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1983 should be from the stock of finished ebauches that Blum bought from Zenith after Vermot brought them down from the attic. The movement should be marked 3019PHC, with 40.0 coming in 1986 and 400 a year or so after that. It may be a service...

But after building a collection of over 50 watches, the curatorial requirements can get pretty narrow —Rick

And this His Excellency has a code of L8–1958, my birth year–with one of the last of the Bulova movements made in New York, the caliber 10BP. —Rick

On the other hand… Hmmm…this goes with the Eterna photo. Can’t seem to move it in the app… I am excluding anything with a round dial, of course. Gotta narrow it down somehow. There may be others —Rick

I’m better about buying than selling in general, but wouldn’t be tempted to move these along even if I was more of a trader. —Rick

I have a Type XX already, and a Heuer Carrera Re-Edition, and a Zenith Captain Chronograph. I don’t have a Navitimer, but would like one, which would seem to move that to the top of the list. But that sporty Zenith does make the heart sing! I think...

My airplane strategy would be to try my best to stay awake, thus guaranteeing sleep. But the timer on the Solitaire game I’m playing on my phone is a better timer because it started closer to when I actually dropped off. But as long as we are...

But that was the year this old GP Gyromatic came to me. And this Baume et Mercier Copeland World Timer got a lot of wrist time. I stumbled on this Concord Saratoga 20th Anno. Dual -Time Chronograph, with a La Joux Perret movement modified to provide...

…4110.400 for me this week. —Rick

…the complaint was that it was too expensive (at $3K) and it didn’t use a Zenith movement like the original (as if that could have even been possible). Of course, if it had used an El Primero like the original, the price would have been three times...