KMII
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Thank you
As a fact I am sure it will. It has - amongst others - timed my wife's contractions when she was in labour with our first daughter, so it is by now truly ingrained into our lives 
Summer watch
I got my pilot's licence straight after my 18th birthday (in fact a day before I had my driver's licence), and having been raised behind the Iron Curtain (sort of), meaning with a limited perspective on the broad range of watch brands available, Breitling...
Thank you
As a fact I am sure it will. It has - amongst others - timed my wife's contractions when she was in labour with our first daughter, so it is by now truly ingrained into our lives :)
Thanks for this nice post, KM II. Sometimes watches are more than watches.
They " feed " some extraordinary emotions... Yours is certainly one of them. Best, Nicolas
So could it be ...
... that Mathias Rust was some kind of a hero for you then? When I learned about his incredible flight and landing on the Red Square, it was a sign that the Iron Curtain was crumbling already. Thank you for your personal story connected with your Breitlin...
Not so bad...
Grew up in former Yugoslavia, so could travel freely to the West and did not truly suffer from a repressive regime, by the late 1970s / early 1980s it was all relatively liberal - at least in comparison to the 'real' Iron Curtain. So Rust was an event tha...