Here's one of those project watches that just keeps sucking money out of your pocket and which proves yet again that it is cheaper to find an example that's working rather than a project watch -- assuming you can find it all, and that's the hook, isn't it? It was the rarity of the piece that sucked me in - this example has several ultra-introvabile bits preserved, notably the several hands unique to this model and the bezel. I did see the lume damage to the lacquer of the dial, but I bought it anyway, nonrunning and without a look inside. I got what I deserved. I might have anticipated water damage in a diver, but the rust was extensive and the mainplate was bent. That's no joke when it involves a cal 95M - parts are not exactly easy to come by. In the end, no solution but to find a donor movement - that took a few months.

Well, here it is at long last, having cost a good bit more than I calculated I would put into it - as usual. The Movado ref 19041





some sort of nuclear thing going on here


the uniquely quirky 95M


collecting obsessions start in strange places. This one began with a catalog page posted at O&P by britishshorthair



It has been fulfilled



I find myself strangely tolerant of the dial damage. Perhaps it's the amount of sweat it has cost me.