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Airport? Pff, thats posh. August 1988 . . 17 years old . .left Shoreham on a Vespa 125 at 5pm on Friday, headed for Morecombe . . .scooter rally . . . and away! First stop . . . Refilled, I realised I had no idea what time it was . (Happy days!) but I was going to have to ride late . . . .so...

Did you take it apart and draw on it with your rotring pen? 😂 there were a lot of collaborative efforts back then. Not all legit, but many were. Common movements is the easiest to identify . . . There are as some very well engineered watches for hundreds which are the same inside as 'famous '...

Tissot are good arm clocks. I was looking at Omega seamsters a while back and it gets very expensive, very quickly. Then I started reading and looking further into it . . . .The 1950's Tissot seastar is identical to the seamster , and 1/3 of the price! a smaller watch and more subtle than a...

Same scenario with my MOnaco. Sadly. I rarely go anywhere near London . . .although can inflict damage of my own at will 😂🙄

I found 2 identical seiko automatics at my Step Dads after he died. The (nearly) new one I gave to my son, the old one, in perfect working order, I just cleaned and fitted a new strap. A really good watch for every day. Even new they're half the price of a Monaco service!!! Another...

Lots 56 & 81 for me please some interesting arm clocks there.

The reason I stopped wearing a watch was machine shop/ race cars, dyno engines etc . . . Just felt like an un necessary risk to not only the watch, but my hand/wrist as well!

I, and the late Mike Bell won the index of performance at LeMans Classic in 2016, driving a 1954 Porsche 356 . . . I had no idea we'd won, just chuffed to finish in the top 10 . . . . We got called to go to prize giving . . .massive trophy, trinkets gonks jacket t shirt etc . . . And a stonking...

personal experience . . .things with buttons leak I trashed a genuine early 70's Heuer Monaco by jumping in the sea :rolleyes:

Nice, I like a simple classic design, pilot style I guess, tell the time in a flash and try and control the crash! I rarely wear a watch these days, can't remember the last time I 'dressed up' Asides which a lot of watches have got massive . . . . And my shirt cuffs are too tight. That's...

I gave up wearing my St Mary de Haura Chrono, plonked it down and jacked it up a bit, I can still read it from most of the town. :rolleyes: