You're on, Dan. :-)

I got the 4992B from the sorting office today (paid the Customs Duty and sent off the claim documents to prove it was mine in the first place and get my money back) and got it home to gloat over.

Mahlon's done a great job - as ever - and I set the time with the seconds hack to the atomic clock on my computer. Running beautifully!

I don't buy these watches to make a profit - I buy them for their beauty and precision. But it's nice to know that what I've paid out in auction costs and Mahlon's repair bill is probably less than a half of what the watch is now worth in the UK.

I'll be writing to him today to give him my thanks for a superb job. And thanks to you, dear boy, for the centre seconds wheel! I shall think of a suitably devious way to replay you...