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·3861 for Saturday [and Sunday] office work…1861 [the usual office work watch] is at the Omega spa in NJ for its first servicing…
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··Not in LA anymore.Not wearing this today but it has a prominent place on my desk. Grandad's Waltham was made in 1924, which means he would have been 19 or 20 years old when he received it. He was from the third generation of hard-working farmers. His grandfather emigrated to the US from Liverpool, England where he had worked all his adult life as a stevedore at the port, and took up fruit farming in the American West in 1864. The fact that this watch case is wrapped in 10k gold makes sense...solid gold would have been extravagant for such down-to-earth folk. When I first found this watch among my deceased parents' possessions, it was in bad shape. Amazingly it only took about $400 to get it back into working order, and now it ticks along in this position at a very consistent +2sec/day.
I have a vague recollection of seeing my Grandfather pull this watch out of the top, centre pocket of his coveralls -- it was tied to his coveralls with a white cotton shoelace.
He taught me how to drive when I was nine years old, on his prized, nearly new Ford tractor (similar to the one shown below). I remember that my first driving lesson ended when I ran over a bucket of freshly-picked pears, but Grandad gave me a pass nevertheless.
I have a vague recollection of seeing my Grandfather pull this watch out of the top, centre pocket of his coveralls -- it was tied to his coveralls with a white cotton shoelace.
He taught me how to drive when I was nine years old, on his prized, nearly new Ford tractor (similar to the one shown below). I remember that my first driving lesson ended when I ran over a bucket of freshly-picked pears, but Grandad gave me a pass nevertheless.
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·Not wearing this today but it has a prominent place on my desk. Grandad's Waltham was made in 1924, which means he would have been 19 or 20 years old when he received it. He was from the third generation of hard-working farmers. His grandfather emigrated to the US from Liverpool, England where he had worked all his adult life as a stevedore at the port, and took up fruit farming in the American West in 1864. The fact that this watch case is wrapped in 10k gold makes sense...solid gold would have been extravagant for such down-to-earth folk. When I first found this watch among my deceased parents' possessions, it was in bad shape. Amazingly it only took about $400 to get it back into working order, and now it ticks along in this position at a very consistent +2sec/day.
I have a vague recollection of seeing my Grandfather pull this watch out of the top, centre pocket of his coveralls -- it was tied to his coveralls with a white cotton shoelace.
He taught me how to drive when I was nine years old, on his prized, nearly new Ford tractor (similar to the one shown below). I remember that my first driving lesson ended when I ran over a bucket of freshly-picked pears, but Grandad gave me a pass nevertheless.
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