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Does It Matter If Your Watch Is Losing Time? Mechanical watch owners may be the obsessive-compulsives, who darken watch service center managers' days by showing up complaining bitterly that their (insert brand name) "fine timepiece" is, quelle horreur, gaining a second a week. |
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The Watch Snob Weighs In On Skeletonized Faces - And A Reverse Push Present As a rule, in most (well, many, anyway) open dial watches there is simply nothing worth seeing that justifies the aesthetic train wreck that ensues when you open up the dial of a watch. |
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Seiko Upgrade My father is turning 65 soon, and I have recently started searching for a new watch to give him on his birthday. |
