Buying vintage watches without first seeing the movement can be exciting when you are right, and disappointing (and expensive) when you are wrong. But it is often necessary to take a leap of faith when buying […]
Last year I wrote about finding a chocolate Speedmaster 145.022-69 which originally belonged to Milt Shirley: an artist, a pilot, and mayor of Amelia Island, Florida. Milt, an environmental engineer by trade, has […]
This watch first arrived in a unique condition. The pushers were corroded past the point of functionality, so the chronograph ran constantly. There was a thick messy layer of gummy black […]
