My watch hasn’t magically reappeared, but I was able to find the one it had replaced. I’d forgotten what had prompted me to replace it—I like the look of a full face, with individual dials for day of the month, weekday, hour, and even phase of the moon—but it became apparent when I replaced the battery and attempted to set the time: the stem came off in my fingers!
Fortunately I was at one of an apparently small number of jewellers that has a watchmaker on site, so an hour later I had a completely functional timepiece on my wrist again.
