Getting lucky
after, when most of the watches you like were made on the other side of the mid-1970s, is never a simple process. Rather like one of those mid-1980s in-car graphic equalisers, you’re always balancing more of one thing against having less of another. Push up the ‘cash’ slider and you can fade down the ‘time’ and ‘sheer bullheaded persistence’ faders. But, no matter what, you need luck to smile – and that’s just what happened to me back
