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Lee Pickett retires, and other closings

by Tony McReynolds & Sally Mitani

posted 8/28/2009

“They say old watchmakers never die, they just get run down,” says Campus Jewelers owner Lee Pickett. A trim and tireless sixty-two, Pickett is anything but run down. But after repairing watches for more than four decades, he’ll close up shop when his lease runs out in August.

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