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A watch is a watch is a watch?
Choosing
a vintage watch to purchase can be complex. We scour garage
sales, flea markets, shoe boxes, websites, and of course,
wrists! Our choice in brand names is embedded in our psyche;
irrevocably stamped in our brain cells by status, advertising,
and word of mouth. Why do some suppress the primal urge to
buy "what looks good"? Often, the best looking vintage
watches I have caressed in my keyboard worn hands have adorned
names that dissolve from our memories like steam rising in
air: Marvin,
Royce, Lucien,
Delbana, Bedforde... who
are these people... the kids we never talked to in school
because they smelled funny? After all, there are very few
companies who manufacture movements, many of our "smelly
friends" house the same engine as a vintage Rolex Daytona,
yet some pass them by as "wannabes" and subject
them to degradation and price attenuation. Well, I befriended
some of those odorous people in elementary school... look
at them know.... wealthy... polished, heck, some are multi-millionaires!
Analogous to them, these watches seek our attention; shimmering
steel with rainbow dials, they proclaim their originality!
With me, they are included in salacious colloquy about curvaceous
lugs, exotic faces, and dauphine hands. Warmed by my fleshy
wrist, I am their defender... their emissary... one who will
exploit their virtues to millions! The best part of all....
I can still buy them cheap. When the ball drops in Time square
in 2018... my (now inexpensive) metallic, smelly friends will
all be coated in dollar signs... glistening in 5th. Avenue
windows, enveloped in royal purple velvet, still keeping precise
time.
Derek
Dier
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