I have just graduated high school, and I enjoy watches . . . .
. . . . and being young and uneducated about watches, a fine mechanical timepiece would have been lost on me. (In fact, the phrase young, dumb and full of c*** could have been said to apply!)
But this timepiece would have been perfect . . . .
A 1977 Omega Constellation quartz chronometer
Of course, my parents would never have sprung for such an expensive watch . . . .
This watch is an example of why the Swiss lost the quartz war: they made their quartz watches very well and very expensive. Disposable Japanese quartz don't last 30 years, or 25 years as in the case of my just after college Certina, which is also still running.
This watch was another one from Jim Moose, who decided if he had a Marine Chronometer, who needed this mere "chronometer". It had a few issues, which took my watchmaker about 10 minutes and more patience than Jim had to fix. Keeps great time and is fully serviced . . . good for ? more years?
Let's see some of the watches you
- should have received or
- wanted to receive at significant moments in your life . . .
- especially if you were able to later get the watch, and
- if you still want it today.
