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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaI accompanied Ms JimInOz to lunch at the Old England Hotel with a couple we've known for years but don't get to see that often.
We arrived and met them at the table, exchanged greetings and ordered drinks. The women started chatting away and Don asked if I was still playing with watches. "Yep, keeps me off the streets" I replied.
He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic baggy with a watch in it, "See what you can do with this then".
I had a look at it and recognised a Seiko chronograph with the square sub-dials. I told him a chrono was a bit more than I was capable of at the moment and he replied "No, I don't want you to fix it, you can have it!"
I was a bit taken aback and asked him if he was sure. He'd bought it when studying engineering in the 1970s, worn it for a while and then put it in a drawer and forgot it. Like me he's retired and was doing some cleaning out and said he was going to chuck the watch in the bin and then remembered that I "played" with watches.
Well needless to say it was an extremely pleasant afternoon which reinforced the fact that there are still things that manage to surprise me, even at my age.
Anyway, enough babbling, a couple of pics for you.
We arrived and met them at the table, exchanged greetings and ordered drinks. The women started chatting away and Don asked if I was still playing with watches. "Yep, keeps me off the streets" I replied.
He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic baggy with a watch in it, "See what you can do with this then".
I had a look at it and recognised a Seiko chronograph with the square sub-dials. I told him a chrono was a bit more than I was capable of at the moment and he replied "No, I don't want you to fix it, you can have it!"
I was a bit taken aback and asked him if he was sure. He'd bought it when studying engineering in the 1970s, worn it for a while and then put it in a drawer and forgot it. Like me he's retired and was doing some cleaning out and said he was going to chuck the watch in the bin and then remembered that I "played" with watches.
Well needless to say it was an extremely pleasant afternoon which reinforced the fact that there are still things that manage to surprise me, even at my age.
Anyway, enough babbling, a couple of pics for you.
