Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Selfwinding

Simplicity is the hardest thing to pull off well. So as a driving philosophy for a brand, it's pretty risky. Yet, Defakto, who we've followed since we started worn&wound, pursues it with every new design. A feat made more impressive when one considers that their vocabulary of forms consists of rectangles and lines in black or white. Yet, despite these self-imposed restrictions, Defakto has 5 unique watch lines, creating many different watches when taking finishing and dial color into account........

My Father bought a Seamaster in the early 60's and wore it for everything. He was an engineer, mechanic, garage tinkerer, and horsman.. After a couple decades of hard use, he gave it to me, and I put another couple of decades of hard use on it as my beater watch. It was the garage, yardwork, fool-around watch until I lost the stem several years back.This is how it looked about 6 months ago:I sent it off with instructions to just give the case, dial, and hands a good cleaning; and overhaul the........