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Re: [Vintage-race] Watches

To: "Fisher or Elizabeth Jones" <fisher@hctc.net>, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] Watches
From: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:31:17 -0400
HELLO ELIZABETH!  LOL! (young lady , stay out of that darn corner....  :) 
) fancy meeting you here! LOL!
ok,  watches eh?   about 3 years ago my father gave me his old watch in a
nice rectangular spring open and closed presentation watch box wich as a
child caused one heck of a ruckus in my home when my late mother found out
about it and i'd guess what it cost in 1960's dollars.  i wear it on
ocasion it's a "heuer" "autavia"chronograph (with original band too!).   my
father used it to time his laps in car!  now being the ungratefull child i
am i thought , "great dad yer giving me an old watch!"    now since it has
ties to my father's racing i keep it well protected!  and then i saw what
ones without the wrist band and presentation box were going for...GASP!  
and yes i have a few vintage pocket watches and some gold womens pendant
watches wich are family pieces put away.   
so now how many of you collect model trains...........i collect vintage HO
gauge (back to 30's era.   not the railroad era , the time of manufacture
of the model train item) 

chuck.
"that darn orange saab"


> [Original Message]
> From: Fisher or Elizabeth Jones <fisher@hctc.net>
> To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
> Date: 5/29/2007 10:02:11 AM
> Subject: [Vintage-race] Watches
>
>    Good morning from a lurker,
>            This conversation about watches prompts my question.  I bought
>    my  husband an old silver pocket watch several years ago.  It was made
>    in "Constantinople", today's Istanbul.  It needs cleaning, but it also
>    needs  repair.   I  haven't been able to find anyone locally, close to
>    San  Antonio   TX,  who  will  even touch it.  Do any of you know of a
>    reputable  person  who  might  be  interested  in making the necessary
>    repairs.   I  would  prefer  to  send it to someone with a reputation,
>    rather than just pot luck, and I haven't been successful so far.
>    thanks, and I'll go back in my corner now.
>    elizabeth
>      _________________________________________________________________
>
>    Fisher or Elizabeth Jones
>    "A gentleman does not motor about after dark."  Joseph Lucas 1920
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