Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:38 AM 9/13/00 -0400, khmiska wrote: >Jeff, >I agree wholeheartedly. I have one of the original Omega Speedmasters which >I bought in '69 or thereabouts. In the late 80s it stopped working. Recently >I paid about $140 to have it repaired. I understand the original ones are >worth nearly $2K now. I wear it almost every day, this wonderful throwback >to analog devices. Long live analog watches. Long live analog Leicas and >Rolleiflexes. By the way, my Märklin trains are all analog also. >Regards >Kurt >Ann Arbor After having a mechanical watch (Croton Chronograph Dive Master) for 20 years, then when it started getting funny, I bought a Sieko digital watch. It was a good watch, accurate as hell, but electronic and digital. Ugh! I wore this watch for fifteen years, yearning for a "real" watch but the cost seemed prohibitive. So in September of 1998, while in Switzerland, I bought a new Omega Speedmaster from a very fine Jeweler in Interlaken (Hans Fiechter,) who made arrangements for me to pick it up at the factory in Biel (a great experience,) and I paid only a little over half of what the same watch costs here in the US . I priced this watch in Germany and Holland and it was the equivalent of the US price. I now have a "real" mechanical watch to go with my real mechanical M6's. Jim