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Hello their enthusiasts. It's been almost one a year with her. So I think this is a good time to share some pics of her with you guys.

We have lots of Zombie brands now. Watches, Pianos and cars MG/ Bogward

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Timex is still good. They are a proper watch company but targets the low end of the market just like Casio. I think they are part-owned by Tata but that doesn't matter. FYI your Frederique Constant is a Citizen on the inside but do remember that Citizen is also a reputed watch manufacturer and they also own Bulova. Citizen 8210 movement is the most widely used automatic watch movement in the world (though I doubt whether your watch has an 8210 on the inside. Most likely its a Ronda). So you have a proper watch in your hands. Here's my little experience with a zombie brand. Faithfully recorded here, but in summary: I bought a Hanowa from a fairly reputed seller on eBay (in fact, I bought two at the same time). One was a world timer. The Hanowa was the only 'Swiss' world timer from the recent years which had COLOMBO (instead of Delhi or Dhaka) as a seperate time zone. That's why I bought it in the first place One of the watches (the world timer) had a spelling mistake on the bezel - LOS ANGELES was printed as LOS ANGEIES. At first I suspected it was a fake so I asked the guys from Watchuseek to authenticate. They too, were under the impression that it was a fake. In any case, I e-mailed Hanowa to check. Hanowa's manufacturer came up with a hilarious response. This was it: <Quote> We are the manufacturer of this Swiss Military/Hanowa watch, style 6-4131 and called REVENGE DUAL TIME. The first launch of this watch was with mineral crystal. In a later stage, on request of most customers, a sapphire crystal was added but there was no such writing on dial. Only recently, 1 or 1.5 years ago, the supplier of components was changed and the new manufacturer unfortunately did not copy the original 100%. In addition there happened a writing mistake in the wording LOS ANGELES as shown and explained by you. We still have watches on stock looking exactly as your picture even with SAPPHIRE printed in de Dual Time area. This means, that your watch is an original Swiss Military/Hanowa watch but with a small mistake. I am sorry that you have an "imperfect" watch but I hope that it gives a lot of pleasure to you anyway. </Quote> In other words, they knew about the spelling mistake (which was a significant QC problem) but were still selling the watches!!!! Now I stay away from zombies.

Guys, finally I bought 'FD 1', I was seeking a well maintained FD1 or FD 4 for months but was not lucky enough. After many cheatings and hassles, I accidentally found this red beauty. And also after dozens of negotiations, I settled with her. This FD1 is a brand new import under the permit scheme and registered in 31st of December 2007. previous owner is a doctor & he was the first owner and had maintained her with Sfat#d Mot#rs and had all service records from the beginning to up to date. Two Autolankans were helping me with this. Hyaenidae, B@tman and also I thank full to who wrote threads about FD's. I read each & every thread about FD. Thank you all guys. Here are some photos of her.

Exactly. Even for regular use this is a very decent car from every aspect. Newer one like many other new cars lost that character.

Well..this was the last nice Civic wasn't it ? The model soon after this one really was not that impressive and lacked a bit of refinement compared to this and of which perhaps the only desired model was the Type R hatch....then that brings us to the new one..which has the refinement but doesn't have the cuteness and the revvy-ness of a NA is so missed.

Nice stuff man. Love this one over the new Civic.

Love the pics. It seems you have done some modifications since the last post. If you could list down the things you have done do the car (Modifications,Maintenance,Routine repairs) that would be helpful.

That looks pretty. Loving the stock look and nothing too over landish. Not a big fan of the sticker on the windscreen.

That's a decent looking car mate. This was once my dream buy. Honestly the reason was Euro spec features this car has. However, Never happened as I moved with 407 and so on (Euro biased)

Care to explain why?

Looks properly good. Was the body kit easy to find?

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Correct good sire!

Fascinating stuff @Crosswind - you're like a Sri Lankan reincarnation of the infamous "WatchSnob" from AskMen!???

Not really an enthusiast of the fine pieces but I love me a good G-Shock: Currently own GA100 (Grey casing with Cyan handles) DW Series {I think} (Watch is about 25 years old, belonged to my father replaced the battery for the first time a couple of years ago) AW-591ML (With the radium handles) Edific EFV-570D (Cyan Handles, bought "because you can't wear G-Shocks for a long sleeved shirt" - Mother) Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Classic - Smartwatch that eventually made me not wear anything else Probably would've bought more but found a great distraction for the money afterwards (Car)

Giving away the Presea if I get a very high offer over 2.1. If it doesn't meet my expected offer, I won't sell it. Why? Because I'm bored with my life and keeping it only cause I've invested a lot on it. I will either way sell it when Covid is over to fly for Music concerts. I don't love cars anymore.