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The Pocket Watch has replaced the wristwatch. Man, do I have an amazing pocket watch. This thing is so fancy, it does anything I can imagine. I think everyone now has a pocket watch. Have you ever heard of the Marie Antoinette Grand Complication? That watch took 44 years to build. The customer nor the creator lived long enough to see it complete. They call it priceless but it's estimated to be worth better than $30 million. It has a clock, a perpetual calendar, a minute repeater, thermometer, a chronograph, about everything a mechanical watch can have. Well, my new...

I love sterile watches.  There is an interesting history behind a watch with no identifying marks on it.  Let me tell you about it. In WWII, there was an Italian business that made dive instruments.  These dive instruments were provided to the Italian Navy and at some point, the Italian Navy asked the shop to make them a watch. Now, as the story goes, the soldiers and military command liked sterile watches because if the solider was captured or killed, his country of origin could not be discovered by the watch he was wearing.  This may be true but the...

Watch prices amaze me.  Knowing watches inside and out, I can truly appreciate what goes into a watch and I can, in some cases appreciate a watch's value.  Most of the time I can't. Story time.  Did you hear about this guy?  He was on some antiques show with is Rollie watch.  He bought it at the post exchange in 1975.  As the guy recalled, he spent a month's salary on the watch.  He still had the receipt where he paid $345. After buying it, he decided it was too nice to wear so he locked it up in a...