Well done Paolo,
you certainly have an good eye for classic pieces. A really beautiful watch.
I love the associated story, I can well imagine the sellers shock when he finally discovered the its value. He would have reflected back to the afternoon where he helped the RV owner and thanked his lucky stars.
Enjoy your new rare piece - Darren

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-: Here is the story guys!

: 'Picker' lives in a trailer in the North Carolina, and one day he
: had the chance of being helpful to a tourist,
: that was in trouble with his motorhome. Picker, being a good
: mechanic, repaired the failure and
: the tourist was so geateful that gifted him his watch, saying to
: Picker that he could sell it and have a good beer.

: Picker wore it as everyday watch, until last december when he felt
: in love with a new guitar, so gave the watch to his wife
: to sell it on ebay and raise some funds to buy his Christmas gift.

: You have already read on OTD about the ending of the listing, the
: seller asked me to cancel the transaction because he did not
: want
: to ship the watch outside the US. I was so lucky to have a friend
: in the US, our great Jeff, that helped me in forwarding the
: watch.

: Now it has been serviced and is fully functional, and i'm very
: proud to share some pics of my new jewel!
: Watch comes from the very first batch of the 1158, 174201 to
: 174300, and still has perfectly readable serial, reference no.
: and hallmark.
: It's interesting to note the many differences of the earliest batch
: of these golden case, they are thinner and have different
: location of engravings.
: Also the tachy bezel has different typos from the others we have
: already seen.

: On the OTD archive you can see how it was -
: http://www.onthedash.com/Guide/_Chronographs/63.Carrera/e.Automatic_Early/d.Ref_1158/e.Ref_1158_S_Second/

: Here you can see how it is:

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