I finally got my new watch. It turned out that I didn’t get a kinetic auto relay, or even just a kinetic, after all. Instead I got a basic Seiko 5 Automatic. (The actual one I got is slightly different than the one from this link.)

But – after meeting a barrage of sales people who had no more clue about their stock than I did from just looking at their display, and stores that would either not order anything in for me or, if they did, would give me no kind of discount on the list price, I got it from a Kavar jewellery store in Lime Ridge Mall, Hamilton. The woman working there was actually friendly, and offered me 30% off the list on anything I might get. But of the two watches she had on display, one was a basic automatic and I ended up getting it for just $111 including taxes. (If I’d gone with the one I’d had my eye on, even with the discount, I would have paid around $500 – plus I would have had to wait for it to be ordered and then make another trip to pick it up.)

This one works just fine. The only problem was that there was no one on staff to resize it for me, but it was no problem going to my local jewellers here in Burlington to get that done.