Jay (Eire)
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What next?
I'm expecting a slow year this year and my primary goal is to thin out rather than add. I've said that before but it's not happened and so let's see how that goes.
Like you, I do like to leave purchases to luck or randomness and so I'm always looking in strange and not so strange places to see what might pop up. Over the years I've had some great watches come to me that way including the Omega Snoppy I posted about a week or so ago.
Specifically I am still waiting to find a Tudor BB58 on the bracelet (a Purists edition would of course be most prized) and for a while now I've been trying to catch a Vianney Halter Classic (some near and not so near misses). My longest search however has been for a Day Date President, and that too has included some close calls (I let two blue Buckley dialed WG Presidents slip by in the last two years, one had bark centerlinks and bezel and so perhaps that wasn't too disappointing. And maybe three years ago I let a WG White Buckley dial with Chinese day/Date wheel slip). Maybe this year is the year for the President to be found!
Happy hunting!
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