Although I've posted a few times here in the past and recently, I thought I'd actually introduce myself formally.

My name is Allen St. John. I'm pretty much a watch newbie. I'm a huge F1 racing fan, especially from back in the day with Rindt, Siffert, and Bruce McLaren (all gone but not forgotten) which is why Heuers have a special appeal to me.

I've got a couple of poor person's Heuers right now--a Champion logo Carrera-style (which doesn't work) and a Pasadena-style PVD Letour with a Shadow/Tabatip logo on the dial that has a on the crystal coming loose. I've also got an old Omega Constellation (14K, cushion case, day date) which was dropped by my son and now also needs repair.

At the moment, having gotten past my "lose/break every watch" phase, I'm looking for one nice workhorse Heuer, probably a Camaro or an Autavia, but I'm open to other options.

When I'm not asking stupid questions here, I'm a writer. I have a sports column called By the Numbers in the Wall Street Journal every Friday, and I write for a wide variety of national magazines. I've also written a bunch of books, but the most relevant is called Clapton's Guitar. It's ostensibly about my friend Wayne Henderson who's the world's greatest acoustic guitar builder, but at heart it's about craftmanship and the transformative virtues of fine objects, themes I think many of you would find interesting.

thanks in advance for the advice and counsel,
Allen