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...above, is unlike any watch Vacheron Constantin has ever made: it's customizable and impossible to copy. Buyers can choose from nearly 400 combinations of metals and dials. (A rose-gold crown with a titanium bezel, perhaps?) And to further thwart counterfeiters, Vacheron has enlisted Roger Pfund, the designer behind the Swiss passport and banknote, to institute high-security details like offset printing and a polymer film on the crystal dial. A custom watch takes only three months...
...just like baseball anyplace," James Davis, of Monroe, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, said. "It doesn't make any difference where," he added. Nine-year-old John Pfund, also of Monroe, had a similar perspective. "It's just like the major leagues. They have the uniforms and everything," Pfund said...
According to Gene Cook, Mud Hen general manager, folks like Ford and Pfund have become more prevalent since the onset of the baseball strike--he's received many inquiries from groups hundreds of miles away, who travel en masse to Toledo. About 15 people from the metropolitan Detroit area, who consider themselves "baseball fanatics," were on hand Saturday, having travelled via caravan to the gravel lot--free parking--outside the stadium...
Last week Squadron 375 was sure it had the twilight problem pretty nearly licked. One gadget it has found useful is the Pfund† sky compass which polarizes light reflected from the sky-and points to the spot on the horizon directly above the invisible sun. When used with the proper tables, the sky compass gives the direction in which the plane is flying...
...Based on investigations by the late Professor August Herman Pfund of Johns Hopkins University...