Automatic day-date on an integrated bracelet

Worn daily for forty-six years by the man who bought it new.

Wristwatches

W10 b

Record

Year
1978
Work done
Full service, date jumper renewed
Movement
Automatic day-date, 25 jewels
On the bench
Six weeks

He had never had it serviced and said so cheerfully. It was still running, which tells you something about how these were built and nothing good about what forty-six years of dry pivots does to a train.

Full service, two wheels replaced, the date jumper renewed so it changes at midnight instead of somewhere around one in the morning, and the bracelet tightened link by link. He wanted the case left exactly as it was. It is, and it is covered in scratches he can name.

W10 a
As it arrived: bracelet stretched, crystal scuffed.