Twenty years ago I committed to getting the perfect watch and for a year I cliiped ads-looked in jewelery store windows-read reveiws and engaged in obsesive behavior in my quest for the PERFECT watch. This was going to be my one watch and it was going to be so perfect that when I died my son would wear it. Once I got this watch, I was going to be done with watches and would never have to think about them again. Anyway after all my study I went for a Mavado. I loved the simple design and figured that if it was good enough for MOMA it was good enough for me. A friend who was in the watch biz got me a solid gold mechanical Mavado for the wholesale price of $180. Anyway I got the watch and wore it every day in perfect happiness until about 5 years ago when I was discussing watches with someone who told me that my $180 watch was now worth $1400. At that moment I felt I had to kind of baby it, as it was after all now a $1400 watch.
So a new quest for a second perfect watch began, this time a SS rock that I wouldn't have to baby. I won't bore you with the details of this quest, sufice to say last Monday I bought it