In honor of my upcoming birthday, I'm going to Karma off a Vaer DS4 Meridian Black 42mm dive watch: https://www.vaerwatches.com/pr...-meridian-solar-42mm

The Vaer DS4 died unexpectedly. The Karma winner will now get their picks of one of the following watches. Unfortunately, I don't have a directly comparable replacement for the DS4, but each of these three options has some of the features of it, and you can pick which ones you prefer:

Option A) Citizen Eco-Drive Flieger B watch with cream dial. Pick this one if you want a solar quartz watch that will run for years without needing a battery change, provided it gets regular light.

https://citizen-me.com/product...duct_info/AW1365-19P

Option B) Casio Duro quartz watch with red/blue "pepsi" bezel. Pick this one if you want a classic workhorse dive watch with 200 meter water resistance.

https://www.casio-europe.com/e...tion/mdv-107-1a3vef/

Option C) Custom blue watch with Seiko automatic movement and a selection of swappable 20mm strap options. Pick this one if you want a battery-free watch with a sapphire crystal and a multitude of 20mm strap options to fit the watch to your outfit. (But while it looks like a dive watch and has a dive watch dial claiming 100m water resistance, it is a parts watch and therefore not swim- or dive-rated.)


To enter, you must:
A) Be a participating member of the forum with at least 50 posts, outside of just posting in the Classified section and/or entering Karmas.
B) Have an email in your profile, which I will use to contact the winner to obtain your mailing address.
C) Post something birthday-related. This can be a favorite birthday memory, a funny birthday story, a cool birthday gift, a birthday-related photo, or similar.

I'd also ask that you only enter if you plan to wear the watch, or regift it, and not just immediately resell it. But that's on the honor system.

A winner will be picked by the Karmanator a week from today.

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I'll take a shot at it!

Don't really have anything for item "C" as listed, so will go with this... Today would have been my brother's 65th birthday, if he hadn't lost his life to cancer 5 years ago.

Happy birthday RogueJSK!

Happy Birthday and what a great Karma.

As for birthday comments, from old college days when it was learned of a birthday we'd sing him well wishes, in a slow, somber, quasi disturbed monotone:

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Gloom and Sorrow Fill the Air
People Dying Everywhere
Happy Birthday to you


Am I still in?

Happy Birthday!

Please DO NOT include me in the Karma, just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and say that this is super nice of you.

HECK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Sir


On my 8th birthday a family friend and his wife took me out on their boat fishing and tubing, first time doing either on a boat, I had a blast. When I got home my dad handed me a Marlin model 60 with a scope on it, pretty sure my jaw hit the floor. I put thousands of rounds through that thing, still have it

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Am I still in?

Yep!

Please include me, thanks!

Happy Birthday song in German;

Hoch soll die lebe, hoch soll die lebe, drei mall hoch! Sie lebe hoch! Sie lebe hoch! Sie lebe drei mal hoch!!

Happy birthday!!

What’s a birthday without cake.

Happy Birthday !

Thank you for the opportunity.

Several memorable birthdays, but one of my favorites would be my 40th. Fishing for my first tuna 25 miles offshore in beautiful weather with two friends on a small boat. We put 25 in the box that day and I caught one on a hand line also.

I hope you create some great memories on your day!

Cheers~

Do not count me in, I just want to say happy birthday and share a story:

I think I was turning 8 or 9. Birthday party at my house and I saw a box shaped like a video game console. I was so wishing for a Nintendo Entertainment System. It was a video game console alright, it was an Atari 7800.

Happy birthday Rogue, thanks for the opportunity.

My first semester at the university my mother called me early in the morning. She asked if she woke me and I said yes. She said good, about this time 20 years ago you woke me up and I wanted to return the favor. Good one mom.

Enjoy your day.

First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY! A favorite birthday memory for me is the year I received a Mattel M-16, I was the envy of the guys when we played 'Army'. No, I didn't smash against a tree like John Wayne did in 'The 'The Green Berets'.
Thanks for the chance.

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Happy Birthday!

Two of my granddaughters have birthdays this month ! And happy birthday to you as well .

I would love to wear that watch. It would contrast nicely with red trimmed watch courtesy of stickman.

One of my birthday presents with the most longevity has been a Weber grill that I’ve been using on average at least once a week for almost 2 decades. I think this watch would give it a run for the money.

Happy Birthday my imaginary friend. I LOVE dive watches, what an awesome Karma.


Here you go!

Please include me. This is a very nice looking watch.

As for birthday stories. We always had parties as kids until my 9th or 10 year party. The neighborhood kids were there and one girl up the street(Kathy) got jealous of the girl from a few blocks away(Jill). Anyway, Kathy began hitting Jill adn shit hit the fan. Noses bloodied, moms dragging kids off other kids, fists flying. My Mom’s dog bit a kid in the ass.

It

Was

Glorious !

Never liked Kathy anyway. But mom put the kibosh on parties after that. I was always partial to Jill as we were the same age and she was a classmate. Ha. I hadn’t thought of that memory for a long time.

I'm in.

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One year my mom went to Jackson Hole, WY and upon coming over to the house, told my 5 year-old some she had some presents for him in the car (she missed his birthday by a few days due to the trip).

Mom leads her grandson out to the car where she pulls out a few shirts and other type stuff for him.

Hi s response, "those aren't present grandma, I'll find them for you" (as he gently pushes her out of the way).

She took him to Farrel's Ice Cream Parlor for a 1:1 birthday celebration. He came back a very happy boy.

Please don't enter me, just popping in to wish you a Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! I'm I'm in. My Seiko SKX011J finally died. Thanks for posting this generous karma.

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Back in 1969 I opted to go up to Lake Ontario with a couple of sisters, one of whom I had been dating. This was to celebrate my birthday.

To this day I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't have turned down accompanying a friend who was headed for Woodstock that same time (my birthday: 15 August). Regardless, I had a great time.

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