On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Frank. I, too, only wear mechanical watches > and have since about 1988. This gig has allowed me to > pick up a couple nicer ones for nearly nothing > (another perk!). I currently wear a 1957 Bulova > Self-winding Date model in stainless steel with a mint > black dial. It's very nice and it cost me a pizza in > trade. I only have one watch now. It was my father's and my mother gave it to me when he passed away about 9 years ago. It's not that old, maybe 20 or 25 years old. It's branded Birk's, a mid-to-upscale Canadian jewelry store. It says that it has a Swiss movement, FWIW. I don't think it was ever an expensive watch, but it has to be the most accurate watch I've ever known. Loses or gains no more than about 2 or 3 seconds a month (I check it regularly against the National Research Council atomic clock!). Birk's replaces the battery for free on all it's watches forever, so other than changing the band every couple of years this thing just keeps going and going and going. And of course, since it used to be my Dad's, it has that much more meaning to me. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
