Restoring the SpaceView
This Bulova Acutron SpaceView was my father's college graduation gift
from his parents (in 1968). It's been sitting around the house
without a battery, and with a metal watchband that'd seen better days,
for quite a while now. I finally got it in to a watch repair
place to get the battery replaced, and it seems to be keeping time
well. I also discovered that Fossil has an enormous
collection of cuff-style watchbands that are easy to swap out.
So, for about $30 total, I managed to get this "priceless family
heirloom" (as my dad views it) up and running again. Now I just
need to decide whether it's worth an additional $20 (or so) to replaced
the slightly cracked crystal on the watch's face (until I do replace
it, I'll just avoid going scuba diving with this particular
watch).
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