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Thanks, it's one of my more precious possessions, because it's sentimental too. I wear it on occasion but I have a couple watches, and daily cycling is not the best environment for this one. It's more for wearing the days I have to wear shoes not cleats.
Mickey the ex-boxer, who was a local butcher, sold it to me for less than half its value at the time. I think I paid him £40, going under the nose of my boss who was supposed to be selling it in our shop for £80-£100. In retaliation my boss took the gold plated Omega (iirc) and wore it to one-up me. Of course Mickey used to buy me a few drinks in the pub too, so it was in effect a gift.
Mickey used to finish work and get so pissed in the pub across the road, he had the taxi called for the same time every evening. It eventually killed him, and most of his gold chops were robbed from his house the moment he was taken ill in hospital.
Nice watch tho ennit.