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77deluxe
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Jonathan40
·The best new purchase that I’ve had made for quite some time! 🥰
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·Smiths today.
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Walrus
·Could you please show this amazing watch in different light. I think I’m in love again
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Canuck
·Not wearing it yet, but after we are back from a camping trip this week, I will inaugurate it.
About 20 years ago, a fellow brought me the subject watch for an estimate for repair. The movement is only a 7-jewel model. When I quote on a 7 jewel watch, I quote a higher price than I do for watches with 15, 17, 19 jewels, or more. I usually have to contend with worn bearings on 7-jewel models. He declined the repair, and never picked it up! I took a look at it on Sunday, and decided it had possibilities. I’m sure it hasn’t been worked on after it left Elgin in 1919, or so. It had likely been lubed with whale oil! I could not believe how it was gummed up. It was difficult to take the movement apart. I had to peg the bearings, scrub it with Mr. Clean solution and water, rinse it, dry it thoroughly, and clean it again, in L & R Extra Fine cleaner. Even at that, I had to glass brush the congealed oil off the bearings, and re-clean it. Turned out nice!
The case is a 10 year gold filled case. The style is called a Demi hunter (half hunter), and the numerals are translucent blue vitreous enamel. The enamel is not damaged, and that is unusual! The movement is Elgin. The inner cuvette indicates it was a presentation to the secretary of a union in Newtownards, County Cork, Ireland, in 1920. The hour hand is a “double spade” style, typical of a Demi-hunter, allowing the time to be read without opening the front cover.
Call me a fool. Well maybe I am. I have the phone number for the fellow who declined the repair on the subject watch, and didn’t bother to pick it up. I did a reverse directory search to see that the phone number is still in his name. So I phoned it. A lady answered. I asked for the fellow who brought me the watch for repair, to be told that he had passed away. I was speaking to his wife. I told her who I am, and about her late husband having brought me the watch for repair, and that he had declined the repair, and didn’t bother to pick it up. I told her about the watch and gave her the details from the engraving inside the case. I told her I had gone ahead and fixed it. And for the price of the repair, the family was welcome to have it back. I sent her five pictures of the watch. She emailed me, tickled pink, and said that she would love to have it back. Her eldest son is named after his late father, his grandfather, and great grandfather who was the original recipient of the watch on September 27, 1920. Almost exactly 101 years ago. I could have sold it for probably six times the cost of the repair, but I have chosen an alternative that I feel was the correct one. Was I right?
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Flysatchmo
·My buddy came over for dinner with his Speedmaster Racing….and was checking out my sons snake…or the snake was checking out the Speedy?
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Canuck
·My buddy came over for dinner with his Speedmaster Racing….and was checking out my sons snake…or the snake was checking out the Speedy?
I thought for the snake to be interested in the Speedmaster Racing, it must be a species called a “racer”, (see picture), but I think it is a boa constrictor, or some such. 😉
A “racer” snake. Non-venomous.
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Dr No
·Since Friday.
Columbia River, Cathlamet, WA.
Columbia River, Cathlamet, WA.
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BPD
·Pretty much my last fly fishing outing today. Trout season ends at the end of the month up in my neck of the woods 🙁
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Barking mad
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderWaffle for the evening, just before the storm..
Morning coffee with Mickey..
Morning coffee with Mickey..
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