A friend of mine is into the history of fashion, he says that the vest as an item of men's fashionable clothing was kept alive by the need for a pocket for the watch and was killed off by the wrist watch. He's a weird dude who still wears a vest (and a pre WWI Waltham Vanguard) but I found that tidbit interesting anyway.
In honour of that morsel of useless intel I'll post a gratuitous porn shot of one of my Illinois RR watches.... just to get
@Mad Dog 's goat!
(actually I'm jealous as hell of that Veritas he posted.
friggin Elgin POS... so I feel the need to get back!)
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When I got this serviced recently the watchmaker hauled me into the back of the shop to show me the thing running on his machine.... he just couldn't get over how flat the line was and how accurate the watch.
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