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My Fear -- That Watchmaker Would Refuse to Touch It
In Response To: Re: Another One That is Described as "Untouched" (Temporada) ()

I would like to have one of these "Racing" Temporadas, with the checkerboard dial, but I backed away from this auction, fearing that no respectable watchmaker would be willing to touch it . . . making it not so much "untouched" as "untouchable'.

Jeff

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: "I've got to wonder whether the word "untouched" has
: some new meaning, that I am unaware of??"

: It does. It means the piece is so ugly and in so poor a shape, that
: it hasn't been touched in a long time. Nobody wants to touch it!
: ;-)

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