WRUW Today?

Posts
4,509
Likes
45,201
This just back from my WM. Been back twice with the watch gaining 5 minutes a day but now resolved problems with the hairspring and other minor work around the balance wheel, took a few weeks for him to sort so far more love than economics went into this.
Couldnt wait to try it on my wrist hence no strap, still have to decide what I will fit to it but had to see what it looked like on my wrist with my newly knitted mohair Jersey that my wife has just finished for me.
The jersey has a much longer story than the watch, with my previous wife starting to knit it about 25 years ago but never completed.
Completion required unpulling the 3/4 made jersey as apparently I have grown in dimensions since the mid 90's? who would have thought 🙄 but all solved now my 25 year old jersey is complete! and seems to match wonderfully with the new to me Caravelle. ::psy::

Edited:
 
Posts
308
Likes
5,777
Modello Uno U2-C
jaBuRE.jpg
 
Posts
5,500
Likes
52,748
Well, it has been returned to the family of the original owner. The watch was presented on September 27, 1920, as an award. The inner cuvette was engraved with all the details, and his name. He never used it. It was left to his son, same name, and he never used it. He, in turn, left it to his son, same name, and he never used it. To day, the great grandson of the original owner picked it up after I serviced it. He has the same name as the three previous owners! The third generation owner is now deceased. It is now in the hands of the fourth generation. The watch is now back in the original owner’s family, 6 days short of the original presentation date, 101 years ago. And to think that the watch was brought to me for repair decades ago, and the (then) owner declined the estimate, and never picked it up! I could have added it to my collection, and the family would have been none the wiser. Strangely, I feel good about letting it go!

Quite an amazing story, with a very satisfactory ending.
 
Posts
2,790
Likes
30,091
Back from the Watchmaker with new crystal installed, and I Love it! So elegant.