KILLING TIME
My wife jokes that I have exactly 3 love affairs in my flawed life, she is not certain that she comes first,haha! It is not even a discussion, my watches and the ancient building that we still stubbornly reside in are distant 2nd and 3rd. I admit that I abandoned collecting vintage watches because of my frustration in restoring and making something aged work as something contemporary but an old building is a project that can be solved over time. I hired a very capable small projects contractor to move a security door 3 ft by installing a new wooden door frame. The project is longer than he predicted and feels that he will lose money, a watch that I special ordered has finally arrived at my ad’s boutique after several delays. I am now prevented from arriving at the shop to pick up my new timepiece, an pleasant chore that cannot happen until next week due to regular commitments.
I have always favoured watches bigger than 38-39mm in size despite having a wrist size just under 7 inches( I never measured my wrists). While I wait to pay for the door placement project, upon completion I decided to measure my wrist for the first time always assuming that it is a size that is quite regular for men my height and weight, I am surprised to learn that my right wrist measures more than 8inches while my left is more slender. I no longer question a fella with a 6.5 inch wrist declining to buy bigger watches. Hopefully Breitling and Panerai continue to launch watches for guys like me.
My family emigrated from HK to Canada in the winter of 1956, cannot recall when I did not dabble with mechanical timepieces. Started with vintage but too many crooks in the business. Discovered videos...