Last Friday I went to an interesting event featuring the about to be introduced new German Widelux inspired by actor Jeff Bridges. The event was in a place in Gastown I had no idea it existed. It is called Roldorf. The owner, Jason came to Vancouver in 1975. The shop was full of all kinds of watch repair equipment.
Around 1970 in Veracruz, Mexico I won a lovely Longines pocket watch in a card game. Through the years, when I remember, I wind it up. Today it did not work. On a lark I went to Roldorf. In under 3 minutes Jason (he calls himself a horologist) had it working. And there was no charge!
I knew I had to do something to thank him. In the past I wrote a blog where I scanned my Longines and pushed it slightly during the scan. I also scanned it with sheet music of my Filipino great aunt who was a concert pianist.
I went to my blog search engine. I put all kinds of combinations of watch, clock, blurred, scanned, moved but found nothing. As last resort as I post my blog links into Facebook so I tried their search engine. Yes!
The blog which is strangely is associated with Kalamazoo is in the link above.
Because I used all my inkjet paper to print Widelux photographs for the Friday gathering I wondered what I could do. I printed both image on inkjet transparency and mounted them on silver coated cardboard. Unfortunately Jason was not in at Rodlorf so I left my work with his assistant.
It felt good to quid pro quo.
And to prove to myself that I remembered how I had scanned my Longines I did it again while writing this blog.
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| The repaired Longines 6 August 2025 |
