My query on two of OF's favourite topics - cars and watches.

In 1953, my dad bought our first car - a Ford Anglia, both more sophisticated and expensive than the otherwise similar Ford Popular.



In 1966, he was driving the much more highly developed Ford Zephyr 6. I passed my driving test in it.



My first new car was a 1981 VW Golf cabriolet (mine was yellow). The engineering was significantly better than my dad's early cars (although no power steering) ...


.... and I’m now in one of these. Apart from steering it, pretty much anything I might have had to do when I started is different... I won’t bore you with the specs



But, and this is where I’m leading.

I wear two Omega bumpers - 1950 and 1954 - both keep perfect time. Ditto, my cal 591 from 1958 and my small collection of cal 552 and 565 Omegas from the late 1960s.

Now, I can tell you what a modern car does that it’s predecessors from 50 years earlier didn’t do, but I can’t think that there’s much that a new watch has that my 50 year old watches don’t have?

 

But ... the coaxial movement is a revolution in watchmaking.

 

Routinely gaudier graphics?

 

Okay, good point but the watch still needs setting for extreme accuracy while, so far as most watch wearers are concerned, we just have to be somewhere (work, match, theatre, “church on time”) by a certain time without any real need for exactitude.

 

You missed my sarcasm rolling-eyes emoji.

 

Oh, damn, it’s nearly midnight here - but, other than that I have no excuse

 

Love the charming Anglia and Zephyr. I'd be willing to drive either of those around here in Texas. Having driven in the UK and further driven a right hand drive vehicle in Europe, I've about decided that I'm capable of either driving on the right side of the road in a left hand drive car or driving state side in a right hand drive car, but both simultaneously taxes my little pea-brain. One would think that someone who plays the accordion could do better.

Our Yorkshire friends' next door neighbor has a Zepher, a '66 as I recall. Keeps it as a collectible.

Google Images is your friend. Here's one same color as his is.