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I have a desktop computer which incidentally tells the time, but no-one ever called it a clock.

I question its usefulness. I certainly wouldn’t leave 15 watches sitting around in a box, and that’s a big box to go into a safe.

Nagano is one of my favourite places in Japan - I used to spend most of my weekends during the winter ski-ing at Togakushi and Okushiga. I’m sure it will be lovely at the moment.

...but also from 1969 when I bought it new. This was my first “real” watch and has been all over the world with me.

I was working in a foreign aid programme (not US) and the PL soldiers were cheerful even friendly. But the new government quickly decided that they didn’t want any foreigners in the country outside Vientiane so we were pulled out. But I can imagine that local employees of the former government would

..in 1975. We woke up one morning to see a couple of tanks with red stars in the middle of town and Pathet Lao soldiers in the streets. My job didn’t last long after that!