Memoirs Of A Watchmaker: Coming Of Age With Horology
I came of age in the 1960's and 1970's in New England. If you asked most of my schoolmates back then what they wanted to be when they grew up, most would have said a fireman, policeman, cowboy, politician, lawyer, doctor, teacher, sailor��. just about anything but a watchmaker. The average age of watchmakers in the 1960's and 1970's was around 50 years old, and it seemed, at least in the United States, to be a dying breed, perhaps even an endangered species. Americans didn't value watchmakers as highly skilled technicians, as they did in Switzerland and other European communities, they more or less saw them as the equivalent of a plumber, electrician, house painter or refrigerator repair man. Not something to strive for when you're young ��didn't seem glamorous like a secret agent, lawyer, or computer punch card operator��. or something to get girls with like the lead singer of a rock band.So when my Dad decided when I was 12, to take me to his retail jewelry store on Saturdays to teach m

Rolex Explorer, here's your chance, and it will cost you only $6800.Click here for more details
Therefore, if you want to be the first guy on the block with the 39 mm, Rolex Explorer, here's your chance, and it will cost you only $6800.Click here for more details.

Omega Planet Ocean 232.30.46.21.01.001
Hi,I'm new to the forum and am looking to buy my first Omega.I have decided on the Planet Ocean and really like the look of the 232.30.46.21.01.001. I have found a Jan 2012 model with very little use which has been offered to me for ��2,700. Do you think this is a good price?Also, do you think there is much scope for losing value at that price?ThanksDan

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X'MAS gift to myself
Talked to my AD friend yesterday, asked him anything special I can have as X'MAS gift to myself, he mentioned some watches, either too expensive or not interested at. Boom, this lunch time, he called me, and said something just came this morning that I might be interested, since I missed the boat last time. Sure enough, got off work early, picked this baby up: