#WRUW?# Saturday, 9/19/2020

[tribe125]

Grunty watch week, day two.

[Cybotron]

[Strela167]

Grunty watch week, day two.

Such a classic.
Could never understand about getting rid before. The wrightup elsewhere of the last was of a heart felt joy to be hold. Ace , keeper . please , this time ..... even though it is a quartz

[Strela167]

Last weekend of summer , up north anyway


still can't believe I've been able to get such a beaut

[stew77]

Hawkinge today

[tribe125]

Such a classic.
Could never understand about getting rid before. The wrightup elsewhere of the last was of a heart felt joy to be hold. Ace , keeper . please , this time ..... even though it is a quartz

You remember what I wrote about the first one? Thanks.

I wrote a bit of a travelogue, including a section about Silvermans. I remember that day very well, even though it was nearly a decade ago. I’m glad that I experienced the old Silvermans emporium, in what I now know was an old tram garage - I didn’t know that at the time. The new shop is only just round the corner. I’ve only seen it on Street View, but it won’t have the ramshackle magic of the old place. The watches were just displayed under the glass top of a counter. You could easily have visited the shop to buy some boots without noticing that they sold watches. A wonderful place, with the smell of old canvas. Mannequins dressed in Red Army uniforms or Norwegian arctic gear.

[tribe125]

Oh, and as I’ve written elsewhere, my reason for getting rid of the old one - as far as I can remember - was simply that I had gone off watches with fixed strap bars. It didn’t help that I don’t like NATOs. There might have been some other mad reason too. Downscaling to just a few ‘quality’ watches, perhaps.

Fortunately, my interest in British military watches never went away, and my aversion to fixed bars didn’t last that long.

I’ve revisited a few watches that I’ve had before, as if I was more right about them than I knew.

[Kronos]

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