Horologisting

I like to mess around with old watches.  I can replace stems and dials and hands, exchange movements or give a new lease of life with a fresh capacitor. I am not an expert and when serious overhaul is needed my friend, David, a true horologist, obliges., But sometimes people ask me about their watches.  At a very nice get together for New Year's Day someone asked my opinion on a timepiece that they had recently come by.  "Do you think it is an automatic or a quartz?".  She handed me a very nice little ladies dress watch, upon which others had already pronounced.  I put on my reading glasses, took one look and handed it back saying, "definitely quartz". "Are you sure?" she asked.  "Definitely," I said, now certain that the assembled company needed an urgent appointment with Specsavers. "But how can you be so certain?", she queried.  "There is one small clue," I said, theatrically milking the moment, "down at the bottom of the dial where the word 'quartz' is printed"!!!!

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