You ever get into vintage stuff like Hamilton or Longines?
I am a big fan of American watches pre ww2. Swiss made used to mean "don't buy it its not american". We were THE premier watchmakers in the world so we made the Swiss badge theirs so people would know they were inferior. When the jews decided it was wartime all the watchmaker factories got converted and it never came back. The Swiss being the ingenious sonsabitches they are flipped Swiss made from being a badge of shame to being a badge of honor and the rest is history.
I like to LOOK at older watches, but I'm nit really into them. For one, most of the cases are 38mm or smaller and secondly, I'm not into the whole aged patina dial thing that a lot of guys seem to dig. If I found a Longines or a Wittnauer or an older Bulova for like $10 at a garage sale, I would get it and wear it once or twice a year, but I would never seek out such a thing. I like see them in coffee table books--not on my wrist.
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