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Great watch. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, but if it were mine and I intended to wear it, I’d be tempted to have it serviced, but only if you can find a really good watchmaker.
Wouldn’t be for me, but if you like it I wouldn’t be deterred by it’s apparent popularity on socitmedia
RR approval started in the 1870s out of necessity. Standards required high grade accurate movements that could be set to the exact second, white dials with black hands and Arabic numerals. Standards evolved in pocket watches and were applied to wristwatches in 1950s. Quartz rendered the standards largely obsolete.
I’m a gearhead, and I like old stuff--cars, motorcycles, clocks etc. So I like vintage and/or technically interesting watches or brands that have nostalgic value to me. I also have some inexpensive Casios for when I just want a rugged timepiece.
I’m afraid that I don’t have any interest in fashion watches or really expensive prestige brands. My interest in watches is relatively recent, and I have enough pieces in my small collection that I enjoy wearing that I haven’t gotten into microbrands.
So I guess I have to admit that I am a bit of a snob.
My dogs, vintage and not so vintage motorcycles, classical music. I also have 11 mechanical clocks, 8 of which I wind weekly.
A purely personal perspective: I had one of these wonderful 43 mm IWC Pilot chronographs, and I liked it a lot. But I finally sold it because it was too big for my 6.75” wrist. It’s 15 mm thick, didn’t fit under cuffs, and it bumped into things as I used my hands.
And to be honest, I really don’t need a chronograph.