Nice collection, shit picture. You will immediately supply information on the indicated watches, to include brand, year, how acquired, any interesting story and order of preference!!!!
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Nice collection, shit picture. You will immediately supply information on the indicated watches, to include brand, year, how acquired, any interesting story and order of preference!!!!
Chads.Watches.jpg
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Somehow I have a feeling that Chad will have no problem fulfilling your desires.Originally Posted by Duplicate Account
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1. Gold-tone Waltham 25 Automatic (self-winding) watch. The silver version of this was featured in the TV show "Dexter" and, for a year, selling refurbished silver versions was my primary source of income. Due to the TV connection, a silver one goes for around $300; that one, I bought for $15.00 as a parts watch, but it's nearly flawless so I just wear it. (Picture is a silver one from the internet.)
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2. Elgin Executive - skeleton movement with exhibition back. A gift from my father as a high school graduation present; a beautiful watch and one of my favorites for daily wear, but difficult to read from 11 to1.
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3. Cheap 24-hour watch I got from Sportsman's Guide, but worked fine in Iraq.
https://www.sportsmansguide.com/prod...BoCi3EQAvD_BwE
4. '70s red digital watch; cost over $700 new, got it for $5.00 without a band at a Goodwill.
5. Lord Elgin watch I found in a dollar bin at a flea market.
6. Older Timex wound watch I got from my 91-year-old neighbor who was given it by his mother. Sentimental, but too big of a band to wear.
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7. '40s Lord Elgin I was given by a coworker when I worked for the county. Looks terrible, works great. I use it as a "work watch" when doing yardwork.
8. Another Lord Elgin; my best condition and a favorite dress watch. I tried to take a better photo:
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Now, my pocketwatches are the most interesting part of my collection.
-Chad K.
Previous owner of VINS: 6982, 1601, 1265, and 1269
"Count of Islandia; Colonel of the Defense Forces and Chancellor of Transportation."
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After the above purchase, for the first time in my life, I went to a watch repair shop. It was everything I hoped it would be. Off a main street and downstairs into a musty basement. I walk into a small standing room area. A string attached to the front door let the man in back know I was there. "Be out in a minute!" I look around and there is shit everywhere: books and boxes and old clocks and unrelated garbage piles in different corners of the room. Out comes Mr. Dietzel and he is about a million years old, wearing glasses that have glasses that have glasses. I plop down my little 1920s Elgin Avigo that I bought nonworking from Ebay. Right there he popped it open and examined it for a good 25 minutes. In the end he said, "Wants to run. Has some ailments. Escapement problems. I can't do the work, I'll have to give it to someone else. I have too much on my bench. But I'd estimate $450." This is not feasible as it puts me upside down on the watch. I offer to pay for his time, he refuses, I say I'll think about it and come back with other watches. I left thinking that you'd have to be pretty eccentric to do this kind of work.
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Ouch! Well you wear a watch like that to distinguish yourself, not to tell time. If anyone asks, just act like you are reading a text, get the time, look at your watch, repeat said time. A small price to pay to be seen as an interesting and unique gentleman.
I often do the same with books. It's all about pretension when it comes to this Duplicate Account. Nobody has ever actually read James Joyce!
It's a new pay week so I get to buy a few more cheap junkers. Yesterday I got this 100 year old Waltham. Some tiny hairlines in the enamel dial. No sub second hand, but it is keeping great time. $30/ebay.
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Watches, are, in fact, a lot like cars: it's better to get pay extra to get one that's already good. I really wanted a Gruen Pan Am. These watches were made in the 1940s initially for pilots of the Pan Am Clipper, before they produced more for the public. I got a cheap runner, but now I know the service on it will be a bear.
I got this 1944 Pan Am for the $140 mark already serviced, which is cheap considering what others are asking (look it up on ebay if you don't believe me. They can list between $400 and $1,000.)
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Verdict? Not sure. Honestly thought I'd like it more than I do. The Cons: too small!!! Don't let my small wrists deceive you, it's tiny. The numbers are hard to see in bad light. Pros: the heritage. Wouldn't look out of place on the arm of a guy driving a Tucker 48. Maybe I'll warm up to it, but it will most likely become a gift or a trade.
I am looking at a "work around" on my Elgin Avigo because I DO love that one a lot.
In the mail I got the new book "A Man and his watch" which is basically watch porn. I might have time to read it when I'm not covered in baby poo and vomit, which is seldom, but dammit I will try.
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You know what they say about guys with tiny watches
They see close up really good
Shit is blurry up close now for sure. I can truly identify as a woman and #metoo Michael now.
Do I have to go get readers from CVS or carry around a magnifying glass now or what.
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