It’s the Labour Day long weekend here in Victoria, which means that while the rest of the country is experiencing their weekly dose of Mondayitis, us southerners get one more day in the sun. And, in the interest of entertaining you all, I did the right honourable thing and went out in search of what people were wearing on their left (and right) wrist. This is what I found. Jimmy’s Tissot Le Locle Automatic Jimmy has only recently started getting into watches, and this Tissot Le Locle Automatic was his first “nice” watch. Named after the third smallest city in Switzerland, Le Locle is the birthplace of the Swiss watchmaking industry, and the Le Locle collection of timepieces by Tissot are considered to be some of the watchmaker’s best. Jimmy remarked that he was drawn in by the watch’s gorgeous silver guilloche dial and the fact that it houses ETA’s bulletproof 2824-2 movement, which can be viewed via a unique display caseback. This is no longer Jimmy’s daily timepiece — he’s upgraded to a slick JLC Reverso. But he still busts out the Le Locle on weekends, and I’ve got to admit, in direct sunlight, the dial is pretty impressive for…
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