chanoch
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Stopped by Tourneau yesterday to drop off my wife's Nomos Orion -- broken mainspring (or winding mechanism), as I mentioned in an earlier post this week. My wife is in her 60s, has lived with manual wind watches all her life, and never broke a mainspring before. Tchah. Coupled with the problems I've had with my Metro and Nomos's abysmal service, I am done with them. The Orion broke one month before it turned five years old. Am very sorry I didn't buy it at Tourneau's, as the money I saved buying it from a broker on Chrono24 is now about to be lost on the repair.
To console myself, I picked up a Longines Flagship Heritage for everyday/work ... Tourneau actually gave me a price that was equal to what I would have paid on Chrono24 or Amazon and I get their five-year warranty, which sure matters a lot to me now,
given the Orion.
Wanted to watch to remember my Dad by, may he rest in peace, and this 'Heritage' watch is one he would have loved and feels 'classic'. He'd owned a Wittnauer for years (with a nasty metal 'flex' band that he loved and which as a boy fascinated me), which I guess is a cousin brand of Longines, before investing in a Rolex late in life (that after 25 years spent more time in the shop than on his wrist or, after he died, on mine ...). Had tried something else the year after he passed, but it was too heavy for my relatively thin wrist and I sold it. This Longines works for me and made the otherwise painful trip to Tourneau for the Nomos repair a good deal happier.
To console myself, I picked up a Longines Flagship Heritage for everyday/work ... Tourneau actually gave me a price that was equal to what I would have paid on Chrono24 or Amazon and I get their five-year warranty, which sure matters a lot to me now,
given the Orion.
Wanted to watch to remember my Dad by, may he rest in peace, and this 'Heritage' watch is one he would have loved and feels 'classic'. He'd owned a Wittnauer for years (with a nasty metal 'flex' band that he loved and which as a boy fascinated me), which I guess is a cousin brand of Longines, before investing in a Rolex late in life (that after 25 years spent more time in the shop than on his wrist or, after he died, on mine ...). Had tried something else the year after he passed, but it was too heavy for my relatively thin wrist and I sold it. This Longines works for me and made the otherwise painful trip to Tourneau for the Nomos repair a good deal happier.