to finally give SUP a chance.

So about a week ago, I was surfing the web and came across a site SUPGuides. I got really excited that they do this in Nashville, TN on the lakes. I shoot an email out to the owner Tim. About 15 minutes later I get a call from an 808 number…it’s Tim. I started to talk to him about a time and place to meet and how we could get this all started… it couldn’t have gone any easier. A week ago, I head out on my very first SUP adventure. I was a little worried when I first got there. I’m not a small guy at all and in my mind I was planning that this was going to be very hard. You would be amazed on how easy it was. First Tim goes over the paddle, the board, and then he goes into a zen like teacher…he tells you to breath and relax. So after his speach on breathing, he shows me how to stand up on the board. This is very tricky but as long as you keep your eyes up and don’t look down you’re okay. After about 20 minutes, we’re off to the water. I put my knees on the board and sit up and start to paddle. It is the most peacefull thing you’ll ever do. All I hear is the ducks quacking and the fish jumping out of the water. You’ve never seen anything like it…it’s so amazaing. After paddling around on my knees for about 15 minutes, I decided I should stand up. The moment I try to stand, I fall right off the board. I try it a second time and was able to stand up and start paddling. It’s an amazing workout. I could feel my entire body start to burn like it was on fire. I’ve never realized what muscles it took to keep you balanced. After about an hour and a half on the board, I call it a day.

One thing you’ll learn about this sport is that you need to make sure when you are going to buy a board you need to try several of them out. I first tried the SUPATX board and fell right off it. I wasn’t able to get my balance. The second board I tried was a Jimmy Lewis Board. The Jimmy Lewis board was designed very different and was way better than I expected. At this point, I think I’m hooked for life and can’t wait to get back out again. If you’re ever in Nashville, please reach out to my friend Tim Inskeep at SUPGuides He’ll be able to take care of you and get you going on this SUP adventure.

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