...and then it stopped working
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Now, go and find a new watch. How hard could it be to get another simple one, with nothing going on on the dial, time only, no frills.
I could have been hardly more naive.
Only after endless searches in the net, I suddenly discovered Panarai. Nice, rough but yet with the little something, exactly what I was looking for, but for that price tag
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif)
I continued searching and finally came across a name and an email: Davidsen. After much hesitation (it was my first time ordering something abroad, not to speak in China, not to speak of a custom built watch,...) I decided to pull the trigger and sure enough, after a couple of weeks, I got a package:
![Image](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/878/27583583148_ca83ff379e_c.jpg)
Note the saying:
![Image](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/902/41411684652_242570ef7e_c.jpg)
I opened the box and...
![Image](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/792/27583582718_0aff44296c_c.jpg)
![Image](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/888/41411685712_f0a481c0ea_c.jpg)
I was devastated. "I should have known before", I told myself and many more things I should not quote here
![Embarrassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
... when I looked into the box again, and there she was tucked away on the bottom.
![Image](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/791/41411685552_d36d4e9777_c.jpg)
![Image](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2934/14037435947_ff762ed2ea_c.jpg)
Shortly after this, I discovered HF and after some lurking I took heart to introduce myself and started to build these awesome things myself, too.
It was Tanukjaju who introduced me to River and I built my first 3646.
20 builds later I find myself in the new HF and it feels like the beginning of a new era
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)