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Hi all

Well today we got a little amount of snow here in the west coast of Sweden but the dogs would go out anyway Brrrrrrrr :coldb:

 

I am looking at a marketplace on used watches and found one named Continental Magic Button wristwatch.

I asked the seller what the magic is about but he didn't know..... Does anyone here know what it's about ?

 

// Mats

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Little to expensive but nice watch . My first thought was that it was a watch site ? Continental watches i have seen on Ebay . Never a magic button though? 

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Yes it was too expensive he got no bids at all on that one. I mailed him an asked about it but He didn't know anything about watches, he was selling of his fathers clock collection.

By the way where in Sweden are You ? and do You collect or repair / adjust watches ?

 

// Mats

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Hi Mats 

I live on the other side of Sweden . The best side the eastcoust :) . I do both . Mostly Omega but there is some other watches also. I like The Omega "hummers"and have a few of those. I do some repair for other also . But it's more the challange of repairing something that can't be saved or the watchmaker says be to expensive  If the watches aren't to complex or expensive. BTW found Continental button quartz on mikrolisk . http://www.mikrolisk.de/show.php?site=280&suchwort=...&searchWhere=all&searchMode=exact&id=103

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