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··Sunburst dial fanMy 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?
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?
