What time is it? Watches and horology

I love the scratches. It's been worn and not wrapped in cotton wool. Well done your dad.

I'll have to share more of his 'collection'. I knew of this one as he wore it everyday more or less but we also found some horrors when cleaning out his stuff. Kept hold of a few of the nicer ones (some I suspect may be fake) but the best was the blue dialed Japanese 1969 Seiko 6139-6000.

Holy shit!

Crackerjack!

Avoid the non branded Watch Gecko perlon straps guys. Paid 20 quid for the shit quality they sell on ebay for 5 quid.
Flimsy construction (see attached pic) where the buckle is just stamped out of sheet metal, and the pin is a joke. The nylon is hard and unpleasant against the skin.

If braids and buckles are so hard to make, how come there are perfectly decent belts for 15 quid?

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Think I saw someone wearing this today at work... nice...

To be fair, branded Perlons aren't really any different.

who makes a good perlon? I avoided the watchgecko one because it looked too similar to the eBay tat, but I'd love a good, thick, braided strap.

I had a GDPR meeting today with 4 people who all held corp compliance roles - legal and IT Security. All wearing Speedys. Every. Single. One.

They're off my list now.

Lol

You too sunshine! You good?

I think that everyone with whom I have discussed GDPR is insufficiently terrified of it. Did any of them have a Tintin Speedmaster?

Nope. They're compliance. They can't think that far outside the box.

Have you tried calculating what 4% or revenue is and then saying "a single email can cost us £x from the point at which GDPR comes into force"?

Eulit have been good in my experience.

4% for us is a large number.

Minimum is 20M, so it's that or 4% if that's the greater figure. If I was a CISO I'd be shitting myself. The Talk Talk fine was what, around £400k? That would have been over 70M under GDPR.

4% max per violation. Add multiples and well you are, what's the word....ah....yes.... "fucked"

Max? I didn't see any "up to" when I was reading through, I thought it was a flat 4% per event? Have two events, two times 4%.

Advice we received was "up to." 2% is a more likely scenario for most but only if you have fucked up despite beyond best efforts. 4% for the stupid and negligent or just terribly unlucky. They remain terrifyingly large numbers for us irrespective of the %.

We are very directly liaising with the ICO on feedback on this. The overheads will be massive. FML for the next few years.

Take it to the IT thread, girls >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hmm, that's really bad news - I thought we were going to see something with teeth for once.

If the level of fine is discretionary then it'll be same old same old, with companies taking the Pinto choice of paying out on the breach rather than paying to prevent it.

Did you rehome that Tudor?

Nope, waste of time bringing it over... Also creased the service book on my travels which was very annoying...

Dang.

I'm saving now. For something espectacular. That is all.

Will post up some clearout stuff soon. Including a @31trum modified skx007.