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Edwin’s father’s Cal. 40 Hanhart

THE BEST THING about writing for Octane isn’t, perhaps surprisingly, the postman delivering yet another free Rolex, the long boozy watch lunches or even having the keys to the editor’s yacht. It’s when someone gets in touch with a letter that starts something like ‘My father gave me a watch…’

Back in February, a gentleman called Edwin from Yorkshire wrote: ‘I have a Hanhart monopusher chronograph, with a calibre 40 movement that my Father brought home when he was demobilised from his

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