: As the rookies will not undertsand the
: differ4ence I hardly belive the next
: "normal siffert" listed will boost
: too?

Let's take half a step back, friends. Go find a normal person, a wife, a non-WIS friend, one of the non-afflicted.
Show them the picture below.*
Explain to them that these watches are otherwise identical--same manufacturer, same case, same movement. same bezel, same hands even, made in the same factory by the same workers only months apart.

The difference is that one on the left has the word Chronomatic printed on the dial. The one on the right has the words Automatic Chronograph.

There are roughly three dozen people in the world who would be impressed by this distincition.
And yet, the watch on the left is worth roughly twice what the watch on the right is worth.

Don't be surprised if upon hearing how much better your life would be if you had the watch on the left rather than the watch on the right, they back away slowly, shaking their heads.

(Now the difference between a white dialed Siffert and a black-dialed Viceroy is obvious to any right thinking person, and clearly worth every cent of the price difference.)

Remember what the acronym WIS stands for: Watch Idiot Savant. We use it lovingly, but in the world at large this is *not* a compliment.

best
Allen

*(Thanks. Chuck, but while $9 will be sufficient, it would need to be sitting atop a reasonably large stack of $100s)