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Hi John; It'd be great to indulge expensive tastes in vintage watches. I'm beginning to enter geezerhood. Most of my watch menagerie was acquired between the early 1980s and the early days of...

I always have esteemed Longines. Just kind of seized on the brand and developed an admiration for it. I also greatly admire Omega, IWC, and Zenith. I do think it's kind of finky that, upon...

Today it's one of the most accurate mechanical watches on hand here, a 1962 Longines with the most excellent 30L movement.
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Stirring up the watch pot here.


I don't like quartz watches. Don't even ask about "smart" watches.

While a few live here in the "Home For Wayward Watches" I'm not fond of date features or...

Went American earlier today, watch and car, on the way to the grocery store for fixin's for a hamburger cookout.

Watch is a 1918 Hamilton with 992 movement.

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Five or ten dollars represented more of an investment back in those days.

I have the Polywatch on hand for clean up from scuffs and scratches.
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I have used CD scratch remover before worked though seems...

The marvelous, mysterious, MuDu Friday. When you've got a Mudu going ... well, then you're there.

Muller & Durbach Genève, or a play on the underworld term "moody" meaning fake and distributed...

I'd enjoy wearing a Breitling dress watch. All tool watches all the time gets dull.

Of course I'd also enjoy wearing a Navitimer or a 1960s reverse panda Top Time.

From this morning's walk.

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When we see something, sometimes it's just the...

Today's Choice, a 1950s Lemania, also showing the first Clematis bloom from a young vine we've planted since moving last fall.

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I'm probably the only person who thinks so, but I think Swatch was off base and daft to introduce that cheap-o Moonswatch. Looks like a Cabbage Patch dolls or Beanie Baby kind of a marketing idea.
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Yep.

I'm fairly neanderthal in many ways; mostly in state of mind.

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The haunting cry of the Favre Leuba Sea Bird today on the cardio walk around the neighborhood.

Day before yesterday's choice actually.

Painting the newly installed replacement garage door.

You could be a watch nerd if you discover that Benjamin Moore Paints offers a color called "Beater...

The Sunday-go-to-meeting choice today. A late 1940s Longines with 27M movement in its 18kt rose gold case.

Older photo of the Longines, not taken today....

The 30mm Omega movements are still a most satisfying way to do simple manual winding watches. This '62 Seamaster 30 sports the 30mm Omega 286 movement. Been wearing it since yesterday.
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I'm really enthused about vintage watches, just as I'm enthused about shaving with vintage razors.

It's fun to switch out and wear different ones every few days. This one is from 1953, one of...