Done!
So do I owe you, or you me?
Seriously, this thread has long since crossed over from ever-diminishing returns and has started diluting the useful stuff with repetitions and rubbish. It's now attracting more red herrings and straw men than a surrealist junk shop.
Top work, though, Matt.
As an aside, I'm just making a Smiths watch for my daughter using the case, dial and hands from an early Dennison-cased A404 powered by a recently-serviced Garrard "1218" (the 18 jewel version of the 1215 with Bregeut overcoil hairspring) and a stainless steel winding crown. Built from bits in my parts box but the arguably ultimate Smiths!
I'll pop it on a NOS Perlon "Panama" strap, put it in a nice presentation box and it's good to go. Not quite as it left Cheltenham but a bloody good watch.
Finally, for all you Schmutz fans there's a dedicated subforum on mwr (
https://www.mwrforum.net/forums/foru...Vintage-Smiths) and a facebook group too (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/261717824304503/)
We know that a Schmutz was on the summit that day but "it will always remain a mystery if Rolex was literally on the summit". Yes it will. Always.
Smiths is not a "wannabe" (as a certain website claims) but Rolex is a "maybe" and that is as much as we can say.
I think I'll wear an Omega today. I've had enough of the other two for a bit.