[Leica] Re: Forbes article on mechanical wristwatches

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

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