I haven’t made any Viking knit in ages, or thought much about it either. Now you’re making me want to, even if it will probably look like crap. I wonder if I still have the book that I learned that and Byzantine chain from? That watch with Angie on the back has a neat shape. I am curious as to what the front looks like? I have an old watch that I picked up at a yard sale, a wind up, that still runs, I had the clear bit replaced because it was pretty raggedy. The guy that worked on it was pretty surprised to see it still running. I don’t wear it often, mostly if I am dressed up.
Viking knit is great. It looks like ass and then you run it through the drawplate and suddenly you're a genius. Get a lazy daisy. Hella easier, hella more fun, an awful lot of money for a simple chunk of dung but handy as hell. Angie's front isn't great. She's plated steel and the plating is long worn through. She's also stamped and not particularly high quality. She's got this sort of rubbery warmed-over art deco kinda vibe. There are far more interesting weirdos in the drawer; this strange little Benrus, for example: Wanna see baby, tho? She's a Jaeger Lecoultre. Somehow I managed to buy her off eBay for $7, despite the fact that she's got the same movement as a Reverso. She's not gold, she's nothing special, but she's a JLC. And she runs. Know a guy. Watch weirdos have what we call "grail watches" - as in, "this is something I MUST OWN." I don't really have one - I mean, it's a watch. But he really needed some form of JLC 101, which has held the title "world's smallest movement" since 1929, when the collective watch world went "nope, you guys can have that one. We out." So he bought one. Dude lives in a basement with his dog. No idea what it cost him; thing has a tubogas band and 101s don't come up very often. And it's not like he can wear it - hell, anyone with any sense would be afraid to wind it. Mine? Mine was $7. And she makes me happy.
