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    A new watch box.


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    Solid oak, made by a bloke in Milton Keynes and sold on eBay for a modest price. It's the box I have today.


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    Twelve slots. Not a good sign, and all slots filled.

    It looks like I was wrong about the Wempe replacing the Oris BC3 - they're both in the box.
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    Seiko SHC055 - Black Knight

    Much better than a BFK. Another level up, really, but they may have cost more. I think it was a discontinued model by this time. Nice textured dial, applied indices, sensible proportions, battery rather than kinetic. A civilised diver, but still fit for diving.



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    Breitling Colt

    Splashing out - at a grey market price. I collected it from the grey dealer, and I was impressed from the moment that I picked it up. The solidity, the impeccable case construction - even the Bakelite box. The dealer had made a significant error with the price on the website (I think it might have been their purchase price from the AD), but honoured it. "You've just got the bargain of the year", he said, shaking my hand. "Enjoy it!"

    I showed it on the Breitling forum, proud as punch. I had a handful of comments, all of them dismissive. It was quartz, it was small, maybe it would do as a starter watch. What did I think of that? I thought: 'You bastards'. And they didn't approve of the grey market because 'it reduces the value of the brand'. Double pretentious bastards.

    I enjoyed this watch, despite the best efforts of Breitling enthusiasts to turn me against it. They had done more to tarnish the brand than the grey dealer, but I bought two further Breitlings.



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    Seiko 6309

    I had started going to watch fairs, held in a sports hall at Brunel University. Dusty, hermit-looking men with heaps of old iron - or clock parts. Nimble-witted dealers trading Omega Dynamics for Heuer Carreras. Tables of military watches, tables of Smiths watches. Scruffy blokes selling Seikos. Books. Tools. I hardly knew what I was looking at half the time, so played it safe by buying a Seiko that didn't work.


    I'm slightly surprised by the number of Seikos I bought in these early and middle years. I wasn't a Seiko fan as such (I could never remember the model numbers), but they always seemed to have something to tempt me. Sometimes it was a discontinued model that had to be snapped up.
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    A diversion. It's actually from 2009, but I've only just found it.

    There was a 'What do you look like?' thread. I wasn't keen. With the exception of one or two watch forums, I don't do social media. No Facebook, no Instagram, no Twitter - nothing like that.

    But as a forum moderator, I felt kind of obliged. I compromised by going in partial disguise.


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    G-1000

    I don't remember much about this one. It may have failed the audition for the role awarded to the next one.



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    GW-2500B

    Never mind my reservations about atomic-solar, this was a star. A very grown up G-Shock. Press two buttons together and the hands would move gracefully to your second time zone. This wasn't Casio doing rugged fun, this was Casio doing watchmaking. Casio has made a few pilot-type watches in recent years, but I'm not sure they've ever done anything better than this.

    I gave it to my co-moderator Jimmy (DragonJade) when we went out to see Sjors in the Netherlands.
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    Here we go. It's a long story and we'll be coming back to it. Short story - my friend died and this was his watch.


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    After the Memovox - this?


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    Bulova Precisionist

    I don't like showing this one at all. I embarrassed myself. It had a concave crystal - a swoopy and concave crystal. It had a seconds hand like a pair of hairdresser's scissors. It was far too big, and it felt like it was made out of recycled takeaway food containers. It would have been the brand new Precisionist movement that fascinated me - super-quartz for the masses - but the watch was an abomination. Utter folly. How could I have left the shop with it?

    I had it for a day. Less than a day. I don't approve of taking things back to shops because you've changed your mind, but I did - and I threw in a gratuitous lie for good measure. It was a month before Christmas, and I said I had bought it as a present for my nephew. When I got home I found my wife had already bought it. They offered me tokens but I took money. I stand revealed as a bad and feeble man.



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    GW-2310

    The remake of the G-2310 as an atomic-solar watch. I'd owned the old model and always liked the look of the 2310. It reminded me of a souvenir that my father had brought back from the war - molten lava from Mount Etna moulded around a coin.



    And that was 2010. Fifteen watches - a record. I'm not counting the clock and the Memovox. I'd like to not count the Bulova, because I returned it - but I am, to further punish myself.

