Yesterday, i was walking around while doing time for a meeting with client in a city next to mine, when I saw a little and very old watch shop. With nothing to do, I took a look, entered the shop and asked the old man behind the balcony if he has something more than the watches showed on the window display (a pile of quartz junk). “No, I don’t. I sold everything I had and I will close the store permanently within a month or two”, despite his words I insisted: “Not even something broken or to restore?”, “Let me see what I have back there”. After a while he came with a box full of broken watches with nothing of interest to my eyes and then, hidden below timex’s and equivalents I saw a Certina Chronolympic with a Valjoux 726. Nothing broken, the hands were all there, loose on the dial, the watch was working, the chronograph second reseting to zero with no problems… Bingo! 60 euro for the man (that’s what he asked me) and a “new” watch for me… I saved the life of this beautiful Certina:
That has potential! It looks as if it'll need quite a lot of TLC, but I bet it could end up looking great
And here it is, in the beginning of his new life: Now it's time to found a strap for it. Can you give some ideas? An original SS bracelet is an option also but i don't have a clue about references, clasps and end links for this model...
Looks great! I bet a black rally-type leather strap with blue or grey (or even red) stitching would look fantastic
"watchitarianism" - I'm not english speaker but i think i've never heard that word before. What does it mean?
just a made up word to describe the act of rescuing and/or restoring a watch. like humanitarianism, but for watches.