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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 851658, member: 5833"]It is, haven't seen one quite like it. Would have been better to mount it the other way up so that gravity would work with the mechanism to help make sure the latch stays closed. Can see it becoming unreliable with wear & needing a jeweller to correct. The figure 8 safety catches on some modern bracelets work on the same principle & can get loose, but design allows them to be squeezed back into a tighter shape.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>A propos</i> of absolutely nothing, just got a bogus registration on my web site from some spammer using an e-mail address for steve.bannon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 851658, member: 5833"]It is, haven't seen one quite like it. Would have been better to mount it the other way up so that gravity would work with the mechanism to help make sure the latch stays closed. Can see it becoming unreliable with wear & needing a jeweller to correct. The figure 8 safety catches on some modern bracelets work on the same principle & can get loose, but design allows them to be squeezed back into a tighter shape. [I]A propos[/I] of absolutely nothing, just got a bogus registration on my web site from some spammer using an e-mail address for steve.bannon.[/QUOTE]
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