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When you're an old geezer, and there's nothing else to do...

  1. Noisy Nova Jan 25, 2014

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    ...you go to the coffee shop once a day and shoot the s***t with the other geezers.
    They know I'm strangely attracted to watches.

    I'm shown this size 18 pocket watch.
    I doesn't take long to figure out that it's an Omega from about 1920.
    These were cased in, and made for the Canadian market.

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    The next watch is proving more difficult.

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    I had my camera with me but not my case back opener.

    This paper is original to the watch.

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    Mimo seems to be the parent company of Girard Perregaux.
    I'm wondering if HYDE was one of their trade names.
    Anybody have any insights?