It took me awhile but I finally found a cool vintage watch to go with the nifty Preppy Striped 80's nylon watch strap I bought months ago. The watch is a stainless steel Caravelle 17 Jewel manual wind made by Bulova in the late 60's or early 70's. After much searching in the malls, eBay was the supplier for a cool $15.00!
I have to say that I am very pleased with my purchase, assuming of course that it still works next week. I figured that for a watch that cheap it was worth rolling the dice. I did a whole post on the strap acquisition many months ago if you want to dig for some background. I see a lot of these straps in the blogs I frequent, but not so much around Houston. Maybe I'll re-start a trend!
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ReplyDeleteBritt...I had a whole "tin" of those watch straps that I got from Leslie & Co. back in the day...still think they are awesome...Juan
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