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How to use the "Jump to forum..." feature >>> (no replies)

Reto — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:51:00 -0500

The "Jump to forum..." link is probably the most used on our forum pages. It is noteworthy that this link only appears after a page is fully loaded. If you have looked at a post and return to the index page of e.g. the "Poor Man's" Watch Forum, then it really depends on the speed of your connection until "Jump to forum..." appears. You can navigate quickly to any forum using this menu.

A usage note for mobile phone users. Sometimes it is hard to use this "Jump to forum..." feature on a tiny screen. Or if you are on a slow connection and do not want to wait, the fastest way to change to another forum is by clicking on the banner

This will lead you to the index page showing all the forums as a list.

If you are on a reasonably fast connection, the "Jump to forum..." will probably be your first choice.

Our PULL-DOWN MENUS are often overlooked. The lead you to a lot MORE INFORMATION >>> (no replies)

Reto — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:26:40 -0500

yThe first picture below illlustrates Resources > Reference >

Move your mouse over all the entries on that bar to make sure you do not miss out on great resources and links.

The second picture below shows WIS Friends > Personal Sites >. If you have a personal website (non-commercial) that you would like to recommend to the PMWF community, let us know at admin@pmwf.com and we will add your site. Or move your cursor to Want your site listed here? and your default mailing program will open and you can drop us your URL.

Link to the Professional Illustrated Dictionary of Horlogy (Berner, FHS) >>> (no replies)

Reto — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:58:53 -0500

Snooping around on the fhs.ch website, I found this horological dictionary. Not only are thousands of terms explained and some of them illustrated, but it is available in FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN and SPANISH.

Sometimes good things are free in life!

Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology

You can also buy the printed version from the FHS e-Shop.

A sample from the dictionary:
A
Plain balance or monometal(lic) balance, an uncut ring made of a single metal (brass, German silver or glucinum bronze), coupled with a compensating balance-spring of the elinvar type (metelinvar, isoval, nivarox). The balance need have no compensating effect, as the elasticity of the spring is hardly affected by changes of temperature

The really brilliant thing of having this electronic dictionary are the blue cross links (I have colored them blue in this post, but of course they are working at the link below)

Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology

Online Watch Shops offering discounts for PMWFers >>> (2 replies)

Reto — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:04:07 -0400

1. DiscountWatchStore.com: 10% with coupon code PMWF
2. KevinsRussianTime.com: 20% for registered PMWFers

Many of our current sponsors offer special conditions for PMWFers as well. Click on their respective banner ad to check them out

Are you offering discounts for PMWFers and want to be listed here?
Please send a mail to reto@pmwf.com

PS You do not need to be a PMWF sponsor or advertiser to be listed here

The return of text icon triggers >>>> (no replies)

Jittery Jim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:29:24 -0500

There are now two options for adding our most common icons: the icon insertion menu for both the subject and body, or the text triggers below.

Trigger	Icon
:-) or :)	:-)
;-) or ;)	;-)
:-( or :(	:-(
:D	:D
ROTFLMAO!	ROTFLMAO!
:_)	:_)
DROOL!	DROOL!
ARGH!	ARGH!
CRYING!	CRYING!
EEK!	EEK!
LOCO! or CRAZY!	LOCO!
BLUSH!	BLUSH!
:S	:S
CLAP!	CLAP!
DUDE!	DUDE!
HELP!	HELP!
IHD!	IHD!
HM!	HM!
TUOD!	TUOD!
TU!	TU!
TD!	TD!
OT!	OT!
TY!	TY!

Technical note: there is no way to save/export our icon definitions (graphics or text) provided by Phorum software. That is why it is important to have this list here as a post. Once our icon definitions "crash", there is no way to recover them in the database. Thanks to Jittery Jim who manually added the text triggers after the crash TU!

Advertising on PMWF.com >>>> (no replies)

Jittery Jim — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:00:25 -0400

Dear Advertiser

Please mail

reto@pmwf.com or
advertise@pmwf.com or
reto@loxinfo.co.th

for a brochure with rates and all details.

Best regards
Reto Castellazzi, forum owner

How to post a picture >>> (2 replies)

chrise2469 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:10:42 -0400

Here is a quick tutorial on posting pictures

There are 3 ways to attach picture(s) to a post .

