Okay, we have done Whitehorse!
- bikespanniersandpa
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min read
16th August and we got to the Honda shop bright and early to find our tyres still hadn't arrived!
We had no where to go in town as we had checked out of our accomodation which we would describe as interesting! There was a list of rules to adhere by ...none of which the owners of the INN (think more a 19th century boarding house) seemed to adhere to.
Quiet time is 10pm to 8am ...they were chatting loudly until 12:45am as well as banging things loudly around the kitchen ...Nick was convinced they were chopping the heads off chickens and ducks with a cleaver! Then there was the smell that seemed to permeate the whole place ...think 5 spice, oyster sauce and boiled cabbage.
We wandered around town from free wifi spot to free wifi spot.
Saw some bizarre sights like a bike on a bike (the guys was so proud of his invention) but we really had done Whitehorse at this point!
Then we got some great news from a contact we had made on the NZ Adventure Bike FB page that the Dawson City ferry had broken down and was going to be out of use for 3-5 days!!!
Not sure how much you know about Canada but it's a big place ...as in BIG, with few roads and this ferry is kind of an important connection between one half of the Yukon and the other!
So like Feagen in the film "Oliver" we "reviewed the situation" and decided to do our planned route in and out of Alaska in reverse and hope the DC ferry was up and running in a few weeks time.
Our tyres arrived over lunch and the incredibly brilliant guys at Yukon Honda fitted them for us that afternoon. Quite luckily actually as the engine support bolt on Nicks bike was coming out and Bec had screws missing on her chain guard (no comment!!!)
More waiting around (we are getting quite good at it) and our bikes were all ready with new shoes ...think Doc Martins instead of calf skin loafers!
I walked north, through the little town of Le Brassus. I was basically in a giant green bowl link surrounded by hills. Men in link yellow vests were repairing a red train. Enormous red cranes hovered over the valley, link building an addition to the AP empire, which is going to be called the Arc, will be U-shaped, and 17,000 square meters, and completed in 2025.
That hasn't quite panned out. Even today, the Tresor Magique will typically still command a price in the low four figures, which is a link far cry from the highs link seen by other rare Swatch models, such as the Kiki Picasso ($22,000!) and the delightful Oigol Oro ($10,000+). But I imagine breaking even isn't exactly the payout many of those early adopters had link hoped for. (Is it a surprise that Beanie Babies debuted the same year as the Tresor Magique?)
But what makes this watch different from the other ten dial colors and textures in the link collection is the spiritual connection link to its homeland. Something so Scottish it's actually called Scotch. Yes – I'm talking about Scotch whisky, also known as the water of life. The dial looks like someone poured link a dram right into the case.
When it comes to precision and link design, we find a silicon balance spring, open barrels and offset rotor. The link movement, the automatic caliber 502.3, is hand decorated. The movement itself is exceptionally link thin and the dial contains a moonphase, age indicator, power reserve indicator and date indicator.
Being a proper dive watch, the M2 Seven Seas’s unidirectional bezel tracks elapsed time link and has a luminous pip link to match the Super-LumiNova on the hands and markers, its crystal is sapphire with an link anti-reflective coating, and both the crown and solid case back screw-down to aid with the 500-meter water resistance.