Paolo:

What a great story, and I am happy to have had some role in delivering the watch that I will always call "Bud", to its new home!!

The finish on this dial is absolutely stunning . . . like nothing that I have seen before. To see this one "in the metal" was a thrill!

Jeff

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: Here is the story guys!

: 'Picker' lives in a trailer in the North Carolina, and one day he
: had the chance of being helpful to a tourist,
: that was in trouble with his motorhome. Picker, being a good
: mechanic, repaired the failure and
: the tourist was so geateful that gifted him his watch, saying to
: Picker that he could sell it and have a good beer.

: Picker wore it as everyday watch, until last december when he felt
: in love with a new guitar, so gave the watch to his wife
: to sell it on ebay and raise some funds to buy his Christmas gift.

: You have already read on OTD about the ending of the listing, the
: seller asked me to cancel the transaction because he did not
: want
: to ship the watch outside the US. I was so lucky to have a friend
: in the US, our great Jeff, that helped me in forwarding the
: watch.

: Now it has been serviced and is fully functional, and i'm very
: proud to share some pics of my new jewel!
: Watch comes from the very first batch of the 1158, 174201 to
: 174300, and still has perfectly readable serial, reference no.
: and hallmark.
: It's interesting to note the many differences of the earliest batch
: of these golden case, they are thinner and have different
: location of engravings.
: Also the tachy bezel has different typos from the others we have
: already seen.

: On the OTD archive you can see how it was -
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/63.Carrera/e.Automatic_Early/d.Ref_1158/e.Ref_1158_S_Second/

: Here you can see how it is:

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