![]() Caltex Australia was renamed Ampol Limited during the annual general meeting in May 2020. In December 2019, Caltex announced that Chevron had given notice to terminate the licence agreement for the use of the Caltex brand in Australia. In 2015, Chevron sold its 50 per cent stake in Caltex Australia (the deal valuing the company at AU$9.24 billion), but allowing Caltex Australia to continue using the Caltex brand. Until 2015, Caltex Australia was owned 50% by Chevron, and 50% by Australian shareholders. Caltex acquired full ownership of Australian Petroleum in 1997 and the merged company was renamed Caltex Australia Limited in 1997. Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd merged with its rival Ampol in May 1995 to form Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd. Ĭaltex operated in Australia for another 54 years as Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd, during which it opened its Kurnell refinery in 1956. The Caltex brand name began to be used for the first time in Australia in 1941. Texas Company Australasia Limited was incorporated in New South Wales in 1918. Texaco products were first sold in Australia in 1900.
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It all comes together in a coherent and super contemporary way. And boy, does that second hand fly when activated. Indexes unchanged, hands unchanged, that classic EP overlapping registers, the applied star logo, the EP name – there’s a reminder of the VPH with the 36,000 under it, and 360 markings on the chapter ring to work with the 10th of a second chronograph hand. Because, nothing much has changed on the dial when compared with the Zenith Chronomaster El Primero, 42mm model. ![]() And the impact a bezel can have on making that penny drop moment happen for a watch. The trapezoidal indexes are a great example. It is astonishingly well finished, and many components are multifaceted, giving all those beams of light so many surfaces to zing off. The dressiness will surprise you in the metal – this has always been the sleeper charm of the Chronomaster model for me. This is the size that best suits daily requirements of comfort, adaptability, and suitability to action, to movement. One more thing about the size, which is 41mm: the issue for me with the majority of sports watches is that they’re flat out too big. This is one of my favourite things about the watch that shiny shiny, hard to fake quality. In addition to sporty stylings, there’s enough highly reflective mirror finishing for this to be a walk-up start for dressier occasions. That will bug some people, others will prefer the slightly more confident heft. And, in case you’re wondering, it’s a millimetre and a bit thicker than that famous Rolex sibling. It’s the ultimate everyday sports watch, with just about perfect proportions – just about, because, as above, it does ride a millimetre or so higher than you’re likely to expect. But equally, no issues at all with comfort or ergonomics. It’s a confident watch that flashes and shines on the wrist, it’s not super chill, it’s not trying to slip away from view. It rides a fraction higher than you might expect, but over the weeks since, I’ve grown to like this little extra bit of attention-seeking. It’s been a good long half century since the Daytona has had pump pushers. Of course, those pump pushers are another big tell. And given that the dial and case design / profile is largely unchanged, even from the ’69 DNA. ![]() I also felt zero conflict about the likeness, because in the metal, the colours of the subdials are quite apparent – there’s a very obvious tell on the wrist right there. Steel sports watches circa 40mm with ceramic bezels. I was shaking my head, and the phrase in my head was, “Brilliant!” A simple addition of a ceramic bezel, and the Chronomaster Sport had edged back into both the Rolex Daytona story for a second time (which I’ve called from the beginning as totally fair play, given their unique shared history) and, more generally, the bezel ushered it into a category of watch that is red hot. When Sam, the Australian Zenith Brand Manager showed up at Time+Tide and pulled it out of his bag, my reaction was pretty extreme, I took a deep breath and said: “This is going to be HUGE.” When I put it on, I was energised. Simply that if you know your watches, and can tell one icon from another, there’ll be little confusion about which highly evolved ‘60s legend you’re looking at.