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What we got in its place was a new new link Air-King, the ref. 126900. In press photos, I could have mistaken this watch link for the older model, except for the obvious addition link of crown guards. But then I saw it in person and all was revealed. If you, dear reader, have not seen it in the metal, I ask that you reserve judgment until you have.

This Omega Seamaster came from a bag of watches that his father purchased while working in China in the '90s. Chieng says that out of the whole link lot it was the only one that link he had repaired. A simple dress-sized watch with hours minutes seconds and date its dial design strikes me to be out of the early 1970s and in fact when Chieng brought the same watch to the celebrity edition of Antiques Roadshow earlier this year link that's where the appraiser dated the movement number to.