Trying to stay on theme is getting more difficult as the days go by, the pagani design Air-King homage is standing in as a field watch today.

Very late post after a day spent catching up on sleep. I didn’t realise how fatigued I have been over the last few days. I cant wait for this drain to be taken out Monday, it is such an annoyance. Today is the Monterey BLackTip GMT - Alfred.

Today’s pick is my rare, Bulova/Accutron square dial watch with a Valjoux 7750 movement. This is pretty hefty and large watch. This one was also a surprise gift from my lovely wife. She bought it for me after I’d spotted it at Costco.

I was deep in the Ashen Vale, chasing what was supposed to be a simple relic. Instead, I found a broken stone archway and, beyond it, a twilight world of floating ruins. At its center sat the prize—a plain Timex Weekender, ticking louder than it should. Then something came for me. It attacked, instinct took over—I grabbed the watch and twisted the crown time surged. The creature froze, cracked, and vanished between seconds. A moment later, I was back in the forest, the archway gone. The watch sat quietly in my hand. I'm joking, of course, this is not the story behind my Timex Weekender. Unfortunately, I don't really have a story for my Weekender. It was one of my very first watches that I purchased. I purchased it because I loved the dial and the original strap that came with it.

I wearing a very special watch today, the Fortis Spacematic all risk from the early 1960s, this is one of 3 watches that belonged to my grandfather. I never got to meet him but getting the watches from my cousin inspired me to finding out more about him. Born in 1908 in Calbourne County on the Isle of Wight, he served in the RAF during WW2 which brought him to South Africa where he met my Grandmother and the rest is history.