WristScan

anaesdoc
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Not valuable, invaluable nonetheless

What does this mean?

Quite simple, I just had this "old" watch serviced which was my mum´s present to her fiance (my father) sometime in 1964 on the occasion of their engagement.
As she told me, it was expensive for her in those days where she could not spend a lot of money. It used to be my father´s first really good wrist watch which he wore a long time. I remember seeing a photo where is holding my as a newborn with this watch on his wrist.
At the end of the 70´s he got a quartz watch and this one went into the drawer, until some day in the early 90´s he wanted to get of rid ot it. He asked his son - then still young  - whether he would care to have that watch, and I said yes.
It is a slightly tonneau-shaped Dugena (Deutsche Uhrenmacher-Genossenschaft Alpina) manual winding watch (SS with worn out yellow gold plating) with a date window at 3 o´clock and a plexi on the front, metal steel caseback, measuring a tiny 30x25 mm.
I had it serviced and wore it regularly for quite a while, until it was stored in a box and forgotten by myself too.
Probably animated by some post here on PuristSPro or elsewise, I redisvovered the watch now and gave it another "refreshment" (e.g. had the black second hand from the first service exchanged by a golden one as it was originally).
For a moment I thought about giving the dial a "facelift" - I was told, it would look like new afterwards - but having read something about the value of patina - special thanks to Jeff aka "Dr. Strong" ! - I decided to leave the dial just as it was.

Well, that´s the story behind this Friday wrist shot.

Wishing everyone a happy weekend,

anaesdoc