    So, like an alcoholic totting up his units, over five years it had been, 14, 14, 14, 11, 15.
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    Tissot Seastar

    This was a nice little watch, but I can't remember the details. Year? Movement? Seller? I don't know. All I can remember is looking at the computer screen, thinking: 'That's lovely - I'm having that'.



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    IWC

    I remember where this came from - a watchmaker in Kraków. It was in his small and crowded window and it was gorgeous. It was the best thing he had, and there was a sense of a fugitive treasure hiding in open sight. The watchmaker didn't speak English, but I knew a Polish watch collector who used him for servicing Heuers. We had a three-way phone conversation and all was good.

    It was cheap, compared with a London dealer, but the watchmaker wasn't a fool and may have bought it in for very little. It was serviced, guaranteed and ran better than COSC. Initially, because of a translation error, I thought he had refinished the dial, but he hadn't. At most, he had given it a light clean. Not bad for a sixty-five year-old watch. I wore it in rotation like any other watch.

    Eventually, I sold it. Not for quite a while, though, and only after the Memovox was restored. I decided that one prime vintage watch was enough. I made a profit (for the first time) but didn't milk it.




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    Rolex Air-King

    Three vintage watches in a row? I was never going to have a new Rolex, but I could have an old one. Very few people wanted an Air-King with a refinished dial, so it didn't cost that much. It gave me a thrill to look down and see the coronet, but I didn't keep it for long. It wasn't made for a strap and I wasn't satisfied with the aftermarket bracelet that I bought.



    A surprising start to 2011, even in retrospect. Maybe the Memovox had kick-started something.
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    Isn't this great.

    It came from the watch fair in Uxbridge. A dealer had about thirty quartz watches from prestige brands, all new old stock with original boxes. They came from the stock of a jeweller who had recently died - which seemed to be true on this occasion, rather than a bit of sales spiel. I think it was about thirty quid.

    I made a bit of money on this, but only because my dealer friend suggested selling it through his website. He had been with me at the watch fair and regretted not buying the lot.



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    You bought one of these -


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    and turned it into one of these.

    Looking back, I prefer it as a Seiko 5.



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    I had been reading about the early days of quartz, and had been surprised to learn that Roamer had made the first cheap quartz watch, available in twelve different models. The movement was the Microquartz, presented at Basel in 1972. There was one on eBay, and no-one seemed to have spotted it.

    Er, no - wrong movement. Oh, I see - they kept the Microquartz name, after moving to a more conventional movement... But it was still early, just a year or two later.

    Never mind, it was a nice watch and it cost hardly anything. It was snapped up when I sold it. I did point out that it wasn't the Microquartz.
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    Poljot Strela 3133

    Like a few before it, an almost inevitable purchase. And a good one. My first Russian watch - and almost certainly my last, but that's no reflection on the watch. They're fabulous things, by any measure.



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    Omega Megaquartz

    Early quartz - my theme for 2011. My interest was fuelled by a book - 'Watch - History of the modern wristwatch' by Pieter Doensen. My interest faded and I gave the book to a member here.

    The Megaquartz was a famous thing, but I'm not sure they were all created equal. This was new old stock, and I think it was from the mid to late seventies. '1310' rings a bell for the movement. They were expensive when new but NOS examples weren't that hard to find - and were quite affordable.

    But the style... Not wishing to emulate the male member of Boney M, I moved it on.



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    Breitling Colt

    Totally different character to the black quartz version on a bracelet. I have a feeling that the cream version only came on leather.

    Bought in a pub garden on a village green, with vintage cars rolling by. The seller recognised me by the IWC on my wrist.

    He was wearing a Speedmaster, planting a seed that would grow...

    Pretty nice, really. What would be wrong with that as the only watch for a bloke like me today - if I hadn't turned out to be an upwardly mobile watch enthusiast? Nothing at all.
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    A diversion.

    It's not all watches in this Photobucket album. This card was dropped through my door in 2011 -



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    I never did consult Mr Yaseen, despite the number of buses that would have taken me to his door.
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