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buddman
PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:50 pm 
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Been waiting for a while for this. I bought it back in early April. Both Fred and Wayne were very helpful in guiding me and advising during the purchase at auction. Fred made me pay more than I wanted to :roll: but he was right! Craig gave it a light expert touch and I'm very pleased with result. It's a 1960.


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I still plan to replace the slide rule, but I'll keep the original with the watch. The original unfortunately had some prior " touch-up" work on it that was not recoverable.


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Really nice mate. Looks spot on
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A beauty!
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Great watch and winner any way you look at it.

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Looks stunning, congrats!
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great ! wear it in health !
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Lovely find well done
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Very nice indeed.


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Had it's first wrist outing today and garnished 3 comments from non- watch aficionados :lingsrock:

Puts a warm glow in my heart. :D

I also got an email from the strap maker to say half of the strap was on backwards. Some day I'll get it 100% right.
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I'm late to the party but congrats on a great watch.
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Thanks and welcome to the forum.

I'd add at this point I never did replace the sliderule. I was happy to live with it's imperfections. Things evident in high magnification pictures sometimes aren't so bothersome on the wrist in reality.
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