I don’t see many in the wild, but I think I made one of our suppliers happy today.
Talking about aircraft wiring, he interjects
“Is that one of the new Omegas lurking up your sleeve? I’ve been wanting to ask all morning.”
”Certainly is; it’s the Trilogy Railmaster”
“Ooo, can I have a look?”
Never had that happen before. Nice!
Update: I completely forgot to mention the really cool part of this story. Obviously one gets to chatting about watch likes, dislikes, grails etc in such situations and so we did, completely forgetting the original purpose of the day’s business; much to the amusement of the suppliers other colleagues. The discussion continued over coffee in a different location, where we bumped into one of my Rolex Sub owning colleagues, who of course was delighted to show off his 1680 Sub. So nothing unusual so far.
Then it happened: one of the suppliers (French) colleagues said his dad (deceased) also had
“an old scratched watch a bit like that”.
“
What do you mean, like that” I asked.
“Oh, well, sort of like your friends but older, from the ‘50s; I think that’s when he bought it. But it’s not worth much as it’s a bit scratched; it’s in a draw at home somewhere”.
“
Did you check it’s value on Chrono24” I asked.
“
Chrono-what?”
I got him to load the website, punched in Rolex, Submariner (no date) and checked all the 1950s dates. Then asked him to point out the one that looked most like his dad’s “scratched watch”.
He chose..........a...........
6538 Big Crown 4 liner Tropical dial
😲
I’m sure suppliers are supposed to be making their customers happy, not the other way round.
