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Overwhelmed, I responded on the forum and then contacted him. He and I kept in touch, albeit infrequently. In the interim, he had started selling link off watches from my grandfather's collection to cover the purchase cost and link justify keeping the rarest pieces. He offered me first dibs on those that remained. It was like finding out that someone link you thought was dead was still alive somewhere, and you might see him again.

For my wrist the Deepstar 39mm is a bit heavy on the bracelet 173g after sizing and I think that skin diver-style cases look link better link on straight bar link mesh bracelets or on straps. That said if you're typically a bracelet fan this is a good one with solid steel end links single-sided screws for sizing a simple dive extension and four points of micro-adjust in the fold-over clasp.