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The startling part about this award came several days after I received the award watch. So Walter without nearly any explanation said to me to keep the watch in my pocket and don't loose it then Longines would send me the box to me later. I thought how nice of them to consider how large this box would be in my backpack as I was still traveling around the country side. I didn't realize at the time until I got to where there was in public wi-fi why he told me to keep it close. It was so I wouldn't need to declare it through US Customs and as Taxable Income with the IRS!

(Headline is in some Asian country)

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There was something that was just Great Gatsby about Walter.
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The startling part about this award came several days after I received the award watch. So Walter without nearly any explanation said to me to keep the watch in my pocket and don't loose it then Longines would send me the box to me later. I thought how nice of them to consider how large this box would be in my backpack as I was still traveling around the country side. I didn't realize at the time until I got to where there was in public wi-fi why he told me to keep it close. It was so I wouldn't need to declare it through US Customs and as Taxable Income with the IRS!

(Headline is in some Asian country)

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Would you care to share pictures of the watch that made all this happen, the oldest Longines known to still exist? Also, how did you come across it?

Thanks in advance.

Also, is the watch resting on the box? That's also quite stunning.
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Larry S
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This just surfaced. Mrs. C was going through many boxes of quilting fabrics, some of which go back to the days when her grandmother was a quilter on the family farm at Carstairs, Alberta circa 1910. When quilting was all done by hand, by gas lamp. Amongst the fabrics were many artifacts, one of which I present here. It is virtually as it was the day it left the printer, in 1895! A calendar from the defunct Montgomery Ward company.

Montgomery Ward at one point, was a major catalog retailer who distributed their catalog far and wide. Of course Sears was their competition. Sears was smart. He had his catalog formatted a bit smaller in dimension. He knew that when there was a Montgomery Ward and a Sears catalog both on the parlour table, the smaller catalog would be on top!

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Montgomery Ward was instrumental in ensuring that Chicago’s beautiful waterfront was parks and beaches not industrial. That legacy outlives his catalog company.
 
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Nothing really special here, I know a lot of manufacturers do this, give a presentation watch to people they invite to their annual collectors meetings. This watch, I think is the first time Longines did this and apparently, it has been the last time they did this too. There were 18 of these watches "made" (specially engraved).

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During that trip, they photograph some more of my watches.
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They filmed my watches on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Bx-BjwmlJEG/?hl=en

I guess this was also on their Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Bp9uFP_lyri/?hl=en


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Here was the best part of the 2019 trip

I got to see these two amazing Weems a Czech military and IJN military.
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Later on...well I've told this story before. The Czech and the IJN inspired me to get my own small collection of military Weems.
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More keepsakes…

A couple watches that belonged to my mom.
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She worked at the Quebec City airport in the early 1960s. This pin must be from that time.
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My brother’s Mickey Mouse watch. Missing crystal and hands.
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Hunting guide pin. My dad’s.

And our NCO ranks. First promotion to Corporal.
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And to sergeant…
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We have other relatives who rose very high in the Commissioned ranks… but my dad and I had more fun!
 
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This is from my (compulsory) military service in the "Bundeswehr" - 15 months in 1988-1989. Paramedic Corporal in a Pipeline-Engineer-Company unit.
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@Duracuir1 I think this is a twin to mine. Still have it and it is working after a service and a new crown:

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This is excellent! Now I have a perfect example in case I ever decide to surprise my brother. Thanks!
 
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In 2002, I had reason to be in NYC. I took my wife and two young sons with me. While there we walked to the World Trade Center 9/11 site..Somber, heavy, emotional. With workers finishing the remnants of clean-up, the site was two huge holes in the ground fenced off. As I stood there with my family peering through the fence, I notice a piece of broken concrete and a heavily used glove on the ground. I picked them both up and have kept them since. The piece of the building is a reminder of the time, of what can happen in a moment, and how a nation came together. The glove is a reminder that no matter what happens to us, we’ll go to work to rebuild. It is a resolve that binds most of us together in this world.
 
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In 2002, I had reason to be in NYC. I took my wife and two young sons with me. While there we walked to the World Trade Center 9/11 site..Somber, heavy, emotional. With workers finishing the remnants of clean-up, the site was two huge holes in the ground fenced off. As I stood there with my family peering through the fence, I notice a piece of broken concrete and a heavily used glove on the ground. I picked them both up and have kept them since. The piece of the building is a reminder of the time, of what can happen in a moment, and how a nation came together. The glove is a reminder that no matter what happens to us, we’ll go to work to rebuild. It is a resolve that binds most of us together in this world.
Thanks for sharing. You were there so soon after it happened. That glove would be an excellent candidate for a special watch strap!

We were at the F1 race just a few days after 9/11. The athmosphere was surreal. Wife and I were at the mall and I saw this little guy standing in line at the cash registers with a pile of Abercrombie & Fitch clothes. F1 was not very popular in the US at the time. Nobody recognized him. “Hey Bernie” I said. “Can you afford all that?” My wife rolled her eyes when I asked her to take our photo. The clothing was for his daughter.
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(Bernie Ecclestone for those who don’t follow f1).
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Thanks for sharing. You were there so soon after it happened. That glove would be an excellent candidate for a special watch strap!

We were at the F1 race just a few days after 9/11. The athmosphere was surreal. Wife and I were at the mall and I saw this little guy standing in line at the cash registers with a pile of Abercrombie & Fitch clothes. F1 was not very popular in the US at the time. Nobody recognized him. “Hey Bernie” I said. “Can you afford all that?” My wife rolled her eyes when I asked her to take our photo. The clothing was for his daughter.
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(Bernie Ecclestone for those who don’t follow f1).

What a great idea! I’m not sure if the leather is thick enough…it is very supple. Could you fashion something from it?
 
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And a return to the site this fall…

Amazing pics. I haven't been there since I interviewed at a job in the towers in April 2001.
 
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