One day, when I was 16 years old, at the end of a week-long visit, I went to give the watch back to him and he simply said “you can keep it.” There wasn’t any great fanfare or to-do, he just wanted me to have it. He knew how much I appreciated mechanical things, and I’m sure he knew how much he meant to me, even back then. And that Speedmaster MK40 has been with me ever since. It remains a staple of my collection to this day, and is easily the most important piece to me for a variety of reasons. It was this watch that really allowed me to fully understand the beauty of mechanical watches. The MK40 is not a “moon watch” in that it’s not a hand-wound, date-less Speedmaster. But it is the perfect representation of the period of watchmaking in which I, and many of us, grew up. The watch is based on a Valjoux 7750, a movement that powered so many of the most popular watches in the world at the time, and was far more complicated looking than a normal Speedmaster – with pops of color not often seen on the traditionally stoic model.
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