This Watch Has Been Tested for 72 Hours and Kept Time Perfectly. 

After replacing the battery on Jan 22nd, I set the watch time to coincide with my laptop clock. Yesterday, it had been just over 72 hours and the watch had kept perfect time with the laptop clock, literally right up to the last minute. I was satisfied that the watch will keep perfect time, so I put the stop back in the dial to prepare it for shipping and to preserve the battery for the buyer. 

Confession Time:

The reason I am calling this watch near-pristine and not pristine, is because I put a couple of minute scratches on the edge of the back cover while trying to pop it off to change the battery (Yea, I know). It is nothing that can be seen while wearing it and, even if looking at the back, it is nothing that pops out at you. I doubt I would have noticed them, if it wasn't for the fact that I put them there. Anyway, I'm just mentioning it for full disclosure. Honestly, the only real difference it makes is that instead of being able to call this watch pristine, I have to call it near-pristine. 

The box, in my personal opinion, is between an 8 to 9 out of 10. No rips/tears, but yellowing from age and very very lightly soiled. It is a great design the way they wrapped the front side with "26 World Championships" and then printed the years of the championships around the other three sides.