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Nice watch Jack, here's mine....
...the very same 'watch' I'd love to throw in the canal more often than not! 
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Here's my watch, more often than not.
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Tough to read when you're in the car. 
Jack
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton
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aficionado
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jack, no harder than your calendar! 
Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
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ouch. 
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connoisseur
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Gee, Jack, do you actually wind that one up? Or does it have a battery? Maybe it's one of the self-winding ones? I have a windup model with a see-through face, so you can watch the little escapement (when you're bored) and count the jewels. I don't wear it very often. You have to wind it every day.
Alan
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I remember that my first watch had to be wound. A lovely Kermit the Frog model with a green strap. Eventually broke off the stem...
Anyway, I currently use an analog pocket watch.
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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axiomite
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No Alan, that one is neither manually wound, nor self-winding (though I do have a self-winding Seiko that I bought in Viet Nam in 1970). It has a battery. Very accurate. It's a modern version of a the Hamilton Boulton which was made back in the 30s and 40s.
This one, however, must be wound.
It's my father's, circa 1955, Hamilton Stafford, which though not as accurate as my battery powered Boulton, runs beautifully, and keeps pretty good time for an old watch. It gives me great pleasure to wear it. Every 3 or 4 years I send it to a fellow in California who lovingly services it. The band is the one that was on the watch when Dad died in 1969. Speidel still makes that model band, and I can get extra links for it when I need them. I wish I had the original band, though.
Jack
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton
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And I was expecting to see a hand crank on it......
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In reply to:
Every 3 or 4 years I send it to a fellow in California who lovingly services it.
I'm lovingly serviced in California occasionally, myself.
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