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VINTAGE 159<br />
chronograph I ever bought. The patinated salmon-bronze<br />
dial is particularly charming. I liked it enough that I decided<br />
to have it polished, something that I only do to the pieces I<br />
intend to keep for a long time.<br />
The Vacheron Constantin 4072 is one of my favorite<br />
watches of all time. I highly recommend anyone who likes<br />
vintage to have a look. Two things I love this example are the<br />
old Vacheron logo and the lollipop hand. I had this serviced<br />
by Vacheron a few years ago and they did a great job. I was<br />
surprised to find they had replaced my hands, substituting<br />
what they said were the period accurate original hands.<br />
Until I had this servicing done, I had not noticed that for<br />
chronographs the stopwatch hands should be a different<br />
colour to the normal time keeping hands. Hence there is a<br />
mixture of gold and blue hands on the dial. The same applies<br />
for the Patek 130R.<br />
Activating the chronograph on these three pieces, you<br />
will notice how much better the mechanical action is on the<br />
Patek and Vacheron’s movements. The Rolex in comparison<br />
has a much less defined click to it and feels almost cheap in<br />
comparison. Back then, Patek and Vacheron were top dogs<br />
and Rolex was not in the same league.<br />
The next few watches all have an association with Wei<br />
Koh or Revolution.<br />
Wei insisted I bring out the Grand Seiko SBGZ001<br />
and the Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Tadao Ando Edition. I have<br />
owned a few of the very fancy Grand Seiko / Credor pieces<br />
over the years. These would be the pieces that people say<br />
they like but wonder who actually buys them. I used to<br />
wonder, too, until I bought one for myself. The SBGZ001 is
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