Customer, maybe 65 to 70 years old bought some books in our store,
when paying I saw he had a very nice looking Flightmaster with original steel bracelet on his wrist.
Asked him about the watch, he said he received it on his graduation from highschool (must be beginning of the 70s) and wore it since then
Sorry no picture 🙁
When flying, I look at the wrists of people as I walk past those in first class on my way to coach. I usually see Rolex watches. Once I saw two Omega.
Outside of that, I gotta say it's pretty rare to see anyone wearing a real mechanical or automatic watch. I guess I am hanging out in the wrong places. My guestimate is 95.99% don't wear watches, an the other 4% wear apple watches or digital watches.
Hey, I just wore my Ploprof for 25 days straight. I'm thinking it's pretty rare for anyone here to jave worn a single watch in their collection for that length of time.
Aside from Beverly Hills Rodeo area, the place I actually spot the craziest watches are high end appliance stores. I'm in real estate brokerage and project manage construction of homes. The craziest in-the-wild was when I stopped an older gentleman (70s, at least) to comment on his watch inside the store as he was finalizing his purchase of a new set of appliances... It was this gold daytona 6263. I asked to take a picture of it, he said "no". haha.
(pic not from Alessandro Ciani, not from that day)