Įxcited. That is likely to be a statement you’ll walk back from when you’re holding it in real life. ![]() Therefore, my first impressions – which are to be explored properly here – are likely to be very different to yours, particularly if you first became aware of this watch via the laziest meme of 2021 that suggests it has a likeness to a certain high-value Big Crown chronograph and that this somehow discredits it. ![]() I saw this watch in the hand before I ever saw it in a picture. Let me just say from the outset, that pictures of a watch are one thing and a watch in the hand is another. We can’t speak for other regions, so if you’re interested, contact your local AD. The answer from Zenith Australia is that if you’re looking to order the watch today, you’re looking at a four to five month wait. I/trending 23490 A month on the wrist with the Zenith Chronomaster Sport, the most hyped watch of 2021 so far Andrew McUtchenĮditor’s note: We thought that as a reader service, for the inevitable questions that will come, that we’d ask about current availability of the Zenith Chronomaster Sport before publishing this story. ![]() I have high hopes for the next big entry in the franchise, if they use the best parts of Rise, RE Engine, better movement mechanics, a bit more fast paced than World, but with the amazing graphics of World, only even better, can’t wait for what comes next, and for the Sunbreak expansion this summer, for sure. Now that I have spent more than 70 hours on Rise, I can say I enjoy its more fast paced combat, movement mechanics and overall feel, compared to World the latter is still an excellent game, with lots of content, but Rise feels so good with the new improvements to movement and fluid animations, and high frame-rates, that it’s truly a joy to play on PC. I am also a left handed player, and I can map the whole right side of the keyboard with no issues, arrow keys included, which is excellent. There’s one single key I’ve found I cannot map, which is ALT, but it’s no big deal for me, I have plenty more keys to map, and a simple macro or remap via software can fix that issue, too. Controls and Keybinds are excellent on Keyboard and Mouse, for the most part, I believe the mouse still has this really, really tiny deadzone, but it feels better than in the Demo, for sure, so I have no major issues with it. One bug/issue in this game, still not fixed as of the posting of this review, is the Resolution Scale (known as Image Quality in the options): 100% Scale is actually doing 75% internal resolution, which I confirmed by manually counting the pixels on screen with basic geometry / math and then 150% Scale is actually 112.5% over native resolution, so there’s no easy way to do native resolution, but I reckon for now that the closest way is just setting the scale to 150%, and the game will be slightly downsampled. ![]() Being a port from a Switch game, another advantage is that the game is able to perform quite well on 4 core CPUs, like my secondary system which has an i5 4690K and a GTX 1070, and on this PC the game is able to run at 60 FPS and more even at 1440p, so I believe a lot of players will be able to enjoy good and smooth performance in this game. On the Performance side of things, the game is quite easier on the hardware compared to MH World, and it is able to run at stable 60 FPS, 4K resolution, on my Ryand RTX 3060 Ti, and pretty close to 120 FPS at 1620p DLDSR, everything maxed of course. On PC, MH Rise gets some visual upgrades in the form of better quality textures, mainly, but overall the geometrical quality of most assets remains quite similar to the Switch version, but being able to increase the resolution and frame-rates is a big bonus too. With MH Rise, that’s what Capcom did, a bespoke Nintendo Switch game, that plays very well, but looks substantially lower quality compared to World, yet plays amazingly well, the animations are quite good and monsters look greater than ever, especially in the way they move and animate. The Nintendo Switch needed a good, new Monster Hunter game, and MH World wasn’t going happen over there because, frankly, World still looks amazing today, especially at max settings and high resolutions, on PC, and it’s quite demanding too. Ever since Capcom started using the new modern RE Engine, with RE VII, we knew it was a very versatile engine with lots of potential and scalability, and the games that came after quite proved that point, on all systems. Ever since Capcom started using the new modern RE Engine, with RE VII, we knew it was a very Good PC version for a really good MH game. Good PC version for a really good MH game. ![]() MSPs must switch to ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux by August 3, 2022. ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows and Mac OS X and ESET NOD32 Business Edition for Linux Desktop are covered under the Endpoint Antivirus portion of the. 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