• wear your favorite Chronomatic / Cal 11 / Cal 12 / Cal 14 / Cal 15 all day long

• wear nothing but your favorite Chronomatic for at least one minute during the day (or night)

• wear a Cal 11 on your left wrist and a Cal 12 on your right wrist; a Cal 14 on your left ankle and a Cal 15 on your right ankle . . . then walk on all fours, even for just a few feet

• strap on an Autavia Diver 100, and dive to 100 meters . . . then, tell us whether the chrono is still waterproof

• put on an Autavia GMT and see how many timezones you can cross during the day, even if it involves a 150 mile drive to a neighboring state (or country) . . . turn the bezel when you cross the state line!!

• get on a highway in a 1163T or 1163V, and click off some measured miles . . . imagine that you are Siffert or Bell, behind the wheel, coming down the Mulsanne Straight

• put on a 1133B Monaco and watch Le Mans, from beginning to end

• wear a watch with a Buren micro-rotor movement, and know that without these wonderful little movements, there would have been no Caliber 12 for us to enjoy

• wear a Breitling Chrono Matic in the morning and a Heuer Chronomatic in the evening, and maybe a Hamilton, Bulova or Zodiac when no one will notice

• if you are a contrarian, then you can wear a Zenith or Seiko automatic chronograph . . . try to convince your friends that these were actually the first automatic chronographs to be introduced

• open up your Bundeswehr chrono (Valjoux 230) and try to jam a Caliber 12 into the case; be careful as you drill the hole at 9:00 (nine o'clock) for the crown . . . let us know whether you are successful in this endeavor!!

• stay up late on the night of March 2nd, and watch the date click over to March 3rd . . . of course, if the date begins to move at 10:30 p.m., you will know that you have a Cal 12 and if it begins to move at 11:45 p.m., you will know that you have a Cal 11 . . . watch the date change from March 3 to March 4, and shed a tear when the 40th anniversary is over!!

Jeff