Amazing photo that, Steve. The bezel on the C9 SS it the same thickness as the Longines watch. How did it happen? Just changing tastes. It's like when I watch the old black and white films; every man wore a trilby and a mac. They also seemed to permanently smoke and drink. Ripped jeans were an inconceivable notion. Society seems to covet big. Big ideas. Big ambition. Big people. And, it would seem, big watches.

Des