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Several years ago, Mike Piela, a commercial real estate agent who lives in Brooklyn, took his newly purchased vintage stainless-steel Glycine Airman watch to a neighborhood repair shop for a routine service. When he picked it up a couple of months later, the watchmaker’s work wasn’t what he had expected.
“He 100 percent made it worse,” Mr. Piela said. Several of the watch’s functions weren’t working, including its distinctive hacking mechanism, which stops the sweep seconds hand when the stem is pulled out for winding, and its water resistance had been impaired.
“I wore it out of the shop and
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