Dan, your collection sounds fabulous. The pride of mine, at the moment is the lovely Elgin 571 B.W. Raymond, the Elgin Father Time and the Hamilton 992B - all from your hands! The Bunn Special will be a nice addition to those three.

Incidentally, the case for the B.W. Raymond - which you so generously gave me - was wearing, and the bow was a wire replacement for the original. So, I took the plunge and found a watchcase maker who could fashion me a bow in the style of the case - brass with gilding - and he also re-nickeled and gilded the outer case. I pondered long and hard before getting this done, as originality is always to be preferred. In the end, I thought what the heck - I'll go for it... Hope you don't mind!

Elgin with new bow