It is easy to get caught up in the chase.
Before I took an 18 year break from watch collecting I was buying anything marked Omega at the NAWCC marts. I picked up this piece without a second thought.
I did not know anything about this caliber till I went through the box of parts.
On looking at this ref I also fell in love with the 1960s mod design. I did much the same as the OP. I had been looking for cameras on eBay and goodwill. I then started looking for Dynamic.
Eventually I found one that I liked (A ladies variant, but then that is what I am.) The probelm was that the strap I wanted was on s separate auction for the watch, then I had to get the tools. Then I decided I needed to come back up to speed on my watchmaiking skills before tackeling the small 671 movement.
I still yearn for a case and the rest to get this dial back onto something, even though it is a cracked dial. So I have been looking every day for one of these as well. In the mean time I have been filling in the gaps in my collection and discovering what and why I got into this decades ago.
Sure I would love to find a watch with a wreaked dial that this could fit. At the moment I am more impassioned about finding a case for a 351. Or one of my other watches that are lacking parts and need some attention.
It is so easy to get caught in the chase. When I did get my project, watch, tool and strap I stuck it into the drawer with the other parts watches.
The more I think about it the more it becomes about the anticipation. Why I keep hitting refresh on the auction sites. Watching the prices tick up on that item I simply must have.
Sometimes it is nice to see that I am not alone in this.
Billions of watches have been made over the last 400 years or so. Granted some are prettier than others. Most of the watches we see have been made in the thousands. Or even the 100s of thousands. So there are plenty of chances that the right one will turn up.
Lately in all this I have been questioning free will verses pre destination. It is enough to make one's head spin. Why one auction is lost and another won.
did I choose to write this, Or did this always exist as written?
