WRUW Today?

Foxy100

Today I'm wearing my 1000M. It was serviced in 2008 at STS in the UK, the owner at the time elected to have the dial, hands, date wheel and bezel replaced with NOS. Fortunately when I bought it last year it came with all the original parts, bar the hands. I called in to see STS a couple of months ago and dropped off a few watches, including the 1000M, along with the original parts plus a spare set of hands I found on eBay. Simon Freese at STS looked after the restoration of the dial, which had some paint missing, and matching the lume in the hands to that on the dial. The watch was serviced and put back together with the 2008 date wheel (the original had the crown on the right, not so comfortable). It came back this week, I think it looks fantastic and suspect it will be welded to my wrist for some time.

adam78

Thanks, Cristos. The watch dates to the early '40s, but the bracelet is from 1949 (the earlier rivet bracelets were untapered, and did not have the Rolex crown on the clasp); it was added to it by the previous owner since they match so well (apparently the original owner of the bracelet had bought it for a yellow gold Omega (!), according to his son). The size is a standard bubbleback size, 32mm wihout crown. Yes, too bad about the radium burn, which fortunately is less noticeable to the naked eye. The lume is still pretty effective in the dead of night.

Northernman

1950's EternaMatic this morning. Resurrected from a pile of ex-loved watches.
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