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I second what Mr Howlett's just said!
In Response To: Lucky strap find and question ()

That is the bargain of the past 12 months no doubt!

Great find, especially with an original "sun" buckle, at least $400 under market value!

Where is this flea market again...?! ;-)

Rich

: Last weekend while having lunch downtown with the family, there was
: a little art fest/flee market type thing. Since I love old
: stuff, I checked out a couple of the tables with mostly just
: random junk. Much to my entertainment I found a box with about a
: dozen watches in it. Looking through the various Timex, Seiko
: and no name junk, I almost did a little dance to find an
: original Heuer buckle and corfam strap marked at $2. So I
: grabbed it along with the only Seiko of interest and gave the
: lady 10 bucks for them. My wife could hardly understand why I
: was so excited. Then the next table over there was another box
: of junk watches. Looking through it I found a 19mm tropic sport
: band on a beat up, Sicura dive watch and gave the guy 10 bucks
: for that. Not to bad for an afternoon with the family.

: Now for the question. How well does the corfam hold up? I’m
: thinking that the best course is to stash the strap away for
: safe keeping and put the buckle on a new leather strap to wear.
: I imagine that after a little bit of wear that the corfam will
: start to break up.

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