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Polishing shoes, cleaning the locker room. This was a step up from slogging two golf bags around 18 holes in the noon-day heat. Ohio is not the tropics, but provided the kind of humidity that I've seldom experienced since outside of Tokyo, and an ill-advised June business trip to Vietnam.
Now keep in mind, this was a private country club, members (and their guests only). So each member had their own locker. And as they were worried about damaging their very expensive watches, they were locked up. A pity Messrs. Jaermann & Stübi had not yet struck upon the concept of a "shock proof" golfing watch. This might have spared everyone the embarrassing episode of theft that was discovered when a "well-respected" member was found to be the culprit in a long-running series of thefts from the locker room which was discovered when he tried to sell a purloined Rolex to one of my co-workers in the parking lot. But that is another story...
Years later I found myself in another summer job that was not too far from the world of golf, teaching English at the University of St. Andrews for four consecutive summers, so I must say that the
St Andrews Links ST1 stirs memories of summers' past, and I remain hopeful that now that well-heeled golfers can wear a high quality mechanical watch, the risk of country-club watch theft will become a thing of the past!
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Here are the details -
CASE:
Stainless steel with brushed and polished finish built-in shock absorber for movement and complication, back with 8 screws and engravings, scratch-resistant sapphire glass, rotating bezel with ceramic ball bearings for handicap comparison.
MOVEMENT:
Automatic, mechanical, Caliber A10, 25 jewels, Incablock, 4 Hz/28,800 alternations/hour, 42-hour power reserve.
COMPLICATION:
Patented mechanical golf counter JS02, 3 different counter work (one retrograde), ceramic ball bearing, 4 jewels.
FUNCTIONS:
Hours, minutes, large second, strokes per hole, total score, holes played, handicap comparison.
WATER RESISTANT:
100 Meters
STRAP:
Rubber or leather with contrasting stitching, inner band with moisture-absorbing leather.
SIZE:
44 mm
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