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Mary Anny
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Ode to women's tool watches!

This little beauty has been swimming, diving hiking, travelling across so many countries for the last 52 years.

It only stopped a few years ago, essentially for the complete lack of service of any kind in the last 20 years. By that time,the owner was told by an AD that the watch needed to be sent to Switzerland because some broken part was unavailable in Rome. The small beauty remained quite a long time in the safe with a quartz Longines on the owner's wrist as a replacement. But destiny was awaiting and the owner's son decided to take the watch to a trustworthy and expert watchmaker to have it fixed. No odd part was actually missing and the mechanism just needed to be oiled and serviced properly, the dial cleaned conscientiously, and the bracelet adjusted to a wrist that had changed over the years.

Now, since last Christmas this marvel is again on the wrist of its 78-year-old owner and she's so glad and excited about having it back. And her son is so happy to see them again together as it were the seventies.

Apart from representing often nothing more than wrist ornaments, today's tool watches are almost exclusively huge masculine timepieces. But there was a time when many sportswomen, divers, climbers used small diameter wristwatches as their primary companions in a variety of activities and in all kind of harsh environments. I personally like a lot women wearing large sports watches but I'm not sure about how many of them really wear those often heavy metal blocks every day or over long enough periods of time. 

Hope you like the pictures, they have been taken by the watch owner’s grandsons!

Cheers

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