Method 1. Attach a file method. This will attach a picture from your hard drive to the message. The picture must be less than 125KB. When completed the attachment will appear at the end of the post. Just like the "Blue hills.jpg" attached at the bottom of this message
a) click on attach a file (it will change to blue) and it will open an address bar with browse and attach

b) Select the browse button, this will open a "File Upload" box. Navigate to your picture location, select your picture and double click (If you single click, you will have to click open.).
.
This will fill the address bar with your picture location,

c) Press the attach button. The page will go away then come back.

d) You will now see the attachments paper clip is gone and your file is listed along with a delete button.

e) You may attach up to 3 pictures in your post using Method 1

f) If finished, select preview, then post message. The picture will be appear at the bottom of your message, "Blue hills.jpg" in this example

Method 2 and 3: This will place the picture on the page by linking to a web based photoserver/host such as photobucket or flickr. This will place the picture wherever you place the code.

Method 2: This will use the insert image url icon on the toolbar.

a)Go to the toolbar

and select this icon

b)This will cause an address url window to appear.

c)Type or paste the direct url of your picture. Do not include img, or html code. Select ok
This will insert the img code with your url inside.

d) If finished select preview then post message. The picture will appear in your message at the position you inserted the code.

e) If you want to post multiple pictures, simply repeat inserting the image code

Method 3:This will use direct img code to insert the picture.
This is very handy from photobucket because it has IMG code as an option.

a) either paste or type the img code directly on the page. The demo below will have the lead and trail [ ] img changed so you can see.
{img]http://www.pmwf.com/Phorum/mods/bbcode/icons/img.gif[/img}
If the lead and trail { } are replaced with [ ], you will have the insert icon seen here.

b) if finished, select preview, then post message. Your photobucket picture will appear in your message at the position you placed the code

c) If you want to post multiple pictures, simply repeat inserting the image code

Hopefully you have found this helpful.

Chris

Watch Customization Shops (no replies)

Reto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:20:23 -0400

Overview

Watch Shops and Tools
by PMWFers

Click on logo to visit!	Name,Owner	Specialties	Details
	MK II Watches, Bill Yao	Parts, customizations, watches, dials, crystals, hands
	North East Watch Works, Duarte	Customizations, special discounts for PMWFers!	Click here
	Everest Watch Works, Kent Parks	Redials, relume, custom dials, customizations
	Kevin's Russian Time, Kevin M. Jankoski (KMJ1966)	We do reluming, source parts for Russian watches and do repairs on Russian watches
	Watch Bitz, Col Miles (trailboss99)	We supply a range of tools and watchmaking supplies to both the general public and watchmakers world wide.I can offer registered PMWF's trade pricing which is much lower	How to get lower prices
Carignan Watch Co. Inc.	Denis Carignan	Expert watch repair and restoration
	Watchmann.com, Greg Stein	WatchMann.com is dedicated to offering affordable, uncommon, and high quality new watches
	Tiktox, Keith	Tiktox offers PMWFers a 10% discount, use coupon code PM10WF

Details

North East Watch Works

North East Watch Works specializes in watch modification and installation of custom and replacement parts (dials, hands, crystals, bezel inserts, chapter rings, etc.) as well as case, bezel and bracelet and clasp bead blasting. I also do minor repairs, movement swaps, water resistance testing, regulator adjustment and demagnetization of mechanical movements, battery and gasket replacement, among other services. North East Watch Works can provide all these services at affordable rates, quickly and with professional pride and quality workmanship. I provide dial and hands replacement service, sourcing hard to find parts, watch customization, crystal and bezel replacement services, regulator adjustment, etc.
I offer discounts to registered PMWFers on bead blasting and crystal installations.

Watch Bitz

We supply a range of tools and watchmaking supplies to both the general public and watchmakers world wide. All our tools are sourced in Hong Kong and China and my Biz partner travels there twice a year to ensure we only stock quality. We buy and import direct to get the best prices. We also have an agent in China to ensure the stuff we get is what Alan specified while there. Alan is a registered watchmaker and I'm learning so we use what we sell. I can offer registered PMWF's trade pricing which is much lower than the prices shown in the public area of the webstore. Members should quote PMWF as the forum in the appropriate section of the registration page and include their forum nick in brackets after their first name in the name field. I will then manually upgrade them to trade pricing. This takes about 24 hours and they will then have access to the reduced price structure.

Col Miles col@watchbitz.com.au .

PMWF Community Guidelines and Posting Rules (no replies)

Jittery Jim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:59:46 -0400

PMWF Community Guidelines and Posting Rules

1. Courtesy:
Please be polite and help if you can. Some of our visitors and members are minors: mark "Parent Guided" content as such (icon). Posts with embedded automatic music have stirred emotions in the past. Program in a way that the user has to click inside your post to turn the music ON.
2. Watch Forums:
Linking to other watch forums to share knowledge is OK on PMWF. Give credit if you use a picture found on the web in your discussion forum post unless they are public domain
3. Sources:
You may discuss and link to sources in our discussion forums and discuss prices
No links to websites that sell replicas and fakes. Also no links to websites that stole their layout/content from other sites
4. Selling:

No open or coveted sales oriented activity on our discussion forums. Sell your watches on our sales forums. If you are a PMWF.com sponsor or a watch manufacturer, you may introduce watch novelties and special discounts in our discussion forums with reasonable frequency
Additional SALES RULES apply for our Sales Forums. An attempt to selling fake watches and products results in a life time ban from all PMWF.com forums

5. Auctions, Sales posts:
Please do not link to live auctions (auctions that are not closed yet) on Ebay or any other auction sites. The reason is simply to not drive prices up.
Please do not discuss your sales posts as long as they are on the main index page (14 days) on our sales forums.
Please wait 3 days before listing your watch if you mentioned it on the discussion forums
6. Disputes:
Please do not use PMWF to fight battles of any kind. Please also refrain from importing disputes from other fora or other sites. Please try to resolve buyer/seller matters per email first before bringing them to public attention on the discussion forum. If all attempts fail to resolve a dispute, you can open a thread here
7. Tolerance, Discrimination and Bullying:
Please be tolerant and refrain from racial, gender, political and any other form of discrimination. Be aware that jokes might be interpreted differently in other cultures. While we support a "Laissez-fair" or "Hands-off" administration style on all of our discussion forums, we will take immediate action if we see that new members or PMWFers are being intimidated or bullied
8. Fakes and Homages:
You may warn the PMWF.com community about Fakes for sale on our site or e.g. on Ebay or get the community's opinion if you have doubts regarding authenticity.
However, no general discussions about fake watches, their comparative quality, where to get them and so on. Our definition of fake is a product that illegally uses the name, design, logo and other typical characteristics of the brand it tries to imitate. Homage watches that do not infringe trade marks and model registration and are marketed under a consistent brand name are not considered fakes.
9. Deletion of Discussion Posts:
We PMWF.com Administrators do not believe in frequent deletion of discussion posts or an oppressive moderation style. We accept the higher risk of a "Laissez-fair" or "Hands Down" moderation style for the benefit of more lively discussion forums. Since 2001 this has worked very well for PMWF.com thanks to our great community
10. User names (your name on the forums):
Using multiple user names is prohibited. If you have been banned for a SALES RULES violation for 30 days or for life, creating another username is prohibited.
11. Reposting old Content:
You are allowed to re-post any old thread that you have posted in the past. If a post of yours is still in our main discussion forum's database (we keep 3 years of posts), then you may of course link to it. We encourage PMWFers to save their valuable threads - e.g. a historical review of a watch brand - locally on their PCs. Also if you want to help a fellow forumner finding an older thread posted by someone else that is still in our forum database, then you are allowed to link to it.
However you are not allowed to create a new thread with older content that was not created by you.
12. Google Ads:
In May 2010 we started to display Google Ads in free advertising positions. We maintain a large list with hundreds of watch sites selling fakes and replicas to be blocked from these ads. If you notice a fake or replica site displayed on PMWF.com, please mail the URL to reto@pmwf.com. Thank you!

Last but not least...

The usefulness of introductory posts:
If you are a newly registered member of the PMWF community, then why not make an introductory post? You will make watch friends faster. If you mention your watch preferences, you might quickly connect to like minded "watch nuts". In order to post, you will have to register which takes about 30 seconds.

The PMWF.com Adminstrator team

PMWF Brands Index by Bas (no replies)

Jittery Jim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:00:51 -0400

Dear all

Bas has created this huge Brands Index with links to the manufacturers. Thank you Bas! And also a big thank you to PMWFers that suggested brands to be added and provided logos. Please note that the Icon Codes (red column header) are obsolete. Moving to the new forum platform in November 2008, we found that the pages appeared uninviting and dropped the brand icons. The table is still a very useful list with links to manufacturers.

PMWF Brands Index

The Brands Index is also available from the Resources Pull-Down Menu right under the Platinum Sponsors. A preview of the Brands Index page is at the bottom of this post